Monthly Archives: August 2020

Colombia’s Jerusalem innovation center

Posted on August 16, 2020

In a video conference with Israel’s Prime Minister, Colombian President Ivan Marquez announced his country is to open an innovation center in Jerusalem. A new free trade agreement has just come into effect between Israel and Colombia – South America’s … Continue reading →

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Israeli runway protection for Qatar

Posted on August 16, 2020

Hamad International Airport (HIA) in Qatar is to deploy the RunWize Foreign Object & Debris (FOD) detection system provided by Israel’s Xsight Systems (reported here previously). HIA is ranked as one of the best airports in the world and is … Continue reading →

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Enabling Arabs & Israelis to do business

Posted on August 16, 2020

Israeli Jew Yosef Mahfoud Levi founded Insijam (Arabic for “harmony”). Levi was born to a Yemenite family and grew up speaking Arabic. He learned the Bedouin dialect and teaches Arab culture. Insijam establishes Arab-Israeli business & cultural channels across the … Continue reading →

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Meal for Two

Posted on August 16, 2020

Israeli restaurants and the public are encouraged to join the “Meal for Two” initiative of Israeli charity Leket. Citizens donations are used by restaurants impacted by corona to cook a meal for needy Israelis. https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-restaurants-team-with-charity-to-help-feed-the-needy-during-pandemic/

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Covid-19 passive vaccine cures 3 Israelis

Posted on August 16, 2020

Three of the first critical Covid-19 patients treated with the new IgG plasma-derived “passive vaccine” product developed by Israel’s Kamada and Hadassah Medical Center (reported here previously), have made a rapid recovery and have now been discharged from Hadassah hospital. … Continue reading →

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Home ultrasound for pregnant Israelis

Posted on August 16, 2020

Israeli healthcare provider Clalit, with 4.6 million Israeli members, has authorized the use of the PulseNmore home ultrasound device (see here) for expectant mothers. It will reduce numbers of unnecessary hospital visits (average two per pregnancy) during the Covid-19 pandemic. … Continue reading →

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Canon partners Zebra

Posted on August 16, 2020

Israel’s Zebra Medical Vision (reported here previously) has partnered with American radiology system distributor, Canon Medical Systems USA (part of the Canon empire). Zebra’s disease analysis platform will be made available to many more locations across the United States. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3844686,00.html … Continue reading →

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Signs of the times

Posted on August 16, 2020

The vital signs monitoring tool from Israel’s Binah.ai (reported here previously) is to be used by 4 Japanese companies. NTT Data – Health Data Bank; Alm’s MySOS – emergencies & new Covid-19 cases; Macnica Networks – monitoring Covid-19 re-infections; SOMPO … Continue reading →

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From drip irrigation to diagnosing diseases

Posted on August 16, 2020

Kibbutz Hatzerim is famous for founding drip-irrigation innovator Netafim. It has now co-founded Picodya – developer of the B-Matrix in vitro diagnostics (IVD) platform. B-Matrix gives 15-30min test results for cancer, cardiac dysfunction and viruses (including Covid). https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3844490,00.html https://picodya.com/ https://picodya.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/PicodyaBMatrixTechnology.mp4

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Moses 2.0 launched

Posted on August 16, 2020

Israel-headquartered Lumenis (reported here previously) has launched a superior version 2.0 of its Moses platform for minimal and non-invasive laser removal of urinary (bladder) stones and other stones. https://lumenis.com/medical/holmium-products/lumenis-moses-pulse-120h/ https://lumenis.com/medical/specialties/urology/resource-hub/lumenis-launches-next-generation-moses-2-0-holmium-laser-technology/

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