While Israel’s Twitter community remains fairly small, the Facebook social networking site, with two million subscribers, is the fourth most popular website in the country, according to CheckFaceBook, a country-by-country provider of Facebook statistics. CheckFaceBook also reports that Israel’s subscribers …

An environmentally-friendly method for preventing and affecting biofilm of bacteria and fungi was introduced last week at Israel’s WATEC Conference by Yissum Research Development Company, the technology transfer arm of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The novel compounds will be …

Researchers at Tel Aviv University (TAU) have discovered that observations of ordinary, common lightning strikes hitting Earth can be assessed to use sunspots to measure the pulse or rotation rate of the sun and to make long-range predictions about the …

Israel’s Mekorot Development and Enterprise has received government approval to construct and operate a seawater desalination plant in Cyprus. Like Israel, Cyprus suffers from a severe water shortage. The two-year-old subsidiary of the government-owned Mekorot National Water Company won the …

Israel ranks fourth in the world in scientific activity, according to data compiled by the Council of Higher Education. The data, which dates to 2005, puts Israel behind Switzerland, Sweden and Denmark in terms of the number of scientific publications …

Yuri Foreman became the second Israeli to claim a professional boxing crown when he defeated Daniel Santos of Puerto Rico to take the WBA junior men’s middleweight title on points last week. The first Israeli to win a world boxing championship title …

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Israel’s Minister of Industry, Trade and Labor Benjamin Ben-Eliezer signed a renewable energy R&D cooperation agreement today. The cooperation agreement will promote Israel-California strategic R&D in renewable energy and environmental technologies by establishing joint ventures …

Motorola announced yesterday that it will buy privately held BitBand, an Israel-based video-on-demand technology provider, to expand its home video business. According to Thomson Reuters, Motorola says it will integrate BitBand into its Home and Networks Mobility unity, for which …

Israeli choreographer Ohad Naharin received the 2009 Dance Magazine Award at a ceremony in New York last week. Naharin received the award for both Gaga, the dance language that he has developed over the past 20 years, and for his …

The technology transfer company of Israel’s Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the Negev, BGN Technologies, has signed an agreement with German company curasan AG to jointly develop special matrixes for bone regeneration. The German company will invest 900,000 Euros (more than …