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Robot fruit pickers make life sweeter for struggling farmers

Airborne machines grab apples and peaches to help solve labour shortage

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Robot fruit pickers (Tevel)

The Sapiens HQ in Holon, Israel (Image: By Elvenking89 - CC BY-SA 3.0, commons.wikimedia.org)

£1.9 billion AI insurance firm moves HQ from Israel to London

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Dr Nachum Nathan (left) and Prof Ziv Shulman (Image: Weizmann Institute of Science)

Israeli scientists in ovarian cancer vaccine breakthrough

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Child playing computer game (Getty)

Tech wiz uses AI to turn kids from couch-potato consumers to magic creators

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Now that’s cracking: Israeli scientists invent the ‘safe peanut’

Over time, the new peanut trains the immune system of people with the allergy to accept the food

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May 14, 2026 11:48

Mona Kidon, the lead scientist behind the 'safe peanut' biscuits, named 'Mona cookies' (Image: Sheba Medical Centre)

Revealed: Israelis invent world’s first personal plane that’s ‘easier to drive than a car’

The aircraft is a souped-up version of the cheap drone you can buy your kids for Chanukah

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May 12, 2026 15:41

Revealed: Israelis invent world’s first personal plane that’s ‘easier to drive than a car’

Israeli company comes up with AI ‘X-ray’ that sees deep underground

Tel Aviv-based Exodigo claims to have set the new gold standard for underground mapping

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May 7, 2026 11:04

Israeli company comes up with AI ‘X-ray’ that sees deep underground

‘Game-changer’ nanotech cooling spray from Israeli startup boosts crop yields by 30 per cent

Cooling Crops has developed a patented, sprayable powder that radiates heat and reduces the temperatures of plants

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May 7, 2026 10:34

Tractor spraying pesticides on vegetable field with sprayer at spring

Israeli startup’s supermarket shopping trolley that allows you to jump the queue

ICust2Mate devices allow shoppers to pay on a laptop-sized screen

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May 1, 2026 09:47

Israeli startup’s supermarket shopping trolley that allows you to jump the queue

Udderly ingenious: the first robot milking parlour

Israeli innovation milks a herd of 5,000 cows two or three times a day

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May 1, 2026 09:43

Udderly ingenious: the first robot milking parlour

Israeli startup creates world’s first lab-grown chocolate bar

The chocolate, made from a real cocoa bean, is said to be indistinguishable from the tree-grown version and may be soon be used by Cadbury’s

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April 17, 2026 10:19

Israeli startup creates world’s first lab-grown chocolate bar

The AI startup that does the lawyers’ casework for them

Canotera is a potential game changer for anyone involved in litigation

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April 15, 2026 11:15

Yariv Lissauer

Israeli ex-air force boffins use refuelling tech to free up rail tracks

Meet the brains behind DirecTrain Systems

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April 15, 2026 11:13

Israeli ex-air force boffins use refuelling tech to free up rail tracks

Fighting a phishing war? Get in an expert behind Hezbollah pager attack

Tel Aviv-based Cyvore safeguards clients from attacks launched via email, social media and video conferencing

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April 7, 2026 10:52

The A team: Ori Segal, Yoav Rotem and Yiftach Rotem of Cyvore

The Israeli ‘deskless Slack’ helping companies manage mega-concerts – on the Taylor Swift-scale

Ubeya, an Israeli startup, has developed AI-powered software that can track and manage an army of temporary workers

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April 7, 2026 10:48

Taylor Swift attends the 2026 iHeartRadio Music Awards at Dolby Theatre on March 26, 2026 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for iHeartRadio)

Louie the robot takes all the sweat out of tomato growing

Arugga AI Farming has created a robot that can do the job of five full-time workers

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March 30, 2026 12:21

Louie the robot takes all the sweat out of tomato growing

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