LinkedIn published a list of the 25 best workplaces for employees in Israel. This is actually the second year that LinkedIn, the online social network designed to create professional and business connections between its users, has published this list in an effort to boost its presence and relevancy in Israel.
The 21st Biomed Conference in Israel, a global leading international life sciences and health technology conference will be held next month between May 16-18, at the David Intercontinental Tel Aviv Hotel. About 6,000 guests are expected to participate in the conference, including senior managers from the industry, scientists, doctors, investors, and hundreds of guests from over 45 different countries. Similar to previous years, hundreds of Israeli companies from the field of life sciences will present the innovative solutions and technologies they have developed in the past year.
As part of his vision to turn Israel into a pioneer in the cultured meat and dairy industries, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited the offices of "Steakholder Foods" in Rehovot Wednesday evening. Steakholder is a publicly-traded company that deals with the development of cultured meats. During the visit, Netanyahu also announced the first marketing approval in Israel of cultured dairy protein that will be given to the Israeli international company, Remilk.
A spacecraft headed towards Jupiter for an exploratory mission is packed with Israeli research tools developed by Israeli scientists from the famed Weizmann Institute. "We have participated in international space missions in the past," said Professor Yohai Caspi, from the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the Weizmann Institute, who leads the Israeli JUICE team and is staying at the launch site; "But the fact that this mission has an entire section that is completely Israeli adds to the research this time special significance."
Prof. Caspi, and his research partner Dr. Eli Galanti, began working on the project as early as 2013, with the European Space Agency's announcement of the mission. โThe close cooperation we created between industry and academia made it possible for it to happen. Now, we have the most accurate device of its kind in the world. In fact, this is also the first device made in Israel that goes outside the system of the Earth and the Moon."
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"The Israel Space Agency is proud to take part in a flagship mission of the European Space Agency, both in the engineering-technological aspect and in the research aspect. I have no doubt that the research carried out at the Weizmann Institute will be a central component of the mission's research program, and will continue to advance the field of space research in the State of Israel to the forefront of the world", said Uri Oron, Director of the Israel Space Agency in the Ministry of Innovation, Science, and Technology.
During its stay around Jupiter, the spacecraft going by the name โJUICEโ will circle the planet almost 100 times. During each rotation, the oscillator will measure tiny changes in the frequency of a radio beam that will be sent from the spacecraft, through Jupiter's atmosphere, to Earth. The Weizmann Institute of Science said that in this way, a temperature profile of a certain point on the surface of the planet will be obtained every time, and the scientists will be able to gradually assemble a three-dimensional map of the atmosphere which will make it possible to improve the understanding of the structure and composition of the largest planet in the solar system.
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On the 13.4 Thursday at 15:15 IL Time, @esa will launch the JUICE spacecraft to planet Jupiter on a historic mission, with technologies and scientific research funded by the Israel Space Agency in @most_ilpic.twitter.com/TNEF2GMDFm
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The Weizmann Institute of Science emphasized that even though JUICE's journey is starting now, it will be years before the long-awaited answers to these questions begin to be received. Prof. Caspi's group will indeed use the waiting time to continue planning the experiments and improve the dynamic mapping capabilities of the atmosphere, but it is also difficult for them not to be excited by the launch itself. "It's not every day that hundreds of thousands of work hours are drained into a single event," says Prof. Caspi.
The Israeli defense company Rafael is reporting significant progress in research for the development of an autonomous system that can significantly improve the Israel Defense Forces' capabilities, specifically for combat drivers and pilots. The purpose of the reseaerch is to identify abnormal stress in the operator of a military vehicle or aircraft, for example in the event that enemy fire is opened on him, and take control of the vehicle autonomously.