September 22, 2016
10:39 am

Finalists from the Jerusalem Double team, one of six groups competing for three grants. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)

Social Innovation Challenge bookends Jerusalem Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebration

Six final groups compete for grants of $15,000, $35,000 and $50,000 to help them pursue projects aimed at benefiting people of all backgrounds across the capital

By Yaakov Schwartz

July 6, 2016
2:52 pm

Participants at the DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel's largest international Hi-tech gathering, September 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)

7 countries benefit most from technology innovation

New survey says Israel is one of the top earners from the digital revolution

By AP

March 6, 2016
5:11 am

Innovation Africa's founder and president Sivan Ya'ari and NBA all star Dikembe Mutombo visit Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in Kinshasa. (Courtesy)

Israeli women — and tech — connect African villages to water, electricity

Innovation Africa, founded by Sivan Ya’ari, has brought solar energy, improved irrigation and cleaner water to as many as 1 million people

By Times of Israel staff

December 1, 2015
1:39 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris on November 30, 2015. (Amos Ben Gershom/GPO)

Netanyahu hails Israel’s ‘leading role’ in addressing climate change

In address to Paris summit, PM cites local innovations in solar, agricultural and irrigation technology as examples of combating global crisis

By Tamar Pileggi

October 7, 2015
7:30 pm

Entrepreneurs gather at the Google campus in Tel Aviv. (Anna Morein)

Nonprofit connects Israel tech firms with investors

Billionaire Paul Singer’s Start-Up Nation Central seeks to promote local innovation to solve global problems

By David Shamah

October 5, 2015
1:23 am

To craft its new Charles River Pale Ale beer, Boston's Harpoon Brewery partnered with Israeli-founded Desalitech to purify 300 gallons of the Charles River, appearing in the background of this September 2015 photo with Harpoon president Charlie Storey (left) and Desalitech CEO Nadav Efraty. (courtesy)

Israelis clean up by brewing beer with Boston river’s ‘dirty water’

To craft Harpoon Brewery’s new pale ale, an Israeli water technology company purified the once filthy Charles River; project aims to increase water awareness

By Matt Lebovic

August 28, 2015
11:02 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Jewish community leaders in Florence, Italy, on August 28, 2015. (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

PM to Italy’s Jewish leaders: Israeli innovation will defeat BDS

Netanyahu says efforts to isolate Israel will ultimately fail because ‘science and technology are stronger than any boycott’

By Tamar Pileggi

August 17, 2015
6:33 am

Offices of a Jerusalem start-up (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)

Spreading innovation across the Israeli economy

From our Blogs For all Israel’s tech prowess, the start-up economy has touched no more than 15% of Israelis. Can it be expanded?

By Naftali Moser

April 26, 2015
10:13 am

Israel's former president Shimon Peres (photo credit: AP/Dan Balilty)

Peres said set to advise Israeli pharma giant Teva

Former president will receive $10,000 a month; deal comes days after similar agreement with Bank Hapoalim canceled

By Adiv Sterman

April 23, 2015
7:04 pm

Former president Shimon Peres, seen during an interview in his office in the Peres Center for Peace, Tel Aviv, September 29, 2014 (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

Peres pulls out of bank deal after media backlash

Ex-president was to get $30,000 per month from Bank Hapoalim; money would have gone to charity, but he canceled to safeguard his ‘good name’

By Jonathan Beck and Tamar Pileggi

April 8, 2015
6:34 pm

Assistant Professor Stephan Rudykh with a sample of the durable material (photo credit: Technion -- Israel Institute of Technology)

Israeli scientists develop body armor inspired by fish skin

The protective yet flexible material could be used to protect soldiers and space-walking astronauts

By Tamar Pileggi

March 26, 2015
4:18 am

Power generating wind turbines in the Golan Heights next to moshav Alonei Habashan in 2008 (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Congress seeks funding for US-Israel energy and water development

Bipartisan effort to support program which provides grants to private sector innovators

By JTA

March 15, 2015
6:15 pm

Nitzan Solan (L) and Mendi Pollak (R) flank Dr. Aliza Belman Inbal, who presents them with the $20,000 Pears Challenge award for Livingbox (Photo credit: Courtesy)

Pears Challenge returns to bring Israeli tech to African farmers

With tech developed in Israel, those who grow the world’s food will be able to support themselves, says program director

By David Shamah

March 2, 2015
7:01 pm

Innovation guru: Israelis need more faith in themselves

‘Challenge orthodoxies, harness trends,’ says Rowan Gibson. Israelis, he notes, should pay special attention to that message

By David Shamah

July 3, 2014
4:37 pm

In this Wednesday, May 28, 2014 photo, a man works with a pocket-sized scanner called SCiO at the Consumer Physics laboratory near Tel Aviv, Israel. The scanner can identify the molecular structure of a substance by shining an infrared light on an object and reading its chemical makeup. It can then send additional information to a smartphone. (AP Photo/Jon Gerberg)

Israeli’s chemical scanner could change shopping

Inventor hopes SCiO, a tiny gadget that can read the makeup of foods and drugs, will have life-changing uses

By Jon Gerberg

Topic: innovation in Israel

Social Innovation Challenge bookends Jerusalem Foundation’s 50th anniversary celebration

Six final groups compete for grants of $15,000, $35,000 and $50,000 to help them pursue projects aimed at benefiting people of all backgrounds across the capital

7 countries benefit most from technology innovation

New survey says Israel is one of the top earners from the digital revolution

Israeli women — and tech — connect African villages to water, electricity

Innovation Africa, founded by Sivan Ya’ari, has brought solar energy, improved irrigation and cleaner water to as many as 1 million people

Netanyahu hails Israel’s ‘leading role’ in addressing climate change

In address to Paris summit, PM cites local innovations in solar, agricultural and irrigation technology as examples of combating global crisis

Nonprofit connects Israel tech firms with investors

Billionaire Paul Singer’s Start-Up Nation Central seeks to promote local innovation to solve global problems

Israelis clean up by brewing beer with Boston river’s ‘dirty water’

To craft Harpoon Brewery’s new pale ale, an Israeli water technology company purified the once filthy Charles River; project aims to increase water awareness

PM to Italy’s Jewish leaders: Israeli innovation will defeat BDS

Netanyahu says efforts to isolate Israel will ultimately fail because ‘science and technology are stronger than any boycott’

Spreading innovation across the Israeli economy

From our Blogs For all Israel’s tech prowess, the start-up economy has touched no more than 15% of Israelis. Can it be expanded?

Peres said set to advise Israeli pharma giant Teva

Former president will receive $10,000 a month; deal comes days after similar agreement with Bank Hapoalim canceled

Peres pulls out of bank deal after media backlash

Ex-president was to get $30,000 per month from Bank Hapoalim; money would have gone to charity, but he canceled to safeguard his ‘good name’

Israeli scientists develop body armor inspired by fish skin

The protective yet flexible material could be used to protect soldiers and space-walking astronauts

Congress seeks funding for US-Israel energy and water development

Bipartisan effort to support program which provides grants to private sector innovators

Pears Challenge returns to bring Israeli tech to African farmers

With tech developed in Israel, those who grow the world’s food will be able to support themselves, says program director

Innovation guru: Israelis need more faith in themselves

‘Challenge orthodoxies, harness trends,’ says Rowan Gibson. Israelis, he notes, should pay special attention to that message

Israeli’s chemical scanner could change shopping

Inventor hopes SCiO, a tiny gadget that can read the makeup of foods and drugs, will have life-changing uses

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