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ElMindA Brain Monitor Cleared by FDA

  Neuroscience company ElMindA is revolutionising the management of brain disorders and injuries through its futuristic brain monitoring ‘helmet’.   ElMindA’s Brain Network Activity system is used to analyse neural processes, with the potential to reveal brain problems early on and thus increase the efficacy of treatment for disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease. […]

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Israel Taxation Laws Report

We have just uploaded the newest report on Israel’s taxation laws and what they mean for international business. Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu’s Israel Highlights 2014 report can be found here or under our ‘Invest in Israel’ tab under ‘More info’.

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A no-contact, no-radiation breast-cancer detector

A next-generation screening device from Israel’s Real Imaging is good news for millions of women with dense breasts The “Real Imager 8” (RI-8) device from Israel’s Real Imaging is poised to become a safer, painless and more accurate screening method to complement mammography, especially for women with dense breast tissue. As the company finishes clinical […]

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Call for Submissions for Australia-Israel Tax Treaty Negotiation Program

The Australian Treasury Department has issued a call for  public submissions on Australia’s future tax treaty negotiation program. If you would like to submit your company”s recommendations for a tax treaty with Israel please follow the link below to the relevant form: http://www.treasury.gov.au/ConsultationsandReviews/Consultations/2014/Australias-Tax-Treaty-Negotiation-Program Please note submissions close on 8 August 2014.    

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Top 12 Israeli Apps to Keep You Healthy

Israeli developers come to the rescue with apps for everything from monitoring blood sugar to finding the nearest cardiac catheterization lab. Given Israel’s disproportionate success in the fields of medical devices and biotechnology, it is only natural that some of the most exciting health-related mobile and Web applications are coming from Israeli developers. Some are […]

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GreenIQ – Making Gardens Smarter

Did you ever sit at home during a rain shower and think “Its too bad about the garden sprinklers,” thinking you could have saved that water? Odi Dahan took this thought a step further, and founded GreenIQ to bring a solution.  Globes recently covered this exciting start-up: Dahan decided to develop an app that would dynamically control the […]

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Futuristic Sky Car Network to be built in Tel Aviv

California-based skyTran has teamed up with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to construct the world’s first public pilot project for skyTran’s elevated transit network. A number of skyTran projects are being planned globally, including in India and the United States, pending the success of the pilot in Israel. The pilot will be a 400-500 meter (yard) […]

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Hebrew University Student Invents World’s First Bacteria-Free Food Packaging

An apple a day keeps the doctor away, but not if your apple is covered in bacterial biofilm, a potentially chronic illness-causing bacteria that sticks to produce and packaging in the shipping process. Now a graduate student at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem has discovered a way to attack the potentially harmful bacteria that sticks to food […]

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Mouse movement cyber-security firm BioCatch raises $10m

BioCatch, an Israeli cyber-security start-up with a system that ferrets out hackers by checking how they move their mouse, said Tuesday that it raised $10 million in Series A financing. Blumberg Capital and Israeli crowdfunding VC firm OurCrowd led the round. “Online finance and banking sites, among others, require users to enter names and passwords to gain access, […]

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Israeli tech streams World Cup to world’s living rooms

Israeli start-up, LiveU, is gearing up to deliver television-quality video of World Cup coverage via cellular connections to broadcast centers and the Internet, using a network of 200 of the firm’s mini-broadcast boxes, devices about half the size of a laptop. Over 30 international broadcasters are scheduled to beam the games from stadiums in the 12 host cities across […]