By Lauren Kramer
Noveko International Inc., a Montreal-based biotech company founded in 2002, has made an agreement with Zer Hitech in Israel for exclusive distribution of its antimicrobial masks and respirators, biodegradable air filters, purification systems and hand sanitizers.
Zer Hitech is contracted by Sarel, the Israeli health-care products company, to supply Noveko masks to health-case establishments [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 
Do you remember the funny flick from the early 90’s entitled Cool Runnings?
 
Starring the late Canadian iconic actor John Candy, the film loosely portrayed the real-life comedic tale of Jamaica’s national bobsled team and their odyssey at the 1988 Calgary Olympics.
 
Well, a new version of this funny and somewhat fascinating story is [...]

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We already know that Israel and the Province of Manitoba are collaborating on wetlands research. And last year Canada’s water experts from Manitoba were in Israel to learn about the very dry country’s techniques in water conservation.
Last week my friend from Reuters sent me a note that Israel is to host the second Manitoba-Israel Water [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

They’re on investors’ hit lists and the green tech media is keen to monitor their progress. Environmentalists and key policy makers around the world urge them on. Israeli solar technology innovators are channelling and shaping the sun’s energy and breaking North America’s dependence on oil.
With organizations like the Cleantech Group, an international business [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Smart Hand, a pan-European program to develop a life-like artificial hand, has just released its prototype now functioning on a man in Sweden. Interfacing nerve endings with the mechanical device is Prof. Yosi Shacham from Tel Aviv University.
It is one of the world’s first thought-controlled prosthetic devices –– an artificial life-like hand, and it [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
While Canada’s Israel blog is not at all about politics, we sometimes report on politicians from these two countries who are laying the foundations for peace and economic collaboration.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel just sent Canada’s Israel this update that Canada’s Deputy Foreign Minister Leonard Edwards and his entourage are meeting [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Think of the volume of traffic on the 401 or the 404, or all the energy of taxi cabs and cars on the streets of Toronto. It’s just going to waste. But hopefully not for long: an Israeli company Innowattech has found a way to take the mechanical energy created by cars to [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Seven Israeli ‘cleantech’ companies came to Toronto last month looking for potential angels to invest in their low-emissions power technology. They hailed from Eilat and the surrounding Eilot region, an area that’s offering Israeli companies various incentives to develop solar, wind and biomass technologies.
The Toronto event was organized by the Renewable Energy [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

I’ve written about CIIRDF before here and here: the strongest link for industrial cooperation between Israel and Canada. Created 10 years between both countries, the Canada-Israel Industrial Research and Development Foundation (CIIRDF) promotes industrial R&D between Israel and Canada.
Investing domestically, the organization helps Canadian companies find partners in Israel, and with joint [...]

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By Lauren Kramer

Be’er Sheva is on the brink of change, according to Ron Folman, head of the nanotechnology department at Ben-Gurion University in Be’er Sheva. Folman addressed a crowd last month at Winnipeg’s Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, in a visit sponsored by the Winnipeg chapter of the Canadian Associates of BGU.
The change he referred to involves [...]

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