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Daily Updates from Silicon Wadi for Thursday, December 27, 2018

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Adir Simantov, an IDF soldier paralyzed in a car accident six years ago, fulfilled his dream of marrying his sweetheart Liat. He us using a device developed by UPnRide Robotics Ltd. that helps people paralyzed from their necks down to stand up and be mobile (UPnRIDE)

Israeli groom with paralysis stands tall at wedding with help of robotic device

By Shoshanna Solomon

Developed by Israeli startup UPnRIDE, the indoor-outdoor vehicle wheels people around while they’re in a vertical position; now ready for European sales

A worker tends to cannabis plants at a growing facility for the Tikun Olam company near the northern city of Safed, August 31, 2010. (Abir Sultan/Flash90)

High hopes as Israel moves closer to allowing cannabis exports

After Knesset okay, cabinet must now decide on legislation making country third in world to legalize selling medical marijuana abroad; industry expected to be worth over $1 billion

Liron Walter helps a child with cancer put together a menorah for Hanukkah at the Daycare of Dreams kindergarten in Ramat Gan. (Courtesy Larger Than Life)

In Israel, a sterile kindergarten built so cancer patients can just be kids

By Larry Luxner

World’s only purpose-built facility of its kind, Ramat Gan’s Daycare of Dreams provides treatment and education for tots who otherwise might not be able to play with other children

The University of California, Santa Barbara. (Photo credit: CC-BY-SA Coolcaesar/Wikimedia Commons)

University of California chiefs oppose any BDS action by faculty

Chancellors issue statement saying any potential boycott of Israel ‘poses a direct and serious threat to academic freedom’

An Iran-made drone is launched during a military drill in Jask port, southern Iran, in this picture released by Jamejam Online, on December 25, 2014. (AP Photo/Jamejam Online, Chavosh Homavandi, File)

Iran building a drone force based on captured US, Israeli tech — report

Al Jazeera claims Tehran increasingly using UAVs to monitor its airspace and track enemy fleets

Alon Tal

An eviction order for Rutti the Hyena

When human beings take over wild animals’ territory, the animals make themselves at home in town

The tube developed by Israel's E-Motion Medical delivers patterns of electrical stimulation to the esophagus, imitating swallowing motions (Courtesy)

Israeli startup develops device to jumpstart digestive system

By Shoshanna Solomon

E-Motion Medical’s tube delivers electrical stimulation to the esophagus; having won EU regulatory nod, it hopes for Israeli and US approval soon

Ayelet Ganot, left, and Roni Ashkenazi, participants in the Carmel 6000 national service program, work on an app intended to help autistic children cope with change. (Sam Sokol/JTA)

Program enlists young religious women to tackle social problems through tech

Carmel 6000, a new national service scheme, is designed to emulate the army’s elite Unit 8200, which has become an incubator for Israel’s tech industry

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