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Startup Nation Central partners with Israeli hospital to boost health tech in north

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Startup Nation Central is partnering with Tzafon Medical Center near Tiberias to help drive economic recovery in northern Israel. In a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed last week, the two agreed to work to boost...
Members of IDF Unite 8200's operational arm training in the field. Sep 11 2012. Photo by Moshe Shai/Flash90.

Israel ‘one of the world’s top cyber powers’

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Israel’s position as a cyber superpower places it in an exclusive club of world powers, despite having a population a little larger than New York City, according to former Israeli defense official Chuck Freilich. Freilich,...
Aviva Steinberger, director of Innovation Diplomacy at Start-Up Nation Central, addresses the "Women Connect to Innovate" conference in Morocco, May 4, 2023. Credit: Courtesy.

Female business leaders gather in Morocco to forge regional connections

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Some 100 female business leaders from across four continents gathered in Morocco last week for the “Women Connect to Innovate” conference. The aim of the event is to forge new business collaborations and explore...
From left: The Kinneret Innovation Center's Tomer Swisa, Eyal Triber and Elad Shamir. Credit: Yariv Kristal Photography.

21st-century Zionism on the shores of the Sea of Galilee

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The Start-Up Nation is returning to its agricultural roots. The country once famed for Jaffa oranges and Jordan Valley dates, and later cherry tomatoes, is coming full circle, with century-old agricultural know-how meeting 21st-century high-tech. That,...

Israeli researchers improve chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer patients

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Israeli researchers have developed a treatment that may greatly enhance the efficacy of chemotherapy in breast cancer patients, Tel Aviv University reported on Tuesday. Researchers found that they can reduce the risk of lung metastasis...
Tanya Pons Allon picking strawberries at Arava R&D Center. Photo by Laura Ben-David.

Turning an arid desert into an unexpected breadbasket

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Maayan Kitron hands me a weird-looking yellow fruit wrapped in a cocoon. Gently, I open the papery husk and take a sweet bite of this golden berry (also called a ground cherry or strawberry tomato),...
A high-rise building in Tel Aviv. Sept.14, 2020. Photo by Flash90.

UAE to increase investment in Israel’s private sector

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The United Arab Emirates office responsible for attracting foreign and domestic investment recently opened a mission in Tel Aviv and signed agreements with two offices at Israel’s Economy Ministry aimed at accelerating private-sector collaboration...
Eco Wave Power technology in action. Credit: Eco Wave Power.

Israeli-Swedish ocean-wave energy producer wins UAE Global Innovation Award

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Swedish-Israeli wave energy developer Eco Wave Power (EWP) has won the public voting for the Global Innovation Award in the “Life Under Water” category at Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week for its solution to generate...
Tel Aviv night skyline. Credit: Pixabay.

Israel makes top 10 (again) in ranking of world’s most innovative countries

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Israel was ranked seventh among the world’s 60 most innovative economies, according to the Bloomberg Innovation Index published last week. The Jewish state went down one spot from its standing in 2020 and two places from 2019,...
Credit: Yoram Reshef

Chemi Peres, in father’s tradition, wins innovation award

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GUTERSLOH, Germany (Press Release) — The 2020 Reinhard Mohn Prize on “Fostering Innovation. Unlocking Potential” is being awarded by the Bertelsmann Stiftung to Nechemia (“Chemi”) Peres, Chairman of the Peres Center for Peace and...