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A mix of turquoise, malachite, Azurite, Chrysocalla and other minerals, this stone is incredible balancing, grounding, and assists in meditation and emotional healing.

MELANISTIC BLACK FLAMINGO

©פורום ציפורים בטבע וצפרות, תפוז ©Yoav Perlman (bottom)

A BLACK FLAMINGO IN EILAT! Visitors at Eilat's Birds Sanctuary couldn't believe their eyes when they spotted a single black Flamingo among the glossy pink flock. ... A black Flamingo is simply a pink Flamingo with unique dark pigmentation due to excess melanin in its feathers. Still, a striking bird.

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The cities of Eilat, in southern Israel, and Nice, in southern France, announced Monday that the two municipalities will launch a two-year initiative to solve common municipal problems using smart technology-based solutions.

Teams compromised of 10 members from each city will look for solutions to existing and future challenges in the fields of health, infrastructure, transportation and energy, community services, and tourism.

The program will be led by the Eilat Tech Center, which runs innovation programs for academic institutions, governments, municipalities, industry brands and investment funds. The center is backed by the Arieli Capital group, a US holding investment firm with offices in Israel and New York.

The two-year program will launch at the end of February. The team will hold monthly meetings to discuss the proposed solutions and meet in Eilat in September  to present the proposals. Final projects will be presented a year later at a meeting in Nice.

Both Eilat and Nice have large tourism industries, but also share problems that are common to many cities around the world.

“The strategy is to identify challenges in the municipal environment and come up with proposals for solving and implementing them,” said Or Haviv, partner and head of Global Innovation Platforms at Arieli Capital.

Haviv said that many of the solutions will also be applicable in many other cities. “The ETC (Eilat Tech Center) will serve as the hub for the future development of technology-based solutions for the common problems identified by the two teams.”

The Eilat Tech Center, which houses the Eilat Hub incubator, seeks to turn Eilat into a travel tech hub and center of innovation in southern Israel.

Last year, Haviv told NoCamels that “just two-and-a-half years ago, there were zero startups in Eilat,” Today, it has at least 30 in its portfolio and runs over 114 programs for startups of all levels with tens of thousands of meetups throughout the year.