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Argan oil, the much-in-demand product of the endangered Moroccan argan tree, is now available in a hardy 'super' strain developed by company Sivan SMin Israel. The high-yielding, pest-resistant and drought-tolerant trees are grown in the Arava valley, the Negev and Ashkelon.

This unique search engine from Israel’s Evature has won the DEMO award for the most game-changing travel innovation at the fourth annual Travel Innovation Summit in Miami. It is just brilliant – as this youtube video demonstrates. You can even run the demo to try it out.

You saw it on Star Trek – the Universal Real-time Speech Translator. Now Israeli start-up Lexifone has developed live voice real time speech translation based on its proprietary generic software platform, which statistically optimizes voice data, in conjunction with its learning based linguistic and semantic translation. Or as they said on Star Trek – “it’s life Jim, but not as we know it”.

With your personal iPad you and your relatives can now see surgeons performing angioplasty, stent insertion and coronary catheterization on your own body in real-time! Make sure you book into the Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus in Petah Tikva.

In the California desert, Israel’s BrightSource is building huge solar power stations. With new upgraded technology it can now produce the same amount of power using less desert, pleasing conservationists. It can also store the energy, to be released when demand is high or at night.

A groundbreaking product by Shekel Electronic Scales, Israel's biggest maker of commercial and medical scales, can provide customers with useful information on special offers and incentives whilst waiting to be served at meat, cheese or deli sections of the supermarket.

The next must-have device is Israeli developer XTR’s motion sensor that can drive gaming software at a fraction of the price of Microsoft’s Kinect. XTR (Extreme Reality) has just raised $8 million to hire more staff.

25,000 visitors, 200 exhibitors, 150 international delegations. The WATEC 2011 event provided a unique forum for Israeli technology innovators and international water and energy professionals to meet and forge alliances.

Great film showing the results of the hard work that the British Technion Society has performed in funding and promoting Israel’s leading technology institute.

Scientists at Ben Gurion University have discovered that molecular machines are much more powerful than first thought. The discovery could help cancer research and biologically inspired nanotechnology in medicine and industry.