This week from Israel

TLV-Eye?

International company Freij Entertainment‬, which built the London Eye and the world's largest mobile rides in Hong Kong, New York, Paris and other cities, will build a gigantic Ferris Wheel at Tel-Aviv port, sometimes during 2014. The wheel will be 80 meters (263 feet) tall and will include 42 sealed and air-conditioned passenger capsules, which can hold up to six people each. It will also feature a VIP section, where people could dine as Israel's beautiful scenery would reflect from their window.

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Chicago-Israel newest collaboration

Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel, visited Jerusalem last Monday, to sign a cooperation agreement between Ben-Gurion University and The University of Chicago. Both universities, which have been working together for the last 18 months, have come up with a series of proposals that would look at ways to purify water at the molecular level, making clean, fresh drinking-water more plentiful and less expensive by 2020.

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Wibbitz you news

After two years of work and a month-long closed beta test, the new Israeli startup, Wibbitz, went public last week, with a free iPhone and iPad app that lets users automatically convert news stories into videos. How does it work? An automated voice reads out a news story on one of dozens of news sites, with the audio accompanied by still photos, videos, and infographics relating to the story.

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