CTech's Monday Roundup of Israeli Tech News

Israel's nuclear power plant Is back on the drawing board; Israel nets additional NIS 250 million from Israel Chemicals in final arbitration

Israel's nuclear power plant is back on the table. The construction of a nuclear power plant in Israel has been discussed on and off for over 25 years. Read more

 

Israel nets additional NIS 250 million from Israel Chemicals in final arbitration. ICL, which holds the mining rights to the Dead Sea until 2030, is one of the largest potash suppliers in the world. Read more

 

Israel Chemicals' potash mine. Photo: Bloomberg

 

 

Interview | Smart city is just a buzzword, says head of Israeli cities union. Eitan Atia, the general manager of Forum 15, a union of fiscally autonomous Israeli cities, believes that there is much still left to be done to make a city better before spending millions on shiny new technologies. Read more

 

Launch of AMOS-17 satellite pushed back until July. In February, Spacecom said it expected to launch AMOS-17 in the second quarter of 2019, and that the satellite will start bringing profits as early as September. Read more

 

The sun rises in the east, the Jerusalem express train is stuck on its tracks, again. The electric train connecting Ben Gurion International Airport with Jerusalem was shut down for several hours on Monday morning due to malfunctions in the train’s signaling systems. Read more

 

This milk on tap startup wants to eliminate spilled milk. Milkit offers cafes and restaurants an electric milk-dispensing system that delivers accurately-measured doses of milk at the push of a button. Read more

 

Ahead of Tel Aviv Eurovision, Israeli table booking startup launches English service. Order.Chat uses a Facebook chatbot to automatically reserve restaurant tables online; Israel is expecting a flux of tourists attending the Eurovision in May. Read more