Ruti Levy
Haaretz.com
Israel
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Google Acquires Israeli Startup BreezoMeter
BreezoMeter predicts environmental damage like air pollution and counts Apple, Loreal and Dyson as customers → Read More
She was Israel's first female attack helicopter pilot. Now she's battling in-flight turbulence
Maya Shpak was on a United Airlines domestic flight in the United States when the pilot announced, “The area ahead of us shows turbulence. I’m going to turn the seat belt sign on and will turn it back off about five minutes later.” A small jolt was felt in the plane, and shortly afterward the sign went off, as promised. → Read More
She was Israel's first female attack helicopter pilot. Now she's battling in-flight turbulence
Maya Shpak was on a United Airlines domestic flight in the United States when the pilot announced, “The area ahead of us shows turbulence. I’m going to turn the seat belt sign on and will turn it back off about five minutes later.” A small jolt was felt in the plane, and shortly afterward the sign went off, as promised. → Read More
Chinese giant Alibaba to close Israel office
After losing its two Israeli senior executives six months ago, the Chinese giant shuts down its Tel Aviv R&D center which employs about 40 people → Read More
Chinese giant Alibaba to close Israel R&D center
After losing its two Israeli senior executives six months ago, the Chinese giant shuts down its Tel Aviv R&D center which employs about 40 people → Read More
Made in Israel: First AI-designed antibody could lead to eradication of tumors
A computer may design the perfect antibody to fight cancer in a breakthrough for medicine. Prof. Yanay Ofran explains why testing it on mice can be misleading, and what limits creativity in biotech companies: 'They're searching for a new biology and trying to treat it using old technology. We do the opposite' → Read More
One of Israel’s most successful venture capitalists opens his books
Oren Zeev explains why he tries to avoid attending too many board meetings and how his fund turned $50 million into $660 million → Read More
From a lab in Israel: The first antibody designed by AI enters clinical trials
Biolojic Design will conduct the trial for cancer patients in Australia with a new type of drug that makes full use of computational biology and big data → Read More
Born in Israel: The first rapid home pregnancy test using saliva
The creators of Salistick, who initially worked together in a lab at Hebrew University, have begun producing the pregnancy test kits and their technology could result in other medical tests as well → Read More
Intel confirms purchase of Israeli cloud service startup Granulate
The sale of Granulate, which was founded in 2018 and optimizes cloud services, to Intel at a massive sum of $650 million was first reported by Haaretz last week → Read More
AI vs dog poop: ‘Black mirror’ in Israel as town eyes autonomous enforcement
A central Israeli city wants to buy an artificial intelligence system to help identify citizens who don’t clean up after their dogs or drive recklessly → Read More
Exclusive: Intel to buy Israeli cloud service startup Granulate for $650m
Granulate’s ‘employees are about to become millionaires,’ source says; firm, which was founded in 2018, optimizes cloud services → Read More
‘The Israeli Sherlock Holmes’: How a 7th grade project turned into a multi-million startup
Gilad Japhet, the founder of MyHeritage, says he’ll never leave the company that began as a hobby - and reveals why 95% of subscriber won't either → Read More
Startup Nation registers record low of new startups
Despite the massive sums of money flowing into Israel, the number of new Israeli startups has been dropping since 2015 → Read More
The Israeli startup trying to reimagine wheat
Israeli startup Ukko is redesigning wheat so it doesn’t hurt celiac patients, and may even be able to solve ‘the holy grail’ of allergies - peanuts → Read More
Israeli cyber firm Orca Security hits unicorn status with latest fundraising round
Over the past year or so, Israel has seen an incredibly large number of companies reaching unicorn valuation privately held companies valued at $1 billion or more → Read More
Wix is bringing its web design training program to Israel
After establishing the study program in the U.S. and bringing it to Europe, the Israeli cloud-based platform for designing websites is set to expand to Israel → Read More
‘One of the best inventions ever': The Israeli startup that solved a 170-year-old problem
BeeWize has invented a new kind of beehive that can help prevent colony collapse - which is threatening pollination across the world → Read More
‘One of the best inventions ever': Israeli startup solves 170-year-old problem
BeeWise has invented a new kind of beehive that can help prevent colony collapse - which is threatening pollination across the world → Read More
‘One of the best inventions ever': Israeli startup solves 170-year-old problem
Eliyah Radzyner, 36, has been fascinated by bees for a long time. He began raising them in his backyard while studying at the Hebrew University’s Agriculture Faculty, and afterward he worked at an apiary in northern Israel. His day would begin at 4 A.M. “Beekeepers need to take advantage of all the daylight hours to understand what’s happening in all their hives,” he explains. → Read More