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Sniffing out disease

A nano ‘nose’ developed by an Israeli professor can detect and classify cancer, kidney disease and other serious ailments just by analyzing breath samples. Within a few years, it will be possible to breathe into a portable medical device to find out if you have diseases such as cancer or kidney disease – and to […]

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Carmiel Train Will Pass Through a Five Kilometer Tunnel

The Israel National Roads Company published a tender for constructing a double tunnel under the Gilon mountain. The length of each tunnel will be five kilometers and their depth will be 100 meters underground. The tender for construction of the Gilon tunnel, through which the Acre-Carmiel railway will pass, will be executed using the Design-Build […]

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Green Light for Road 9 Construction Tender

The road, whose planned length is 10 Km., will connect Hadera and surrounding towns with Road 6 in the Sharon region; the tender for construction of the road will be published based on the Design Build method. The project is estimated to cost about 700 million NIS. The purpose of the new road is to […]

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Publication of Tender for Construction of the central section of Road 531 Project

Minister Katz: Road 531 will create an unbroken and speedy link between Sharon cities and the Tel Aviv metropolis, and an eastwest road, and is one of the largest and most important projects ever undertaken in Israel. The cost is estimated to total 3.7 billion NIS. An important step to alleviate traffic congestion in the […]

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Israelis find key to containing cancer

As reported in Israel21c: It is called simply p53, a short name that belies its starring role in halting the spread of cancer. Israeli scientists already knew that when it is activated, the p53 gene produces a protein that can halt and even kill cancerous cells. Now, a team headed by Prof. Yinon Ben-Neriah and […]

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Call Yachol – where the disabled are able to succeed

As reported in Israel21c: There’s no other business like it in the world. Israeli psychologist Gil Winch has founded a for-profit company, called Call Yachol, that provides jobs specifically for disabled Jewish and Arab adults. Call Yachol (which implies both “able to call” and “able to do anything”) employs 180 people with different mental and […]

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AKOL – using the cloud to feed the developing world

As reported in Israel21c: AKOL gives low-income farmers the ability to get top-level information from professional sources. Food prices are going up, and experts say they will continue to rise, thanks to changing weather patterns and unprecedented drought in the wrong places (Australia, China and Russia) at the wrong time, just when the burgeoning population […]

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Bank of Israel: foreign currency reserves rise to record US$77.4b

As reported in Port2port: The increase was the result of: Purchases of US$1,495 million of foreign exchange, A revaluation that increased the reserves by US$1,454 million and an increase of US$14 million deriving from private sector transactions The Bank of Israel reported last week that Israel’s foreign exchange reserves at the end of April 2011 […]

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IEICI: Israel’s exports have grown 13,400 times since the State’s establishment

As published on Port2port: Since 1948 Israel’s exports grew from US$6M to US$80B. The figures also show changing trends in Israel’s export economy from citrus fruit and diamonds to mainly technologic devices and systems Figures published by the economic division of Israel Export and International Cooperation Institute (IEICI) show exports grow 13,400 times since State’s […]

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Team Space Israel aims for the moon

A trio of Israeli engineers hopes to get its robot to the moon first, and win a $30 million prize – all in the name of showing schoolchildren that science is fun. An old joke about Israelis is that Neil Armstrong lands on the moon and reports back to Houston that he already sees an […]