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MY E-PAL MICHAEL ORDMAN TOILS ALONE IN A SEA OF BAD NEWS AND BAD PUBLICITY FOR ISRAEL. PLEASE SPREAD THIS NEWS FAR AND WIDE. ISRAEL ENDURES THE JIHADIST HATRED OF ITS NEIGHBORS AND THE LIBELS AND SLANDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA. NO NATION IN THE WORLD, UNDER SUCH DURESS ACCOMPLISHES WHAT ISRAEL DOES…READ ABOUT THEM…RSK
In the 22nd July edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
· Israeli biotechnology instructs a patient’s own body to make proteins to cure disease.
· Israel ran a summer camp for sick children from Gaza and the Palestinian Authority.
· An Israeli runway debris detection system received Federal Aviation Administration approval.
· A June record of a quarter of million tourists visited Israel last month.
· An accident changed an unfit executive into a top Israeli paralympic athlete.
· Israel is to return the final remnant of the Ethiopian Jewish community to the Jewish State.
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
“It’s not a product – it’s an industry”. Israeli biotech Medgenics’ CEO said its Biopump technology has the potential to “start a whole new pharmaceutical industry”. Medgenics’ technology manipulates patients’ own tissue to produce proteins to fight diseases, eliminating the need for hundreds of vaccines.
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/31070/medgenics-demonstrates-biopump-technology-potential-as-it-enters-inflection-point-31070.html
A deal to fight cancer. Israeli biotech BioView’s cancer scanning systems will be integrated with French company ScreenCell’s technology to isolate rare tumour cells. The combined solution will improve diagnosis and speed up medical decisions about the best treatment options.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764005&fid=1725
Smoking restricted. Israel has introduced an extensive expansion of laws to prohibit smoking in public spaces in Israel, including central bus stations, covered bus stops, train platforms, government offices, hospital entrances and doorways, places of worship, swimming pools, theatres, restaurants and cafes.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?ID=276875&R=R1
New heart valve centre. US biotech ValCare is to open a centre in Israel to develop a heart valve repair device. The mitral annuloplasty device is implanted using a catheter, thus avoiding open-heart surgery. It prevents mitral valve regurgitation (blood flowing backwards into the heart) affecting 4 million US citizens.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764830
PillCam gets approval in Japan. Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has issued reimbursement codes for Israel’s Given Imaging internal camera, so that it can be used as a first line tool in diagnoses.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764944&fid=1725
Advanced medical clowning. (Thanks to Israel21c) Some of the world’s leading experts participated in the first Advanced Medical Clowning International Summer Seminar at the University of Haifa. Israel is a leader in professionalizing the field of medical clowning and providing scientific evidence for its effectiveness.
http://israel21c.org/news/haifa-hosts-first-international-medical-clowning-seminar/
The fifties are the most productive. A study by University of Haifa researchers has shown that white-collar workers show their “highest level of professional vitality” between the ages of 50 and 60. That’s really good news for one 55-year-old newsletter editor.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=276873
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
28,212 tons of goods enter Gaza. Despite rockets from Gaza terrorists, Israel brings humanitarian aid into the terrorist mini-state. Over 1000 trucks carried in over 28,000 tons of merchandise each week. Hundreds of Palestinian Arab medical patients, musicians and athletes were allowed to enter Israel.
http://www.idf.il/1283-16491-en/Dover.aspx
http://www.idf.il/1283-16481-en/Dover.aspx
Summer camp for PA kids with cancer. 24 sick Palestinian Arab children (including from Gaza) along with their parents spent four days of fun, financed by Israel’s Civil Administration, in the Jordan Park (run by JNF).
http://www.cogat.idf.il/901-10291-en/Cogat.aspx
Masters for Arza Haddad. The daughter of the late Head of the South Lebanese Army, Saad Haddad, has just graduated from Israel’s Technion with a Masters degree in Aeronautics. Arza fled from Lebanon in 1984.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/from-lebanese-refugee-to-israeli-rocket-scientist/
Charities benefit from Israeli start-ups. Israeli non-profit organisation Tmura has contributed $6.3 million to over 100 educational programs since it started ten years ago. Tmura receives a few share options from early-stage Israeli start-ups and then exercises these options if and when the start-ups are taken over.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/08/tmura/
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Clearing runways can save life. FODetect from Israel’s Xsight uses hybrid radar and electro optical technology to detect junk on runways. The system can prevent incidents such as when an Air France Concorde hit Foreign Object Debris (FOD) from a previous flight, caught fire and crashed, killing 113 people.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-system-keeps-runways-clean-and-planes-safe/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eWUim5agoGE
An exhibition for inventors. Tel Aviv is hosting the first of its kind Israeli Patents Exhibition in September. It intends to put 10,000 Israeli and foreign inventors, investors, patent attorneys, mechanical engineers and computer programmers in the same room and turn good ideas into actual products.
http://israel21c.org/technology/have-an-invention-meet-an-investor-in-israel/
http://www.eng.nufar.co.il/PAGE60.asp
Yeshiva University scientists at Bar Ilan. 30 male and female undergraduate YU science majors will spend seven weeks of the summer carrying out their research in Bar Ilan University’s state-of-the-art laboratories in Tel Aviv.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/156832
New York to import Israeli tech culture. Good video clip summarising Israel Technion’s involvement in the building of New York’s Technion Cornell Innovation Institute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-va_ncrYWes&feature=youtu.be
Star of tomorrow. The magazine Scientific American has featured 28-year-old Israeli physicist Eldad Kepten in its “30 under 30” list of future possible Nobel Laureates. Kepten’s speciality is the stochastic dynamics of chromatin (DNA) in the cellular nucleus with advanced microscopy and single particle tracking. Wonderful!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lindau-eldad-kepten
We can rebuild it. In 2005, an Israeli F16 plane crashed on landing. The front was completely shattered, its tail was broken, the wings were curved, and the engine was filled with mud. Seven years later, the plane has been repaired and the original pilot and navigator took it back into the air.
http://www.idf.il/1283-16466-en/Dover.aspx
Military device to save lives. Tel Aviv-based Netline Communications Technologies has made one of the smallest jammers ever for stopping improvised explosive devices (IEDs). It was made after a NATO country for a “handball sized” jammer that elite units like Special Forces could carry in an urban operation.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/israeli-tech/
For landing on the Moon. Dozens of volunteers are working to turn Israel into the fifth country in the world, to have landed spacecraft on the moon. The team presented a model of the tiny space vehicle at a meeting of the Knesset Science and Technology Committee’s subcommittee on space.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=277029
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Another record for tourism to Israel. Nearly a quarter of a million tourists visited the Jewish State in June. 1.4 million tourists arrived in Israel during the first half of 2012. Both figures are up 6% on 2011 equivalents.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764111&fid=1725
The world invests in Israel. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow to Israel totalled $11.37 billion in 2011, 106% more than the $5.51 billion in 2010.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000763929&fid=1725
EU & Israel sign joint research agreement. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with visiting European Union President José Manuel Barroso in Jerusalem on Monday to oversee the signing of a new water and energy cooperation deal on technological development.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-meets-with-eu-president-signs-joint-research-agreement/
Singapore shows off Israeli water technology. A delegation of 13 Israeli water technology companies are exhibiting at Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) 2012. Specialities include purification, advanced filtering, transport infrastructure, biological monitoring, and energy-efficient desalination solutions.
http://www.israelnewtech.com/2012/07/singapore-welcomes-israeli-water-technology-companies-at-siww2012/
Waze reaches 20 million customers. The navigation app from Israel’s Waze has been downloaded by millions of Americans, Europeans and Israelis. Muslim Malaysia has 600,000 subscribers. Waze is now targeting Japan, Korea and China.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000763278&fid=1724
US fibre optics firm sees Red. US Fibre optic communications giant Finisar has bought up Israel’s RED-C Optical Networks Inc. RED-C was founded in 2000 and has over 140 employees, all of whom are located in Israel.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-07-03/finisar-to-buy-red-c-optical-for-at-least-23-dot-7m
Phillips has a healthy future in Israel. Phillips CEO met with Israeli President Shimon Peres following his visit to Phillips’ 600-employee development team in Haifa. Peres said, “Phillips occupies a central place in Israel’s high-tech industry”.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244406
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764097&fid=1725
Recharging Australia’s cars. Better Place Inc. has teamed up with Australia carmaker GM Holden Ltd. to provide battery recharging services and equipment for the Volt electric car. Customers who choose to install a Better Place Charge Spot can charge their Volt in under four hours.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764368&fid=1725
ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT
Groovideo puts your family video together. (Thanks to NoCamels) Israeli Startup Groovideo’s application and web based service allows you and your friends to produce different clips for the same film simultaneously in easy steps. You upload all the clips and Groovideo combines all the segments into one final video.
http://nocamels.com/2012/07/startup-groovideo-edits-group-videos-into-simple-films/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4qlb0lD4kg&feature=player_embedded
Your TV knows your taste. Israel’s Jinny is a discovery engine for your TV. It suggests programs that match your taste and mood. It has now teamed up with Swisscom for integration into On Demand and live TV.
http://www.embassyofisrael.co.uk/commercial/2012/07/10/swisscom-teams-up-with-israels-jinni-to-bring-semantic-discovery-to-live-tv-vod-subscribers/
A blue & white send-off for Israel’s athletes. (Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s Olympic and Paralympic teams had a gala send-off at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. The 38 Olympians and 25 Paralympians began spontaneously to sing the song “All the world is a very narrow bridge, and the main thing is not to be afraid.”
http://israel21c.org/culture/a-blue-and-white-sendoff-for-israels-athletes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-blue-and-white-sendoff-for-israels-athletes
Before the accident he was a couch potato. (Thanks to Israel21c) Until a crippling motorcycle accident in 1999, Israeli high-tech exec Nati Gruberg was a paunchy couch potato. He jokes that he barely lifted a finger. In August, he’ll be one of three Israeli handcyclists heading to the London Paralympic Games.
http://israel21c.org/people/israels-no-1-handcyclist-heads-to-the-paralympics/
