The Wall Street Journal (subscription required) this week brings us the story of SCP Vitalife, a venture-capital firm that invests in American and Israeli medical technologies. Thus far, it’s been pretty successful helping companies get off the ground. For example, one of its biggest successes has been MediGuide, which developed a method to track the [...]

Still the Dead Sea. Photo: Israel Ministry of Tourism As some of you may have guessed, IsRealli’s recent post on a plan to sell off naming rights to national landmarks was our post for April Fools’ Day. We should note, however, that almost everything in that story is real. Just for starters: Israel does have [...]

The Sea of Love. Photo: Israel Ministry of Tourism In a bold attempt to raise money for Israel’s growing green technology infrastructure, the State of Israel has decided to sell the naming rights of the Dead Sea to the Ahava cosmetics company. While the full details of the Ahava agreement weren’t made public immediately, officials [...]

Picture: Buckminsterfullerene C60, aka the “buckyball,” one focus of nanotechnology researchBy Michael Stroeck at Wikimedia Commons. Used under GNU License. NanoIsrael 2009, Israel’s first ever conference on nanotechnology, took place yesterday and today in Jerusalem. Organizers, among them the Israel National Nanotechnology Initiative, wanted an opportunity to highlight the amazing advances being made in the [...]

Loren Feldman of 1938 Media, caught up with Jeff Pulver, one of the leaders in internet phone and video, at a Garage Geeks event in Tel Aviv. In the video above (from 1938 Media), you can hear their takes on the entrepreneurial spirit in Israel.

Photo: Microsoft Israel, HaifaDavid Shay on Wikimedia Commons. Used under Creative Commons license A few weeks ago, the Economist published a special report on entrepreneurship in a few select countries–including Israel. As the article notes, Israel owes a lot to American companies who began research operation in the country, but Israeli start-ups are now all [...]

The “Sail Tower” in HaifaPhoto by Almog, on Wikimedia Commons Haifa Mayor Yonah Yahav has been spending time in Boston and talking about the extensive relationship between the two cities. As the Boston Globe points out, the ties between the two have been informal but robust. Maybe because the two cities are actually somewhat similar: [...]

Photo: Wikimedia Commons The ideas of Web 2.0 and social networking continue to take the world by storm–and Israeli companies are helping you take full advantage. We came across this great post on the Go2Web20 blog and decided we needed to share the good news. First of all, we had no clue about all these [...]

Photo: David Shay on Wikimedia Commons. Used under Creative Commons license It’s not news to us that hi-tech companies around the world have been setting up shop in Israel. We’re never sure, though, just what they’re doing in those glass buildings and what benefit we all get out of it. Well, JPost today has an [...]

Photo: Juha Makkonen on Wikimedia Commons, used under GNU Free Documentation License USA Today reports that, in advance of the American elections, TV producers have scoured the globe–including Israel–for new technologies for their broadcasts. One of the amazing things they found in Israel was SportVU, which allows sports commentators to collect stats about teams and [...]