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Israel’s Innoviz (see previously) has been awarded the Edison Award for technology in the Smart Transportation category. Its latest product, InnovizTwo, provides high-performance, automotive-grade LiDAR sensor for all levels of autonomous driving at dramatically lower cost.

This OurCrowd webinar highlights how SpaceTech is changing the way people work on Earth. Hear speakers from Axiom Space. Balerion Space Ventures, Edgybees and Ursa Major.

A new video which explains how Israel has grown to an innovation powerhouse.

The European Space Agency’s JUICE (JUpiter ICy moons Explorer) mission launched on Apr 14. It carried an Ultra Stable Oscillator made by Israel’s AccuBeat (see previously) which will measure the composition of Jupiter’s atmosphere when it arrives there in 2031.

Israel’s Teralight has launched the “Ta’anakh” - the country’s largest solar project - in the Jezreel Valley. It is expected to provide electricity for around a quarter-million Israelis living in more than 60,000 households by the end of the first half of next year.

In a historic first, a team of Israeli students took home every medal possible at the European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad (EGMO) for grades 10 - 12 in Slovenia. Noga Friedman beat 214 from 54 countries to win gold with a "perfect score." Israelis also won silver and gold.

Israel’s Balena (see previously) won a Green Product Award in the fashion category from the Green Future Club at a ceremony in Berlin. The international award program, now in its 10th year, recognizes products and services in sustainability, innovation, and design.

At a visit to Israel’s Steakholder foods (see previously) a high-profile Israeli politician said “Today we ate fish produced without fish, meat produced without cows. This is a global revolution. Soon we will bring new approvals and new heights that will change the world,"

Israel’s Better Juice (see previously) has completed successful trials of its technology to lower the sugar content (sucrose, fructose, and glucose) of natural berry and other fruit juices. It also works on fruit products such as jams. These products are predicted to reach the shelves next year.

Studies of the Green Mediterranean (high polyphenols) diet (see previously) show its benefits for the gut and brain. Now, Ben Gurion University research shows it is twice as good as the standard Mediterranean diet for the heart aorta that carries oxygenated blood throughout the body.