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Solar panels floating on a reservoir on the Golan Heights, near to Kibbutz Shamir, in northern Israel. (Courtesy, Golan Solar)
June 27, 2022, 3:11 pm
Government approves three billion shekel plan to boost climate tech
Targets set for 2026 include doubling registered patents, startups, and pilot projects carried out on state infrastructure
By Sue Surkes
Enhanced cannabis plants grown by Israeli researchers at Hebrew University, May 2022. (Hebrew University)
June 1, 2022, 12:56 pm
Israeli researchers use repurposed plant virus to grow ‘enhanced’ cannabis
Scientists manage to increase levels of active components THC and CBG, opening up new opportunities for the growing industry
By Tobias Siegal
Engineers work on the conversion of a Boeing 767 passenger plane to a cargo plane at the Israel Aerospace Industries in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel, on January 25, 2022. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
February 23, 2022, 11:11 am
Cashing in on e-commerce, Israeli engineers transform jets for cargo use
Israel’s state-owned aerospace company competes with giants like Boeing in a growing market seen as a doorway to the post-pandemic future
By Laurie Kellman
Left: IDF combat soldiers take part in a drill in December 2021; Right: An IDF soldier from the C4I Corps types on a computer. (Israel Defense Forces)
December 25, 2021, 2:46 pm
As start-up nation snaps up IDF tech alumni, combat vets say they are left behind
In a changing Israel where those hailing from tech units get the red carpet treatment for high-wage jobs, a debate is growing on what constitutes significant IDF service
By Itamar Sharon
December 22, 2021, 4:40 pm
Introducing ToI’s Tech Israel
The Israeli tech industry has changed dramatically in the near-decade since The Times of Israel launched; this section’s new name recognizes that journey
By Ricky Ben-David
Illustrative: A long exposure photograph of traffic on the Ayalon Highway through Tel Aviv, December 19, 2015. (Esther Rubyan/Flash 90)
January 21, 2020, 11:25 am
Israel slips to sixth place in annual Bloomberg Innovation Index
Startup Nation places first in R&D intensity, lags in productivity, manufacturing; Germany takes top spot from 6-year champion South Korea
By Luke Tress
This January 16, 2019 photo shows a a first lab-grown steak during a presentation by the Israeli company Aleph Farms, in Jaffa, Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov)
February 25, 2019, 9:29 am
Israeli startups join firms making lab-grown ‘clean meat’
Future Meat Technologies, SuperMeat and Aleph Farms are among those seeking environmental- and animal-friendly alternatives to current ‘inefficient’ industry
By Ilan Ben Zion
China's Vice President Wang Qishan, right, laughs as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu makes a face as they tour the Israeli Innovation Summit in Jerusalem, October 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit, Pool)
October 25, 2018, 8:00 am
Co-hosting trade conference with Netanyahu, China’s VP hails Israeli technology
‘Our bilateral relations are at a new height,’ Wang Qishan tells innovation summit; PM also meets Alibaba’s Jack Ma and former Google CEO Eric Schmidt
By AP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: A police officer in the southern French city of Toulouse, June 2012. (Bruno Martin/AP)
September 13, 2017, 1:57 pm
7 said wounded, 3 of them cops, in terror attack in Toulouse
Assailant shouted ‘Allahu akbar’ as he was wrestled to the ground by police, eyewitnesses say
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in his Beijing hotel room, interviewed by The Times of Israel's diplomatic correspondent Raphael Ahren (left) and Times of Israel's Chinese editor Yifeng Zhou (Times of Israel staff)
March 23, 2017, 6:01 am
Netanyahu to Times of Israel Chinese: I hope Beijing’s ‘superb’ relations with Israel will affect its UN votes
PM says new bilateral partnership on innovation underlines China’s readiness to apply Israeli technology for the benefit of its people; also says he discussed Chinese role in rail route from Asia to Israeli Mediterranean ports
By Raphael Ahren and Yifeng Zhou
Shaul Yakobi, inventor and co-founder at Aquarius Engines, poses for a photo with the single-piston car engine he invented, at Campus Automobile Spa-Francorchamps in Belgium on October 19, 2016. (AFP/Emmanuel Dunand)
October 28, 2016, 3:30 pm
Powering a green car revolution, Israeli style
Aquarius says its super-efficient engine could go 1,600 km on a single tank of fuel, and has caught the eye of Peugot
By Joe Dyke
A 'breathing' building for the port city of Ashdod. (Rossella Tercatin/TImes of Israel)
October 6, 2016, 2:36 am
At Venice Biennale, Israeli pavilion merges art and science
In a tribute to the Jewish state’s resilience, biology meets architecture to introduce nature’s strengths into mankind’s inventions
By Rossella Tercatin
Finalists from the Jerusalem Double team, one of six groups competing for three grants. (Yaakov Schwartz/Times of Israel)
September 22, 2016, 10:39 am
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
Participants at the DLD Tel Aviv Digital Conference in Tel Aviv, Israel's largest international Hi-tech gathering, September 8, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
July 6, 2016, 2:52 pm
7 countries benefit most from technology innovation
New survey says Israel is one of the top earners from the digital revolution
By AP
Innovation Africa's founder and president Sivan Ya'ari and NBA all star Dikembe Mutombo visit Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital in Kinshasa. (Courtesy)
March 6, 2016, 5:11 am
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 ToI Staff
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