Good News Israel presents Israel Establishes National Cyber Defense Authority, and much more.

By Michael Ordman

 

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

The most efficient desalination plant in the world

Israel’s new Sorek desalination plant is now at full capacity, producing 627,000 cubic meters of drinking water daily. With the lowest rate of energy consumption in the world, its water is the cheapest of any large-scale desalination plant.
http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/534996/megascale-desalination/

Washington to host US-Israeli cyber security conference

The Israel Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) will hold its 5th annual Defensive Cyberspace Operations & Intelligence Conference and Exhibition in Washington, DC, April 27-28, 2015. This is the first INSS cyber conference to be held in the US.
http://www.dcoi.org.il/#!about/cvz5

Israel establishes Cyber Defense Authority

Israel’s cabinet has approved the establishment of a national cyber defense authority which will have overall national responsibility for cyber defense. It will also operate an a Cyber Event Readiness Team to strengthen the resilience of organizations and sectors in the economy.
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2015/02/15/israel-establishes-cyber-defense-authority/

The importance of technology and education

Graduates of Israel Technion have won 4 Nobel Prizes and have either founded or are managing two-thirds of the Israeli companies on NASDAQ. Technion’s President Peretz Lavie describes why Israel’s foremost technical institute has been so successful.
http://www.wsj.com/articles/israels-technion-president-peretz-lavie-on-technology-and-education-1423854912

Israeli Sci-Tech schools

100,000 Israeli kids – 10 percent of all Israeli high school students (Jews, Muslims, Christians and Druze) – attend a Sci-Tech school. The Sci-Tech network builds curricula based on the demand for professionals in various Israeli industries, and it currently has 18 industrial vocational schools.
http://www.jewishledger.com/2015/02/seeds-start-nation-cultivated-israel-sci-tech-schools/

Israeli cleantech in Germany

Nine Israeli cleantech companies attended Leipzig’s Green Ventures Forum – Germany’s leading B2B platform in the cleantech arena. Thanks to the Israeli Economic Office in Berlin and Israel NewTech, Israeli companies held over a hundred meetings with companies from over 30 countries.
http://israelnewtech.com/2015/02/international-cleantech-forum-germany-provides-platform-israeli-companies/

Technion’s new hi-tech student lab

Israel’s Technion and Microsoft have together built a development lab that resembles that of a startup company. Students can develop innovative technologies that will add to the “Internet of Things” – Internet-enabled devices and applications to rival anything a hi-tech company can design.
http://www.israelscienceinfo.com/en/hightech/internet-objets-incubateur-technion-microsoft-simule-lenvironnement-start-ups/

Your TV interacts with your smartphone

Israel’s Applicaster lets you watch a program on your TV set whilst interacting with the program and its characters on your smartphone. Applicaster has released more than 100 mobile apps for 36 broadcasters, including Fox International and Mediacorp.
http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/17/applicaster-scores-10-5m-so-more-tv-characters-can-become-your-mobile-buddies/

Israeli technology with every diamond

If you’ve got a diamond on your finger, there’s an 80% chance it’s been touched by Israel’s Sarine. (Stop the automatic video sequence at the end of the Sarine clip)
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2015-02-18/diamonds-too-expensive-blame-technology
http://sarine.com/about-us/about-us-2/

 

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