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The nation needs MIchael Davis in D.C: Juggling Comedian Michael Davis - Tonight Show With Johnny Carson
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Bari attacks Bibi. (See 1 below.)
And:
How Tlaib and Omar planned their trip. (See 1a below.)
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Psychology has a lot to do with economics. In America consumers represent about 2/3rds of GDP. There is no strong basis for believing we are heading for a recession in the next 12 months but certainly those who hate Trump and want to defeat him have begun the drum beat that we are heading for one.
No doubt the rest of the world's economy is slowing and certainly China is holding out for a better trade deal as they apply pressure on Trump through farm purchase cutbacks and Pelosi is holding up passage of trade legislation that would be beneficial for America.
https://www.realclearpolitics.
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Selena Zito talks about replacing: "...religion, civic responsibility, education, and volunteerism — with communities online that give us a false sense of power,,," (See 2 below.)
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Welcome to California: https://www.wsj.com/articles/
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Ordman and Israel/ (See 3 edited below.)
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King Bibi Bows Before a Tweet
After Trump cowed the Israeli leader into reversing course on Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, the biggest loser was Israel itself.
By Bari Weiss
Ms. Weiss is an Op-Ed staff editor and writer. Her first book, “How to Fight Anti-Semitism,” will be published in September
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel sees himself as a modern incarnation of Winston Churchill. He alone is capable of forecasting the gathering global storm and, like the great Englishman, able to “mobilize the English language and send it into battle,” as he tried to do in 2015, when he sidestepped an American president he despised to speak powerfully to Congress about the Iranian threat.
So it was quite something to watch yesterday as Bibi played the appeaser.
All it took was fewer than 240 characters from the bully in the Oval Office: “It would show great weakness if Israel allowed Rep. Omar and Rep. Tlaib to visit. They hate Israel & all Jewish people, & there is nothing that can be said or done to change their minds,” President Trump tweeted. “Minnesota and Michigan will have a hard time putting them back in office. They are a disgrace!”
The Israeli government had already publicly announced that it was going to allow the staunchly anti-Israel congresswomen into the country later this month. As the Israeli ambassador, Ron Dermer, wisely put it in July: “Out of respect for the U.S. Congress and the great alliance between Israel and America, we would not deny entry to any member of Congress into Israel.”
This was the sound logic of a secure state exercising smart diplomacy toward its most important ally.
But on Thursday, the government of Benjamin Netanyahu knelt before a tweet.
Hours after Trump suggested it would show “great weakness” for Israel to allow Representatives Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan into the country, Israel showed actual weakness when it reversed course, announcing that it would bar the two Democratic
congresswomen from entry. (On Friday the Israeli government said that it would allow Ms. Tlaib to enter on humanitarian grounds, to visit her 90-year-old grandmother. She declined.)
I have strong feelings about the noxious views of Ms. Omar and Ms. Tlaib. I believe that the B.D.S. movement, which both women support and which, crucially, is not about ending the occupation but about denying Jews the right to self-determination anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, is anti-Semitism in hip, new clothes.
That the congresswomen’s own widely circulated agenda billed itself not as a trip to Israel, but as a “U.S. Congressional Delegation to Palestine” says it all. If they really wanted to learn about Israelis and Palestinians they could have easily joined the 41 Democrats and 31 Republicans who traveled to Israel this month on the largest bipartisan congressional trip ever.
The rest of the sordid details of their trip leave no illusions about its purpose. It was, according to the Israeli government, being underwritten by Miftah, an organization that has proudly praised female suicide bombers and pushed the medieval blood libel.
I am also aware that Israel is a sovereign state, and like any sovereign state, has the right to bar visitors entry. Tablet’s Liel Leibovitz points out that as recently as 2008 — never mind the 1950s, when it refused entry to Menachem Begin — Britain barred the fanatical Israel politician Moshe Feiglin from entering. I get it.
But even if you put the issue of Israel’s values to the side — that the country has long prided itself on being a bastion of liberalism in a decidedly illiberal region — from a purely strategic perspective, this was a disaster.
Consider who came out strengthened from this episode.
The obvious winner is Donald Trump, of course, who tweeted after Israel announced its flip- flop that “Representatives Omar and Tlaib are the face of the Democrat Party, and they HATE Israel!” Here, nakedly expressed, was his actual goal: Not to protect an American ally from politicians traveling in bad faith, but to yoke mainstream Democrats to their political fringe, as he has been doing, very effectively, for weeks.
Joining him in the winners’ circle are Ms. Omar and Ms. Tlaib. Say Israel had allowed them, per the original plan, to visit. The upshot would have been a week of bad headlines. But Israel has gotten that tenfold anyway, and the congresswomen managed to come out looking like martyrs.
The losers? Pretty much everyone else.
First, the Democrats, who now have even less motivation to marginalize their anti-Israel fringe and, when they eventually come to power, little incentive to stick their necks out for the Jewish state.
Second, American Jews. It’s a rare day when Jewish conservatives call me to swear about Bibi. More than one did so on Thursday. Meantime, many mainstream American Jewish organizations, including Aipac, the pro-Israel lobbying group, and the American Jewish Committee, issued rare statements criticizing Israel.
Which brings us to the biggest loser of all: The Jewish state. What happened Thursday is going to do so much long-term damage to the bipartisan commitment to Israel. The country has become a partisan wedge in American politics — and that ultimately hurts Israel itself.
The erudite Israeli prime minister has surely read the work of Andrew Roberts, Churchill’s master biographer. The historian has noted that Churchill, in his very, very long career, “never once publicly criticized the United States or the American people.” Indeed, “in all of his 16 visits to the United States between 1895 and 1961, with eight as prime minister and almost half of them after 1945, he studiously confined himself to public expressions of support and approbation.”
In private, as Roberts discovered, it was a different story. But in public, Churchill always stuck by the advice he gave his cabinet the day he resigned, in 1955: “Never be separated from the Americans.”
There is a lesson here for Netanyahu. He and his aides are clearly of the view that the Corbynization of the Democratic Party is well underway. Likely they think it’s already lost. But one of the messages of Churchill’s life is to never, ever give up on a just cause. Making sure that Americans remain overwhelmingly pro-Israel is one worth fighting for. And in his craven attempt to cozy up to the most powerful American of the moment, the Israeli prime minister is actively separating his country from so many more.
1a) Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib Partnered with Vicious Anti-Semites to Plan Their Trip to Israel
By David French
To the extent that I care at all about Israel blocking entry to two U.S. congresswomen who partner with anti-Semites who seek its destruction, I agree with critics who argue that Bibi Netanyahu should not appear to bow to Donald Trump’s tweeted demands and that blocking Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar from visiting Israel handed them a short-term propaganda victory. But that’s not the most important part of the story.
The most important element of the story is the fact that two American congresswomen shunned a bipartisan congressional delegation to Israel to go on an independent trip to Israel sponsored by vicious anti-Semites. Another important element of the story is that, as of today, the mainstream media have whitewashed Omar and Tlaib’s vile associations.
Writing yesterday, the Washington Post said that “Omar and Tlaib’s trip to Jerusalem and the West Bank was planned by Miftah, a nonprofit organization headed by Palestinian lawmaker and longtime peace negotiator Hanan Ashrawi.” The New York Times described it as an organization “headed by a longtime Palestinian lawmaker.” In its editorial, the New York Times editorial board identified it as a group “that promotes ‘global awareness and knowledge of Palestinian realities.’”
This is a whitewash. Thanks to a Twitter thread from the Washington Examiner’s Seth Mandel — who pointed to multiple additional sources — I started looking at the articles and views published on the Miftah website, and it was like peeling an onion of evil. There was layer upon layer of vile anti-Semitism.
First, the group actually published blood libel, posting an article that accused “the Jews [of using] the blood of Christians in the Jewish Passover.” When pro-Israel bloggers condemned the article, Miftah first claimed that the attacks against the piece were part of a “smear campaign” and minimized the reference to blood libel as merely “briefly addressed.”
It was just a light sprinkling of blood libel. Move along, nothing to see here.
The organization later issued a more complete apology, but we’ve barely gotten started with this vile group. It’s also published an American neo-Nazi treatise called “Who Rules America: The Alien Grip on Our News and Entertainment Media Must Be Broken” (archived here).
As Vox’s Jane Coaston explained, “the original source was National Vanguard, a neo-Nazi group founded in 2005 in Charlottesville by members of the National Alliance.” The National Alliance “was for a time the best financed and best organized white nationalist group in America.” And to give you a sense of its ideology, here are two paragraphs from the treatise:
The Jew-controlled entertainment media have taken the lead in persuading a whole generation that homosexuality is a normal and acceptable way of life; that there is nothing at all wrong with White women dating or marrying Black men, or with White men marrying Asian women; that all races are inherently equal in ability and character — except that the character of the White race is suspect because of a history of oppressing other races; and that any effort by Whites at racial self-preservation is reprehensible.We must oppose the further spreading of this poison among our people, and we must break the power of those who are spreading it. It would be intolerable for such power to be in the hands of any alien minority, with values and interests different from our own. But to permit the Jews, with their 3,000-year history of nation-wrecking, from ancient Egypt to Russia, to hold such power over us is tantamount to race suicide. Indeed, the fact that so many White Americans today are so filled with a sense of racial guilt and self-hatred that they actively seek the death of their own race is a deliberate consequence of Jewish media control.
I look forward to hearing apologists argue that these statements are merely critiques of “Israeli policies.”
But that’s not all, not by a long shot. The group celebrates terrorists, including an evil woman who helped murder 13 Israeli children. In an article titled “Let Us Honor Our Own,” a Miftah contributor describes Dalal Al Mughrabi as “a Palestinian fighter who was killed during a military operation against Israel in 1978” and as one of the Palestinian people’s “national heroes.”
The so-called “military operation” is more widely known as the “Coastal Road Massacre,” a bus hijacking that resulted in the deaths of 38 Israeli civilians, including 13 children.
Al Mughrabi is hardly the only terrorist Miftah celebrates. It described female suicide bomber Wafa Idrees as the “the beginning of a string of Palestinian women dedicated to sacrificing their lives for the cause.” It singles out for recognition Hanadi Jaradat, a woman who blew herself up in a restaurant, killing 21 people (including four children).
The founder of Miftah herself, Ms. Ashrawi, excused jihadist violence by telling an interviewer that “you cannot somehow adopt the language of either the international community or the occupier by describing anybody who resists as terrorist.”
And of course Miftah published an article asking whether Israel was a proper homeland for the Jewish people:
Under the heading "Is Israel the Only Possible Homeland for Jews?", this article questioning the appropriateness of Israel as the location of a Jewish homeland was posted by Miftah, one of the sponsors of the proposed Tlaib/Omar visit to Israel:https://t.co/KX1PwrZGy1 pic.twitter.com/eMPOfhopYQ— Jeryl Bier (@JerylBier) August 16, 2019
I can keep going, but the evidence above should be sufficient to establish the truth. It would and should be a national scandal if GOP congressmen intended to partner with white nationalists during a visit overseas. It should be a national scandal that members of the American government intended to partner with vicious anti-Semites on their own propaganda tour.
After its thunderous denunciations of Bibi Netanyahu and Donald Trump, will pundits, editorial boards, and reporters take a look at the scandal hiding in plain sight? Will they hold Tlaib and Omar accountable for their vile associations? Now is a good time to demonstrate their commitment to reporting on the full context of international disputes and exposing one of the world’s oldest hatreds. We shall see how they respond.
David French is a senior writer for National Review, a senior fellow at the National Review Institute, and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom. @DavidAFrench
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Best regards and Shalom.
Michael
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In the 18th Aug 19 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
A nano-vaccine for melanoma. Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a novel nano-vaccine for melanoma (skin cancer) that has proved effective in laboratory tests. Tiny particles made of bio-degradable polymer were packed with two “safe” cancer-expressed peptides for the body to develop immunity against.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.nature.com/
New test for Alzheimer’s. The SRY subsidiary of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center has developed Vizamyl, a radioactive agent that can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Used in a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan, it estimates amyloid neuritic plaque density in the brain - the main indication of Alzheimer’s.
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-
Good results for anti-radiation vaccine. I reported previously (see here) on the PLX-R18 stem cell treatment for radiation sickness from Israel’s Pluristem. Animal trials by the US Department of Defense demonstrated that PLX-R18, administered before and after radiation exposure increased survival rates by 46-70%.
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-
US approval for antibacterial dental fillings. I reported previously (Aug 2018)about Israel’s Nobio and its nano-polymer that causes bacteria to die immediately on contact. Nobio has just received FDA approval to market its antibacterial material for dental fillings.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Agreement for psoriasis treatment. I reported previously (see here) on the small molecule treatments from Israel’s Can-Fite for psoriasis, liver and inflammatory diseases, and cancer. Can-Fite AND South Korea-based Kyongbo have just signed a distribution agreement for Can-Fite’s psoriasis treatment Piclidenoson (CF101).
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Innovation hub for hi-tech medicine. Israel’s Innovation Authority and the National Digital Israel Initiative are setting up an innovation hub dedicated to computational biology, digital health, pharmaceuticals, and artificial intelligence. They are asking for bids worth up to NIS 32 million to build the hub.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Ultrasound skin therapy. Israeli startup SofWave Medical is developing non-invasive ultrasound technology for skin tightening. It targets specific layers of skin to reduce wrinkles and has received CE (European) approval. SofWave has just raised $8.4 million of funding. https://alon-medtech.com/
https://www.prnewswire.com/
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Facial recognition of genetic diseases. Israeli-founded FDNA has developed artificial intelligence to detect physiological patterns (phenotypes) that reveal disease-causing genetic variations. With one of the fastest growing and most comprehensive genomic databases, FDNA is changing the game for precision medicine.
https://www.fdna.com/
First response training for medics in Chile. (TY Hazel) Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom is helping to train municipal security personnel as first responders to medical emergencies in the Chilean capital Santiago. It is in preparation for Chile hosting two major international conferences at the end of the year.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Israeli-Druze officer saves Jordanian boy. (TY Hazel) Kalai Housam Tarif, an Israeli Prison Officer of the Druze community, donated half of his liver to an unrelated eight-year-old boy from Jordan. Surgeons at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petach Tikvah transplanted around half of Tarif’s liver to save the boy.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Hi-tech co-existence. (TY UWI & TPS) Nazareth- based NGT (Next Generation Technology) serves as an incubator for 19 innovative life science and medical technology companies. It also has a social agenda – to bring Arab and Jewish entrepreneurs together to work in the same environment and achieve startup success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
UK ambassador’s strong links to Israel. Britain’s new ambassador to Israel, Neil Wigan, presented his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin. He revealed that he first met his wife Yael in Israel on a previous posting in 2002. Also, his grandfather was the commander of British forces that liberated Bergen-Belsen.
https://jewishnews.
Best foot forward. When Israel played Kenya in the 2019 Women's Lacrosse U19 World Championships, they saw that the Kenyans were wearing sneakers instead of lacrosse cleats (shoes with special studs). The next day, the Israelis presented each Kenyan with her own pair of cleats.
https://nairobinews.nation.co.
Marine science exchange program. Israel is to host 27 graduate students from 24 US institutions as part of the Limnology and Oceanography Research Exchange (LOREX) program. Students will study at the University of Haifa’s marine sciences school and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Huge delegation of House Reps visits Israel. 72 members of the US Congress (over 15% of the entire House of Representatives) came to Israel on concurrent Republican and Democrat trips to get a firsthand view of the challenges Israel faces and to express unconditional, bipartisan support for the Jewish state.
https://www.jns.org/in-
Improving air safety in the US. Israel’s giant IT company NICE has just won a $137 million order from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help it improve the safety of air transportation in over 770 sites. NICE’s tools will enable faster incident response and greater visibility into incident data.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Israel leads international tsunami drill. Israel's navy has been leading a major training exercise involving 11 countries in preparation for an expected earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Greece, France and the US were in the main participants based at Haifa port, supported by Germany, Italy, Canada, Chile, Cyprus and others.
https://www.ynetnews.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Amos 17 satellite launched. Israel’s Spacecom’s Amos-17 satellite (see here)was successfully launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Great youtube videos.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
A satellite to help understand the universe. Israel’s Weizmann Institute and the Israel Space Agency are to build ULTRASAT - a next-generation satellite with a telescope that will observe the universe in UV light. It will investigate black holes, neutron stars, stars with possible habitable planets and much more.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/
Data from the Sun. I reported previously (see here) on the CMOS image sensor from Israel’s TowerJazz aboard the NASA Parker Solar Probe. The high-resolution images of the Sun’s corona taken during the first two fly-pasts have exceeded all expectations. A third encounter with the Sun will take place imminently.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Bible is a jewel. I reported previously (see here) when scientists from Israel’s Technion Institute produced a Hebrew Bible the size of a sugar grain. Now Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and Tanaor Jewelry have embedded a nano-sized Bible into a jewel that can be worn around the neck.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The origin of Israel’s desert water. Researchers from Israel’s Ben Gurion University have used radio-krypton dating to map the history of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer system, which lies beneath Israel’s Negev desert. It has also identified the climate conditions that produced it thousands of years ago.
https://aabgu.org/krypton-
Construction technology saves lives. (TY Itai) There have been many preventable deaths and injuries at construction sites. SafetyFirst, Safeguard, SiteAware, SiteWatch and INTSITE are just five Israeli startups helping to prevent work-related accidents. It’s the first appearance in my newsletter for all of these.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.
https://en.safeguard.co.il/
https://www.intsite-ai.com/
A better future for plastic. Rotem Shemesh is Head of Research at Israel’s Carmel Olefins. She is developing plastic that are easier to recycle. Another product is antimicrobial plastic packaging to prolong the shelf life of food. And she is determined to remove the plastic particles responsible for that “new car smell”.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Duckweed is a superfood. BGU researchers have determined that Mankai, a high-protein aquatic plant strain of duckweed, has significant potential as a superfood. It provides glycemic control needed after carbohydrate consumption. After two weeks, participants had much better glucose levels and felt more full.
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Unique drone technology. This video features six innovative Israeli drone technology startups. I’ve featured five of them previously, except for Civdorne, which develops a device that turns drones into land surveying, measuring, and marking machines for construction sites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Eco-friendly vines. Israeli agronomist and viticulturalist, Michal Akerman, has worked with the Society for the Preservation of Nature in Israel to make the vines at her Tabor vinyards friendlier to biodiversity. Her efforts have encouraged storks, otters, lizards, rabbits, chameleons and wild boar to return to the area.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Direct flights from Dallas. (TY Janglo) American Airlines is launching a non-stop service from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas to Tel Aviv. The 3-flights-a-week operation will commence in Sep 2020 and will be American Airlines’ first direct service to Israel since 2015.
https://www.israelhayom.com/
Summer jobs lead to hi-tech careers. During the summer months, many Israeli hi-tech companies offer 10-week paid internship programs to the children of their employees. The students receive practical experience, while the company gets highly motivated temporary workers for little recruitment cost.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Emigration from Israel at record low. The number of Israelis moving abroad fell to the lowest level in more than three decades. Since 2002, emigration has fallen by half, from 27,300 emigrants in 2002 to 14,300 in 2017. Returning Israelis and new immigrants results in a net increase in Israel of over 22,000 citizens in 2017.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
Billion-dollar exit for Clicksoftware. (TY WIN) US software giant Salesforce.com has already acquired several Israeli startups and some 500 of their employees. But its latest $1.35 billion takeover of Israel’s workforce management software startup Clicksoftware, and its 700 employees, dwarfs all of them.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Corindus exits for $1.1 billion. I reported previously (Oct 2014) on Israeli-founded Corindus Vascular Robotics and its robotic-assisted medical devices for groundbreaking catheterizations. Now, German medtech company Siemens Healthineers is acquiring Corindus, and its 100 employees, for approximately $1.1 billion.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Another $200 million for Cybereason. I reported previously (see here) on Israel’s Cybereason, which uses AI and big data analytics to protect a company’s endpoints. In two years, Cybereason has tripled its customer base and now protects 6 million endpoints. Japan’s Softbank has just led a $200 million investment in Cybereason.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
Over one thousand backers for ALS therapy developer. I reported previously (Mar 2017) on Israel’s NeuroSense, which is developing a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). NeuroSense has just raised NIS 4 million from over 1,100 backers in a crowdfunding campaign.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
FAA approves food deliveries by drone. I reported previously (Sep 2017)when Israel’s Flytrex began commercial food deliveries by drone to customers in Iceland. Now, the US Federal Aviation Administration has given approval to Flytrex for a trial delivery of food by drone to residents in Holly Springs, North Carolina.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Defense manufacturer buys drone company. Israeli defense contractor Rafael (makers of Iron Dome) has bought Israeli drone manufacturer Aeronautics for an estimated NIS 850 million.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Amazon buys Israeli storage startup. (TY Janglo) US retail tech giant Amazon is acquiring Israeli storage technology startup E8 Storage for an estimated $50-60 million. E8 Storage develops flash storage installations based on software, which E8 Storage say are cheaper than current hardware solutions, but ten times faster.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT
Lionel Richie to say “Hello”. Pop legend Lionel Richie is coming to Israel for a performance on Sep 12th in Live Park Rishon Lezion. He has rejected BDS boycott calls, indicating that he is “Stuck On You” Israelis. With such an “Endless Love”, he could be singing “All Night Long”!
https://www.israelhayom.com/
Award-winning Israeli restaurants. (TY Jacques) Six Israeli restaurants won awards at the World Luxury Restaurants Awards in St. Petersburg, Russia, voted by 100,000 guests, travelers and industry professionals. Aria won 3 awards. The other winners were Milgo Milbar, Herbert Samuel, Chloelys, Hola, and Nomi.
http://israelbetweenthelines.
Going underground. Israel's unique and breathtaking subterranean scenery is attracting a growing number of cavers. Around three years ago, Yoav Negev founded the Israel Cave Explorers Club and, more recently, a rescue unit that is now part of the European Cave Rescue Association.
https://www.israel21c.org/
NBA’s loss is Israel’s gain. Omri Caspi was the first Israeli to play in the National Basketball Association league. He has now returned to Israel, having signed a 3-year contract to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv. He said he was “proud and excited to be wearing the Maccabi jersey with the star of David on the back”.
https://jewishnews.
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The perils of trading social interaction for social media
By Salena Zito
ESTES PARK, Colo.-“There are no easy answers here. As someone who sees a diverse variety of human interaction both online and in person, my best observation is this: When we replace the human-level communities we thrive in — such as religion, civic responsibility, education, and volunteerism — with communities online that give us a false sense of power, we are heading down the path of failure.”
Click here for the full story.
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3) I'm still in the UK, spending much time with family, so no newsletter this coming Sunday. Next newsletter is planned for Sunday 1st September...Best regards and Shalom.
Michael
In the 18th Aug 19 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
- Israeli scientists have developed a new treatment for melanoma.
- Israel gave free sports footware to Kenyan lacrosse players.
- Israeli space technology is out of this world.
- New Israeli plastics are eco-friendly and extend food shelf-life.
- Over 1,000 invest in new Israeli treatment for ALS.
- Lionel Richie is coming to Israel.
- Following the recent Jewish day of romance, two cancer survivors are to wed.
- Click here to see the 4th August newsletter on IsraelSeen, Ruthfully Yours, Janglo and United With Israel with extra features on Medical(with over 1,000 shares) and Jewish State. Also (TY Sandra) in German and (TY Zachy) in Hebrew. Please pass on these links to German and Hebrew-reading contacts. Also (TY Esty) please visit and “like” / “follow” the www.facebook.com/
VerygoodnewsIL Facebook page.
A nano-vaccine for melanoma. Scientists at Tel Aviv University have developed a novel nano-vaccine for melanoma (skin cancer) that has proved effective in laboratory tests. Tiny particles made of bio-degradable polymer were packed with two “safe” cancer-expressed peptides for the body to develop immunity against.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.nature.com/
New test for Alzheimer’s. The SRY subsidiary of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center has developed Vizamyl, a radioactive agent that can diagnose Alzheimer’s disease. Used in a Positron Emission Tomography (PET) scan, it estimates amyloid neuritic plaque density in the brain - the main indication of Alzheimer’s.
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-
Good results for anti-radiation vaccine. I reported previously (see here) on the PLX-R18 stem cell treatment for radiation sickness from Israel’s Pluristem. Animal trials by the US Department of Defense demonstrated that PLX-R18, administered before and after radiation exposure increased survival rates by 46-70%.
https://www.jpost.com/HEALTH-
US approval for antibacterial dental fillings. I reported previously (Aug 2018)about Israel’s Nobio and its nano-polymer that causes bacteria to die immediately on contact. Nobio has just received FDA approval to market its antibacterial material for dental fillings.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Agreement for psoriasis treatment. I reported previously (see here) on the small molecule treatments from Israel’s Can-Fite for psoriasis, liver and inflammatory diseases, and cancer. Can-Fite AND South Korea-based Kyongbo have just signed a distribution agreement for Can-Fite’s psoriasis treatment Piclidenoson (CF101).
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Innovation hub for hi-tech medicine. Israel’s Innovation Authority and the National Digital Israel Initiative are setting up an innovation hub dedicated to computational biology, digital health, pharmaceuticals, and artificial intelligence. They are asking for bids worth up to NIS 32 million to build the hub.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Ultrasound skin therapy. Israeli startup SofWave Medical is developing non-invasive ultrasound technology for skin tightening. It targets specific layers of skin to reduce wrinkles and has received CE (European) approval. SofWave has just raised $8.4 million of funding. https://alon-medtech.com/
https://www.prnewswire.com/
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Facial recognition of genetic diseases. Israeli-founded FDNA has developed artificial intelligence to detect physiological patterns (phenotypes) that reveal disease-causing genetic variations. With one of the fastest growing and most comprehensive genomic databases, FDNA is changing the game for precision medicine.
https://www.fdna.com/
First response training for medics in Chile. (TY Hazel) Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom is helping to train municipal security personnel as first responders to medical emergencies in the Chilean capital Santiago. It is in preparation for Chile hosting two major international conferences at the end of the year.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Israeli-Druze officer saves Jordanian boy. (TY Hazel) Kalai Housam Tarif, an Israeli Prison Officer of the Druze community, donated half of his liver to an unrelated eight-year-old boy from Jordan. Surgeons at Schneider Children’s Medical Center in Petach Tikvah transplanted around half of Tarif’s liver to save the boy.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Hi-tech co-existence. (TY UWI & TPS) Nazareth- based NGT (Next Generation Technology) serves as an incubator for 19 innovative life science and medical technology companies. It also has a social agenda – to bring Arab and Jewish entrepreneurs together to work in the same environment and achieve startup success.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
UK ambassador’s strong links to Israel. Britain’s new ambassador to Israel, Neil Wigan, presented his credentials to President Reuven Rivlin. He revealed that he first met his wife Yael in Israel on a previous posting in 2002. Also, his grandfather was the commander of British forces that liberated Bergen-Belsen.
https://jewishnews.
Best foot forward. When Israel played Kenya in the 2019 Women's Lacrosse U19 World Championships, they saw that the Kenyans were wearing sneakers instead of lacrosse cleats (shoes with special studs). The next day, the Israelis presented each Kenyan with her own pair of cleats.
https://nairobinews.nation.co.
Marine science exchange program. Israel is to host 27 graduate students from 24 US institutions as part of the Limnology and Oceanography Research Exchange (LOREX) program. Students will study at the University of Haifa’s marine sciences school and the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Huge delegation of House Reps visits Israel. 72 members of the US Congress (over 15% of the entire House of Representatives) came to Israel on concurrent Republican and Democrat trips to get a firsthand view of the challenges Israel faces and to express unconditional, bipartisan support for the Jewish state.
https://www.jns.org/in-
Improving air safety in the US. Israel’s giant IT company NICE has just won a $137 million order from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to help it improve the safety of air transportation in over 770 sites. NICE’s tools will enable faster incident response and greater visibility into incident data.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Israel leads international tsunami drill. Israel's navy has been leading a major training exercise involving 11 countries in preparation for an expected earthquake and subsequent tsunami. Greece, France and the US were in the main participants based at Haifa port, supported by Germany, Italy, Canada, Chile, Cyprus and others.
https://www.ynetnews.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Amos 17 satellite launched. Israel’s Spacecom’s Amos-17 satellite (see here)was successfully launched by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Great youtube videos.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
A satellite to help understand the universe. Israel’s Weizmann Institute and the Israel Space Agency are to build ULTRASAT - a next-generation satellite with a telescope that will observe the universe in UV light. It will investigate black holes, neutron stars, stars with possible habitable planets and much more.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.weizmann.ac.il/
Data from the Sun. I reported previously (see here) on the CMOS image sensor from Israel’s TowerJazz aboard the NASA Parker Solar Probe. The high-resolution images of the Sun’s corona taken during the first two fly-pasts have exceeded all expectations. A third encounter with the Sun will take place imminently.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The Bible is a jewel. I reported previously (see here) when scientists from Israel’s Technion Institute produced a Hebrew Bible the size of a sugar grain. Now Hebrew University of Jerusalem scientists and Tanaor Jewelry have embedded a nano-sized Bible into a jewel that can be worn around the neck.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
The origin of Israel’s desert water. Researchers from Israel’s Ben Gurion University have used radio-krypton dating to map the history of the Nubian Sandstone Aquifer system, which lies beneath Israel’s Negev desert. It has also identified the climate conditions that produced it thousands of years ago.
https://aabgu.org/krypton-
Construction technology saves lives. (TY Itai) There have been many preventable deaths and injuries at construction sites. SafetyFirst, Safeguard, SiteAware, SiteWatch and INTSITE are just five Israeli startups helping to prevent work-related accidents. It’s the first appearance in my newsletter for all of these.
https://blogs.timesofisrael.
https://en.safeguard.co.il/
https://www.intsite-ai.com/
A better future for plastic. Rotem Shemesh is Head of Research at Israel’s Carmel Olefins. She is developing plastic that are easier to recycle. Another product is antimicrobial plastic packaging to prolong the shelf life of food. And she is determined to remove the plastic particles responsible for that “new car smell”.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Duckweed is a superfood. BGU researchers have determined that Mankai, a high-protein aquatic plant strain of duckweed, has significant potential as a superfood. It provides glycemic control needed after carbohydrate consumption. After two weeks, participants had much better glucose levels and felt more full.
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
Unique drone technology. This video features six innovative Israeli drone technology startups. I’ve featured five of them previously, except for Civdorne, which develops a device that turns drones into land surveying, measuring, and marking machines for construction sites.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Eco-friendly vines. Israeli agronomist and viticulturalist, Michal Akerman, has worked with the Society for the Preservation of Nature in Israel to make the vines at her Tabor vinyards friendlier to biodiversity. Her efforts have encouraged storks, otters, lizards, rabbits, chameleons and wild boar to return to the area.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Direct flights from Dallas. (TY Janglo) American Airlines is launching a non-stop service from Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas to Tel Aviv. The 3-flights-a-week operation will commence in Sep 2020 and will be American Airlines’ first direct service to Israel since 2015.
https://www.israelhayom.com/
Summer jobs lead to hi-tech careers. During the summer months, many Israeli hi-tech companies offer 10-week paid internship programs to the children of their employees. The students receive practical experience, while the company gets highly motivated temporary workers for little recruitment cost.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Emigration from Israel at record low. The number of Israelis moving abroad fell to the lowest level in more than three decades. Since 2002, emigration has fallen by half, from 27,300 emigrants in 2002 to 14,300 in 2017. Returning Israelis and new immigrants results in a net increase in Israel of over 22,000 citizens in 2017.
http://www.israelnationalnews.
Billion-dollar exit for Clicksoftware. (TY WIN) US software giant Salesforce.com has already acquired several Israeli startups and some 500 of their employees. But its latest $1.35 billion takeover of Israel’s workforce management software startup Clicksoftware, and its 700 employees, dwarfs all of them.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Corindus exits for $1.1 billion. I reported previously (Oct 2014) on Israeli-founded Corindus Vascular Robotics and its robotic-assisted medical devices for groundbreaking catheterizations. Now, German medtech company Siemens Healthineers is acquiring Corindus, and its 100 employees, for approximately $1.1 billion.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Another $200 million for Cybereason. I reported previously (see here) on Israel’s Cybereason, which uses AI and big data analytics to protect a company’s endpoints. In two years, Cybereason has tripled its customer base and now protects 6 million endpoints. Japan’s Softbank has just led a $200 million investment in Cybereason.
http://nocamels.com/2019/08/
Over one thousand backers for ALS therapy developer. I reported previously (Mar 2017) on Israel’s NeuroSense, which is developing a treatment for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). NeuroSense has just raised NIS 4 million from over 1,100 backers in a crowdfunding campaign.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
FAA approves food deliveries by drone. I reported previously (Sep 2017)when Israel’s Flytrex began commercial food deliveries by drone to customers in Iceland. Now, the US Federal Aviation Administration has given approval to Flytrex for a trial delivery of food by drone to residents in Holly Springs, North Carolina.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Defense manufacturer buys drone company. Israeli defense contractor Rafael (makers of Iron Dome) has bought Israeli drone manufacturer Aeronautics for an estimated NIS 850 million.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Amazon buys Israeli storage startup. (TY Janglo) US retail tech giant Amazon is acquiring Israeli storage technology startup E8 Storage for an estimated $50-60 million. E8 Storage develops flash storage installations based on software, which E8 Storage say are cheaper than current hardware solutions, but ten times faster.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
CULTURE, ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT
Lionel Richie to say “Hello”. Pop legend Lionel Richie is coming to Israel for a performance on Sep 12th in Live Park Rishon Lezion. He has rejected BDS boycott calls, indicating that he is “Stuck On You” Israelis. With such an “Endless Love”, he could be singing “All Night Long”!
https://www.israelhayom.com/
Award-winning Israeli restaurants. (TY Jacques) Six Israeli restaurants won awards at the World Luxury Restaurants Awards in St. Petersburg, Russia, voted by 100,000 guests, travelers and industry professionals. Aria won 3 awards. The other winners were Milgo Milbar, Herbert Samuel, Chloelys, Hola, and Nomi.
http://israelbetweenthelines.
Going underground. Israel's unique and breathtaking subterranean scenery is attracting a growing number of cavers. Around three years ago, Yoav Negev founded the Israel Cave Explorers Club and, more recently, a rescue unit that is now part of the European Cave Rescue Association.
https://www.israel21c.org/
NBA’s loss is Israel’s gain. Omri Caspi was the first Israeli to play in the National Basketball Association league. He has now returned to Israel, having signed a 3-year contract to play for Maccabi Tel Aviv. He said he was “proud and excited to be wearing the Maccabi jersey with the star of David on the back”.
https://jewishnews.
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