JERUSALEM – Israelis climbed aboard the country’s new high-speed train on Tuesday as it partially opened to whisk passengers from Jerusalem to Ben Gurion airport, a massive project years in the making.
The Iron Dome counter rocket, artillery and mortar (C-RAM) and very short-range air defence system (VSHORADS) has been voted the greatest invention in Israel’s 70 years of independence.
Israel Aerospace Industries is to further develop, produce and supply the Israeli Army with course correction artillery fuzes, the company announced on Monday.
Helping India to secure a reliable and efficient supply of clean water is one of the major goals of Indian Prime Minister’s Narendra Modi’s historic 3-day official visit to Israel, which began on Tuesday.
A tiny ingestible robot designed by Israeli scientists may one day have the capacity to slither its way through the small intestine, upgrading the effectiveness of the colonoscopy test.
The official plane of the President of France, François Hollande, was upgraded and equipped with an Israeli-made anti-missile defense system.
Israel is planning a tender for building its largest ever solar power facility, which will have a capacity of up to 500 megawatts, in the southern Negev desert.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently gave clearance to an Israeli-developed contact lens used to treat corneal edema, a painful eye condition commonly caused by eye surgery, trauma, or aging.
European powers are trying to develop better means for pre-emptively spotting “lone-wolf” militants from their online activities and are looking to Israeli-developed technologies, a senior EU security official said on Tuesday.
As European defence budgets rise in the wake of increased threats, Israeli companies are seeing a boost in sales, further solidifying the country’s image as an arms industry leader.
Arutz Sheva reports: MK Avraham Neguise (Likud), chairman of the Aliyah Committee and founder of the Lobby for Relations Between Israel and African Countries, welcomed a delegation of prominent women representing 10 sub-Saharan African nations to the Knesset on Monday.
A $10 billion venture capital (VC) firm from China is investing hundreds of millions of dollars into Israeli technology to use it directly to help China develop its own “smart cities.”
TEL AVIV – In a troubling turn of events as Europe faces an unprecedented terrorist threat, an alleged French boycott of Israeli technology may have prevented the use of proprietary, terrorist-tracking software that could possibly have thwarted recent attacks in Paris and Belgium.
The Times of Israel reports: In the US, cleantech has often focused on ways to develop alternative energies, like solar and wind, but it’s becoming increasingly clear that water may be an even bigger problem. “Just look at what happened in
The Daily Mail reports: A new phone app allows Israelis to make video distress calls to emergency responders on their mobile phones. The country launched a nationwide platform in which emergency services can see live video of the victim, chat
TEL AVIV – A new image from Syria indicates that an Israeli-made drone may be helping the Assad regime fight rebel groups, Ynet news reported. The photo seems to show a drone of the same kind sold by Israel Air
Located in the middle of a desert, this solar tower is part of a new generation of solar power technology and helping to cement Israeli’s position as a world leader in renewable energy. Developers hope the launch will energize the
Ynetnews reports: Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled at an international aviation exhibition in Singapore this week new “Roamer” class missiles that look like an unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), but are in fact missiles that hover in the air until they
The Algemeiner reports: An Israeli research professor, heading an international team of scientists, has discovered a way to inhibit the symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, the Hebrew news site Walla reported on Monday. Dr. Shira Knafo, head of the Molecular Cognition Laboratory at BioCruces
TEL AVIV – A new Israeli invented app backed by popstars including Nicki Minaj and will.i.am has generated outcry among parents and politicians who are claiming that the anonymous text messaging platform is a weapon for cyber-bullying. Blindspot, launched by
The Jerusalem Post reports: Israel will invest more in technology enabling it to gather intelligence on social media about potential “lone wolf” terrorists, Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said on Wednesday. Erdan was speaking at a session at the third annual
TEL AVIV (AFP) – A new Israeli app launched by a company with investors including Will.I.Am and Nicki Minaj has been accused of encouraging teen bullying and Internet trolls. The Blindspot app allows users to send anonymous messages, photos and videos
Building on its expertise in technology, Israel is emerging as a leader in the race to keep cars secure and prevent the nightmare scenario of a hacker commandeering your vehicle. Most cars today are equipped with some level of connectivity
The Times of Israel reports: Israeli startup NUA Robotics has unveiled a prototype for luggage that uses Bluetooth technology to sync with a smartphone app, locate its owner, and follow along. The case also features an anti-theft alarm, a USB
TEL AVIV – Israeli water giant IDE Technologies opened the largest desalination plant in the Western hemisphere in California last week, JSpacenews reported. The new facility, constructed as part of an endeavor called the Poseidon project, will combat regional
TEL AVIV – An Israeli biotech company is developing an engineered micro-pancreas (EMP) to safeguard transplanted insulin-producing beta cells and eventually cure diabetes, ISRAEL21c reported. In addition to regulating type 1 diabetes, Betalin Therapeutics’ tissue-engineering invention also has the potential
Israel has become the first pit stop in the Australian Government’s mission to create innovation “launching pads” across the world. Israel’s Tel Aviv was touted as the equivalent to Silicon Valley when Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Innovation Minister Christian
TEL AVIV – A new Israeli-invented social network allows users to pose questions directly to hi-tech superstars, ISRAEL21c reported. Called yes.no, the platform was designed to circumvent the often one-sided nature of conventional social networks by inviting users to ask questions
Israel’s upgraded Arrow ballistic missile shield passed a full interception test on Thursday, hitting a target in space meant to simulate the trajectory of the long-range weapons held by Iran, Syria and Hezbollah, the Defense Ministry said. The success was
