During the last three weeks, I published
three blogs (here,
here
and here)
that rubbished the Israel BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions) idiots who
insist on shooting themselves in the foot by refusing any of Israel’s medical
innovations. I have just looked back at
what Israelis have been working on in all areas over the last three weeks and I
can hardly believe that so much has been achieved. So let me bring you up to date on just the medical and clean
technology advances.
In medical news, we heard that the
technique treating cancer conceived 30 years ago by Weizmann’s Zelig
Eshhar is now curing patients across the USA.
Other related Israeli innovations include:
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A medication to prevent women’s ovaries
being damaged during chemotherapy.
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A new probe with two cameras that can detect
cancerous polyps in the colon.
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A derivative of an Israeli mushroom
that appears to be effective
against pancreatic cancer.
Concerning the brain:
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Tel Aviv University researchers have
invented a gel and implant to repair
damaged nerves
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Ben Gurion University’s future CARES
center will boost its top research
into stress-related illness.
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Israel’s Reuth Center is using a
computerized shoe to teach people with brain damage how
to walk again.
Heart-warming news includes:
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Discovery at Hadassah Medical Center
of an
area of the body that can grow
new heart muscle tissue.
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An implant under development at
Israel’s MitrAssist that will fix
a leaky heart mitral valve.
Recent successful heart operations include:
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Rebuilding the chest to protect
the exposed heart of a baby born without a breastbone.
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Performing a
heart transplant on a 28-year-old Israeli-Arab – the oldest patient at
a children’s hospital.
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Save A Child’s
Heart doctors saved the life of a 4-year-old
Syrian girl born with only
one ventricle.
In medical research:
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Israeli biotech Cell Cure received a
government grant to help develop its macular
degeneration treatment.
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Scientists at the Israel’s Technion
have constructed an advanced
biological computer.
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Life Science guru Dr Ido Bachelet
demonstrated what Israel’s microscopic
robots can do.
In Agro-technology, Israel has been
innovating in order to benefit the world
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Israel’s Volcani Center has developed
processes to keep
fruit and vegetables fresh for months.
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Israeli firm Indolive is helping
farmers to grow
olives in the deserts of western India.
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Israeli start-up TIPA are expanding
production of their environmentally-friendly
food packaging.
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And the Hebrew University’s ran an
International Symposium on balancing
technical progress with health.
In Water technology:
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Israel’s Netafim, the pioneer of drip irrigation,
won the 2013 Stockholm
Industry Water Award.
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UK’s Anglia Water has bought an advanced
sewage treatment system from Israel’s Mapal
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23 Israeli companies presented their innovative
water products at “Wasser Berlin”
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IBM Israel announced new software to
interpret utility meter readings and sensors and detect
water leaks.
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And the Israeli water authority has opened
the Degania Dam to replenish
the flow of the Jordan River.
On the energy front:
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The Israeli government is subsidizing
the replacement of electric water heaters to solar
powered systems.
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1.8 trillion cubic feet of natural
gas has been discovered at the Karish prospect in Israeli territorial
waters.
In approximately three weeks time, we will
enter a sad period of the Jewish calendar known as “the three weeks”. Jewish
tradition says that the last day of the three weeks will one day turn into a
festival of celebration and usher in a new age of prosperity and peace.
I can’t wait.
Michael Ordman writes a free weekly
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