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BTL factory workers meet, following an announcement of the closure of the production line and planned layoffs, December 4, 2022. (Courtesy/ Histadrut labor federation)
June 17, 2026, 7:58 pm
After more than 50 years, US engine-maker Pratt & Whitney is shutting down Israel factory
Following four years of struggle to prevent the closure of the plant, formerly owned by the Wertheimer family, BTL’s 600 workers in the north will be laid off
By Sharon Wrobel
Illustrative: A Boeing 787 aircraft seen during final assembly production in Charleston, South Carolina, August 4, 2022. (BOEING / AFP)
April 22, 2025, 9:01 pm
Israeli startup sues ex-CEO for fraud, and allegedly forging contracts using ChatGPT
Promai accuses Erez Ben-Eshay of fabricating fake contracts with giants like Boeing and Tesla, posing as a pilot and romancing the founder to defraud the company
By Sharon Wrobel
US medical device maker BD's manufacturing plant in Caesarea, Israel. (Courtesy)
January 27, 2025, 7:14 pm
US medical device maker to shut Israel manufacturing plant, cutting 200 jobs
Becton, Dickinson & Co. plans to close its Caesarea Medical Electronics, a producer of infusion pump systems, by June and move operations abroad
By Sharon Wrobel
Helios scientists conduct an experiment to produce iron. (Courtesy, Helios)
March 12, 2023, 11:28 pm
Company aiming to create oxygen on moon finds process to make steel plants cleaner
Helios claims that replacing carbon with sodium to prise oxygen out of iron ores — an early stage in steel manufacturing — can slash carbon emissions, energy and production costs
By Sue Surkes
Aleph Farms' cultivated thin-cut steak. (Courtesy)
March 2, 2023, 5:22 pm
Kosher, now maybe halal: Aleph Farms gears up for rollout of cultivated steak
Startup plans to operate the world’s first halal-certified facility for the production of cultivated meat in Singapore; buys Israel factory ahead of commercial launch
By Sharon Wrobel
An undated photo of glass bottle manufacturing at the Phoenicia factory in Yeruham, southern Israel. (Yoav Weiss, Airovation Technologies)
October 31, 2022, 9:55 pm
Israel’s only glass company will get raw materials from its own CO2 emissions
Start-up Airovation Technologies has developed chemical method to extract soda ash from CO2, which can be reused in glass production process
By Sue Surkes
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April 25, 2021, 2:57 pm
Is this Israeli machine ‘the Tesla of manufacturing’?
Join legendary Idealab founder Bill Gross online on May 11 to hear why he is backing Launchpad
By Sara Toth Stub
Picture of the ŠKODA sign at a car dealership in New Belgrade (BalkansCat; iStock by Getty Images)
October 31, 2019, 2:04 pm
Czech carmaker Škoda to use Israeli software to optimize engine production
Tel Aviv-based Seebo’s product helps manufacturers predict and prevent inefficiencies
By Shoshanna Solomon
The robotic arm developed by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev that uses an algorithm to calculate the shape of objects and allows it to grasp objects with a variety of geometries (Courtesy)
October 31, 2019, 12:44 pm
One robotic arm to grasp them all is developed at Ben-Gurion University
BGU researchers say their algorithm can identify a common denominator for differently shaped items on a production line, so manufacturers would need only 1 robot limb to hold them
By Shoshanna Solomon
Crematoria at the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz I. Their construction was a prelude to much larger crematoria complexes later constructed at Birkenau, or Auschwitz II, in Poland, October 2017 (Matt Lebovic/The Times of Israel)
October 4, 2018, 10:27 pm
Outsourced mass murder: How Topf & Sons engineered genocide from its boardroom
Among dozens of German companies that enabled the Holocaust, the opportunistic crematorium maker was indispensable, according to new book
By Matt Lebovic
President Reuven Rivlin addresses high-tech leaders at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation, Tel Aviv, September 13, 2017. (Mark Neiman/GPO)
September 13, 2017, 6:37 pm
President calls for more high-tech to realize Shimon Peres’s dreams
Marking first anniversary of predecessor’s passing, Rivlin says more Arabs, Orthodox Jews must be brought into technology sector
By Sue Surkes
An XJet system (Courtesy)
March 3, 2016, 5:12 pm
3D metal printing pioneer XJet gets $25m investment
Rehovot-based company generates excitement among tech executives and investors in the US and China
By David Shamah
MKs Aliza Lavie (L) and Manuel Trachtenberg pose with the robot “visitor” at a session of the Knesset Science and Technology Committee, February 2, 2016 (Knesset Spokesperson)
March 3, 2016, 4:37 pm
New jobs for humans in robot era: Big data deep divers, time hackers, bio-meat factory engineers
That robots will ‘steal’ millions of jobs seems clear. But just look at the fresh employment opportunities they’ll bring
By David Shamah
Lightapp in action (Screenshot)
February 14, 2016, 6:13 pm
How much electricity does a bottle of beer take? Israeli start-up Lightapp knows
Big data project by Israeli firm, California panel aims to show how energy efficiency can save manufacturers money
By David Shamah
Flanked by Israeli and Chinese officials, Professor Zvi Shiller and Zhang Jin (center left) sign a deal to open a new robotics R&D center in Israel (Courtesy)
December 21, 2015, 6:40 pm
Israel gets $20m to create robot workers for China
Under new deal, Israeli researchers will develop and the Chinese will mass-produce mechanical waiters, cleaners, security guards, construction workers
By David Shamah
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