Food & water
Drip irrigation
Odds are the vegetables on your plate were grown with water delivered drop by drop, straight to the roots. The first practical dripper was built in a kibbutz in the Negev desert.
AI-generated film: fields in the Negev at sunrise
From your alarm to lights out
Your day runs on ideas from Israel.
The phone you unlock, the route you drive, the chip in your laptop, the drip that waters your salad. Twelve everyday moments, and the people behind them.
Explore the dayAbout this project
Some of the most ordinary moments in your day began as an idea in a lab, a kibbutz or a small office in Israel.
We follow one day, hour by hour, and stop at each moment to ask where the technology came from: who built it, where and when. Every story links to its sources.
- 12
- everyday moments, from 06:45 to 17:20
- 6
- areas of life, from food and water to health
- 1966
- the year the world's first commercial dripper was sold
- 4M+
- swallowable camera capsules sold
In focus
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Health
Swallowable camera
Instead of a tube and sedation, you swallow a capsule and go about your day while it photographs your gut. The idea came from Israeli engineer Gavriel Iddan.
Getting around
Crowd-sourced navigation
Every driver on the road becomes a traffic reporter for everyone else. That was the idea behind a free map of Israel that grew into Waze.
One day
A day, hour by hour
Each mark on the line is a moment below. Choose one to jump to it, or filter by area of life.
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Areas of everyday life
Sources
Each moment's full page lists the sources used for it.