In spite of the war against Hamas, an increasingly fragile economy and a sever water shortage, Israeli entrepreneurs are continuing to innovate (hey, it’s not a bug, it’s a feature).   VC Cafe has done a short writeup on each of the 20 19 companies presenting.  You should check out his post and his blog here.

I have a couple of favorites:

Free Way - aiming to connect existing navigation services and applications into one big shared network. Using that connection, Free Way plans to offer device agnostic, accurate traffic condition & social localized information in real time. Big idea in early stage. Founded in 2009. Qoof - brings video to the eCommerce world by producing online videos on products, inserting sales information into videos and promoting them through a distributed, multi-channel, targeted and personalized video commerce network. Qoof is one of the more experienced start ups on this list, ...

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