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Immigrant Story: Sam

Sam could have been a Swiss banker with a fast car, a gold watch and a house overlooking Lake Zurich. He could have been a lot things–a sheep farmer, a TV producer, a Chinese interpreter–and he was all...

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Immigrant Story: Batiya

Originally from a small village outside Khmelnytskyi in Western Ukraine, Batiya wasn’t raised in a very Jewish way. Her father is Orthodox Christian, her mother is Jewish, but neither observed any...

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Immigrant Story: Isak

Isak came to Israel to study film, which wouldn’t be so surprising if he wasn’t Italian. Rossellini, Fellini, Benigni, not to mention Sophia Loren. Israel’s Oscar list pales by comparison. But in...

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Immigrant Story: Nathalie

Nathalie has lived in six countries: South Korea, Germany, Belgium Vietnam, and England. Israel was her first, but she left when she was two. As the daughter of a diplomat, she moved frequently. But,...

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Immigrant Story: Dan

Dan thinks his two young girls are happier here than in London. He only worries about their military service. The peacemaker in the lion’s den, Dan has always been a pacifist. When he was younger, he...

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Smarter Messaging

Could a messaging app be profitable? The largest ones in Asia, WeChat, Line and Kakao have generated revenues by embedding games, stickers, in-app purchasing and e-commerce capabilities into the chat....

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Immigrant Story: May

‘I’m a big believer in everything working out.’ May says this plainly and without false enthusiasm. ‘I can go somewhere else if it doesn’t work out here.’ Such an attitude befits young immigrants...

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APPropriate search

‘Mobile search is broken,’ says Mor Schlesinger, Head of Quixey’s Tel Aviv office. With over $100 million in funding, this startup is building the next generation of mobile search. Apps and the...

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Nano Disrupts

Yesterday evening, StoreDot revealed their nano-tech battery prototype, which charged CEO’s Dr Doron Myersdorf’s smart phone in under 2 minutes at Think Next, an annual event held by Microsoft...

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The latest from Microsoft Ventures

Hosted by Microsoft Israel R&D and Microsoft Ventures, Think Next exhibited yesterday the latest Israeli start-ups. Here are some of the highlights: StoreDot Dr Doron Myersdorf – CEO Produces fast...

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E.T. comes home

Meet Robit, the spinning, spying, singing robot that can wake you up, find your keys, and teach your kids how to code at breakfast. Brothers Shlomo and Elazar Schwarcz came up with the idea last year...

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Our Com.unity

Professors at Harvard Business School, INSEAD, and other institutions have been searching for a business model that promises both social impact and financial return. Now two IDC graduates have taken...

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Starting Up

How do you build an entrepreneurial ecosystem from scratch? And should you even try? That is the question put to entrepreneurs, investors and government officials who gathered last night at the launch...

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Software to Healthcare: Israeli innovation disrupts medicine

Hardware, software, and now healthcare can be added to the list of innovation that Israeli companies are exporting abroad. Technology has disrupted healthcare, and new startups are seizing the...

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The comeback of cartoons: Powtoon’s animation pumps up presentations

A giant inflatable clownfish floats around the Powtoon office on occasion – not all that unusual for a company that has built an animation presentation platform. You have probably seen one or two of...

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Another Viagra? One Israeli startup is streamlining drug discovery

Viagra was a happy accident. Initially developed to reduce high blood pressure, the drug was ‘repositioned’ to treat erectile dysfunction when researchers noted that patients in clinical trials...

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Saving Every Drop: AgTech company could prevent future droughts  

‘We need to grow more food with less water,’ says Isaac Bentwich, CEO of CropX, an Israeli agricultural analytics company that is applying their know-how to the problem by improving the irrigation...

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Studying abroad? One Israeli startup modernises the pen and paper process

International students drive an estimated $24 billion into the U.S. economy, and that is in spite of the convoluted and costly college application process: the myriad of essays and standardised tests,...

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Cyber security on the offensive? Israeli start-ups shake things up

Given the recent hack of Ashley Madison, it’s cause for wonder: why aren’t we more secure? Over the past two decades, an entire industry has evolved to manage the problem of cyber security, and yet...

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The latest from Microsoft Ventures

Hosted by Microsoft Israel R&D and Microsoft Ventures, Think Next exhibited yesterday the latest Israeli start-ups. Here are some of the highlights: StoreDot Dr Doron Myersdorf – CEO Produces fast...

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