Three Israeli Apps Make the ‘100 Best iPhone Apps of All Time’ List
Mashable picked the 100 best iPhone apps of all time. Three Israeli-made apps — Waze, Meerkat and Yo – made the list. Waze ranks 22nd on the impressive list. At No. 86 on the list is the Israeli-American video-streaming app Meerkat. And at 91st place on the list, Israeli venture capitalist and entrepreneur Moshe Hogeg is credited with introducing “the quintessential ‘dumb’ app.”
The Israelis That Reinvented Super Mario
The latest video clip to take over Israeli social media circles is a throwback to the Nintendo Super Mario game. But this short clip is also a social-awareness call to society to provide better accessibility for people with disabilities.
The team behind the 1’46-long clip is called Tachles, from the Yiddish/Israeli slang for “purpose.” The guys who make up this group – a rock star (Liron Atia from Blue Pill), an ad guy (Roi Meyshar) and comedian/social activist Gadi Wilcherski — say they’re on a mission to expose the truth behind the marketing world in a humorous manner.
Tel Aviv University System Delivers Therapy at Site of Mantle Cell Lymphoma
New research at Tel Aviv University offers significant hope of curing the most aggressive and presently incurable blood cancer called mantle cell lymphoma (MCL) and others like it. The promising and innovative system was found to successfully halt the proliferation of a cancer-related protein in white blood cells in both animal models and samples taken from MCL patients. The study has just been published in the early edition of the Proceedings of the [US] National Academy of Sciences.
Record Year for Innovation Nation: Israeli Startups Sell for $7.2B In 2015
The international accounting firm PwC has released its annual Hi-Tech Exit Report, revealing that Israeli technology leaders are not rushing to take their companies public. Instead, they are opting to be acquired by a larger company – or to hold out for the prized $1 billion ‘unicorn’ valuation.
Sleepless Nights? Silent Partner’s ‘Smart Patch’ Could Help Reduce Snoring Sounds
Can’t sleep because your partner snores at night? Israeli startup Silent Partner has created a new device that could significantly reduce snoring noise. According to the National Sleep Foundation, 37 million Americans, both male and female, snore on a regular basis. Now imagine your partner is one of them and it’s 2:30 AM. Instead of getting frustrated and even angry, you will soon be able to use a small, horseshoe-shaped device to take away the noise.
Israeli Tech Used to Help Fight Ebola
When an infectious pandemic hits – SARS, swine flu, MERS or Ebola, for instance – health officials in dozens of countries turn to the Israeli company Beth-El Industries for its IsoArk biological isolation units. The line was first developed in response to a request from the Israeli Ministry of Health in 2002, as part of Israel’s national preparedness plan during the SARS pandemic. When the Ebola virus pandemic erupted in 2014, Beth-El’s isolation systems were ready to be deployed in hospitals, airports and field hospitals in Africa and around the globe.
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