These all came from the International Christian Embassy Jerusalem in their News Briefs.
Chinese builders learning "green" methods from Israel
A group of Chinese craftsman, business and government leaders is visiting Israel this week in order to study methods developed in the Jewish State to encourage "green" architecture and city planning. The visit, organized by the Economy and Trade Ministry and the Guangzhou municipal Environment and Sustainable Development Administration, is the first of what officials from both countries hope will be a flourishing relationship benefiting all involved.
Meteo-Logic makes predicting the weather cheap and easy
Israeli high-tech company Meteo-Logic, founded in 2011 in Ramot Hashovim, has developed a cloud-based software-as-a-service solution that lets independent weather stations, or owners of point-source weather data, get hourly predictions on the weather, potentially saving time and money for businesses, governments and individuals worldwide. "We give the weather prediction power to the world, an hourly prediction which can be assessed from any of the parameters being measured by the local weather station," said Meteo-Logic's founder and CEO Igal Zivoni.
Israeli Heart Society hosts international conference
The 60th International Conference of the Israel Heart Society (IHS) was held in Jerusalem Monday-Tuesday, with 1,300 cardiologists and others from around the world gathered to hear the latest developments in the field from Israeli doctors, who are considered among the best in the world. "Israeli cardiologists have great bench-to-bedside developments. Israel is one of the safest parts of the world to have a heart attack," joked Prof. John Harold, president of the American College of Cardiology.
Israeli cancer researchers named to world-leading Association
Prof. Avraham Hershko and Prof. Aharon Ciechanover, the two Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2004, have been selected to join the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research, along with Prof. Irwin Rose of the University of California, who shared the Nobel with them. The Association is the world's leading organization dedicated to research in biology and medicine, and an appointment to it is considered to be the pinnacle of the profession.
Israeli team invents cheap and simple water distiller
Shimmy Zimels, CEO of Jerusalem-based SunDwater, recently announced that his company has developed a solar-powered device which will make it possible to cheaply and easily distill drinking water virtually anywhere in the world. "About 97 percent of the world's water is saltwater or polluted water," Zimels explained. He added that the device, which uses concentrated solar power to quickly and cheaply distill water suitable for drinking or agriculture, is aimed at improving the quality of life for people all over the world, particularly in poor countries.
Chinese builders learning "green" methods from Israel
A group of Chinese craftsman, business and government leaders is visiting Israel this week in order to study methods developed in the Jewish State to encourage "green" architecture and city planning. The visit, organized by the Economy and Trade Ministry and the Guangzhou municipal Environment and Sustainable Development Administration, is the first of what officials from both countries hope will be a flourishing relationship benefiting all involved.
Meteo-Logic makes predicting the weather cheap and easy
Israeli high-tech company Meteo-Logic, founded in 2011 in Ramot Hashovim, has developed a cloud-based software-as-a-service solution that lets independent weather stations, or owners of point-source weather data, get hourly predictions on the weather, potentially saving time and money for businesses, governments and individuals worldwide. "We give the weather prediction power to the world, an hourly prediction which can be assessed from any of the parameters being measured by the local weather station," said Meteo-Logic's founder and CEO Igal Zivoni.
Israeli Heart Society hosts international conference
The 60th International Conference of the Israel Heart Society (IHS) was held in Jerusalem Monday-Tuesday, with 1,300 cardiologists and others from around the world gathered to hear the latest developments in the field from Israeli doctors, who are considered among the best in the world. "Israeli cardiologists have great bench-to-bedside developments. Israel is one of the safest parts of the world to have a heart attack," joked Prof. John Harold, president of the American College of Cardiology.
Israeli cancer researchers named to world-leading Association
Prof. Avraham Hershko and Prof. Aharon Ciechanover, the two Technion-Israel Institute of Technology researchers who received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2004, have been selected to join the Academy of the American Association for Cancer Research, along with Prof. Irwin Rose of the University of California, who shared the Nobel with them. The Association is the world's leading organization dedicated to research in biology and medicine, and an appointment to it is considered to be the pinnacle of the profession.
Israeli team invents cheap and simple water distiller
Shimmy Zimels, CEO of Jerusalem-based SunDwater, recently announced that his company has developed a solar-powered device which will make it possible to cheaply and easily distill drinking water virtually anywhere in the world. "About 97 percent of the world's water is saltwater or polluted water," Zimels explained. He added that the device, which uses concentrated solar power to quickly and cheaply distill water suitable for drinking or agriculture, is aimed at improving the quality of life for people all over the world, particularly in poor countries.
