Food innovation is the next course in the storied U.S.-Israel partnership. Rutgers University’s Food Innovation Center and Tel-Hai College in Israel’s northern Galilee region recently announced the New Jersey-Israel Healthy, Functional, and Medical Food Alliance, a venture that will create synergies between start-ups and more established food businesses in America’s so-called “Garden State” and the Jewish state… The key players are Member of Knesset Erel Margalit (Labor), founder of the Jerusalem Venture Partners venture capital firm, and Lou Cooperhouse, director of the Rutgers Food Innovation Center and president of the New Jersey Business Incubation Network… For students and faculty, a memo of understanding signed by Rutgers and Tel-Hai on Sept. 18 supports research collaboration, entrepreneurship education, exchange programs, and experiential learning. Israeli businesses will get access to incubation opportunities at the Rutgers Food Innovation Center and assistance in finding partners for joint ventures.