Sci-tech

Bar-Ilan becomes Israel’s second largest research university, surpassing HUJI

Over the past seven years, Bar-Ilan has seen a 30% increase in total student enrollment, marking the highest growth rate among the country’s major research universities.

Bar Ilan University, engineering department
 Background made of various alkaline and lithium-ion batteries, positive pole visible.

ICL forms lithium iron phosphate venture for battery market

 SOFIA BOUTELLA in ‘Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire.’

‘Rebel Moon’ fails to land its own mythology - film review

Prof. Eyal Zimlichman, Sheba Medical Center's Chief Innovation Officer (left) signs MOU with Liberty Science Center in the presence of the governor of New Jersey and mayor of Jersey City.

Sheba launches digital health partnership with SciTech city in New Jersey


Moving Israeli cities towards real innovation

Some 120 Israeli companies featured their advanced technologies at Tel Aviv expo.

A general view shows central Tel Aviv backed by the Mediterranean Sea

New device enables disabled people to summon their electric wheelchair

A team of experts at the Jerusalem hospital developed the device, called Chair Call, to significantly improve the quality of life for the wheelchair-bound.

THE ‘CHAIR CALL’ device for electric wheelchairs, controlled by an application installed on a smartphone, costs NIS 60.

6 Israeli startups that want to change your everyday life

Israel’s tech scene is famously thriving, with about 5,000 startups across the country. Nearly 1,500 of those are in Tel Aviv alone — that’s one startup for every 300 residents of the city.

A commercial for Sensibo

Massachusetts delegation strengthens ties in cyber security, digital health

‘I believe Israel has a lot to offer us and we them,’ says governor.

The logo for the cyber hacking group ‘Anonymous’ is seen on computer screens.

Israeli firm launches solar-powered device to monitor farm fields

The Sol Chip Comm, created by the Haifa-based Sol Chip, is a tiny wireless tag fueled by the sun’s light that can connect to a virtual cloud.

THE TAG will first be used in farms that grow more pricey fruits, such as grapes, or in those that cultivate their produce in greenhouses

BGU, Paypal announce R&D partnership in big data and cybersecurity

“This partnership will allow PayPal to leverage BGU’s top-notch researchers and years of groundbreaking research."

Netta Cohen, BGN Technologies CEO (left), and Matan Parnes, PayPal's General Manager in Israel

Mobileye head: In two decades, cars as we know them will be obsolete

“We are in the midst of the largest revolution that the automotive industry has seen in the last 100 years, and Mobileye is in the center."

ZIV AVIRAM, co-founder, president and CEO of Mobileye,

Solving a cryptic puzzle with a little help from a hologram

They used holographic logic to compile an algorithm for visualizing the shape of an electron in a superconducting material.

A scientist looks through a microscope

Rising trends in biotech oncology in Israel

In recent years, there has been a big change in the concept of diagnosing and treating cancer.

Doctors perform surgery

Things Neta didn’t tell me at the interview

Israel can look forward with confidence and anticipation to a great future – technology, diversity and social commitment.

Top Israeli tech executives talk