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Senior Goldman Sachs strategist Abby Joseph Cohen gave a lecture at Israel’s Technion entitled "Economic Growth and Innovation". She praised Israel’s high-value products and co-operation between Israel and the US, especially with the Technion Cornell University venture in New York.

Apple Inc has again adopted Israeli technology, this time deploying Israeli traffic report navigation app Waze Ltd. as a source for its iOS6 Maps operating system.

Israel’s Mellanox Technologies announced that Intel Corporation has selected the company’s 56 Gbps InfiniBand solution to optimize Intel's I/O Expansion Modules and half-width server boards for high performance applications.

(Thanks to NoCamels) Israeli company Alchemy Research offers a new method to power electric cars by using energy stored in aluminum grains. They have developed a process that produces clean energy from a reaction between aluminum and water. It also can make very efficient electric batteries.

(Thanks to NoCamels) Israeli developers at Microsoft have produced an application called “on{X}” that can detect what is happening and perform automatic actions that you have pre-programmed. Drive or walk somewhere and your Android phone can text someone or suggest something.

Israeli company TIGI Solar was one of three winners in the solar-thermal category at this week's Intersolar Europe Exhibition. TIGI won thanks to its "Honycomb Collector," a new type of solar-thermal technology that uses a transparent insulation mechanism that significantly increases the efficiency of the collector with minimal heat loss, making it suitable for places like northern Europe.

Scientists at Israel’s Technion have discovered a desert plant that uses a “mustard bomb” toxin to induce mice to spit out its seeds and help the plant germinate. Taily weed, is the first known single species using “directed deterrence” to have itself eaten by an animal that will spread its seeds.

Professor Dani Zamir of Jerusalem’s Hebrew University was a key member of an International team of scientists that has decoded the 35,000 genes that comprise the genome of the tomato. The project began in 2003 and benefits will include improving the nutrition, taste and yield of this important plant.

Haifa’s Dor Chemicals is manufacturing a fuel called M15 – which is 85-percent benzene and 15% methanol – to be used in an upcoming six-month pilot program. This will determine if a methanol mixture can provide a more environmentally friendly, less expensive fuel with no changes to cars or the pumps.

(thanks to Israel21c) Great article about the water filtration systems developed by Kibbutz Amiad, where my cousin works. Amiad’s filtration and treatment technologies bring clean water to industries, households and farms in 70 countries.