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Jerusalem comes back to life

Posted on November 22, 2020

Israel’s capital was a mixture of on-line and in-line this week as stores opened, some with long lines of customers waiting outside. Meanwhile Chabad, ALYN wheels and the Jerusalem Pianos festival (mentioned above) all connected virtually with their audiences. http://rjstreets.com/2020/11/15/online-in-line-jerusalem/ … Continue reading →

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Israeli cycling has come a long way

Posted on August 2, 2020

The Wheels of Love event (reported here previously) began with only nine riders. It now attracts over 400 riders, raising millions of dollars annually for Jerusalem’s Alyn hospital. Tel Aviv and Jerusalem now have hundreds of kilometers of bike paths.  … Continue reading →

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Redesigning the Xbox for disabled children

Posted on July 27, 2020

Microsoft Israel developed the Xbox Adaptive Controller to make Microsoft’s gaming console accessible for gamers with limited mobility. The head of R&D at Microsoft Israel personally delivered six specially adapted Xboxes to Alyn children’s rehab hospital in Jerusalem. https://www.timesofisrael.com/microsoft-israels-alyn-adapt-xbox-to-help-kids-with-disabilities-get-treatment/

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Helping coronavirus patients breathe

Posted on March 15, 2020

Doctors at Jerusalem’s Alyn hospital developed Coughsync some 10 years ago to help relieve lung congestion in physically challenged and disabled children. Now it is being mass-produced to help clear secretions from the lungs of Chinese coronavirus patients on ventilators. … Continue reading →

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Wheels of Love

Posted on November 24, 2019

Sharon’s recent blog on the Real Jerusalem Streets featured the Wheels of Love charity bike ride. It raised $2.5 million for ALYN which treats patients ranging from babies with illnesses needing constant special attention, to older persons challenged and needing … Continue reading →

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Tech solutions to overcome disabilities

Posted on April 28, 2019

I’ve reported previously (see here) on Israeli NGO ALYN. At Alyn hospital’s annual make-a-thon, 120 participants created prototypes of products to help children with disabilities. They included a musical organ for a paralyzed boy and a wheelchair controlled by a … Continue reading →

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Cyclists raise $3.5 million for sick children

Posted on November 11, 2018

Israel’s annual bike ride “Wheels of Love,” broke records raising more than $3.5 million for ALYN – Israel’s leading pediatric rehabilitation hospital in Jerusalem. 600 cyclists (nearly a third from the US) cycled for 3 days in the Dead Sea … Continue reading →

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Tailored rehabilitation solutions

Posted on June 24, 2018

Innovators at Pele, a tech-innovation program at the Jerusalem-based ALYN Hospital, develop personalized solutions for children with special needs. For 8-year-old Arab boy Yusuf, who cannot bend his joints, it is a structure that allows him to feed himself. https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-8-year-old-who-can-now-eat-by-himself-and-other-rehab-tech-success-stories/ … Continue reading →

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Protecting hospital data

Posted on August 14, 2016

Israeli cybersecurity Votiro’s unique “zero-day” technology quarantines emails containing malicious software that locks hospital systems and issues ransom demands to unlock it.  Jerusalem’s Alyn Hospital for special needs children has just installed Votiro’s software to protect it against such threats. … Continue reading →

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Developing for the disabled

Posted on March 27, 2016

Jerusalem’s Alyn Hospital, Israel’s biggest rehabilitation center for physically challenged youngsters, aims to become the world’s first full-time “maker lab” to develop projects to help the disabled. Alyn just held its first-ever Makeathon, for developers of technology with global social … Continue reading →

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