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Good news Israel:
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Michael
In the 30th May 21 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
- Israeli wound treatment uses patients’ own blood to save their lives.
- Israeli-invented pill camera to be given to 11,000 UK patients.
- Media reports of Israel’s civil war are fake news.
- Israeli technology is out of this world.
- 20 Israeli companies have partnered to make Israel’s roads safer.
- Almost every week there’s a new Israeli billion-dollar company.
- Israelis smash swimming and singing records at Euro events.
- Birthright has resumed free Israel tours for American Jews.
Blood clot treatment for chronic wounds. Israelis Dr Igal & Alon Kushnir founded RedDress Medical to develop ActiGraft - a revolutionary fast treatment that uses blood clots made from the patient’s own blood to heal chronic wounds such as diabetic foot ulcers. It is saving lives in Israel, the US and 15 other countries.
https://unitedwithisrael.org/
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https://reddressmedical.com/
Early warning of dialysis problems. Israel’s PatenSee has developed an image system to detect deterioration of fistulas – the artery / vein connection from dialysis machines to patients. Over time these connections fail due to blockages (stenoses), risking blood clots and thromboses. The system is in trials at two Israeli hospitals.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://www.medxelerator.com/
Swiss partner to fight bowel disease. Israel’s CytoReason (see here previously) is partnering Swiss multinational Ferring to find new treatments for patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). CytoReason’s AI technology will enable the joint building of models of diseased cells on which therapies will be tested.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Clues to the origins of Parkinson’s. Researchers from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Penn State College of Medicine have made an important discovery about the protein alpha-synuclein, associated with the development of Parkinson’s and dementia. It gives hope for new therapeutics to delay or halt their progression.
https://www.afhu.org/2021/05/
European certification for AI cancer detector. Israel’s Ibex Medical Analytics (see here previously) has received Europe’s CE Mark for its Galen Breast image analysis solution to help pathologists detect various types of cancer. It follows successful trials in Israel and France.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
The easy road to recovery. Israeli founded Laguna Health aims to reduce costly hospital readmissions and shorten recovery times. Its app can provide patients in the US either with a fully digital and personalized recovery journey or enable interactions with live expert recovery coaches via text, telephone or video.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
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The inventor of the first ingestible camera. Technion UK’s webinar on 31st May features Israel’s Rafi Nave, senior researcher at Israel’s Technion. He headed the development of the PillCam, the world’s first ingestible camera for imaging the digestive tract. NHS UK is about to use PillCam for 11,000 patients across England.
https://technionuk.org/event/
Gazan children in Israeli hospital. Children from Gaza, being treated free of charge by doctors at Israel’s Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), normally go home after surgery. But due to Hamas rockets, 3 post-surgery Gazan kids had to stay in the SACH children’s house and six more in the hospital itself.
https://www.israel21c.org/
More supplies for the South. Israeli volunteer medical equipment organization Yad Sarah (see here previously) has sent hundreds of home hospital equipment, wheelchairs, crutches, respiratory aids etc. to reinforce its branches in the south of the country.
https://www.jns.org/yad-sarah-
Saving lives has no boundaries. Two real-life stories highlight the lengths that United Hatzalah volunteers will go to treat Israeli citizens of any religion, whose lives are in danger.
https://israelrescue.org/blog/
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Coexistence Is real. Articles from executives including Intel Israel and SodaStream. Numerous Israeli startups (see here), multinationals and professions employ Israeli Arab Muslims working happily alongside Israeli Jews.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
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Working together. These articles are from some of the many groups dedicated to understanding and friendship between Israeli Jews and Arabs and residents of the Palestinian Authority-administered territories. The current situation is only inspiring them to work even harder.
https://www.israel21c.org/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
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Israeli Arab woman receives kidney from Jewish victim of Lod riot. One of the kidneys of Yigal Yehoshua, murdered in Lod, was donated to Randa, a female Arab resident of Jerusalem. She said, "I thank Yigal's family, from heaven they will be comforted.” Five patients benefited from Yigal’s organs.
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Training for the underrepresented in Israeli hi-tech. Cybersecurity education platform Cybint and the 8200 Alumni Association are using myInterview (see here), to select candidates for a 3-month cybersecurity training course. The aim is to attract more women, haredim, Arabs and new immigrants to a career in cybersecurity.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
From the White House to VC founder. Israel’s Lee Moser describes her journey from chief of staff for the Israeli ambassador to the U.S. to become founder and managing partner of venture capital fund AnD Ventures. She realized that Israel’s strength was in technology and now controls a $30 million pre-seed tech fund.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
The Bright Initiative. Israel’s Bright Data has established The Bright Initiative to help work with British organizations to establish the UK’s National Data Strategy (NDS). During the consultancy stage, Bright Data highlighted the 3 key areas of the NDS - internet transparency, data skills, and the ethics of data collection.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Connecting the world with education. Israeli students joined thousands worldwide for the annual celebration of World ORT’s global education network. This year’s theme was “connection” with youngsters in Israel, Ukraine, Panama, Italy, Brazil, Russia and more participating in a digital postcard exchange and a live quiz.
https://www.jns.org/thousands-
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
Keeping satellites on track. (TY UWI) SatGuard from Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI helps extend the life of orbiting satellites. SatGuard’s Earth-based AI system uses the satellite’s telemetry data to detect anomalies and faults at an early stage and alert the satellite operator to take appropriate action to prevent system failure.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
From Mars to Jupiter. The cryogenic cooler from Israel’s Ricor has been keeping the X-ray detector on the Mars Curiosity Rover operational on the surface of the planet Mars since 2012 (see here previously). Ricor now has 215 employees on Kibbutz Ein Harod and is participating in NASA’s mission to Jupiter’s Europa moon.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Israeli tech’s journey to the asteroids. Amongst recent news of Israel’s Ramon.Space (see here) is that some of its equipment still sits on the asteroid Ryugu, many millions of miles from Earth. It was used in the Japanese Space Agency’s 2014-2020 Hayabusa-2 mission. Hayabusa-2 will rendezvous with another asteroid in 2031.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
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Israel’s cloud. Google and Amazon Web Services have signed Israel’s $1 billion “Project Nimbus” contract to move the data of Israeli Government ministries and other public entities to “the cloud”. It will generate 3,000 jobs for local Israeli companies, which will build and operate Israel’s cloud-based data centers and services.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Reducing Europe’s wasted food. Israel’s Wasteless (see here previously) uses variable pricing to reduce the amount of supermarket food that is thrown away. Wasteless has just partnered Germany’s NX-Food, which operates the METRO stores chain. METRO’s first implementation will be at its Makro subsidiary in Poland.
https://jewishbusinessnews.
Toyota chooses Mobileye. Israel-based Mobileye (now part of Intel) and Germany’s ZF Friedrichshafen AG are partnering to build advanced driver assistance and safety (ADAS) technology for Toyota. Mobileye’s EyeQ4 vision system, plus ZF’s Gen 21 radar, will interpret the environment around Toyota vehicles.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
The highway of tomorrow. 20 Israeli smart mobility companies have set up a consortium with Netivei Israel, aiming to reduce accidents and congestion on Israeli roads. Its core is the non-profit Israel Smart Mobility Living Lab (ISMLL) which is piloting a study along a 28km section of Coastal highway 2 south from Netanya.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Revolutionary new engine now runs on hydrogen. Israel’s Aquarius Engines (see here previously) has modified its innovative 10kg free-piston linear engine to use hydrogen fuel. The engine can greatly reduce global emissions and carbon footprint of automobiles and bring light to the developing nations (see video).
https://jewishbusinessnews.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
AI processor of the year. Israel’s Hailo (see here previously) has won the 2021 Edge AI and Vision Product of the Year Awards for ‘Best Edge AI Processor’. The award recognized that Hailo’s AI chip transforms visual intelligence, enabling smart devices to run neural network-based applications more effectively at the edge.
https://www.edge-ai-vision.
Keep an eye on your potatoes. Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have developed a molecular bio sensor to detect early signs of plant stress, allowing farmers time to prevent crop failures. The sensor has been tested on potatoes – vital for world food security (and Israeli exports) but could be adapted to other key crops.
https://www.afhu.org/2021/05/
https://academic.oup.com/
https://www.tridge.com/
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Unemployment falls again. Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics reported the core unemployment rate fell from 7.9% to 5% in April. The broader measure of 10.6% includes those who should begin to return to work in June when Israel’s unpaid leave scheme ends.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
Time for a career change. Covid is over, as far as Israel’s hi-tech jobs market is concerned, with Israeli companies fighting over available local resources. This is according to the OurCrowd High-Tech Jobs Index - a quarterly report tracks vacancies and hiring patterns of high-tech companies in Israel and abroad.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://blog.ourcrowd.com/
A conveyor belt of Unicorns. In 2020 16 Israeli companies became unicorns – private companies valued over $1 billion. This amounted to around 10% of new unicorns globally in 2020. 15 more Israeli companies have become unicorns already in 2021 – almost one a week. Israel is embracing a digital transformation boom.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://blogs.timesofisrael.
Sunbit becomes a Unicorn. With R&D centers in Tel Aviv and Binyamina, US-headquartered Sunbit has developed a payment method that allows US stores to offer their customers the option to buy now and pay later, in installments. Sunbit has just raised $130 million of funds, to reach a “Unicorn” valuation of $1.1 billion.
https://nocamels.com/2021/05/
Israeli cool startups. Four Israeli startups were listed in Garner’s 2021 Cool Vendors list. They are VOOM (Insurance), Run:AI (Enterprise AI Operationalization and Engineering), Lightrun (Monitoring, Observability and Cloud Operations) and Apiiro (DevSecOps). All have previously appeared in this newsletter.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
7 Israeli “disruptors” in top 50. CNBC’s 2021 Disruptor 50 list (of companies aligned with a rapid pace of technological change) contains seven Israelis (up from 5 in 2020). They are SentinelOne (at number 4), TytoCare (9), K Health (11), Snyk (15), Neteera (26), Sight Diagnostics (31) and Cybereason (32).
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Half a billion to invest. Israeli venture capital firm 83North has raised a new $550 million fund. This is the VCs sixth fund and will take its assets under management to $1.8 billion. 83North has invested in Israeli startups ironSource and Payoneer (who are about to go public) plus CYE, Trigo, Zerto, Via, and many others.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
BBC swaps one Israeli service for another. BBC Global News has replaced Outbrain (see here) - its Israeli provider of recommendations for the website BBC.com - with Israel’s Taboola (see here). Ironically, the Israeli firms recently cancelled a 2019 merger agreement (see here). (No change likely to BBC’s anti-Israeli reporting)
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Thousands of air passengers. On May 24th 18,000 passengers passed through Tel Aviv Ben Gurion’s airport with 134 flights taking off and landing. Many of the foreign airlines, who suspended flights during Operation Guardian of the Walls have now resumed Israel operations.
https://en.globes.co.il/en/
Promoting tourism in Dubai. Dubai’s Arabian Travel Market was billed as the first travel and tourism event to happen in person since the global coronavirus outbreak. Israeli booth marketed the country as the “Land of Creation”. Videos advertised Israel’s vegan food, its beaches and urged: “Book Your Trip Now” to Tel Aviv.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Wandera exits for $400 million. Israeli-founded, London based cybersecurity company Wandera, has been acquired by U.S. company Jamf for $400 million.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
Investment in Israeli startups: Global-e Online raised $375 million; Forter raised $300 million; Sunbit raised $130 million; Wiz raised $120 million; Explorium raised $75 million; Salt Security raised $70 million; Snappy raised $70 million; Rapid Medical raised $50 million; AnyClip raised $47 million; Salto.io raised $42 million; Upstream Security raised $38.6 million; Thetaray raised $31 million; Cynerio raised $30 million; Twine Solutions raised $28 million; LightRun raised $23 million;
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Interesting analysis sent by dear friend and fellow memo reader:
Modern vs. Postmodern
Jews across the West must defend themselves within a culture that has increasingly replaced evidence with narrative.
It’s not clear who won the recent war in Gaza. We probably won’t know the answer to that question until we’re able to judge how many months of peace Israel has been able to purchase. In the interim, we’re left with memes about Israeli “white privilege” that have taken hold in pop culture.
After 1,000 bombs were dropped over 11 days of fighting, the Israeli Defense Forces say that they “killed at least 225 Gaza-based terrorists.” More than two-thirds of those killed were terrorists, and the IDF has the evidence to prove it. Roughly 60 of the dead were civilians, some killed by the 35 percent of Iranian-designed rockets fired by Hamas that fell short and landed within Gaza. (The UN estimates higher civilian casualties.)
Thanks to Israel’s Iron Dome, mocked by its critics as Ronald Reagan’s critics once mocked his Strategic Defense Initiative as “Star Wars,” only a dozen Israelis died—mostly elderly people too slow to make it to shelters. For those who think in conventional military terms, the IDF’s accomplishments were astonishing. It was an extraordinary feat, notes the Jerusalem Post’s Yaakov Katz, achieved by no other military in history: 1,000 bombs dropped on as many targets, with only about 60 civilians killed.
But Hamas was fighting on a different battlefield, and largely winning. Their aim, along with Iran’s, was to foil Israel’s attempts at coexistence and normalization. Hamas terrorist-in-chief Ismail Haniyeh declared victory, saying he had “foiled attempts by Israel to integrate into the Arab world.” He also thanked Iran for its generous aid and armaments. “This battle has destroyed the project of coexistence,” Haniyeh said from Qatar, where he resides. He took considerable satisfaction from the widespread clashes between Israeli Arabs and Jews. He talked of an Intifada today in the West Bank and a revolution inside the 1948 borders.
Hamas, unlike Israel, is not constrained by the need to minimize civilian casualties. Hamas glories in civilian casualties as emblems of Palestinian suffering. That in part is because Hamas has little interest in Palestinian nationalism. It sees itself as the leader of the greater cause of global Islam. It seeks to win support from Muslims around the globe, which is why one of its leaders has said that where Israel is now is the property of all Muslims in all parts of the world. As Efraim Karsh wrote in The Spectator, the fighting “has little to do with freeing Palestinians from Israeli domination. It is inspired instead by the idea of freeing the Holy Land from Israel.”
The cities of Lod, Ramle, Acre, Haifa, and Jaffa, long lauded as examples of Arab–Jewish coexistence, have been shaken by rioting as mobs have attacked Jews and torched synagogues. This despite the 15 billion shekels, or nearly $1 billion, the Israeli government has invested in these cities over the last decade.
In America, all of this is increasingly seen through an “internationalist” filter that looks at what’s happening in Israel as a mirror for racial issues. “Hamas got laundered from a terrorist organization into an Instagram-ready social justice movement,” as Liel Leibovitz put it in Tablet, pointing out how the word “genocide” is “casually applied to a war in which the total deaths on both sides amount to less than a third of the number of people killed in Chicago last year.” Israel, Karsh writes, “is somehow portrayed as a singularly evil human rights violator when the Syrian civil war has claimed 400,000 lives in 10 years—about 300,000 more than the total number of people who have ever died in the Arab-Israeli conflict, starting in 1860.”
In the United States, Black Lives Matter draws heavily on the Palestinian model. The organized group’s Marxist leadership sees the world, Soviet-style, as divided between oppressors and oppressed, and its original charter accused Israel of genocide and apartheid. That helps explain the wave of violence directed at American Jews. In Times Square, a Jew wearing a kippah was beaten up by an admirer of the Palestinian-American supermodel Bella Hadid, who enjoys a vast following among the semi-educated sociopaths who inhabit social media. In the Diamond District, protesters bearing Palestinian flags sought out, harassed, assaulted, and threw fireworks and explosives at Jews. On the Upper East Side, a kosher pizzeria had its window shattered with a brick. In Borough Park, a man set fire to a synagogue and yeshiva before beating up a Hasidic Jew. In Los Angeles, self-righteous Palestinian fanatics attacked diners at a sushi restaurant.
Israel grew and thrived in the modern era, which looked to evidentiary arguments as the basis for disputation. We’re in a different era now, a postmodern period in which Palestinians can successfully present themselves as victims of genocide even as their population expands and they feel free to assault Jews in America as if they were fighting in Jaffa. Muslim violence isn’t a response to oppression. It’s an expression, as numerous jihadis have acknowledged at their trials, of the need to dominate unbelievers.
The upshot is that Jews across the declining West will have to learn how to protect themselves by using not only evidence but also embroidered narratives—not to mention some old-fashioned self-defense.
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