75 years of
Israeli Creativity 
and Innovation

In 1964, Israeli company Netafim invented drip irrigation, a cutting-edge agricultural technology that helps farmers on six continents save water and maximize efficiency.

As world leaders in medical marijuana research, Israelis have developed incredible medical innovations that have helped treat people across the globe coping with Cancer, Parkinson's, PTSD, and many other conditions. 📷 Miriam Alster/Flash90

The Israeli company Mirabilis developed ICQ, the world’s first instant messaging program. The technological abilities of the ICQ program revolutionized the world of online communication and it was later acquired by AOL for $407 million.

The Pillcam is an FDA-approved, digestible, disposable camera that transmits data to a receiver outside the body. Designed by Israeli company Given Imaging, the PillCam is used worldwide to diagnose infection, intestinal disorders, and cancers in the digestive system.

Desalination is the process of converting salt water into fresh water. Since the 1960s, Israel has been a global leader in desalination technology. Today, three quarters of the water consumed by Israelis comes from the sea and is filtered in one of the country’s numerous desalination plants. 📷 Isaac Harari/Flash90

Israelis have won 12 Nobel Prizes in categories ranging from literature to chemistry to peacemaking.

The dual lens technology found in smartphone cameras was developed by Corephotonics, a high-tech company based in Tel Aviv. The company was bought by Samsung in 2018 for $155 Million. 📷 Matt Hechter

Founded in 2008, Israeli company Waze transformed the world of GPS navigation technology for smartphones. Waze uses user-submitted route updates and travel times to find the most effective route. The technology was bought by Google for over $1.3 billion in 2013. 📷 Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

“Sensing the Future” is the mission statement of Mobileye, an Israeli automotive tech company valued at $10 billion USD. Mobileye developed technology to alert drivers of potential hazards on the road, which is used by more than 25 global automakers to enhance driving safety. 📷 Yonatan Sindel/Flash90

After a long career in the Israeli Air Force, Ilan Ramon became Israel’s first astronaut. Though not religious, Ramon was the first astronaut to request kosher food for his space flights, and he took a miniature Torah scroll into space with him. Ramon died as a crew member aboard the ill-fated U.S. space shuttle Columbia, which fell apart as it re-entered earth’s atmosphere.

The microprocessor that powered the first PC built by IBM, the Intel 8088, was designed at Intel’s research and development center in Haifa, Israel. Intel later credited this processor for launching the company into the Fortune 500.

Israeli company Solel and its predecessors have operated fields of solar panels in California’s Mojave Desert since the 1980s, reducing U.S. dependence on oil by 2 million barrels per day. 📷 Chen Leopold/Flash 90

Israeli company Watergen developed technology that creates large amounts of clean drinking water from air, providing a sustainable and life-saving resource to people all over the world.