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Israel’s Brevel Ltd has partnered Israel’s Central Bottling Company to develop beverages and dairy alternatives containing Brevel’s high-value microalgae protein and oils. Brevel combines light with sugar fermentation in bioreactors to produce nutrient-rich microalgae in large quantities.

In a Democratic Party primary last year, George Latimer, a pro-Israel centrist, defeated Jamaal Bowman, a harsh critic of Israel. Jewish volunteers used the Israeli app UpVote to rally Jewish voters and get them to the ballet box. Latimer won by 12,000, aided by 14,000 “motivated” Jews.

Israel’s Guidde (see previously) has developed a generative AI platform that enables any employee to create video-based training and documentation for any software or process in seconds. Ideal for customer tutorials.

Leapfrog Innovation Powerhouse (LIP) Ventures is investing $90 million in Israeli startups from a group of 200 high-net-worth individuals and family offices across Latin America. The VC is boosting Israeli talent and helping Israeli entrepreneurs be exposed to the LATAM region.

Israel’s Education Ministry is implementing a nationwide program to integrate artificial intelligence into the nation’s school system. It includes training 70,000 teachers to use AI in classrooms and bringing in 3,000 training mentors from over 400 tech companies to help adapt AI tools.

Israel’s flō Opics has developed a solution for coating optical lenses using digital printing technology. It revolutionizes hard-coatings, tinted, and photochromic lenses, which can be applied on a pixel basis rather than just one option for the whole lens.

Israel’s Sequent is the world’s first end-to-end verifiable and transparent online voting platform. It has successfully conducted more than 200 elections in 10 countries for local municipalities, government bodies, and the private sector. It will be used for 1.7 million voters in the 2025 Philippines election.

In addition to the award to Israel’s OncoHost (see previously), two other Israeli startups won 2025 BIG Innovation awards from the Business Intelligence Group. won in the agriculture category and of Singapore and Tel Aviv won in the retail category.

Israel-based global innovation hub Creation-Space is launching Space Venture - an accelerator program to create space-tech startups. Each will receive up to $250,000, plus tech support, access to research facilities, test sites, and workshops by top experts from NASA and the deep space industry.

Nine defense companies and startups conducted a second test to the Defense Ministry of some 20 drone interception solutions at a simulated testing field in the Negev (see previously). They were from IAI, Aerobotics, Rafael, Elbit, Robotican, Xtend, General Robotics, Smart-Shooter, and Tamar.