The past decade has seen an increasing number of challenges faced by large mining companies worldwide. Can Israeli Defense technology help solve some of them? Australia’s thriving resources sector is the country’s largest single export sector. Resource commodities including coal and iron ore made up around 40 per cent of Australia’s exports. The minerals and […]
(By Avigayil Kadesh) Israel may be tiny, but there are more than 250 designated Israeli nature reserves and parks in locations ranging from snow-capped peaks to deserts, and the figure is growing every year Looking at Israel on a map, it’s hard to imagine how hundreds of nature reserves could fit into this tiny country […]
Following the success of the first International Jerusalem Marathon in March 2011 in which over 10,000 runners from more than 40 nations participated, plans are already underway for the 2012 marathon on 16 March. The events include a full marathon, a half-marathon and a 10K run – all of which pass through Jerusalem’s unique landscape, […]
This is Ormat’s third project in New Zealand announced in the past few months. Ormat Industries Ltd. US subsidiary Ormat Technologies Inc. has signed a 45-megawatt BOT (Build, Operate and Transfer) agreement with New Zealand’s Tikitere Geothermal Power Ltd. (TGL) to build and operate a a geothermal power plant in the Tikitere geothermal area near […]
As reported in IVC: Beginning today, the company’s American Depository Shares are listed on the Bulletin Board under the ticker “HADSY”. Hadasit Bio Holdings Ltd. (TASE:HDST), the biotech arm of Hadasit – the Technology Transfer Company of Hadassah Medical Organization yesterday obtained permission from the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to list on Nasdaq. […]
As reported in Israel 21C: Israeli startup Breezy has developed a patented mint candy to keep breath fresh for up to four hours, with the help of microcapsules that gently clean the tongue. Those old mouthwash commercials had it right: Bad breath, as clichéd as it sounds, really is a big problem. If it weren’t, […]
As reported in Israel 21c: A two-year-old Israeli company is pairing electrodes with living neurons in the eye to create bionic sight for the vision impaired, in a nanotech development that sounds more like science fiction, than real life. Nano Retina, operating since 2009 in Herzliya, is now manufacturing an R&D prototype of the development. […]
As reported in Globes: Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (Nasdaq: TEVA; TASE: TEVA) has signed a $4 billion credit with a banking syndicate to finance its $6.8 billion acquisition of Cephalon Inc. (Nasdaq: CEPH). HSBC Holding plc (LSE: HSBA; HKSE: 005; NYSE, Paris: HBC) is heading the syndicate of European, US, Canadian, and Israeli banks, which […]
As repprted in Globes: The Defense Industries Report for 2010 released today by Hemda Mark, economic advisor to the Ministry of Defense, reveals that sales by Israeli defense companies in 2010 totaled $9.6 billion, 3% more than in 2009. Most of the sales are accounted for by Israel’s four biggest defense companies, Israel Aerospace Industries […]
An Israeli innovation for raising seafood anywhere – including the desert – could be the answer to the world’s growing problem of over fishing and water shortages. “Our technology is totally independent of the sea,” says Dr. Yossi Tal of Israel’s Grow Fish Anywhere (http://growfishanywhere.com ), a company that invented a way to raise fish […]
