Tag: Innovation
Startup Nation Central partners with Israeli hospital to boost health tech in north
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...
Israel ‘one of the world’s top cyber powers’
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,...
Female business leaders gather in Morocco to forge regional connections
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...
21st-century Zionism on the shores of the Sea of Galilee
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
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...
Turning an arid desert into an unexpected breadbasket
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),...
UAE to increase investment in Israel’s private sector
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...
Israeli-Swedish ocean-wave energy producer wins UAE Global Innovation Award
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...
Israel makes top 10 (again) in ranking of world’s most innovative countries
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,...
Chemi Peres, in father’s tradition, wins innovation award
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...