Israel’s Aquarius Engines has redesigned the internal combustion engine; Israel’s LiveU will provide IP-based live video transmission solutions for more than 80 broadcasters and online streaming customers during the Rio Olympics this summer, and much more.

A group of ambitious students and parents from the Yigal Alon elementary school in Hod Hasharon, a community just east of Tel Aviv, launched a meteorological balloon to an altitude of 15 miles last week and collected images and complete flight data.