Highlights:
- Technion scientists have made artificial skin that is sensitive to touch, temperature and humidity.
- The latest Pillcam internal camera is giving new life to Crohn’s sufferers.
- 1 million Palestinian Arabs visited Israel during Ramadan.
- Weizmann scientists have built microscopic wires for more powerful microchips.
- Israeli crops are “the solution to the world food crisis”
- IBM has bought its 13th Israeli company.
- Emotional Israeli reunion for 10 Yemenite children and their parents.
Another successful exit for an Israeli startup as IBM acquires Israeli data security company Trusteer and announces a new software lab in Israel. Though financial details of the transaction were not released, reports cite the deal in the vicinity of $630 million up to $1 billion.
IBM says it will form a cybersecurity software lab in Israel that will bring together more than 200 Trusteer and IBM researchers and developers to focus on mobile and application security, advanced threat, malware, counter-fraud, and financial crimes. This lab is an addition to IBM’s existing research and development facilities in Israel.
When Sergeant Brandon Berry made aliyah (immigrated to Israel), he did not come looking for the easy life. If he wanted that, he would not have left his hometown of Potomac, Maryland to serve in the army of a foreign country half a world away from his family.
Sgt. Berry also was not looking for an easy job in the IDF – he wanted to serve wherever he was most needed. He wanted to take his talent and drive with him to contribute one hundred percent.
Sgt. Berry passed all the tests to serve in the prestigious Paratroopers Brigade. Instead the American immigrant took to the sea as a member of the Israel Navy’s Dvora-class patrol boat squadron.
Since the 1930s, Israelis — my Sabra mother included — would quench their summertime thirsts with a sunshine-colored beverage known as Mitz Paz. The name literally means “Golden Juice” and indeed, Mitz Paz came in two hues from the spectrum: orange-y and yellow-white grapefruit-ish.
The likeness was purely visual, however, for when it came to flavor, Mitz Paz bore little resemblance to the orange and grapefruit juices we children knew back in the USA. It tasted strange to us, sickly sweet and artificial. What can I say? We couldn’t stand the stuff.
The PBS promotional video for the documentary series POV declares, “The most interesting films are films that take very strong points of view and bang them up against each other.” By that definition, two of the POV documentaries scheduled this season are not interesting at all, presenting only one point of view – the anti-Israel point of view.
Extravagantly hued sea slugs have become a drawing card for international divers to the shores of Eilat. Unlike their land counterparts, these soft-bodied mollusks in mesmerizing shapes are fanciful and fascinating, sporting intricate patterns on their backs.
The slugs, of course, are just one of the Red Sea’s underwater attractions for divers. The Gulf of Aqaba – with coastlines along Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Jordan – is world-famous for its marine biodiversity and corals.
The only thing talks between Iran and the world’s powers have achieved until now is buy Tehran more time, Israeli officials said Sunday, following EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton’s comment that the P5+1 group is eager to restart the talks.
“We are skeptical in the extreme,” one official said of a new round of talks. He said there was no hope the talks would help “unless the Iranians feel the pressure is being upgraded.”
A promising new ligament implant from Israel is now entering the market, kicking months of recovery time off any current treatment.
Inspired by stents, the device is developed by the five-year-old Israeli company Tavor. The Knee-T-Nol implant is made from a metal and titanium alloy, Nitinol, and looks a little like a dart.
When implanted laparoscopically through three small incisions, the flexible metallic tubing works to anchor the knee to its upper and lower bones, while providing strength, support and ligament-like freedom of movement almost immediately.
A cartoon circulating on social media depicting the US and Israel as Death knocking on the Middle East and Egypt’s doors
An Iranian legislator accused Israel and the US Saturday of plotting to instigate widespread crises and instability within Islamic countries by operating and funding double agent militias in regions throughout the Middle East.
Israeli medical device startup Elfi-Tech has been chosen as one of 12 finalists in the $2.25 million Nokia Sensing XCHALLENGE, a global competition aimed at revolutionizing digital healthcare. The contest is comprised of two competitions that are designed to accelerate the development of sensing technologies that capture meaningful data about a consumer’s health state, surrounding environment, and risk of developing a health condition.
JERUSALEM — As Egypt is convulsed by a quasi-civil war, Israel is urging the international community—and particularly Washington—to ease its pressures on the military-backed government in Cairo in order to avert chaos.
“The name of the game right now is not democracy,” an Israeli official told the Jerusalem Post yesterday. “After you put Egypt back on track, then talk about restarting the democratic process there.”
All human lives are worth saving – so the IDF teaches its soldiers. Israeli and Palestinian, Jew and non-Jew, soldier and civilian, in Israel and across the world. It doesn’t matter. When there is a person in need, the IDF will be there. Whether they are needed to provide emergency medical care, perform a daring rescue operation or evacuate survivors from under the rubble of a collapsed building – our soldiers will drop everything in order to save a life.
Why? The IDF’s code of ethics holds protecting human life and dignity as a supreme value. In the words of Sgt. Idan Ducach, who donated his bone marrow to save a young boy’s life, “if you save one life, its as if you saved an entire world.”
A photo of a friendly embrace between Egyptian intelligence official General Amir al Damogy and Israeli counterpart General Assaf Orion was posted by popular Arab social media accounts over the weekend, enraging online readers who objected to the high-level collaboration between the armed forces of the two countries, which one Facebook page declared as “traitorous.”
Last week 17 Yemenite Jews were brought to Israel in a covert operation similar to Operation Magic Carpet. The new citizens of Israel were rescued after increasing security threats and anti-Semitic incidents in Yemen.
“Jewish Agency chairman Natan Sharansky said: “Tonight we are privileged to engage in a mission that combined the saving of lives, the reunification of a family and immigration to Israel.”
The Tamarod (rebellion) movement, a grassroots effort to register opposition to now-deposed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi and force him to call early elections, helped launch the July 2013 protests in Egypt, which preceded the consequent military removal of Morsi. The same group is now demanding that Egypt sever ties with Israel as part of a wider campaign seeking to end dependence on U.S. aid, in light of recent sanctions imposed by Washington on the Egyptian army.
The following is a collection of words of endearment regarding the Jews and the State of Israel from our fine friends at the Palestinian Authority and their cohorts.Also included are some ideas from our friends the Obama administration and the EU, aka the “Peace Brokers”
In the words of comedian Russell Peters: “I don’t make the stereotypes, I just seem them”
In order to view this fine collection of videos of Palestinian “peace partners” discussing their views of “peace”, go to the link.