Investing in solar energy
The Israeli government is encouraging green energy entrepreneurs by allocating NIS 10 million for planning up to 2,000 hectares of future 50 megawatt solar-power plants.
FDA buys Israeli software
The US Food and Drug Administration has purchased the laboratory information management system of StarLIMS Ltd. Although the company was taken over by a US company in 2010, the systems are still Israeli.
What happens to yeast in space?
Yeast is actually an animal and reproduces via a mating process. But what happens in zero gravity? Israeli high-school students Ariel Berko and Yoav Levi from Kiryat Ata have been selected from thousands as finalists in a competition to run an experiment on Space Lab. Please watch (2 mins)
Israeli app voted “best of 2011”
The prestigious Techcrunch voted Israel’s Any.DO the best android app of the year. Over 500,000 people downloaded the software in the first 30 days following its launch.
“Saving the lives of your special moments”
Israel’s Magisto has the hottest app for 2012 – the year of the mobile video. Magisto allows you to upload your home videos (from phone or camera) to youtube and edit them quickly and easily into the most exciting clips possible. It takes your home videos to a whole new level.
Inside Google Israel
CJP’s Israel Advocacy of Boston went to visit Google’s Tel Aviv headquarters, which in 2005 was the first R&D centre that Google opened outside of the United States. If Google powers the Internet, that’s in no small part because Israeli innovation helps power Google.
The UK should “take a leaf out of the Israeli book”
An excellent article on Israel’s high tech future, in the UK magazine “Mindful Money”.
Together, in the stars
Tel Aviv University and Harvard have launched a joint research programme across all areas of astrophysics. The Department of Astronomy at TAU is internationally recognized with two of its faculty members recently awarded $2 million European Council Research grants each to support the studies of the physics of cosmic explosions and searches for extra-solar planets.
Growing plants in seawater
(Thanks to NoCamels) Israeli agro-biotechnology company, Rosetta Green, has developed a new technology to develop new varieties of crops that can be irrigated with salt water and are able to withstand prolonged periods of severe drought and harsh climatic conditions.
Solar power for Spain
AORA Solar, an Israeli developer of applied ultra-high temperature concentrated solar power (CSP), will open its second-ever gas-turbine solar thermal power station in Almeria, Spain, on February 7. At night, the hybrid station runs on biofuel, natural gas or diesel. It will also power a desalination facility. See this CBN news report about AORA Solar’s first hybrid solar power station in Israel’s Arava desert.