Israel’s Controp has teamed up with USA’s Pharovision to develop detection systems designed to warn of potential collisions between airplanes and either airborne birds or foreign object debris on the ground, and Bill gates says, “Israeli technology is improving the world.”

In a speech broadcast to over 2,000 attendees at Microsoft Israel’s annual Think Next event, Microsoft founder Bill Gates said that Israeli contributions to technology fields such as analytics and security are “improving the world.”