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Innovation

Shani Bibi shows two deaf Israelis how to use a smart watch to learn about rocket alerts. Photo: Shlomi Yosef.

Israeli startups step in to fill wartime gaps

In cooperation with the Tel Aviv Municipality, CODA has imported and delivered to 300 deaf individuals customized smart watches that vibrate whenever a siren goes off.

November 13, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, U.S. President Donald Trump, UAE Foreign Minister Abdullah bin Zayed Al Nahyan and Bahrain Foreign Minister Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani attend the Abraham Accords signing ceremony at the White House, September 15, 2020. Credit: Avi Ohayon/GPO.

The Abraham Accords after the war

Israel’s culture of innovation will help us win the war and build a new regional reality.

November 8, 2023

Foreign Minister Eli Cohen appoints Fleur Hassan-Nahoum as innovation envoy, Sept. 13, 2023. Photo by Shlomi Amsalem/GPO.

Jerusalem deputy mayor appointed first Israeli innovation envoy

"There is no better message than the robust economy Israel has built despite the odds," Fleur Hassan-Nahoum said.

September 13, 2023

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’

Despite having a population a little larger than New York City, Israel’s cyber prowess is that of a global superpower, says professor Chuck Freilich.

August 17, 2023

A Watergen truck in Ukraine. Courtesy.

Israeli firm pulls water from air in Ukraine after dam collapse

Watergen provided its water-making generators to Ukraine after a dam collapse left approximately 700,000 without clean drinking water.

July 13, 2023

Israeli high-tech industry. Credit: xtock/Shutterstock.

Israel investing millions in high-tech initiative for remote areas

June 14, 2023

Israeli representatives, including Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan (fourth from left), and Daniella Partem of the Israel Innovation Authority at the “Flying to the Future” event, part of the U.N. Science, Technology and Innovation Forum, on May 3, 2023. Photo by Ohad Kab.

Israel’s drone zone on display to global community at UN

The nation’s advanced drone ecosystem, with life-saving civil applications, is displayed to ambassadors and business executives from around the world.

May 8, 2023

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

The event was co-organized by Start-Up Nation Central, a non-profit that promotes Israeli innovation around the world.

May 8, 2023

Sunrise in Bitronot Ruchama, a nature reserve of badlands in the area of Kibbutz Ruchama in the Western Negev, in southern Israel, on April 13, 2017. Photo by Maor Kinsbursky/Flash90.

Innovation thrives on Israel’s southern border

The Negev is not only blooming, but incubating some of Israel’s most cutting-edge social, educational and technical developments.

Judy Lash Balint

November 30, 2022