Israel Active

Jerusalem-based Glide has launched a game-changing instant video messenger that makes it easy to communicate with friends and family. With Glide, video messages are broadcast live the moment recording begins and simultaneously saved to the cloud for on-demand consumption.

Thousands of Israeli children and their families swarmed the interactive exhibits of the Clore Science Garden at Rehovot’s Weizmann Institute of Science on Passover. Exhibits included a “xylostone”, a solar mirror, the “moon cradle” and activities included building a bridge from trapezoidal blocks.

(Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s Carmit Candy Industries has launched innovative confectionary to help shed pounds, boost the immune system and promote bone health. They include a weight-management wafer bar and chocolate coins with calcium, vitamin D and vitamin K.

This new video shows just how much Israeli technology impacts on our lives.

US President Obama was shown “Israeli Technology for a Better World”. It featured Phinergy’s long-life electric car battery, Mobileye’s road safety alert system, ReWalk, MinDesktop’s brainwave controller, Robo-Waiter, the Robotic Snake and ElMindA’s brain analysis system.

One of the gifts presented to the US President by Israel’s Prime Minister was a gold-plated silicon chip etched by Technion scientists with the US and Israeli declarations of independence. The chip was affixed to a Jerusalem stone dating to the Second Temple Period (1st century BCE to 1st century CE).

Following in the footsteps of Microsoft, iApps (Israel’s largest mobile application developer) has started its own incubator for developers at its Herzliya HQ. iApps Booster is the only incubator in Israel dedicated to building mobile apps.

Thirteen young Jewish men from Morocco joined 25 existing Moroccan engineering and hi-tech students at the Machon Lev academic institution in the Jerusalem College of Technology. Most will immigrate to Israel upon completing their 4-year degree course.

For the second year running, Nir Goldshlager is the No. 1 name in Facebook’s security “hall of fame”. Goldshlager uncovered a major security flaw that allowed hackers to take control of accounts. When Facebook fixed the breach, Nir discovered a second major problem in the “corrected” code.

(Thanks to Michael and Jane) Adi Sharabani, CEO and co-founder of Skycure, has proved that an attacker could retrieve sensitive information (including the victim’s exact location) and even control the victim’s phone – e.g. quietly changing their GPS destination while driving.