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Procter & Gamble has signed a master collaboration agreement with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. P&G and HU scientists and research leaders can now partner in biology, chemistry, colloid and surface science to improve the company’s products.

Procter & Gamble has announced a joint venture with Israel's Powermat, aimed at advancing wireless charging technology. The new undertaking will be called Duracell Powermat.

The software enables companies to analyse mass of data, identify hidden opportunities and make smarter decision to improve their business results.

Now thanks to Israel’s Keepod, you can use any computer and it will look just like the one you have at home. This new device will retrieve your bookmarks, settings, and secure identity.

President Peres plans a huge museum. He said “Israel must serve as a centre of attraction for both creativity and wisdom, and Einstein possesses these two elements. Every single tourist arriving in Israel will want to visit the museum.”

Using its high position on the Carmel slopes, the building is able to use its surplus water pressure to generate electricity. The idea won first prize in the Technion’s Energy Conservation Competition. Runner up ideas were energy usage screens and energy from the Technion’s gym.

Two scientists from The Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University have discovered a method that could prove the existence of the universal force predicted by Albert Einstein in 1918.

Google Israel’s R&D centre has helped digitise five of the 2000 year-old texts that were discovered between 1947 and 1956. Special flash photography was used to protect the scrolls.

Heliofocus and the Weizmann institute have built a 35-meter high experimental device that generates electricity by heating air, instead of current water or oil-based devices.

Technion graduate David Perlmutter took the decision that made it possible for you to read this newsletter. (More in the book ‘Israel – Start-up Nation’ by Senor and Singer.)