Monthly Archives: August 2021

Google to connect Israel to Europe

Posted on August 8, 2021

Google plans to build and operate a submarine cable system to connect Israel with southern Europe. The Blue Submarine Cable System will link Israel to Italy, France and Greece. Its 16 fiber optic pairs aims to increase network capacity and … Continue reading →

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Integrating Arabs in hi-tech

Posted on August 8, 2021

Atidna in High-Tech is a unique program to integrate Israeli Arabs with tech degrees into the Israeli high-tech market. Working with Facebook, Google, Wix and Salesforce, the 3-month training course, improves soft skills and competencies and then helps with interviews … Continue reading →

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New Fire & Rescue dispatch system

Posted on August 8, 2021

Israel’s National Fire and Rescue Authority has launched its new cutting-edge dispatch system. Features include cell phone locating, real-time vehicle tracking (rescue, EMS, police), all fire alerts (e.g. car accidents and terror attacks) and interlinking with Magen David Adom’s systems. … Continue reading →

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Intel Israel’s first Arab Vice President

Posted on August 8, 2021

Reda Masarwa, from the Israeli city of Taybeh, has been promoted to Vice President at Intel Israel – the company’s first Arab VP. During his 24 years at Intel, Reda managed the construction of Intel’s chip plants, heading a team … Continue reading →

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Gaza girl can see again

Posted on August 8, 2021

Israeli surgeons at Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital restored the sight of a toddler from Gaza, suffering from a malignant tumor that covered half her eye. The treatment took several months and included chemotherapy plus an innovative procedure using a direct, precise … Continue reading →

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Home at last

Posted on August 8, 2021

After nine months of rehabilitation at Israel’s Sea Turtle Rescue Center, Stitch the loggerhead sea turtle has been released back to the Mediterranean Sea. Fishermen found her off Israel’s coast in December with a fishing hook lodged in her mouth … Continue reading →

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How IDF located victims in Miami tragedy

Posted on August 8, 2021

The Israeli Defense Forces’ National Rescue Unit recovered 81 of the 97 victims from the Champlain Towers South condo collapse site in Surfside, Miami. The IDF team used experience and hi-tech to search the rubble and worked with families to … Continue reading →

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New York teens at Israeli summer camp

Posted on August 8, 2021

Non-Jewish US youths, including African Americans from Brooklyn and Harlem, joined Israeli Jews and Arabs on Givat Haviva’s “Horizon” program – an international summer camp with a difference. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IH4U1OpUTaM

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New children’s day-care center

Posted on August 8, 2021

The Women’s International Zionist Organization (WIZO) has opened the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Day Care and Early Childhood Education Center, for 100 children in Tel Aviv. WIZO operates 183 day-care centers in Israel for 14,000 children aged from three months … Continue reading →

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Breakthrough in detecting metastatic breast cancer

Posted on August 8, 2021

Researchers from four Israeli medical institutes have identified early signs in the body that indicate breast cancer is about to spread to other organs. The discovery could save millions of lives. They also discovered that the protein MYC speeds the … Continue reading →

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