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NoCamels is the leading news website covering Israeli innovation for a global audience, with a focus on technology, science and climate.

Sponsored by the Asper Foundation and part of the Asper Institute for New Media Diplomacy, NoCamels was co-founded in 2011 by Prof. Noam Lemelshtrich Latar, founding Dean of the Sammy Ofer School of Communications, and journalist and author Anouk Lorie.

Managed by executive director Rona Zahavi and editor-in-chief John Jeffay, NoCamels brings together talented students from Reichman University with peers from partner universities around the world for an immersive journalism experience.

Over the past year, the NoCamels.com website has had more than 1.4 million unique visitors, over three million page views, as well as millions more on social media, partner websites and newsletters.

One viral story was an article titled ‘No Wires, No Electricity: World’s First Nitrogen-Powered Air Con’, which covered a company that invented an environmentally friendly outdoor air-conditioning unit. Within its first week on the NoCamels website, the story amassed 528,000 page views and has garnered more than 1.2 million page views to this day.

Other interesting articles over the past year include the miracle deprinter that literally wipes ink off a page, allowing paper to be used again and again. Among the hundreds of articles published by NoCamels in that time period was one about a social entrepreneur from Israel who helps women in Africa beat poverty by teaching them the skills to grow mushrooms. In other viral coverage, NoCamels published stories about Israeli “tech on a truck”, the mobile water treatment plants that could help India’s waste water crisis, and a feature showcasing the world’s first all-electric airplane

NoCamels’ mini-hackathon held in January in collaboration with the Digital Influence Perceptions (DIP) specialization at the School of Communications, including the public diplomacy program, was created with the goal of getting students to come up with realistic campaigns to expand the reach and impact of NoCamels’ website. The winning team will get to execute their campaign alongside the NoCamels team, and see it put into action.