Tag: News

Successful results for osteoporosis drug

TransPharma Medical, an Israeli specialty pharmaceutical company, recently announced successful results of a four-week Phase 1 clinical trial of its new self-applied ViaDerm System ViaDerm-hPTH(1-34)

Israeli improvements for microsensors

Microsensors, known as accelerometers, are everywhere – embedded in a football helmet, they measure the impact of a violent tackle, and in an iPhone they

Nothing could have stopped the fire

As of yesterday evening, 82 hours after it broke out, and after claiming the lives of 42 people, the worst fire in Israel’s history, that burned dozens of homes and ravaged thousands of acres of land in the north of the country, was finally extinguished.

BGU wins 3 QS-Apple Creative Awards

Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev won three QS-APPLE Creative Awards for the Best International Educational Promotional Designs at the QS-Apple conference in Singapore

Encourage late retirement, study says

A new study from Israel recommends that “a policy of late retirement or cancelling compulsory retirement ought to be encouraged.” While French workers take to

Three Israelis win Blavatnik awards

Photo by Shmulik Almany (Left to right) Yaron Lipman, Michal Lipson, a representative of the New York Academy of Science and Daniela Schiller. The three

Autistic teens to serve in IDF

On Monday, for the first time in its history, autistic soldiers joined the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). Zohar Pe’er (21) was one

Peace Corps explores service in Israel

Representatives from leading American service organizations, including Teach for America, Peace Corps, City Year and others, spent last week in Israel exploring volunteering opportunities offered

Israel’s SolarEdge raises $25m

Israel’s photovoltaic solar energy monitoring system start-up SolarEdge completed a $25 million funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures. Other participants included existing investors Opus Capital,