Israel’s innovative technology turns curses into blessings, Landa Digital Printing makes high-quality diamonds from methane, Israeli innovation saves the planet, and much more!

By Michael Ordman

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Israel’s tech miracle

On the Armstrong Williams show, Jon Medved of OurCrowd mentions several Israeli innovations and gives reasons for Israel’s technical and economic success. They include turning curses into blessings, education, skills learned in the army, diverse immigrants and chutzpah.

Growing diamonds from methane

Israeli Benny Landa is the founder of Landa Digital Printing (see here). His latest venture is Lusix, which makes quality diamonds of up to 3 carats from methane gas. His machines bond carbon atoms to a diamond seed at 5000 degrees C. The product is chemically identical to a mined gem.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3771457,00.html

How Israel can save our planet

AgriVest 2019 on 24th Sep in Tel Aviv hosted more than 750 participants, speakers, panelists, presenting companies, and sponsors. Israeli startups demonstrated how to grow more crops and more food with less land, less water, and less energy.
https://www.agrivestisrael.com/agenda-2019

Global firms get a taste of Israeli food tech

Delegates from multinationals such as PepsiCo, Danone and Mondelez (Cadbury Oreo, Toblerone etc.) attended Israel’s annual FoodTechIL in Tel Aviv. 50 Israeli startups exhibited latest technologies in the food sector (including protein alternatives) to some 1500 participants.
http://nocamels.com/2019/09/global-firms-taste-of-israeli-food-tech-innovations/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/fruit-fly-fillet-startups-strut-their-alternative-proteins-at-food-tech-fair/

Vegan substitute for eggs

One of the Israeli startups exhibiting at Tel Aviv’s FoodTechIL was Zero Egg, with its plant-based alternative for eggs. It tastes, looks and functions like a real egg. It can be used to make omelets, “scrambled egg”, cakes, pasta and sauces without using eggs.
http://nocamels.com/2019/09/global-firms-taste-of-israeli-food-tech-innovations/ https://zeroeggfood.com/

Saving male chicks from slaughter

Previous newsletters (see here) reported on Israel’s EggDetect and TeraEgg which developed technology to prevent the hatching of 8 billion unwanted male chicks. Now there’s another – eggXYt which uses ultrasound to detect a potential chick male immediately after the egg is laid.
https://www.eggxyt.com/

Replacing sugar with protein

High sugar intake is a huge health issue. At FoodTechIL Israeli scientist Ilan Samish of startup Amai Proteins (see here) demonstrated his hyper-sweet synthesized thaumatin protein. He has now adapted the protein for sweetening food and drinks in the high temperatures required by the food industry.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/269565

Detecting allergens

Israeli startup Allerguard is developing a handheld device that scans and analyzes vapors from prepared food to determine the presence of allergens (e.g. peanuts). Electrochemical sensors detect non-safe molecular levels of allergens using three technologies. Allerguard has just raised $1.5 million of funds.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3771525,00.html https://allerguardsystems.com/about/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=viuiVIAFk9I

More meatless meat

Israeli startup MeaTech is developing technology for bioprinting meat using stem cells. It expects to achieve a viable prototype within a year. Meanwhile, MeaTech has merged with Israel’s Ophectra Real Estate & Investments. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3771407,00.html

Wind farm for Serbia

Israel’s Enlight Renewable Energy has inaugurated its new 104.5 MW wind farm in Kovačica, Serbia. It is Serbia’s largest wind farm and will supply electricity to 68,000 households.
As reported here previously (see here) Enlight has built wind farms in Ireland and in Israel’s Golan.
https://renewablesnow.com/news/israels-enlight-inaugurates-largest-wind-farm-in-serbia-669726/

Intel likes fast Israeli connectivity

The transceivers and active optical cables from Israel’s DustPhotonics enable super fast connections between servers in data centers. DustPhotonics has just received $25 million in a funding round led by Intel Capital. https://dustphotonics.com/
https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/dustphotonics-secures-25m-in-series-b-funding-led-by-intel-capital-300922264.html

EU funds for ransomware protection startup

Israeli cybersecurity startup Odix (registered as Operations & Data Integrity) has been awarded a 2 million euro grant from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program. Odix’s technology disarms different malware, including ransomware.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3771192,00.html

Getting accurate feedback.

Israeli startup Dooblo provides mobile survey software for the market research industry. Its SurveyToGo product reduces the cost of paper-based surveys but vastly increases quality. Dooblo is used in over 100 countries and has just received an investment from California’s Anacapa.
https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190918005135/en/Anacapa-Partners-Announces-Investment-Dooblo

Einstein in Shanghai

“Albert Einstein: Life in Four Dimensions,” by The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is currently showing at the World Expo Museum in Shanghai China. It includes handwritten documents, original pictures, personal objects and scientific theorems. The exhibition will move to Beijing at the end of October.
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/New-exhibit-about-Albert-Einstein-opens-in-Shanghai-597390

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