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3 days ago | 
israel21c.org | Zachy Hennessey |Abigail Klein Leichman
Why stop at fast food, when we could have FASTER food? That’s the question being addressed in the Tel Aviv offices of Hi Auto, a 2019-founded Israeli startup that brings AI voice technology to drive-thru lanes across the globe. Hi Auto’s software-as-a-service (SaaS) platform completely automates the drive-thru ordering process, achieving over 96 percent order accuracy and more than 90% order completion rates.
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4 days ago | 
israel21c.org | Abigail Klein Leichman |Yulia Karra
Racheli Kogan is a partner at the Symbol VC fund. Her husband, Ohad Bobrov of Palo Alto Networks, is a serial entrepreneur with several successful exits to his credit. This Israeli power couple has two daughters, ages 10 and eight. “In the first years of Ohad’s entrepreneurship, we definitely had a lot of difficulties and disagreements” regarding parenting, Kogan tells ISRAEL21c.
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1 week ago | 
israel21c.org | Yulia Karra |Abigail Klein Leichman |John Jeffay
Israeli startup ProFuse Technology has launched a new drug discovery platform that seeks to prevent muscle mass loss caused by aging, cancer and the growing use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) weight-loss injections, such as Ozempic. Sarcopenia, age-related muscle loss, affects approximately 10 to 16 percent of individuals over 50 years of age, equating to around 13 million to 20 million Americans.
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1 week ago | 
israel21c.org | Zachy Hennessey |Brian Blum |Abigail Klein Leichman
This April, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJ) is celebrating its 100th anniversary. Its establishment one century ago transformed a decades-old dream into one of Israel’s premier academic institutions and a globally recognized center of research. In celebration of the university’s centennial anniversary, HUJ’s senior leadership opened trading at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange on April 6.
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1 week ago | 
israel21c.org | Nicky Blackburn |Abigail Klein Leichman |Naama Barak
Despite a second year of war in Israel, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art has been ranked the 78th top museum in the world in a list of the most visited museums globally by international art magazine, The Art Newspaper. The ranking, published at the start of April, is based on visitor numbers at leading museums worldwide.
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1 week ago | 
israel21c.org | Abigail Klein Leichman |John Jeffay
A young man was brought to the emergency room of Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem in traumatic cardiac arrest after shrapnel tore his inferior vena cava, the big vein in the middle of the belly. The young trauma surgeon opened the young man’s chest to start internal cardiac massage. At the same time, he instructed his team to use HemaShock, which they’d learned about when treating soldiers during army reserve duty.
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1 week ago | 
israel21c.org | Abigail Klein Leichman
As it does every year, Israel is preparing to welcome Christian pilgrims for Holy Week (April 13-19, 2025) and Easter (April 20, 2025). But this year is special, as Catholic pilgrims from around the globe are marking the Jubilee Year that occurs every quarter century. This sacred year, rooted in biblical and Catholic traditions, is a time to seek forgiveness of sins, cancellation of debts, and universal forgiveness for all believers.
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1 week ago | 
israel21c.org | John Jeffay |Abigail Klein Leichman
Artificial intelligence (AI) is better than human doctors at diagnosing and suggesting appropriate treatment for common medical conditions, according to a new study by Tel Aviv University (TAU). The recommendations AI made for patients were subsequently rated “optimal” in 77 percent of cases by a panel of four physicians, compared with only 67% of recommendations made by doctors. The study was devised by Prof.
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1 week ago | 
israel21c.org | Abigail Klein Leichman
Israeli company Plastic Back, which chemically reverse-engineers plastic waste for upcycling, has announced a strategic partnership with a US-based recycler to establish the first-of-its-kind sustainable waste-management facility in answer to the growing global plastic waste crisis.
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2 weeks ago | 
elbiruniblogspotcom.blogspot.com | Abigail Klein Leichman
Groundbreaking analysis of 300k+ medical records shows women take up to a year to recover after childbirth, and blood tests before pregnancy can already reveal complications that will emerge. https://www.israel21c.org/breakthrough-study-pre-pregnancy-blood-tests-can-predict-complications/
