News Bytes – 9 August 2025

Israel’s most advanced communications satellite successfully launched by SpaceX
The Times of Israel, 13 July 2025
Israel’s most advanced communications satellite, dubbed Dror-1, was successfully launched into space from Cape Canaveral in the United States on Sunday. [Read Article]

In wartime innovation, researchers develop artificial skin to help burn victims
The Times of Israel, 14 July 2025
Driven by the war and the surging number of soldiers and civilians suffering from severe burns, researchers from Tel Aviv University and Sheba Tel Hashomer Medical Center say they have developed a unique bioengineered skin to use for grafting in burn victims. [Read Article]

‘Money that can expire’: RBA laying groundwork for a dystopian financial reality where ‘money is given a brain and then the switch is handed to someone else’
Sky News Australia, 21 July 2025
Something is happening to money. Not the kind of change you notice right away. The kind that takes shape quietly, in boardrooms and briefing notes. [Read Article]

First-ever ancient blade manufacturing workshop uncovered in southern Israel
i24 News, 28 July 2025
The Israel Antiquities Authority has uncovered an ancient blade manufacturing site, along with the flint cores from which the blades were once made, in an archeological excavation conducted ahead of the construction of a new neighborhood in the southern Israeli city Kiryat Gat. [Read Article]

‘Pure calculated theatre’: How Australia is killing cash while pretending to save it with ‘feel-good’ pledges to protect access to physical money
Sky News Australia, 29 July 2025
Australia’s regulators just unveiled their grand plan to slow the death of cash. New registries. Enhanced oversight. A $25.5 million lifeline to Armaguard, the country’s last cash carrier. [Read Article]

Arab League condemns Oct. 7, urges Hamas to disarm
World Israel News, 30 July 2025
The Arab League has issued its first-ever condemnation of the October 7 attacks, calling on Hamas to disarm and step aside from Palestinian leadership. [Read Article]

Reverse water carrier set to begin pumping into Sea of Galilee, three years after completion
allisraelnews, 30 July 2025
Three years after construction was completed and the reverse water carrier – designed to transfer desalinated water via the National Water Carrier to the Sea of Galilee – was inaugurated, the project is set to be activated for the first time this coming October, Kan News reported Tuesday. [Read Article]