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| June 23, 2016
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MIT Tech Review: Israel’s Mobileye ranked 6th, on a list of the world’s top 50

 

view videoIsrael’s Mobileye technology company, which makes vision systems for mobile vehicles, was ranked 6th on list of the world’s 50 “smartest” companies, by the prestigious MIT Technology Review.

By Ilan Gattegno and Israel Hayom Staff

 

Israel’s Mobileye technology company was ranked sixth on a list of the world’s 50 “smartest” companies published on Tuesday by MIT Technology Review.

The Mobileye logo – Photo: Wikimedia Commons

The first five spots were taken by Amazon, Baidu, Illumina, Tesla Motors, and Aquion Energy.

Describing Mobileye, MIT Technology Review wrote: “How can automakers compete with companies developing self-driving vehicles, such as Google parent Alphabet? Continue Reading »

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| March 14, 2016
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MIT Economics Review Show Renaissance Regions That Didn’t Exile Jews Fair Better Today Financially

A newly published study in MIT’s The Review of Economics & Statistics reveal that Jews, who became Europe’s moneylenders in the 16th century, established the first banks, financed int’l trade, and established letters of credit, all leading to better economies today.

By Ynet

 

Over half a millennium may have passed, but regions that did not expel Jews during the Renaissance era have measurably better economies than those that did.

Jews became moneylenders in the 16th century

Throughout Europe, regions expelled Jewish communities from medieval times and into the Renaissance. In a new study published in MIT’s The Review of Economics and Statistics, Professor Luigi Pascali found that cities that permitted Jewish communities to thrive have GDPs of up to 10 percent higher than those that expelled them. Continue Reading »

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| September 2, 2015
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MIT names 2 Israelis for prestigious ’35 Innovators Under 35′ list

 

• Gilad Evrony, 33, discovered that brain cells located side by side other don’t always contain the same genetic codes.
• Cigall Kadoch, 30, focusing on breast cancer, has made important strides in cancer research.

By Ilan Gattegno

 

Two Israelis have made MIT’s prestigious “35 Innovators Under 35” list for 2015, which the university published on Monday.

One of the Israelis is Cigall Kadoch, 30, who holds a doctorate from Stanford. She is the daughter of an Israeli and was raised in San Francisco. Her field of expertise is cancer research, with a focus on breast cancer.

Cigall Kadoch

Gilad Evrony, 33, the second Israeli on the list, is a Harvard Medical School researcher.

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