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Part of the Tel Aviv University robot fitted with a locust ear, with the ear visible (courtesy of Tel Aviv University)

sci-tech

Israelis wire locust ear to a robot, pioneering part-animal part-machine tech

Many insects see and hear better than any camera or microphone; that’s why a bug-eyed Tel Aviv team is connecting insect parts to circuits and says this’ll be tomorrow’s tech

The Hominis Surgical System developed by Memic Innovative Surgery is a robotic surgical device (Courtesy)

Israeli robotic arms get FDA nod for minimally invasive hysterectomies

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli firm Lumenis' Moses technology is considered a 'gamechanger' in the treatment of urinary stones (YouTube Screenshot)

Lumenis sells surgical business to US firm Boston Scientific for $1.1 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

Part of the Tel Aviv University robot fitted with a locust ear, with the ear visible (courtesy of Tel Aviv University)

sci-tech

Israelis wire locust ear to a robot, pioneering part-animal part-machine tech

Many insects see and hear better than any camera or microphone; that’s why a bug-eyed Tel Aviv team is connecting insect parts to circuits and says this’ll be tomorrow’s tech

The Hominis Surgical System developed by Memic Innovative Surgery is a robotic surgical device (Courtesy)

Israeli robotic arms get FDA nod for minimally invasive hysterectomies

By Shoshanna Solomon

Israeli firm Lumenis' Moses technology is considered a 'gamechanger' in the treatment of urinary stones (YouTube Screenshot)

Lumenis sells surgical business to US firm Boston Scientific for $1.1 billion

By Shoshanna Solomon

Soldiers clean tar off the Palmachim beach following an offshore oil spill which drenched most of the Israeli coastline, February 22, 2021 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)`

Blaming Iran, environment minister calls oil spill ‘environmental terrorism’

Gila Gamliel says Libyan ‘pirate ship’ that sailed from Iran is responsible for huge leak that polluted coastline, but claim reportedly disputed by Israel’s security establishment

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Environmental Protection Minister Gila Gamliel walk on Ashdod beach on February 21, 2021, after an offshore oil spill caused damage along Israel's Mediterranean coast (Kobi Gideon / GPO)

Israel says it has identified ship that caused massive oil leak in Mediterranean

A fresh ball of tar on the beach at the Gador Nature Reserve in northern Israel, March 2, 2021. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)

As tar keeps coming, Environment and Finance ministries spar over funds

Removing tar from an unspecified beach, February 28, 2021. (Elad Yaakov, Government Presss Office)

As more tar sweeps beaches, nature authority says sand will never be 100% clean

Netanyahu calls probe anti-Semitic; PA, Hamas welcome it

ICC announces investigation into Israeli, Palestinian war crimes

By Lazar Berman

Chief Prosecutor Bensouda promises to investigate ‘impartially and objectively’; her look back starts from the day after 3 Israeli teens were murdered in West Bank in 2014

Chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court Fatou Bensouda at the opening of the court's judicial year with a Special Session at the seat of the court in The Hague, January 23, 2020. (courtesy ICC)

Demonstrators carry banners and Palestinian flags outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for war crimes in The Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2019. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

US opposes ICC probe into Israel, Palestinians; weighs maintaining sanctions

A demonstrator poses with a Palestinian flag outside the International Criminal Court, ICC, during a rally urging the court to prosecute Israel's army for war crimes, in The Hague, Netherlands, November 29, 2019. (AP/Peter Dejong)

Israel livid over ‘anti-Semitic’ ICC war crimes probe; PA and Hamas cheer

Defense Minister Benny Gantz during a visit in the Druze village of Julis, northern Israel, February 23, 2021. (David Cohen/Flash90)

Gantz says hundreds of Israelis, himself included, could be in ICC’s crosshairs

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