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Israeli inventions deliver global water, health breakthroughs

By Drooid · Sep 26, 2026, 10:38 PM UTC · How we work

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Israeli innovators have created technologies that improve water, health, navigation, and defense worldwide.
Physicist Zvi Tabor developed solar-thermal panels in the 1950s and won the 1956 Weizmann Prize.
Engineer Simcha Blass patented drip-irrigation in the early 1960s, reshaping global farming.
Electro-optical engineer Gavriel Iddan secured FDA approval for the $500 PillCam on Aug. 3, 2001.
Watergen, founded by Arye Kohavi in 2009, now supplies clean water in over 90 countries.

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Israeli innovators have created technologies that improve water, health, navigation, and defense worldwide.
Physicist Zvi Tabor developed solar-thermal panels in the 1950s and won the 1956 Weizmann Prize.
Engineer Simcha Blass patented drip-irrigation in the early 1960s, reshaping global farming.
Electro-optical engineer Gavriel Iddan secured FDA approval for the $500 PillCam on Aug. 3, 2001.
Watergen, founded by Arye Kohavi in 2009, now supplies clean water in over 90 countries.