The Israeli-based noise-reducing technology start-up, Silentium, recently raised $10 million in a round of funding, enabled by an unidentified Russian investment bank.

How will the world cope with 10 billion mouths to feed by 2050? How can the same amount of food be produced in the next 40 years as in the last 8,000 years, on less agricultural land? How can malnutrition, which now causes more deaths than malaria, tuberculosis and AIDS combined, be prevented? These are the questions which are starting to trouble policy makers around the world, and technological solutions are being eagerly sought. A number of Israeli companies are tackling the problem of food production from different angles.

One of the companies looking to benefit from the various contracts and tenders surrounding the games is Nice Systems, a dual Israeli-American company, specializing in security software and management.

After deciding between competing offers from around the world, the Azrieli Group decided to sell its subsidiary to the Kusto Group from Singapore, for NIS 500 million ($144 million).