Israel Active

Time Magazine’s 100 Best inventions of 2024 include 9 Israeli products. Nuvo, Aporia’s Guardrails, OrCam’s Hear, UVeye, BeeHero, InnerPlant’s CropVoice, Emulait, BelongAI’s Dave, and D-ID’s avitars. Only Emulait has not appeared before in this newsletter. (See for previous years’ Israeli mentions.)

Israel’s Kardome (see previously) has now implemented its AI-based voice-recognition software into more than a million devices. Kardome’s Spatial Hearing software enables devices to truly understand the context of speech, whether in a busy car or a bustling street.

Too many Israel Defense Forces drones are fragile, and rely on China-based production. However, drones are essential for protecting Israel soldiers in Gaza and Lebanon. STEM-up Israel, together with other nonprofit groups, use high-school students to procure, build, and maintain drones for the IDF.

Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have found that a balanced diet is essential for honeybees’ optimal health and task performance. A diet with a high omega-6:3 ratio (5:1) significantly affects bees’ ability to nurse larvae, both in delay and frequency.

Two reports (one in detail) of Israel, a country with the population the size of New York City, that is one of the world’s top cyber powers. (Just as well as Israel’s enemies have attacked almost all of the country’s major computer systems – many times.)

Ben Gurion University’s new North Campus in Beer-Sheva will include a 1,000-student village, plus Glazer Foundation Future Technologies, Helmsely Computer Science, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Drahi Innovation and Entrepreneurship buildings. Plus a culture center.

Israel’s R2 Wireless has developed an anti-drone system that can detect any kind of flying threat, whether airborne, or grounded on land or at sea. It scans for any transmitted signal and uses AI algorithms to classify, geolocate, and track it in real time. It is being trialed in Israel and the UK.

Israel’s Clairion has reduced the cost of cleaning biogas and other gas emissions by 50%. Clairion’s Sulkan solution transforms biogas into a commercial renewable energy source, using a novel catalytic liquid technology and unique absorption and separation processes.

Israel’s MOZAICO is developing an electrolysis process to remove limescale and other marine debris from coastal desalination plants and power plants. It can boost desalination and power production efficiency, absorb CO2, and generate pure calcium carbonate for industrial use.

Israel’s Helios (see previously) is to trial its green iron clean energy process with Australia's BlueScope Steel. The steel industry currently accounts for some 10% of global carbon emissions.