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(Thanks to Israel21c) The US Food and Drug Administration approved ozone as a water disinfectant in 2001. However, Israel’s Greeneng Solutions has just produced the first method cheap enough to produce an ozone-based disinfecting system. Ozochef is designed for commercial kitchens.

I’d rather not describe the process (you can read about it in the linked article) but it seems that Israel’s Applied CleanTech can transform almost anything into writing material. It certainly gives a new aspect to the phrase “the People of the Book”.

(thanks to NoCamels) Back in October, I reported that a team from Israel’s Technion won the European stage of the Intel Challenge for their idea. Now Israel’s Macademia Apps has developed “GroupShot to capture the best image of all members of a group.

Popular micro-blog Twitter has finally launched a Hebrew version. The interface joins other new language versions, including Arabic and Farsi. Over 13,000 volunteers contributed to the localization project, including Israelis, Iranians, a Saudi and an Egyptian. Twitter's blog said, "Some of these volunteers live in regions where Twitter is officially blocked". No access problems in Israel, of course!

Dr. Samuel Gan-Mor has developed a blend of edible oils that can be sprayed once a week to keep insects and fungi from munching on tomatoes, zucchini peppers, and grains. Dr Gan-Mor works at the Israel Ministry of Agriculture’s research centre at the Volcani Institute.

Avishai Katko and Maya Braun of Sharett High School have developed a system using solar rays to disinfect and clean water supplies so they are suitable for drinking. The idea won the Intel-Israel 15th Annual Young Scientists Competition.

IBM’s research centre in Haifa Israel has developed a water pressure management solution, which will control the water supplied to more than 600,000 people in Northern California’s wine country.

Israeli water purification experiments in space prove that Israelis are succeeding at the outer limits of leading-edge research into cleantech developments.

At Agro Mashov 2012, innovative Israel crops included a special plant, which serves as an insulin replacement for those who suffer from diabetes and obesity, as well as new varieties of strawberries and sweet potatoes that were developed in Israel.

Israel Technion’s contributions to the world’s scientific progress is amazing. Graduates have invented memory sticks, instant messaging, PDF compression, Better Place electric cars, quasi-crystals, “NaNose” cancer detector, ultrasound cardiac imaging, and ultrasound tumour destruction.