Israel Active

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.

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.

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.

One of the final space shuttle experiments was to test an Israeli biomedical water purification device that removes bacteria and viruses from polluted water.

Israel’s Elbit Systems are to provide the wing flaps to help get the USAF’s stratotankers off the ground earlier and at lower speeds.

Israeli start-up Infogan has developed an internet-based platform designed to ease the search process for kindergartens, according to parents’ needs.