Articles by December, 2018

the Annual International Congress for Innovation in Cardiology opened for the 23rd time. At the opening event, focused on innovation in medical equipment and digital health, Mr. Elliot Meschik from Amazon and Mr. David Ben Schimol from Google, took part in intriguing lectures that exposed future medicine, as managed by the giants – Google and Amazon. A number of other companies presented various fields of breakthroughs in the world of digital health. During the upcoming days of the conference, senior executives of Medtronic International, will take part, after landing in Israel to attend...

Minister of Economy and Industry Eli Cohen met with British Trade Minister Dr. Liam Fox, which was held as a direct continuation of efforts by Israel and Britain to regulate bilateral trade relations between the two countries, in view of Britain's exit from the European Union. Britain is Israel's largest trading partner in Europe and the third in the world. The volume of trade between the two countries reached $ 10 billion in 2017, more than half of which was Israeli exports to Britain. In the first three quarters of 2018, Britain continued to be the first European export destination in...

Salesforce, the world leader in CRM and cloud services, has revealed data on the acquisition of millions of global users in more than 30 countries worldwide through transaction data generated from its trading cloud, billions of transactions through its marketing cloud and millions of consumer complaints received In its cloud service. The information has been enhanced with Salesforce's first research on consumer habits and consumer behavior (Shopper-First Retail) this year. This year, more than any other year and more than any other device israeli consumers turned to purchases through the...

Sudastream announced to the stock exchange that the merger was completed, and that trading in the company's shares on the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange had stopped, and that the Israeli company that manufactures the gauze machines sold for $ 3.2 billion

The Israeli Embassy in Washington hosted the welcoming ceremony for the US and Israeli economic partnership, and praised the pioneer of Israeli technology, OrCam, for its contribution to strengthening the economic ties between Israel and the United States. OrCam Technologies, founded by Prof. Amnon Shashua and Ziv Aviram, is a global leader in the development of innovative wearable and innovative technology in the field of artificial vision, which improves the lives of people who are visually impaired, blind, reading impaired or who experience fatigue from reading

Alpha Omega, a company that develops, manufactures and markets medical equipment that helps brain surgeons navigate the central nervous system, has established a joint venture in China with the GIBF Foundation. The Chinese company was established in Guangzhou with an investment of about seven million dollars

One of the major challenges facing the industry is the need to be economic and competitive and to meet environmental requirements. For this purpose, the Ministry of Environmental Protection, the Ministry of Economy and Industry and the Ministry of Finance, through the Industrial Administration, are publishing a tender for the establishment of a center for resource efficiency, amounting to NIS 51 million for five years. Over the past decade, Israeli industry has invested billions of shekels annually in investments to meet environmental regulatory requirements. Most of these investments...

The Innovation Authority awarded more than NIS 65 million as part of a special program for ventures from Arab society. In the past five years there has been a 50% increase in the percentage of Arab students studying Computer Science and Engineering The Director General of the Innovation Authority spoke this morning at the High-Tech Conference of the Arab Society held in Nazareth, at the initiative of the Ministry of Social Equality and the US Embassy. "We believe in the tremendous potential existing in Arab society for integrating into the high-tech industry, both as employees and as...

Israel attacked Syria from Lebanese airspace, the Syrian media reported. According to reports, three soldiers were wounded in an attack aimed at Hizbullah weapons depots, and the Syrian air defense system managed to intercept several hostile targets. It was also reported that the attack was continuing and that the Syrian air defense system was still retaliating against enemy targets. A resident of Damascus told the DFA news agency that there had been explosions in the town, and Lebanese living near the Syrian border said they had heard the movement of planes in the area.