As reported in Port2Port: Total cargo moved in 2010 through Ben Gurion international airport was 294,000 tons compared to 265,000 tons in 2009, up 11%. The increase followed a drop of 18% in 2009 and 6% in 2008 A comparative report issued by Israel’s Civil Aviation Authority (CAA)and presented last week to Israel Katz, Minister […]
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As reported in Israel21c: Where do Donna Karan, Roberto Cavalli and Diane von Furstenberg go to find new fashion talent? Israel’s Shenkar College of course. Which fashion school spawned Alber Elbaz of Lanvin and Kobi Halperin of Elie Tahari? Where did hot Israeli designers Ronen Chen, Mirit Weinstock and Naama Bezalel get their training? And which […]
As reported in IVC Online: The company value was $700-800 million, after money. Brightsource Energy Inc. has raised $122.5 million in its fifth financing round. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the company said that it raised the capital in shares and warrants, as part of a planned $125 million […]
As reported in Israel21C: As services and applications increasingly move from in-house servers to the Internet, Israeli companies are helping to seed the worldwide cloud revolution. The computing world is going online like never before. By utilizing resources on the Internet — “cloud” — companies can avoid laying out large sums of money on IT systems. […]
As reported in Israel21C: An Israeli invention could revolutionize the way perishables are packaged, extending shelf life by banishing bacteria. Imagine if all the paper, cardboard, foil and plastic that envelops the food we buy could not only keep it clean and tidy but also free of the bacteria that leads to spoilage. That scenario is […]
As reported in Israel21C: Israel’s Mantissa has developed a miniature radar/surveillance system the size of a personal camera. The company, which successfully completed the demo stage of the new radar, says the new development is a technological and application breakthrough that will change the rules of the game for surveillance and security. According to the company, […]
As reported in IVC Online: Atlantic Capital Partners has $100 million for secondary investments in European and Israeli technology companies. While Israeli venture capital firms are scarcely managing to raise follow-on funds, Israeli technology companies continue to pique the interest of foreign funds and investors. US private equity firm Sliver Lake invested in Israeli company […]
As reported in Israel21C: A new invention from Israeli scientists looks deeper into DNA to show with certainty whether or not a suspect was at the scene of a crime. By examining the unique elements that make up a person’s DNA, Israeli scientists have made it possible to provide DNA as evidence even when there are […]
As reported in Israel21C: Israeli researchers develop a vaccine that could stave off stroke as well as one of the most common and devastating causes of memory loss. Researchers from Tel Aviv University are working on a nasal two-in-one vaccine that could protect against both Alzheimer’s disease and stroke. The proposed vaccine appears to repair vascular […]
As reported in IVC Online: Israel’s universities are revolutionizing robotics, programming their inventions to think and perform tasks even better than humans. Open your imagination and you might just find some lifesaving, time saving and entertaining robotics invention that has already been invented in Israel. Many of the advances in this science fiction-inspired field are […]
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