Monthly Archives: April 2019

Breath of life in Nepal

Posted on April 7, 2019

Ishmael Khaldi is Israel’s first Bedouin diplomat and has been posted to Israel’s embassy in Nepal. He has teamed up with local Chabad Rabbi Hezkl Lifshitz, to provide trekkers with mini oxygen tanks to rent, for protection against altitude sickness. … Continue reading →

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Joint Israeli, Palestinian Arab firefighting exercise

Posted on April 7, 2019

Israeli and Palestinian Arab firefighters participated in a joint firefighting and rescue exercise in Samaria. The firefighters extinguished simulated fires in four locations, using six Israeli firefighting airplanes, six Israeli firetrucks and two Palestinian firetrucks. https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-and-palestinian-firefighters-participate-in-joint-exercise-in-jenin/

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Clean drinking water for Sierra Leone children

Posted on April 7, 2019

Israel;s Watergen has supplied one of its GEN-350 “water from the air” generators to the St. Joseph’s girls’ school in Sierra Leone’s capital of Freetown. Its 900 liters per day of fresh drinking water is saving the schoolchildren from the … Continue reading →

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Wheelchairs for Montenegro children

Posted on April 7, 2019

I reported several times (see here) on Israel’s lightweight Wheelchairs of Hope for disabled children. Montenegro President Milo Đukanović has been in Israel meeting with the country’s leadership. His “going home” present was a gift of dozens of the wheelchairs … Continue reading →

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Rebranding Israel to the world

Posted on April 7, 2019

I’ve reported previously (see here) on Vibe Israel and here on its former name Kinetis.  Its mission is to re-brand Israel to accentuate the positive. Joanna Landau, Vibe Israel’s founder and CEO, was featured in the UK Jewish News, She … Continue reading →

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Rare pediatric double organ transplant

Posted on April 7, 2019

13-year-old Hila Amram received a new liver and pancreas at Petah Tikva’s Schneider Children’s Medical Center. The double transplant saved her life and freed her from insulin dependence. The op was even more complex due to the donor’s internal organs … Continue reading →

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Preventing strokes without excessive bleeding

Posted on April 7, 2019

Biotech eXithera is a portfolio company of Israel’s Clal Biotechnology. It has developed an anti-coagulant which has successfully completed Phase 1 trials. The treatment delays coagulation rather than prevents it and its effects cease quickly when the treatment stops. https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-sichuan-haisco-invests-in-clal-biotechs-exithera-1001280424

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European funds for depression therapy

Posted on April 7, 2019

I reported previously (see here) on the brain analysis system developed by Israel’s elminda. The EU has just awarded elminda a 2-year grant through its Horizon 2020’s phase 2 program. It will help elminda develop and trial its BNA-PREDICT product … Continue reading →

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Same microbe different effect

Posted on April 7, 2019

Scientists at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have developed algorithms that can identify structural variants in the genomes of human gut microbiomes. People with a certain variant were much thinner than those who had the same microbe but not the variant. The … Continue reading →

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Technion printer for human tissues

Posted on April 7, 2019

Israel’s Technion Institute has set up a 3D center for the printing of cells, tissues and organs. Its purpose is to enable Technion researchers to develop tissues containing blood vessels or 3D scaffolds that quickly connect to the patient’s own … Continue reading →

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