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Cutting-Edge Treatments, Real-Time Sports Replays and More- This Week from the Startup Nation

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January 18, 2016

Israeli Architectural Firm Helps Advance South Sudan’s Agricultural Sector

Five new dairy farms in South Sudan will be created with the help of one of Israel’s architectural firms, AlefBet Planners. These new farms will provide a much needed boost to the country’s agricultural sector. As an architectural firm that was founded approximately 70 years ago and that served many of the kibbutz communities in Israel, AlefBet Planners offers agricultural planning expertise and know-how.

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Israel Brings Tech Expertise to Protecting Connected Cars

Most cars today are equipped with some level of connectivity and self-driving vehicles are being developed. Given this level of sophistication, protecting cars from contamination with malicious software has become big business. Building on its expertise in technology, Israel is emerging as a leader in the race to keep cars secure and prevent the nightmare scenario of a hacker commandeering your vehicle.

From its headquarters in Tel Aviv, Check Point, one of the world's largest cyber securityfirms, pioneered the computer firewall two decades ago. It hopes to repeat that success with a security capsule for vehicles.

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Exit Nation: Israeli Startups Sell for Whopping $9B in 2015

Israeli startups were sold for a total of $9.02 billion in 2015, a 16 percent jump from 2014, according to a new report by Israel-based IVC Research Center and law firm Meitar Liquornik Geva Leshem Tal. Last year saw the third-highest exit sum in the last decade, with 2006 at No.1 and 2012 at No. 2.  According to the report, which was presented during an event in Tel Aviv yesterday, 96 Israeli high-tech and startup companies were sold in 2015 (eight more companies went public), in line with the 10-year average.

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Replay Technologies’ ‘freeD’ To Deliver Real-Time 3D Sports Replays to Mobile Devices

In an age of video on demand (VOD), sporting events are among the few broadcasts still watched live. More than one billion people are thought to have watched the 2014 World Cup Final and in the US alone, 100 million viewers watched the 2015 Super Bowl.

Such is the reach of Israeli startup Replay Technologies. Founded five years ago, the company has developed a method of filming called freeD, which generates instant, real-time 3D replays that have already been used at the 2012 London Olympics, in Yankee Stadium, and just last week, at Intel’s demo at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

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Boy’s Backward Bone Reset Thanks to Israeli-Led Team

An innovative technique for resetting the bone of a nine year- old boy born with a serious congenital defect in which his thigh was backwards has been successfully repaired. The “rotationplasty” was carried out at Bnei Brak’s Ma’ayanei Hayeshua Medical Center using a computer program that reduces complications and resets the leg in the exact place it needs to be. A few days later, the boy was sent home.

Dr. Itai Holtzer, head of the hospital’s orthopedic department and Dr. Eitan Segev, an expert in repairing orthopedic defects in children, headed the team that performed the surgery.

“>Read more here. 

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