Engineering

IDF Atidim launches first dedicated engineering track for haredi, minority students

Students will earn practical engineering diplomas before enlistment, serve in leading Military Intelligence technology units, and complete full engineering degrees during their military service.

The students will be integrated into core technological units in the Military Intelligence Directorate and the IDF in general. Program opening ceremony via Walla.
The Fig team. The cybersecurity company develops solutions to help organizations automate and manage security operations.

Fig Grows platform to cover full SecOps engineering lifecycle, ensuring resilience at every stage

Dr. Gail Gilboa Freedman, Dean of the Faculty of Technology at Sapir Academic College.

Engineering the future from the Negev

Tali Mekere

Tali Mekere: A first-generation engineer's path to success from Ethiopia to Netanya


Virgin Galactic set to launch its first commercial rocket plane spaceflight

The flight, dubbed Galactic 01, comes two years after Richard Branson himself rode along with five other Virgin Galactic Holdings Inc personnel for the company's first fully crewed test spaceflight.

Virgin Galactic’s space tourism rocket plane SpaceShipTwo returns after a test flight from Mojave Air and Space Port in Mojave, California, U.S. December 13, 2018.

Ancient Egyptian hydraulic engineering shown in walls along Nile - study

The walls, a type of structure known as a groin, were used by ancient Egypt and Nubia to control the Nile River through hydraulic engineering.

A general view of The Nile River, houses and agricultural land from the window of an airplane in Luxor, Egypt October 9, 2019

Azrieli College of Engineering to hold virtual Metaverse open day

The virtual open-day experience is a dynamic, exciting way to learn about the Jerusalem engineering college.

 Jerusalem College of Engineering.

Prof. Ami Moyal to discuss transforming engineering education at Jpost Convention

President of Afeka Academic College of Engineering will also discuss building of new academic campus in South Tel-Aviv

 New Afeka Campus

The quietest place on earth will drive you insane

In 2015, Microsoft built a room that is now officially designated in the Guinness Book of Records as the quietest place on Earth.

 Radio frequency anechoic chamber, Antennas Research Group, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. The interior surfaces are covered with pyramidal Radiation Absorbent Material (RAM) which are made of rubberized foam impregnated with mixtures of carbon and iron.

TAU robot able to ‘smell’ odors like a dog using a biological sensor

Researchers have developed a biological sensor whose sensitivity rivals that of dogs – 10,000 times higher than that of existing electronic devices.

 The robot with the biological sensor.

Hanukkah: Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Center home to largest LEGO-made menorah

One of Israel's newest LEGO franchisees has officially submitted a bid for a Guinness World Record for its Hanukkah menorah.

 Master builder Yitzy Kasowitz who came especially from the USA and volunteers breaking the Guinness record for building a menorah from Lego that consists of 130,000 Lego blocks and 4 meters high and 4 meters wide, in Tel Aviv, on December 12, 2022.

Computer architecture is being reimagined at Technion

One might think modern computers are already surpassing the human brain, but they still have a long way to go.

 Illustration of hardware.

Nano-magnets can be used to restore damaged nerve cells -Bar-Ilan University

A novel technique uses magnetic manipulations to create “mini-brains” in order to restore damaged neural networks.

 Neuron

Israeli architect collaborates with French design empire to create a crystal mezuzah 

Israeli architecture and interior design aficionado Irma Orenstein collaborated with a luxury French glassware company to create a new, bespoke mezuzah.

 Irma Orenstein