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An aerial view shows cargo ships and tugboats at the port in Qingdao, in China's eastern Shandong province, on October 29, 2025. (AFP)
November 27, 2025, 1:22 pm
Israeli-founded ‘Waze of the seas’ puts AI at helm to navigate crowded waters
Co-Captain system lets vessels share real-time data and alerts about GPS spoofing, congestion, and security threats, helping them sail safely through perilous straits
By Sharon Wrobel
A multiple-story supermarket. Illustrative. (Photo via Pixabay via Pexels)
October 9, 2022, 10:55 am
Israeli startup uses magnetic fields to provide accurate indoor navigation
Tel Aviv wayfinder company Oriient works with supermarket chains, retailers to allow shoppers to find their way inside spaces
By Judith Segaloff
A female Egyptian fruit bat leaves the cave with her pup attached underneath (Yuval Barkai)
December 6, 2021, 4:50 pm
Israeli scientists discover how bat moms teach young to navigate
Process, tracked by sensors attached to animals, includes dropping pups off at ‘nursery’ trees while mother forages for food
By Sue Surkes
A man holds an iPhone displaying the Waze app (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
From the WebNovember 30, 2017, 1:45 pm
Waze launches setting for motorcyclists
Globes: Waze expands its support to motorists by adding a feature for motorcycle navigation
Shipping giant Zim has successfully experimented with a blockchain to create an electronic bill-of-lading (Warhaftig Venezian)
November 21, 2017, 5:37 pm
Using blockchain, Israel’s Zim eyes sea change in musty shipping sector
A pilot program for an electronic bill of lading is set up together with US firm Sparx Logistics and Israeli startup Wave
By ToI Staff
Pedestrian navigational app Sidekix gets you what you want, and tells you how to get there (Courtesy Sidekix)
February 23, 2017, 1:58 pm
Israeli GPS app for pedestrians goes the extra mile
Sidekix points out ‘urban gems’ along walking routes in 100 cities worldwide
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers begin a search operation in the village of Halhul, near the West Bank town of Hebron, on June 29, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/HAZEM BADER)
October 20, 2016, 4:15 pm
IDF rescues 4 off-duty soldiers from Palestinian area of West Bank
Fifth time this year troops have mistakenly strayed into territory not under Israeli control
By ToI Staff
Waze system operation engineer Gil Disatnik holds a Waze beacon in Pittsburgh, where the beacons have been installed in two tunnels, September 8, 2016. (Meghan Kelleher/Courtesy of Waze via AP)
September 21, 2016, 8:05 pm
Waze finds way to keep drivers on track in tunnels
Blue-tooth-connected beacons will allow drivers to keep navigating when GPS fails
By Michael Liedtke
Illustrative photo of an Israeli army jeep in Hebron, November 7, 2013 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 14, 2016, 1:23 pm
Don’t rely on navigation apps, IDF says, again, after latest rescue
Army sharpens message after 2 soldiers mistakenly enter Tulkarem in the West Bank and come under attack
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative photo of Tulkarem (screen capture: YouTube)
September 12, 2016, 10:05 pm
2 IDF soldiers mistakenly enter West Bank city, are rescued
Troops venture into Tulkarem, escape unharmed after local residents throw stones at their vehicle; Hebrew report says PA cops rescued them
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
A man holds an iPhone displaying the Waze app (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 17, 2016, 5:23 pm
Waze squeezes into Uber’s lane with carpool feature
The Israeli navigation app is testing the new service for commuters in the San Francisco Bay area
By AFP
Waze co-founder Uri Levine at a Jerusalem conference in May 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)
February 9, 2014, 6:42 pm
How ‘disruption’ won Waze its $1 billion exit
The inside story of the Israeli traffic and navigation start-up’s unprecedented success, and the lessons for those bidding to follow suit
By David Shamah
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