Israel Active

Bing Klima, based at Kibbutz HaGoshrim, has developed an all-in-one green roofing system that can pay for itself. Solar panels sit above crops and generate energy to offset electricity bills or be sold to the electric grid operators. Customers are mainly in the USA and Spain.

Researchers at Israel’s Technion Institute have developed new methods to evaluate daylight in hospital inpatient rooms and new design guidelines for improved inpatient health. The guidelines are also relevant for offices and schools.

Medics at Israel’s Safari Wildlife Hospital worked with Netanya-based Synergy3d Med to create a removable 3D-printed harness for fixing a fracture in the leg of a baby ibex (mountain goat). Following recovery, the kid was successfully reintroduced to its herd.

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has received an unprecedented $27 million donation from the Paulson Family Foundation. It will fund the construction of a new building with state-of-the-art research labs at the Givat Ram campus of the School of Computer Science and Engineering.

Excellent OurCrowd article that suggests that the FireDome platform from Israel’s mPrest (see previously) would have prevented the deadly wildfire that devastated Maui in Hawaii. Alerts from smart grid management software include when faulty equipment might be about to spark a deadly blaze. (Link to Billy Joel video)

Israel’s Spike is an all-in-one communications platform that aims to centralize instant messaging, emails, and video calls. It will end the chaotic task of having to switch between Gmail, Yahoo, Messenger, WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, Slack, Microsoft Teams. Google Meet, Zoom, etc.

Israel has over 100 startups developing solutions that help software engineers become more productive. The budgets have of these startups been largely unaffected by the recent slowdown in the hi-tech environment.

Back in Nov 2021 (see ) Israel installed its largest floating solar energy field, covering 112 acres of the Habonim reservoir. Israel’s Teralight (see previously) has just exceeded that with a 145-acre field on the reservoir at Kibbutz Ma’ayan Zvi. It will have the capacity to power 6,500 homes.

Israeli-founded CET Enviro uses electrolysis to purify the water circulating through power plants and the air conditioning systems in businesses, hotels, and other residential facilities.  Electrolysis generates strong oxidizing agents to inhibit the growth of Legionella bacteria.

Israel’s Coppter Water Technologies is developing a non-toxic, no-chlorine, cost-efficient solution for disinfecting swimming pools and other water systems. The system uses the antimicrobial sterilization properties of low-concentration monovalent copper ions.