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Preparing for the future: the Agromashov 2022 exhibition will be held as a sign of innovation in agriculture and the transformation of the reform from a threat to an opportunity!
Between one corona wave and another, the agricultural world is already preparing for the big event of the year 2022 - the Agromshov exhibition and professional sessions in the fields burning on the agenda of Israeli agriculture. In the era of the Corona and in the shadow of the reforms that pose great challenges to the Israeli farmer, the exhibition and the seats have great significance. The event takes place every year, this time the Agromashov exhibition will be held for the 31st time, on September 5- 6, 2022, registration has begun!
The Agromashov exhibition invites you to an extraordinary experience of Israeli agriculture at its best and a long list of innovations as the exhibition is expected to take place again this year in the capital of Israel - Jerusalem. As part of the two-day exhibition, there will be professional sessions on the agricultural issues that are on the agenda, with the theme that will lead the event being innovation in Israeli agriculture and the transformation of the reform from a threat to agriculture and the farmer, to an opportunity and renewal.
At the exhibition, new developments and crops will be presented to the general public, breakthrough technologies that place Israel at the top of global innovation in the field of agriculture, protective measures and safeguarding of the agricultural areas, innovative irrigation methods, etc. As part of Agromashov 2022, there will be a 'round tables' activity in the various fields of agriculture, an activity that began at the Israel Conference on Agriculture and was a great success and will now also continue at Agromashov 2022. Also, the event will be held in the presence of ministers, members of the Knesset, heads of agricultural organizations, owners of marketing chains and many farmers.
Haim Aloush, CEO of Agromashov, noted: "Even in the era of the Coronavirus, we keep the embers alive and continue to hold the significant events for the Israeli farmer and our agriculture. The Agromashov exhibition in 2021 was the first agricultural event in the era of the Corona virus, and this year we will also continue this tradition for the 31st year with the leading and professional exhibition in Israel in the field of agriculture, where the goal is both to present the innovations and developments and to create deals between the farmers, as well as to hold professional discussions and promote Israeli agriculture.
So far, the Agromashov 2022 exhibition, the largest and oldest agricultural event in Israel, has registered over 15 huge delegations from different countries in the world, dozens of exhibitors and thousands of farmers who will take part in the event, the conferences and the various competitions that will be held during the Agromashov event in the Nation Buildings in Jerusalem on September 5-6, 2022.
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KOREN FARM DATES:VERY GOOD ALLIES FOR GOOD HEALTH
Koren Farm is proud to offer its fresh, premium quality Medjool dates, directly from
the palm tree to the freezer! known as “the king of dates”; for their culinary
characteristics, health benefits and exquisite taste.
The delicious, naturally sweet dates are hand-picked and packed without industrial
process, heat treatment or washing, and are available year-round in various
locations across Israel, or by delivery upon request.
Dates are ideal for sharing with friends, during family or corporate gatherings, and
are the favorite and recommended natural snack for athletes to achieve better
performance during their workouts.
ABOUT THE KOREN FARM
The Koren Farm (משק קורן), family-owned business, established in 1977, in Moshav Paran,
Arava, specializes in the production and marketing of dates, which are distributed
locally and abroad.
The farm is committed to producing fruit in a responsible, sustainable and
environmentally friendly manner, meeting quality standards and contributing to
improving the health of consumers.
Each year, Koren farm’s five hectares of desert land produces approximately 50
tons of this biblical fruit, under the supervision of agronomist Avi Koren and his team.
Dates are grown around the world in deserts with hot temperatures, low rainfall and
low humidity. However, the date palm grows under relatively high-water supply,
which limits its propagation and fruit production to very hot desert oases, generally
located in low altitude arenas (California Desert, Sahara Desert, Arabian Desert,
Israel Desert, South African Desert and Australian Desert).
The origin of the Medjool date is a desert in Morocco. Some palm trees were
shipped to the U.S. in the late 1920s, and merely a dozen mother plants yielded
most of the world Medjool palms we know today.
Dates are an important source of iron, potassium, vitamins A, C and E, calcium, magnesium and fiber.
Dates benefits:
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Help relieve constipation and improve digestion
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Help strengthen bones
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Are beneficial to combat anemia
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Reduce bad cholesterol
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Cough relief
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Have a great satiating power
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Help increase your energy
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Help your mental agility.
DATES PRICES:
Below 4 kg. : 40₪ per kg
4kg and over: ₪35 per kg
FOR ORDERS
Avi: 052-2919092
Barak: 053-2751767
CITIES FOR IMMEDIATE PURCHASES:
Kiryat Gat / Rishon Lezion / Petah Tikva / Etz Efraim / Herzliya / Kfar Saba
Hod Hasharon / Rosh HaAyin / Kadima / Hadera / Paran
Links:
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WalkOut has developed a system for smart carts that identifies products that are loaded and removed from the cart using cameras with the highest level of accuracy in the world (99.2%). Customers can also pay for the purchase without having to go to the checkout.
Tel Aviv, December, 2021 - The Israeli company WalkOut, the developer of an autonomous end-to-end frictionless shopping solution, announces an extensive cooperation agreement with Machsanei Hashuk, one of the largest supermarket chains in Israel. As part of the agreement, the chain will implement the fully autonomous checkout solution, considered the most accurate in the world's retail industry, in all 62 of its branches. Its deployment will begin as early as next month.
Although 61 percent of shoppers would prefer to purchase brands that also have a physical location, over 70 percent of shoppers report that standing in line for checkouts is frustrating and detracts from the shopping experience. Until the development of WalkOut’s solution, no system has accompanied the customer throughout the entire purchase, which includes actual checkout.
WalkOut’s retrofit smartcart solution offers a revolution in the shopping experience that addresses two main challenges that marketing chains face in the physical buying process.
The first is related to waiting in long queues at the checkout. The second is the inability to create a personalized shopping experience for each customer.
The company’s first-ever truly seamless retrofitted solution in the retail industry requires no costly infrastructural changes to the store, while other solutions require the retailer to purchase new carts and most rely on barcode scanners and scales for item recognition. The mountable cart device's multiple high-precision cameras, which utilize many different proprietary algorithms to accurately recognize products, identify the items as shoppers load or remove them with 99.2 percent accuracy.
WalkOut’s edge computing and machine-vision algorithms also curtail the need for costly on-cloud servers and high-bandwidth internet support. This use of single-sensor architecture and edge-computing allows retail stores to operate a much more robust and cost-effective solution. Through a large touchscreen, the device also communicates with the customer to offer personalized recommendations, store navigation, supplementary product information, and relevant promotions based on the shopper's history and location in the store.
"Connecting to one of the largest retail chains in Israel is an exciting opportunity and an important milestone for us," says Assaf Gedalia, CEO and Co-Founder of WalkOut. “The solution is futuristic, personalized, and at the same time preserves the customer's privacy. "
"As a chain that advocates innovative technologies, we wanted to offer our customers significant savings in waiting times at the checkouts and provide a more personal, accessible and efficient shopping experience," said Shalom Naaman, CEO and Owner of Machsanei Hashuk. "The WalkOut solution will significantly shorten the length of stay in the branches, help maximize our operational efficiency, and allow us to offer one of the most advanced shopping experiences in the world."
About WalkOut
WalkOut, founded in 2018, has set itself the goal of changing the way consumers purchase products in physical stores by placing the checkout directly on the shopping cart. The company's solution is based on machine vision technology capable of identifying any item placed or removed from the cart and calculating it in the final payment. In this way, the cart eliminates the need for a checkout and reduces the duration of the payment process to a minimum. The WalkOut solution includes a large touch screen located on the cart and combines a personalized shopping experience with offers and promotions based on each consumer's preferences, complementary products and the location of the products in the store. The WalkOut system is modular and can be installed on existing carts in stores without the need for significant changes on the part of the store.
About Machsanei Hashuk
Machsanei Hashuk is a leading marketing chain owned and managed by the Naaman & Cohen families that was first established in 1996 in the city of Beer Sheva. The chain currently has 62 branches nationwide from Safed to Eilat. In 2019, the chain acquired Co-op, and in doing so became one of the largest leading marketing chains in Israel. Co-op branches have since been converted into "Machsanei Hashuk sheli". The chain operates an advanced and accessible online site, in addition to its branches. It also offers its own Wincard+ credit card, in cooperation with Max, which combines regular card rewards with the chain's own promotions. Machsanei Hashuk operates a strong and active customer club with more than 400,000 loyal customers.
The chain is the official sponsor of the football team "Hapoel Machsanei Hashuk Beer-Sheva.”
For more information, visit https://www.mck.co.il/
Photo: Maya Legotin
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Smart Wound Dressing Instead of sutures, a self-healing antibacterial polymer; instead of examining the wound, integrated smart monitoring
“Sutures? That’s practically medieval!”
It is a staple of science fiction to mock sutures as outdated. The technique has, after all, been in use for at least 5,000 years. Surely medicine should have advanced since ancient Egypt. Professor Hossam Haick from the Wolfson Department of Chemical Engineering at the Technion has finally turned science fiction into reality. His lab succeeded in creating a smart sutureless dressing that binds the wound together, wards off infection, and reports on the wound’s condition directly to the doctors’ computers. Their study was published in Advanced Materials.
Current surgical procedures entail the surgeon cutting the human body, doing what needs to be done, and sewing the wound shut – an invasive procedure that damages surrounding healthy tissue. Some sutures degrade by themselves – or should degrade – as the wound heals. Others need to be manually removed. Dressing is then applied over the wound and medical personnel monitor the wound by removing the dressing to allow observation for signs of infection like swelling, redness, and heat. This procedure is painful to the patient, and disruptive to healing, but it is unavoidable. Working with these methods also mean that infection is often discovered late, since it takes time for visible signs to appear, and more time for the inspection to come round and see them. In developed countries, with good sanitation available, about 20% of patients develop infections post-surgery, necessitating additional treatment and extending the time to recovery. The figure and consequences are much worse in developing countries.
How will it work with Prof. Haick’s new dressing?
Prior to beginning a procedure, the dressing – which is very much like a smart band-aid – developed by Prof. Haick’s lab will be applied to the site of the planned incision. The incision will then be made through it. Following the surgery, the two ends of the wound will be brought together, and within three seconds the dressing will bind itself together, holding the wound closed, similarly to sutures. From then, the dressing will be continuously monitoring the wound, tracking the healing process, checking for signs of infection like changes in temperature, pH, and glucose levels, and report to the medical personnel’s smartphones or other devices. The dressing will also itself release antibiotics onto the wound area, preventing infection.
“I was watching a movie on futuristic robotics with my kids late one night,” said Prof. Haick, “and I thought, what if we could really make self-repairing sensors?”
Most people discard their late-night cinema-inspired ideas. Not Prof. Haick, who, the very next day after his Eureka moment, was researching and making plans. The first publication about a self-healing sensor came in 2015 (read more about it on the Technion website here). At that time, the sensor needed almost 24 hours to repair itself. By 2020, sensors were healing in under a minute (read about the study by Muhammad Khatib, a student in Prof. Haick’s lab here), but while it had multiple applications, it was not yet biocompatible, that is, not usable in contact with skin and blood. Creating a polymer that would be both biocompatible and self-healing was the next step, and one that was achieved by postdoctoral fellow Dr. Ning Tang.
The new polymer is structured like a molecular zipper, made from sulfur and nitrogen: the surgeon’s scalpel opens it; then pressed together, it closes and holds fast. Integrated carbon nanotubes provide electric conductivity and the integration of the sensor array. In experiments, wounds closed with the smart dressing healed as fast as those closed with sutures and showed reduced rates of infection.
“It’s a new approach to wound treatment,” said Prof. Haick. “We introduce the advances of the fourth industrial revolution – smart interconnected devices, into the day-to-day treatment of patients.”
Prof. Haick is the head of the Laboratory for Nanomaterial-based Devices (LNBD) and the Dean of Undergraduate Studies at the Technion. Dr. Ning Tang was a postdoctoral fellow in Prof. Haick’s laboratory and conducted this study as part of his fellowship. He has now been appointed an associate professor in Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
Pictures: Professor Hossam Haick / Dr. Ning Tang
Concept of MFWD, which can inhibit bacterial growth, close a wound in sutureless manner via biocompatible elastomer having self-healing ability, and monitor healing status by detecting wound-related biomarkers.
Photo of the sensing part of MFDW .Self-healing, antibacterial, and multifunctional wound dressing in action
Credit Technion Spokesperson
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i4Valley, The first and only entrepreneurship incubator in Israel for entrepreneurs living and breathing the fourth industrial revolution (i4.0) marked its first year founding
in Karmiel – with the participation of high-tech, industry and government executives.
i4Valley was established in Karmiel, with the aim of developing the high-tech industry in the Galilee and the State of Israel. The incubator serves as the first technological investment center of its kind in Israel for this industry
The Israeli government has identified the enormous economic potential of Industry 4.0, which is expected to add $ 25 billion to the state over the next five years
Industry 4.0 is a term that represents an organizational concept for managing factories and industrial processes in a smart and modern way while integrating technologies such as: the Internet of Things, real-time information analysis, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence and cyber protection.
The conference was attended by: Mayor of Karmiel, Moshe Koninsky, Prof. Arie Maharshak, President of the ORT Braude College of Engineering, Karina Rubinstein – Director of Business Development at Israel Innovation Authority,
Erel Margalit, Founder & Executive Chairman JVP and Margalit Startup City, Zuri Dabush , Chairman of Klil Industries, Sivan Yechieli, CEO of i4valley, Zvika Weinstock, CTO of i4valley and other senior executives from the industry.
The technology incubator invests in early-stage start-up companies (Pre Seed and Seed, which are selected after careful sorting. The goal is to reach 6 to 8 companies a year in the areas of: cyber protection, AI, Cleantech, Virtual Reality, Robotics and more
I4valley CEO Sivan Yechieli said at the conference: "The technology incubator, which is the first technological investment center of its kind in Israel of Industry 4.0, creates great value for the Galilee and industry in the State of Israel. It is leading to an increase in the number of high-tech companies and leveraging innovation, entrepreneurship and human capital in the field"
Photos Courtesy: Michael Tomarkin.
From right to left: Mayor of Karmiel, Moshe Koninsky, Erel Margalit, Founder & Executive Chairman JVP and Margalit Startup City, Zuri Dabush, Chairman of Klil Industries and Sivan Yechieli, CEO of i4valley. (125)
Sivan Yechieli, CEO of i4valley with Prof. Arie Maharshak, President of the ORT Braude College of Engineering (32).
