Sterile flies help farmers cut back on the use of pesticides. The mass exodus of 380 million sterile flies from Kibbutz Sde Eliyahu to Split, Croatia is meant to help reduce the population of fruit flies in that country’s citrus fruit…
SAVE THE DATE of Schneider Electric & Aster Capital – Innovation Day – ID2 – December 17th 2014. It will be held in Schneider Electric HQ in Paris. Investors, VCs, Business Partners, Corporate VCs, Schneider Electric Business Units, Partnerships and…
Pilots are trained to guard against vertigo: a sudden loss of the sense of vertical direction that renders them unable to tell “up” from “down” and sometimes even leads to crashes. Coming up out of a subway station can produce…
Security researcher Mordechai Guri with the guidance of Prof. Yuval Elovici from the cyber security labs at Ben-Gurion University in Israel presented at the 9th IEEE International Conference on Malicious and Unwanted Software (MALCON 2014), at Puerto Rico, a breakthrough method (“AirHopper) for leaking…
Shamoon College of Engineering (SCE) is Israel’s largest college dedicated to engineering the future. Combining world-class academic excellence with a unique approach to education and social responsibility, SCE is much more than a college; it is a source of inspiration and…
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev PhD candidate Tomer Simon has discovered that during the takeover of the Westgate Mall in Kenya in 2013, there were security breaches that led to the relay of sensitive data online to the public. Such…
After a pronounced but temporary weakening in 2014, growth is projected to rebound to about 3% in 2015 and 3½ per cent in 2016, which should avert any rise in unemployment. The rebound in domestic demand that is expected to…
How the brain ages is still largely an open question – in part because this organ is mostly insulated from direct contact with other systems in the body, including the blood and immune systems. Weizmann Institute researchers Prof. Michal Schwartz of the…
Unemployment Rate in Israel decreased to 5.70 percent in October of 2014 from 6.50 percent in September of 2014. Unemployment Rate in Israel averaged 7.80 percent from 1992 until 2014, reaching an all time high of 11.40 percent in March…
A professional course to demonstrate best practices, knowhow and new agricultural technologies in the citrus production field was recently conducted in Israel within the framework of the Israel-India Agricultural Cooperation Program. The course (Nov. 3-18) took place at CINADCO’s Shefayim Training…
