By Katie Pavlich.
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Stop everything!
House Republicans just revealed that as Vice President, Joe Biden allegedly went by the pseudonym Robert L. Peters and an associated email to secretly communicate with his son about his shady business dealings.
JOE BIDEN IS COMPROMISED.
House Republicans have already obtained bank records for shell corporations… Dug up WhatsApp messages involving Hunter Biden… Identified direct cash payments to the Biden Family totaling $20+ million… Called Devin Archer to testify in Congress… And subpoenaed documents to blow the case WIDE OPEN…
Now, Joe Biden and his cronies are hitting back HARD to destroy our House Majority so the American People NEVER know the truth!)
If I am correct, Kim Strassel's recent Op Ed about Biden's vulnerability and the slate of Democrats seeking re-election will gain traction.
What I find compelling about her new book is that it brings all the individual occurrences, that have left Americans in a new malaise, together. It is as if Kim has taken the individual patches and stitched them together into one clarifying quilt.
In Chapter 10, Kim writes about Carter's lack of understanding, his impact on the American psyche and his failure to realize the negative political impact of his moralizing.
Chapter 11, in Kim's: "The Biden Malaise," sets the groundwork for what lies ahead if the GOP is capable of rising to what needs to be done to return to becoming a winning political party.
Chapter 12 discusses the genius of Reagan and why the next GOP candidate must possess many of his qualities and why Trump does not fit. Kim proposes a series of common sense ideas that must be adopted as solutions to our many problems. They are all common sense driven and this is why they may be rejected because political solutions are emotion based and driven by stubborn pettiness.
In today's Weekend Edition of the WSJ (8/20,) we have a perfect example regarding infighting pettiness in Georgia that makes a state win a toss up for the GOP. Trump and his loyalists apparently want to relitigate his loss which is a definite losing proposition and he might take a self aggrandizement stance and encourage them to sit the 2024 election out one more time.
As for Biden, she emphasizes he is never connected to any of his continuous failures. He is never wrong. It is always someone or something else who is blameworthy. Also, his many lies and plagiarism's have led to his total distrust and now we can add the growing potential of his absolute corruption. Biden has proven not to be the "Uncle" the nation thought they elected and by the narrowest of questionable margins.
Again, I highly recommend Kim's 4th book and hope she will accept my invitation to come, once again, to Savannah and Atlanta on a book signing tour.
Kim is a superb author. Her style of writing flows and her recitation of facts are incontrovertible.
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Is Joe Biden Electable?
Democrats bet it all on a weak horse in the 2024 presidential race, sure that his opponent is even weaker.
By Kimberley A. Strassel
This week—like last week, last month and much of last year—featured a full news cycle devoted to Donald Trump. There’s a method to the critics’ obsession, yet it could backfire. They ignore Joe Biden’s weaknesses at their own peril.
The Georgia indictments of Mr. Trump and associates brought yet more focus on Mr. Trump’s mounting hurdles to re-election. A total of 91 felony counts, many to be heard by a hostile jury. Trials set to commence during the GOP primary. A polarizing candidate who is a nonstarter with key general-election voting blocs. There’s a near gleefulness in media stories describing the Republicans’ pickle: They’re barreling toward a nominee with too much freight to win the White House.
Yet doesn’t that also describe the other party?
The left is banking it doesn’t—at least not in comparison with Mr. Trump. But an our-guy-isn’t-quite-as-detestable-as-your-guy strategy is the definition of risky. Look at Mr. Biden in isolation. Democrats are by every measure putting forward their weakest presidential nominee in decades, one who makes even the hapless Jimmy Carter of 1980 look competent.
No, Mr. Biden isn’t facing four score and 11 criminal charges. But he is more than four score years old, and it’s increasingly difficult to tiptoe around the president’s disturbing decline. The long vacations, the early nights, the confusion, the mumbling, the bizarre statements. A June poll found that 71% of likely voters, including nearly half of Democrats, think Mr. Biden is too old to be president. The pace at which he’s getting worse has also been striking, raising the question of a Nominee Biden’s performance a year from now. God save the queen, man.
Even in 2020, the electorate understood that a vote for Mr. Biden meant a higher than usual chance that his running mate would become president. The need for a reassuring successor is even more important now, but he’s instead dragging the anchor known as Kamala Harris. A June NBC News poll reported she had a 32% approval rating and a net rating of minus-17, “the lowest for any vice president in the poll’s history.” Mr. Trump is averaging above 40%.
Then there’s Hunter. The plea deal collapse is its own sordid story, though the smell will only grow. Republicans will continue to produce evidence of Joe’s efforts to aid his son’s global influence peddling, hammering home the former vice president’s unsavory use of that position. The media will do its best to ignore any revelations, though that will prove tougher if and when Republicans turn their probe into an impeachment inquiry, with prime-time hearings.
Don’t forget the economy, or crime, or foreign-policy messes. The White House’s “Bidenomics” pitch boils down to one statistic: low unemployment. Biden policies also produced inflation, unmanageable energy prices, and the heightened threat of a recession. A Fox poll from late May found 83% of voters say the economy is only in fair or poor shape. That’s 14 points higher than in April 2021, a year into the pandemic.
Democrats and their media cheerleaders are blinding themselves to these liabilities—playing a game of See No Biden, Hear No Biden. They are working instead to keep Mr. Trump in the legal and media spotlight—the better to get him nominated. This is a repeat of the 2022 strategy, in which they labored to boost eccentric far-right candidates in GOP primaries, with the anticipation they’d later lose to Democrats.
That panned out for them in the midterms, but in a 50/50 country, and against an extremely weak incumbent, even Mr. Trump has playable odds. That Mr. Trump—with all his history, all his indictments, all the unrelenting media beratement—is still leading Mr. Biden in some head-to-head matchups ought to have Democrats working on plan B, C and D through Z.
That’s assuming Mr. Trump is the nominee—another uncertain wager. On the surface, the GOP primary looks like a repeat of 2016, with a crowd of opponents splitting the field and crowning Mr. Trump victor. But there are already big differences. The number of candidates at next week’s first debate will be half what it was eight years ago. GOP leaders and donors will press far more heavily on noncontenders to get out early. Mr. Trump, whose underlying numbers still show some real weakness, could find himself in hand-to-hand combat. In this political environment, the unlikely scenarios are entirely possible.
Mr. Biden versus a Republican opponent who is young, steady, and with a new plan? The race might be over. Democrats have a field of viable replacements but continue to bet all on their lamest horse. If next year finds the country electing a GOP president, the liberal establishment will have itself to blame.
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The Peach That Saved This Pa Town
By Salena Zito
CHAMBERSBURG, Pa. — It is early Saturday morning, and the cars start pulling up to the Shatzer Fruit Market’s immaculate cinder-block fruit stand, which has stood along the Lincoln Highway here in this Franklin County town for generations. Like a sentinel, Dwight Mickey’s grandparents’ red-brick farmhouse overlooks the stand his grandmother had designed and built here in 1950, to replace the original 1930s wood-frame stand that operated when the highway was just a dirt road.
“State of the art facility when she had it built,” said Mickey, who smiles as he carts in fresh peaches he has just picked from the vast orchard behind the stand and places them in crates to replace the bushels he has already sold in the short time the stand has been open that day.
It’s peach season in Pennsylvania — a six-week window that opens at the beginning of August and closes the first weeks in September. People travel for miles, eager to get their hands on a Chambersburg peach. There were license plates from Ohio, Maryland, West Virginia and Indiana at the stand last Saturday morning.
Something unique
Mickey said the produce from his family’s 100-acre Chambersburg orchard — there are also plums and several different varieties of apple — has been renowned for well over 100 years, mostly because the shallow soil abuts shale rock, creating a unique environment for the fruit.
“We have something unique here in the Cumberland Valley,” he said. “It’s our soil and our climate. My peaches, I’ve been told, taste better than peaches from other orchards in the local area, and my grandfather always said it was the soil.”
They are an economic driver for this region, bringing tourists in to buy the fruit and also spend money at the region’s inns, diners, restaurants and historic sites. Chris Herr, executive vice president of PennAg, an agribusiness trade association, said too often people don’t understand the widespread economic impact agriculture has for rural communities: “Agriculture is a critically important source of earnings, employment and economic vibrancy in rural areas and suburban counties.”
When farmers hurt, we all hurt: “We are still having significant supply chain problems, and utility costs and energy costs are crushing our farmers — that problem has not gone away, even if it is not front and center in the headlines.”
Mickey shakes his head in agreement. “Fertilizer, fuel, labor, the boxes to put the peaches in — I like to put my peaches in boxes; they travel better. They like to be boxed rather than bagged — so, those things all add up. Electricity, my utilities are out of control.”
Family farming’s impact
Farmland covers over one quarter of the state and is almost entirely owned by family farmers. Agriculture and its associated industries provide a $135.7 billion annual economic impact, representing nearly 20 percent of Pennsylvania’s gross state product, according to the most recent figures from the United States Department of Agriculture.
It also employs and supports nearly 580,000 people, paying wages of $27 billion, and supports 1 out of every 10 jobs in Pennsylvania. For each dollar of direct output, another $0.62 is generated in economic impact, according to the same report.
“So that peach or peaches you buy often means you’ve filled up your gas tank, you’ve stopped at a few local shops and bought things,” Herr said. “Maybe you had breakfast at a local diner, stayed over at historic hotel, took a bike ride on the trails or went to Gettysburg for the day. All of those things keep a small town like Chambersburg going.”
The Chambersburg peach is getting even more attention this year, largely because a series of hard freezes in March eviscerated the peach crop in Georgia, which this year produced a mere 2% yield. Experts gauge the cost to Georgia in jobs and sales would reach in the hundreds of millions.
Mickey said he feels their pain; he lost crops twice recently to changes in the climate patterns. “The unpredictable weather has a lot to do with it. In my lifetime, I don’t ever remember losing my peaches in April. It was always in January when it got below zero — but in 2016 and 2020, in five years, I lost peach crop twice in April. So, there’s definitely something going on with the weather. Because once the buds start to come, you lose cold hardiness real fast,” he said.
On this Saturday several teenagers are working the booth with Mickey, including 17-year-old La’Marr Crocker, who is busy loading up a bushel of peaches for a customer. This is the high school senior’s first job, and Crocker says with a broad smile that he likes it.
“It’s nice work. I like working with people,” he explains. “I feel like I have the patience for it. I like talking to people and hearing the little tidbits of their lives, and I like the impact of seeing what it means to people if you brighten up their day.”
Since he was nine
Mickey said his mother first brought him here as an infant and placed him in the playpen in the corner while she waited on customers. When he was nine, he took over the register from her, and — with the exception of four years of college, where he earned a business degree — he has been here ever since.
The challenge for every farmer in this country is three-fold, he said: “We are at the mercy of the weather, the fickleness of the consumer and politics. A politician once told me cheap food is good politics; it’s good for the country. Well, yeah, but it’s not good for the farmer. And I think that has to change in order for the small farms like ours to survive,” he said.
That and the next generation has to want to continue it, the way he and his father did.
Up until last November, Mickey worked every day alongside his 90-year-old father, “Apple Jack,” who passed late the day after Christmas. “He did more than a full day of work up until a couple of weeks before he died.”
Mickey is now running the farm with his wife. His only child, a son, isn’t at the farm; he is at law school. When asked if his son is coming back to work the farm, Mickey lowers his eyes and shrugs. “So, he says that he loves the farm, and he knows it’ll be here if he’d want to come back. But my wife is with me. I’m thankful for that, but I’m thinking I’m the end of the line.”
Click for the full story: https://www.post-
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Education Law in the Post-Affirmative Action Era
For FAIR’s Substack, FAIR network attorney Daniel J. Rhoads writes about the future of education law in the post-affirmative action era.
Ironically, the colorblind aspiration that the Court has endorsed is practically unspeakable in some academic circles. We at FAIR have seen public school lessons where statements like, “There’s only one human race,” and concepts including “Meritocracy Myth” are taught to be “covert white supremacy.” The same lessons use the term “Whiteness” as a pejorative. Instruction of that type seems to offend the principles laid out in SFFA.
At some point, legal questions dissolve into policy disputes that are not appropriate for litigation. “May a high school require history teachers to assign ‘anti-racist’ readings?” is importantly distinct from the question of whether it should do so. However, the fundamental issue that SFFA and 303 Creative address, whether students can be separated into racial affinity groups in order to study such readings, seems more clearly unconstitutional.
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Green with envy?
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"A machine like this is required to move 500 tons of earth/ ore which will be refined into one lithium car battery. It burns 900-1000 gallons of fuel in a 12-hour shift.
Lithium is refined from ore using sulfuric acid. The proposed lithium mine at Thacker Pass, Nevada is estimated to require up to 75 semi-loads of sulfuric acid a day! The acid does not turn into unicorn food as AOC believes.
Refining lithium has created several EPA SUPERFUND SITES. IT IS VERY TOXIC TO THE ENVIRONMENT.
A battery in an electric car, let's say an average Tesla, is made of:
25 pounds of lithium,
60 pounds of nickel,
44 pounds of magnesium,
30 pounds of cobalt,
200 pounds of copper,
And 400 pounds of aluminum, steel, and plastic, etc.... averaging 750-1,000 pounds of minerals, that had to be mined and processed into a battery that merely stores electricity....Electricity which is generated by oil, gas, coal, or water (and a tiny fraction of wind and solar )
That is the truth, about the lie, of "green" energy.
There's nothing green about the "Green New Deal".
Some people better learn how to vote or this nonsense will continue to flow down on top of you from the throne of government upon of which some put these people.
To those who believe it, stop drinking the Green New Deal's sulfuric acid Kool-Aid.!
Dr. Phillip A. Fields, University of South Alabama Mobile, Alabama
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Ordman - Good News Israel (edited:)
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re recent history, and especially personalities connected with the Modern Jewish State.
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In the 20th Aug 23 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:
- Three Israeli medical breakthroughs to combat diseases in the heart, lungs, and brain.
- Israeli firefighters helped extinguish forest fires in Greece and Cyprus.
- An Israeli innovation boosts production of hydrogen from water.
- Israeli robots can protect fish stocks or teach English.
- New Israeli trade agreements with Vietnam and Ivory Coast.
- “Beautiful” debut Israeli concert by Christina
- Record number of twins born in 24 hours at Jerusalem hospital
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ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
A miniature human heart, grown from stem cells. (TY WIN) Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Israel’s Technion Institute have created a tiny functioning human heart, smaller than a grain of rice. It will help scientists study the heart and develop new treatments for cardio-vascular diseases.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Short-circuiting the lung cancer gene. (TY JNS & Israel21c) Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have found that Erbitux - a therapy for colon and neck / head cancer - can also cure lung cancer in non-smokers with a mutated EGFR gene. They have also identified a biomarker to identify those patients.
https://wis-wander.weizmann.
Busting the protein link to Alzheimer's. Israeli biotech MemoryPlus has developed a peptide to block the interaction of proteins PTEN & PSD-95, that causes memory loss in Alzheimer’s patients. The disease makes excessive PTEN, which attacks PSD-95, weakening the brain’s synapses. The peptide also lowers PTEN levels.
https://nocamels.com/2023/08/
https://shiraknafo.com/ https://www.crunchbase.com/
The power of enzymes. (TY Yehoshua) Israel’s Enzymit is developing enzymes to enable some life-changing chemical reactions (see videos). First, though, it has synthesized hyaluronic acid - a natural biopolymer used to heal eyes, wounds, inflammation, and more. This avoids the use of animal tissue or costly alternate processes.
https://www.i24news.tv/en/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Making science fiction a reality. Israeli-founded Bionaut Labs (see here previously) has safety-tested its micro robot containing a magnet, that can travel via spinal fluid, directly to the brain, to deliver therapy or perform surgery. It can also navigate to any part of the body. Bionaut plans to begin human trials in late 2024.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
https://www.ourcrowd.com/
Heart diagnosis AI that any doctor can use. Doctors at Israel’s Sheba Medical Center have developed AISAP POCAD (AI Point of Care Assisted Diagnosis) to diagnose a patient’s cardiac problem As Soon As Possible. The AI system uses any manufacturer’s supplied combination of handheld ultrasound probe and digital tablet.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
European grant for preemie formula. Israel’s ELGAN (see here previously) has been awarded a $2.5 million grant by the European Innovation Council (EIC). It will help ELGAN clinically test its ELGN-GI oral formula for the treatment of intestinal malabsorption that prevents preterm infants from absorbing nutrients.
https://nocamels.com/2023/07/
World-first newborn surgery saves baby’s ovaries. (TY Israel21c & JNS) Surgeons at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Ein Kerem detected twisted fallopian tubes in a fetus during a routine ultrasound of the mother. They immediately delivered the baby and performed a complex operation to save her ovaries.
https://www.jpost.com/health-
More heart ops for children from South Sudan. Israeli NGOs IsraAID and Save A Child’s heart returned to South Sudan to assess children who needed heart surgery (see here previously). They screened 74 children including 4-year-old Gladys who was in urgent need. Gladys was rushed to Israel for surgery.
https://www.israel21c.org/
https://saveachildsheart.org/
ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL
Donating to good causes. Israel’s Capitolis (see here previously) donated part of its June revenue to social projects in each of the company’s locations. In Tel Aviv, it was Notnim BeAhavah, helping families at risk. In New York, Coalition for the Homeless; in London, food redistribution charity Compliments of the House.
https://www.israel21c.org/
https://www.notnim.org/en/
Six ID graduates. Only three profound Intellectually Disabled (ID) students in the world have previously graduated with university bachelor’s degrees. Now, thanks to a unique Empowerment Project by Prof. Hefziba Lifshitz of Bar-Ilan University, six “special” Israelis have just obtained their BA qualifications.
https://www.israel21c.org/a-
RightHear wins social impact contest. Israeli accessibility startup RightHear (see here previously) won the Connect AI: Social Impact award for its guidance system for the visually impaired. RightHear is deployed at McDonald’s, Aroma coffee shops, Azrieli Group malls, the Open University campus, and Ramat Gan Safari.
https://www.israel21c.org/
A hi-tech park for Jerusalem Arabs. (TY Hazel) Israel has inaugurated The EasTech high-tech campus on Saleh al-Din Street in eastern Jerusalem (see here previously). It is part of the Israeli government’s effort to create jobs for Arab hi-tech professionals. Twenty local programmers are already working there.
https://www.jns.org/startup-
Training rescue dogs. Project Locate at Kibbutz Ashdot Yakov trains domestic dogs to locate individuals amid the rubble left behind by natural disasters - particularly earthquakes. Head dog trainer Nitzan Tal has experience from building collapses in Israel to the aftermath of the 2019 Brumadinho dam disaster in Brazil.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Israeli doctors mend Jordanian girl. A 7-year-old girl from Amman, Jordan, born with a congenital deformed dislocated hip, was in constant pain following multiple unsuccessful surgeries in Jordan. Pediatric orthopedic surgeons at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center lengthened her femur (thigh bone) and she can now walk.
https://www.jns.org/israel-
Water from air for Ukraine following dam collapse. Israel’s Watergen provided five water generators to the Ukrainian city of Kherson after a dam in nearby Nova Kakhovka collapsed, leaving some 700,000 without clean drinking water. Each generator can provide 900 liters of drinkable water per day.
https://www.jns.org/israel-
Firefighting planes for Greece and Cyprus. (TY JNS) Israel sent two 'Elad' firefighting aircraft from its aerial firefighting squadron to help Greece and Cyprus extinguish their raging forest fires. They included four pilots, forest fire experts, and essential equipment. Logistic support was provided by an IAF transport plane.
https://www.jpost.com/
SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
More green hydrogen. Tel Aviv University scientists have boosted the efficiency of producing hydrogen (a vital fuel) using electrolysis. They used a hydrogel to attach the enzyme hydrogenase to the electrode. It made the process 90% efficient and avoided the current need to employ expensive catalysts such as Platinum.
https://www.jewishpress.com/
Energy costs go (down) through the roof. Israel’s EDI Energy rents roofs for solar power, providing the owners with cheap rate electricity and selling excess power to Israel’s grid. EDI operates in more than 100 locations in Israel. It also has several solar farms in the US, that sell electricity to the local power companies.
https://nocamels.com/2023/07/
https://www.edi-energy.com/en
Less is more. The MAOZ alternative bio-fertilizer from Israel’s Grace Breeding (see here previously) increased corn plant yields by 10%, using 50% less nitrogen in Brazilian field and greenhouse tests. Also, its ClimAid™ Wide Defense System (WDS) formula for tomatoes has been approved by Germany’s regulators.
https://www.techtimes.com/
Detect and stop water leaks at source. Israel’s WINT Water Intelligence develops water management and leak-prevention solutions for construction, commercial, residential, and industrial applications. Its AI-based solutions help companies eliminate water waste and its associated carbon emissions and prevent water damage.
https://www.calcalistech.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Digitizing taste, scent & flavor. (TY Arlene) The Israeli development team of Brussels-based Ajinomatrix has merged technology with the art of gastronomy. Using digitized taste, scent and flavor measures, its Sensory OS software provides the food industry with the ability to finely tailor dishes and products for its customers.
https://www.
Pillowcases that are good for the skin. Israel’s ONYX Radiance has developed a silver ion-laced pillowcase to rejuvenate the skin, and another containing a zinc compound that combats bacterial and fungal infections. Together, they treat conditions such as acne, psoriasis, and eczema while you sleep.
https://nocamels.com/2023/07/
https://onyxradiance.com/ https://www.youtube.com/
Improving traffic flow in 13 states. Israel’s NoTraffic (see here previously) is now operating in 13 US states, including Pennsylvania, Arizona, Texas, and California, and has just signed up its 100th local Department of Transportation in North America. NoTraffic was one of TIME100s Most Influential Companies in 2022.
https://nocamels.com/2023/07/
Underwater robots to help prevent overfishing. Scientists at the University of Haifa have won a share of a $3.5 million prize from the Schmidt Family Foundation. It rewards their development of a swarm of low-cost, underwater autonomous robots that coordinate better acoustic detection and estimation of fish populations.
https://www.israel21c.org/
Happy robot teaches English in kindergarten. Curiosity Robotics has created Aico - a friendly, chatty little robot to teach English as a foreign language to preschoolers. Aico uses the teaching method of UK-Israeli Helen Doron, which advocates for children starting to learn a second language as early as three months of age.
https://nocamels.com/2023/07/
https://www.curiosity-
Battery-power for nanosatellite. The Tel Aviv University nanosatellite Israel’s first quantum communications satellite – TAU-SAT3) launched earlier this year (see here previously) is powered by a tiny Lithium-ion battery developed by Israel’s Epsilor. The battery is designed to last at least 10 years, ample time for the mission.
https://www.epsilor.com/
More high-powered Israeli computer chips. Israel’s NeoLogic has developed a chip technology for higher computing power. Its Quasi-CMOS design reduces the transistor count of a microprocessor by up to a third, increasing its power and energy-efficiency, while reducing its price.
https://www.neologicvlsi.com/
MassChallenge Israel winners. The 7 Israeli startups (out of 49) that won the 4-month 2023 MassChallenge Israel accelerator program are: H2OLL; McFly (heavy lifting drone); Origametria (teaching geometry); PregnanTech; RealizeMD (anonymizing faces in medical data); TextRe; and Coda (speech to sign language).
https://nocamels.com/2023/07/
https://www.mcflyhigh.com/ https://origametria.com/
https://finder.
https://nocamels.com/2023/08/
11 medals at student Olympiads in Japan. (TY UWI) At the International Mathematics Olympiad in Chiba, Japan, Israel’s Itamar Nir won a gold medal. Israelis won five other medals, taking Israel to 14th place of the 112 countries. Israeli students also won five silver medals at the International Physics Olympiad in Tokyo.
https://www.israel21c.org/
ECONOMY & BUSINESS
Trade Agreements with Vietnam & Ivory Coast. (TY WIN) Israel and Vietnam have signed a Free Trade Agreement, Israel’s first with an Association of Southeast Asian Nations member. Direct flights to Hanoi are planned to start in Oct. Israel has also signed an agreement with Ivory Coast in agriculture, water, and tech.
https://www.jns.org/israel-
https://www.jns.org/israel-
https://www.
https://www.jns.org/israel-
Strong growth in Israeli hi-tech. Israel’s high-tech exports increased by 6.9% during the first five months of 2023. Over the same period, industrial production in Israel’s high-tech sector expanded by 5.6% more than in the first five months of 2022 and the number of Israeli high-tech workers grew 3% over the same period.
https://www.algemeiner.com/
NIS 113 million for biodevices R&D. Israel’s Innovation Authority is allocating NIS 113 million for a new research and development center for startups to build biodevices based on biochips. This area is known as bio-convergence and is expected to be a growth engine and source of diversification for Israeli industry.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
The UK’s deepest mine. (TY Hazel) Israel Chemicals Ltd (ICL) owns Boulby Mine in North Yorkshire, the UK’s deepest mine, and currently the world’s only polyhalite mine. Polyhalite, a naturally occurring crystal, is marketed as PolySulphate, a new eco-friendly fertilizer, used on the Wimbledon turf and exported worldwide.
https://www.icl-uk.uk/history-
Electric bus Blue Line for Tel Aviv. Work has begun on Tel Aviv’s new Bus Rapid Transit system. Advanced electric buses will connect 44 stations along the 14 miles from Tel Aviv to Rehovot via Rishon LeZion and Nes Ziona. The line is estimated to cost nearly NIS 3 billion and expected to open in 2028.
https://www.jns.org/israel-
Electric road for France. Israel’s Electreon (see here previously) has won a French public tender to install a 2km wireless Electric Road System (ERS) to charge passing electric vehicles. It will be built into a section of the A10 highway, Southwest of Paris. It will also include a stationary wireless charging station for all EVs.
https://www.jpost.com/
Knee implant makes US debut. The Agili-C knee implant from Israel’s Cartiheal has just been used for the first time in the United States. Dr. Ken Zaslav, a specialist in Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine at Northwell Health in New York, was the first physician in the US to implant Agili-C in a patient.
https://nocamels.com/2023/07/
Israeli security for Microsoft. Israel’s Appdome (see here previously) is partnering with the U.S.-based Microsoft Azure DevOps to advance its Cyber Defense Automation Platform. It allows mobile app developers to rapidly detect potential cybersecurity threats and build secure Android and iOS applications.
https://nocamels.com/2023/07/
https://www.appdome.com/ https://www.youtube.com/
Another quarter of a billion for Israeli startups. TLV Partners (see here previously) has raised $250 million in new funds to invest in innovative Israeli-founded early-stage startups. Its fifth fund will back up to 25 Israeli-founded startups engaged in AI, cybersecurity, fintech, biotech, and other fields.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/
Exits, takeovers & mergers to 20/8/23:.General Motors has acquired Israel’s ORGOLiON (now renamed AIONZ). Israeli energy conglomerate Delek Group is buying control of Israeli citrus fruit supplier and real estate investor Mehadrin Ltd. in a deal worth NIS 249 million. Israel’s ReWalk bought US-based AlterG for $19 million. Multinational Philip Morris is acquiring Israel’s Syqe Medical for up to $650 million. France’s Thales is acquiring Israeli-founded Imperva for $3.6 billion. EssilorLuxottica (makers of Ray-Ban sunglasses) acquired Israel’s Nuancehear. Israel’s Rapyd is acquiring PayU GPO for $610 million.
Investment in Israeli startups to 20/8/23: K Health raised $59 million; TytoCare raised $49 million; WINT Water Intelligence raised $35 million; Wing Cloud raised $20 million;
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Kiss our military goodbye!
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