Israel Active

Up to now, sought-after coloured diamonds were only found rarely in nature. Now, Israeli company Briza has developed technology to turn polished whites into colour-enhanced diamonds.

Circling the earth, the European Space Agency needs help to monitor its low-earth orbit imaging and surveillance satellites. So Israel’s Orbit Technologies remote sensing devices are really useful.

Israel’s new Arrow3 interceptor successfully shot down a mock enemy ballistic missile in a trial flight.

Five Israeli high-school students won medals, including a Gold, at the 52nd International Math Olympiad. Israel finished 23rd of 101 countries – its best overall result since 2004.

Prof. Yossi Steinberger, of Bar Ilan University has won an international achievement award from the Soil Ecology Society. His research deals with microbial population dynamics and its diversity in soil.

This Israeli invention could literally signal the end of the problem of dogs fouling the pavement. I hope they step on it and get it developed quickly.

Some of us have two email accounts, plus facebook, twitter, YouTube, Flickr, LinkedIn, etc. So Israeli start-up Zbang has developed Multimi to amalgamate them all.

Oren Halevy of Be'er Sheva outclassed high-school students from 75 countries to win the 19th international First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics research contest in Poland.

Israeli students won two gold medals, two silver medals and one bronze medal in the 42nd International Physics Olympiad in Bangkok. Israel finished 13th of the 84 participating countries.

The US Army in Afghanistan is using Israeli reconnaissance equipment – three RT Aerostat systems (hot air balloons) to protect American troops.