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(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Israel’s Evogene is working with Beijing Dabeinong Technology Group (DBN) to increase fertilizer uptake and drought tolerance in rice. Evogene has discovered several candidate genes and these will be introduced into DBN’s pipeline for the development of improved rice.

(Thanks to Atid-EDI) Israel’s Cellocator has launched Cello-IQ, a driver safety and eco driving solution, designed to improve fleet safety and reduce fleet operation costs. Over one million vehicles have a Cellocator device. (Now we just need these installed in every Israeli car!)

Israel’s RAD Data Communications won the 2013 NetEvents Technology Innovation Award for “infrastructure equipment and innovative solutions to Service Providers’ current challenges”. RAD’s MiNID device configures nearly any telecom equipment just by plugging it in.

Tel Aviv University hosted the 3rd International Cyber Security conference just as Israel found it was ranked as the world’s leader in cyber security – up from 19th place in 2012.

Gadi Mazor, Chief Technical Officer of Israel’s OurCrowd, has won the Blackberry Achievement Award for Entrepreneur of the Year. Gadi developed Nobex Radio for BlackBerry - an innovative mobile radio app that has reached over 12 million registered users.

This is essentially an old story, but I’ve included it mainly because it is rare that the BBC includes any good news from Israel.

Teenagers from the WIZO Nachlat Yehuda School and Youth Village in Rishon Lezion, an agricultural high school that specializes in life sciences, took their agriculture matriculation exam last week. The curriculum covers animal care and dairy cow production

Here is a new video of US President Obama seeing a selection of Israel Technion’s innovations during his recent visit to Israel. It features robots, ReWalk and nano-technology.

20.5% of the global biotechnology industry's turnover - $24.6 billion out of $120 billion - is based on products that originated in Israeli research. This figure does not include several very important products by Israeli researchers who are currently abroad.

The new 4th generation Intel Core processor, codenamed Haswell, were partly developed in Israel. The Haswell extends battery life by 50 percent compared with the third generation processors, and will give ultrabooks more than nine hours working time.