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The Anti-Defamation League has also now been pulled on to the Netanyahu Congressional Speech Drama.

Oooh, another bit of drama in the ‘Obama-Bombing-Bibi Soap Opera’ …

The White House has started bringing out the heavy artillery: The New York-based Anti-Defamation League is the latested to be recruited to pressure Israel’s Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu into canceling his address to the U.S. Congress on March 3.

Yes. It’s another round of messing with Israeli politics, cloaked in the guise of harassing a prime minister over a speech to Congress. But it’s really about trying to rally enough bad blood to make Netanyahu look bad to people who know he’s probably one of the few in Israel who actually knows how to lead, mistakes notwithstanding.

Ah — and lest we forget — it’s also about trying to distract the American public from that other thing: the Iranian nuclear threat that’s being carefully hidden away in a pretty package with a shiny pink bow. It’s about to be sealed in an agreement between Tehran and world powers led by President Barack Obama at the end of March. Obama’s not very happy that Netanyahu is planning to talk about that with Congressional lawmakers.

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ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

Building muscle after hip replacement. Israel’s Pluristem Therapeutics has announced that the improvement in muscle force of hip-replacement patients treated with its PLX-PAD cells was 40-times better than those who received a placebo.
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-further-posiitive-trial-findings-for-pluristem-1001006064

The tiniest pump for diabetes and Parkinson’s. (Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s TouchéMedical is developing the world’s smallest, cheapest and smartest patch pump, for patients of all ages with diabetes, Parkinson’s and other chronic conditions.
http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/worlds-smallest-cheapest-patch-pump-for-diabetics/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=B7wf7EiLT64

Making it easier to remember your meds. Israel’s MediSafe is opening an office in Boston. It will help market MediSafe’s medication reminder app, which up to now has been promoted mainly by world of mouth. Despite this, the app has been downloaded 1.3 million times and is used regularly by hundreds of thousands.
http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/blog/startups/2015/01/israeli-startup-medisafe-raises-6m-for-move-to.html?page=all https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=seE6rCZGm2Q

“MEDinISRAEL – The heartbeat of Medical Innovation.” Representatives from 60 countries will attend Israel’s MEDinISRAEL conference from 23-26 March. They will join 120 Israeli medical device companies and biotechs to discuss and demonstrate Israel’s latest developments in medical innovation.
http://itrade.gov.il/singapore/2015/02/03/health-nation-israeli-medical-innovation-healthier-world/

Two Israeli-Arabs develop app to treat ADHD. Aziz Kaddan and Anas Abu Mukh began degree courses at Haifa University when they were 16 years old. They were just 19 when they thought up Myndlift – an app that teaches ADHD children and adults to concentrate by using their brainwaves to display a bright image.
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-myndlift-an-israeli-app-being-developed-to-cure-adhd-1001007206

ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL

Israel’s “Lego man” tells of Ezer Mizion’s kids. Maor Cohen is known in Israel as the Lego man. Three years ago Maor went to Israeli cancer charity Ezer Mizion to donate some Lego to young cancer sufferers. But seeing children with sick parents reminded him of his early life. So Maor stayed, and the Lego sets just grew.
http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2015/02/04/israels-lego-man-tells-ezer-mizions-kids/

Female cancer survivor becomes IDF officer. Rotem Chiprut made aliya and joined the IDF as a lone soldier, only to discover she had cancerous cells in her thyroid gland. Following surgery and treatment she completed her officer’s training and has now been promoted to 2nd lieutenant.
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/02/01/idf-lone-soldier-who-survived-cancer-promoted-to-2nd-lieutenant/

Give your heart out. 90% of jewelry manufacturer YVEL’s employees arrived in Israel from 20 countries. YVEL also trains Ethiopian Jews in all jewelry crafts. It is now supporting the latest campaign by Israel’s Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) to raise funds for performing free heart surgery to children from developing countries.
http://www.yvel.com/magazine/yvel-save-childs-heart-giving-hearts-valentines-day/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9BAOpoKRYI

Haiti – five years on. (Thanks to Israel21c) Five years after the devastating earthquake, Israel has not abandoned its work in Haiti. Humanitarian organization IsraAID is running a medical facility, an agriculture program, a youth empowerment center and a gender violence prevention program for Haitian women.
http://www.israel21c.org/headlines/five-years-post-quake-israel-is-still-helping-haiti-heal/

Clean water for Tanzanian school. Students from Tel Aviv University have built a 48,000-liter rainwater harvesting and advanced filtration system that provides 400 school kids and staff at Nkaiti Secondary School in Minjingu, Tanzania with safe drinking water. It will stop the children growing up with skeletal deformities.
http://nocamels.com/2015/01/tau-engineering-tanzanian-school/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OLdjTekHhb4

Solar energy to Rwanda. Israelis have helped install the largest solar field in East Africa. Gigawatt Global, with its Israeli R&D center Energiya Global, has built an 8.5 Megawatt facility in Kigali, Rwanda, at the Agahozo-Shalom Youth Village, a kibbutz-style orphanage for victims of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israelis-to-dedicate-largest-solar-field-in-east-africa/

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Detecting cancer with the SniffPhone. The NaNose cancer breathalyzer technology developed by Professor Hossam Haick of Israel’s Technion will soon be installed in a mobile phone – to be called, appropriately, the SniffPhone. Using a tiny smell-sensitive sensor, the phone will be able to detect cancer on a users’ breath.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/mobile-sniffphone-will-detect-cancer-on-a-users-breath/

Music Messenger is an instant hit. Israelis invented the first instant messaging system ICQ. Now the Israeli startup Music Messenger allows friends to send music to each other. Recent investors include some major players and celebrities from the music industry, some who have never before worked with an Israeli company.
http://www.globes.co.il/en/article-music-sharing-app-music-messenger-raising-30m-1001006392

How the Cornell Technion is developing. Whilst the new 2 million-square-foot Cornell Tech campus on Roosevelt Island is being constructed, its 2nd semester is underway in temporary offices provided by Google. Graduates from the two-year program will receive dual degrees from the New York and Israeli schools.
http://www.fromthegrapevine.com/innovation/innovative-tech-incubator-campus-evolving-new-york

Israel is one of world’s most innovative countries. (Thanks to Michelle) Depending on which report you read, Israeli innovation is rated 3rd in the world by the World Economic Forum and 5th by Bloomberg.
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/New-Tech/Israel-ranked-5th-in-Bloomberg-innovation-index-389639
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jerry-jasinowski/innovation_b_6603514.html