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MY E-PAL MICHAEL ORDMAN TOILS ALONE IN A SEA OF BAD NEWS AND BAD PUBLICITY FOR ISRAEL. PLEASE SPREAD THIS NEWS FAR AND WIDE. ISRAEL ENDURES THE JIHADIST HATRED OF ITS NEIGHBORS AND THE LIBELS AND SLANDER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MEDIA. NO NATION IN THE WORLD, UNDER SUCH DURESS ACCOMPLISHES WHAT ISRAEL DOES…READ ABOUT THEM…RSK
In the 22nd July edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

· Israeli biotechnology instructs a patient’s own body to make proteins to cure disease.
· Israel ran a summer camp for sick children from Gaza and the Palestinian Authority.
· An Israeli runway debris detection system received Federal Aviation Administration approval.
· A June record of a quarter of million tourists visited Israel last month.
· An accident changed an unfit executive into a top Israeli paralympic athlete.
· Israel is to return the final remnant of the Ethiopian Jewish community to the Jewish State.

ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS

“It’s not a product – it’s an industry”. Israeli biotech Medgenics’ CEO said its Biopump technology has the potential to “start a whole new pharmaceutical industry”. Medgenics’ technology manipulates patients’ own tissue to produce proteins to fight diseases, eliminating the need for hundreds of vaccines.
http://www.proactiveinvestors.com.au/companies/news/31070/medgenics-demonstrates-biopump-technology-potential-as-it-enters-inflection-point-31070.html

A deal to fight cancer. Israeli biotech BioView’s cancer scanning systems will be integrated with French company ScreenCell’s technology to isolate rare tumour cells. The combined solution will improve diagnosis and speed up medical decisions about the best treatment options.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764005&fid=1725

Smoking restricted. Israel has introduced an extensive expansion of laws to prohibit smoking in public spaces in Israel, including central bus stations, covered bus stops, train platforms, government offices, hospital entrances and doorways, places of worship, swimming pools, theatres, restaurants and cafes.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?ID=276875&R=R1

New heart valve centre. US biotech ValCare is to open a centre in Israel to develop a heart valve repair device. The mitral annuloplasty device is implanted using a catheter, thus avoiding open-heart surgery. It prevents mitral valve regurgitation (blood flowing backwards into the heart) affecting 4 million US citizens.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764830

PillCam gets approval in Japan. Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has issued reimbursement codes for Israel’s Given Imaging internal camera, so that it can be used as a first line tool in diagnoses.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764944&fid=1725

Advanced medical clowning. (Thanks to Israel21c) Some of the world’s leading experts participated in the first Advanced Medical Clowning International Summer Seminar at the University of Haifa. Israel is a leader in professionalizing the field of medical clowning and providing scientific evidence for its effectiveness.
http://israel21c.org/news/haifa-hosts-first-international-medical-clowning-seminar/

The fifties are the most productive. A study by University of Haifa researchers has shown that white-collar workers show their “highest level of professional vitality” between the ages of 50 and 60. That’s really good news for one 55-year-old newsletter editor.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=276873

ISRAEL IS INCLUSIVE AND GLOBAL

28,212 tons of goods enter Gaza. Despite rockets from Gaza terrorists, Israel brings humanitarian aid into the terrorist mini-state. Over 1000 trucks carried in over 28,000 tons of merchandise each week. Hundreds of Palestinian Arab medical patients, musicians and athletes were allowed to enter Israel.
http://www.idf.il/1283-16491-en/Dover.aspx
http://www.idf.il/1283-16481-en/Dover.aspx

Summer camp for PA kids with cancer. 24 sick Palestinian Arab children (including from Gaza) along with their parents spent four days of fun, financed by Israel’s Civil Administration, in the Jordan Park (run by JNF).
http://www.cogat.idf.il/901-10291-en/Cogat.aspx

Masters for Arza Haddad. The daughter of the late Head of the South Lebanese Army, Saad Haddad, has just graduated from Israel’s Technion with a Masters degree in Aeronautics. Arza fled from Lebanon in 1984.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/from-lebanese-refugee-to-israeli-rocket-scientist/

Charities benefit from Israeli start-ups. Israeli non-profit organisation Tmura has contributed $6.3 million to over 100 educational programs since it started ten years ago. Tmura receives a few share options from early-stage Israeli start-ups and then exercises these options if and when the start-ups are taken over.
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/08/tmura/

SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY

Clearing runways can save life. FODetect from Israel’s Xsight uses hybrid radar and electro optical technology to detect junk on runways. The system can prevent incidents such as when an Air France Concorde hit Foreign Object Debris (FOD) from a previous flight, caught fire and crashed, killing 113 people.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-system-keeps-runways-clean-and-planes-safe/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=eWUim5agoGE

An exhibition for inventors. Tel Aviv is hosting the first of its kind Israeli Patents Exhibition in September. It intends to put 10,000 Israeli and foreign inventors, investors, patent attorneys, mechanical engineers and computer programmers in the same room and turn good ideas into actual products.
http://israel21c.org/technology/have-an-invention-meet-an-investor-in-israel/
http://www.eng.nufar.co.il/PAGE60.asp

Yeshiva University scientists at Bar Ilan. 30 male and female undergraduate YU science majors will spend seven weeks of the summer carrying out their research in Bar Ilan University’s state-of-the-art laboratories in Tel Aviv.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/156832

New York to import Israeli tech culture. Good video clip summarising Israel Technion’s involvement in the building of New York’s Technion Cornell Innovation Institute.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-va_ncrYWes&feature=youtu.be

Star of tomorrow. The magazine Scientific American has featured 28-year-old Israeli physicist Eldad Kepten in its “30 under 30” list of future possible Nobel Laureates. Kepten’s speciality is the stochastic dynamics of chromatin (DNA) in the cellular nucleus with advanced microscopy and single particle tracking. Wonderful!
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=lindau-eldad-kepten

We can rebuild it. In 2005, an Israeli F16 plane crashed on landing. The front was completely shattered, its tail was broken, the wings were curved, and the engine was filled with mud. Seven years later, the plane has been repaired and the original pilot and navigator took it back into the air.
http://www.idf.il/1283-16466-en/Dover.aspx

Military device to save lives. Tel Aviv-based Netline Communications Technologies has made one of the smallest jammers ever for stopping improvised explosive devices (IEDs). It was made after a NATO country for a “handball sized” jammer that elite units like Special Forces could carry in an urban operation.
http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2012/06/israeli-tech/

For landing on the Moon. Dozens of volunteers are working to turn Israel into the fifth country in the world, to have landed spacecraft on the moon. The team presented a model of the tiny space vehicle at a meeting of the Knesset Science and Technology Committee’s subcommittee on space.
http://www.jpost.com/Health/Article.aspx?id=277029

ECONOMY & BUSINESS

Another record for tourism to Israel. Nearly a quarter of a million tourists visited the Jewish State in June. 1.4 million tourists arrived in Israel during the first half of 2012. Both figures are up 6% on 2011 equivalents.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764111&fid=1725

The world invests in Israel. According to the UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow to Israel totalled $11.37 billion in 2011, 106% more than the $5.51 billion in 2010.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000763929&fid=1725

EU & Israel sign joint research agreement. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met with visiting European Union President José Manuel Barroso in Jerusalem on Monday to oversee the signing of a new water and energy cooperation deal on technological development.
http://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-meets-with-eu-president-signs-joint-research-agreement/

Singapore shows off Israeli water technology. A delegation of 13 Israeli water technology companies are exhibiting at Singapore International Water Week (SIWW) 2012. Specialities include purification, advanced filtering, transport infrastructure, biological monitoring, and energy-efficient desalination solutions.
http://www.israelnewtech.com/2012/07/singapore-welcomes-israeli-water-technology-companies-at-siww2012/

Waze reaches 20 million customers. The navigation app from Israel’s Waze has been downloaded by millions of Americans, Europeans and Israelis. Muslim Malaysia has 600,000 subscribers. Waze is now targeting Japan, Korea and China.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000763278&fid=1724

US fibre optics firm sees Red. US Fibre optic communications giant Finisar has bought up Israel’s RED-C Optical Networks Inc. RED-C was founded in 2000 and has over 140 employees, all of whom are located in Israel.
http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-07-03/finisar-to-buy-red-c-optical-for-at-least-23-dot-7m

Phillips has a healthy future in Israel. Phillips CEO met with Israeli President Shimon Peres following his visit to Phillips’ 600-employee development team in Haifa. Peres said, “Phillips occupies a central place in Israel’s high-tech industry”.
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/244406
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764097&fid=1725

Recharging Australia’s cars. Better Place Inc. has teamed up with Australia carmaker GM Holden Ltd. to provide battery recharging services and equipment for the Volt electric car. Customers who choose to install a Better Place Charge Spot can charge their Volt in under four hours.
http://www.globes.co.il/serveen/globes/docview.asp?did=1000764368&fid=1725

ENTERTAINMENT & SPORT

Groovideo puts your family video together. (Thanks to NoCamels) Israeli Startup Groovideo’s application and web based service allows you and your friends to produce different clips for the same film simultaneously in easy steps. You upload all the clips and Groovideo combines all the segments into one final video.
http://nocamels.com/2012/07/startup-groovideo-edits-group-videos-into-simple-films/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4qlb0lD4kg&feature=player_embedded

Your TV knows your taste. Israel’s Jinny is a discovery engine for your TV. It suggests programs that match your taste and mood. It has now teamed up with Swisscom for integration into On Demand and live TV.
http://www.embassyofisrael.co.uk/commercial/2012/07/10/swisscom-teams-up-with-israels-jinni-to-bring-semantic-discovery-to-live-tv-vod-subscribers/

A blue & white send-off for Israel’s athletes. (Thanks to Israel21c) Israel’s Olympic and Paralympic teams had a gala send-off at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. The 38 Olympians and 25 Paralympians began spontaneously to sing the song “All the world is a very narrow bridge, and the main thing is not to be afraid.”
http://israel21c.org/culture/a-blue-and-white-sendoff-for-israels-athletes/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-blue-and-white-sendoff-for-israels-athletes

Before the accident he was a couch potato. (Thanks to Israel21c) Until a crippling motorcycle accident in 1999, Israeli high-tech exec Nati Gruberg was a paunchy couch potato. He jokes that he barely lifted a finger. In August, he’ll be one of three Israeli handcyclists heading to the London Paralympic Games.
http://israel21c.org/people/israels-no-1-handcyclist-heads-to-the-paralympics/

http://www.dianawest.net/Home/tabid/36/EntryId/2188/SOS-Save-Our-Adults.aspx

There is one operative word in Andy McCarthy’s illuminating examination of some of the facts obscured by the weird and racuous apotheosis of Huma Abedin currently enlivening the hysterical demonization of Rep. Michele Bachmann by the media and John McCain, a grotesque and shameful display triggered by a question — one question — Bachmann and four other House Republicans have raised about Abedin’s close family connections to the rapacious Islamic supremacist group, the Muslim Brotherhood.

That word is “adults.”

Having outlined these connections, which are not, the former federal prosecutor writes, “contrived or weightless,” McCarthy notes it’s not “a crime to have close relatives who are either members of, or associated with members of such an organization. Again, however,” he patiently explains, “no one is accusing Huma Abedin of a crime.”

He continues:
The five House conservatives instead are asking questions that adults responsible for national security should feel obliged to ask: In light of Ms. Abedin’s family history, is she someone who ought to have a security clearance, particularly one that would give her access to top-secret information about the Brotherhood? Is she, furthermore, someone who may be sympathetic to aspects of the Brotherhood’s agenda, such that Americans ought to be concerned that she is helping shape American foreign policy?

Pak cop kills sister for wearing jeans http://www.thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=417465&catid=37&tw_p=twt LAHORE, 21 JULY: A Pakistani policeman in this eastern city allegedly shot dead his sister for wearing jeans, officials said today. Constable Asad Ali was unhappy with his sister Najma Bibi, 22, for wearing what he considered were “men’s clothes”, especially jeans, officials said. The siblings often […]

http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/kochi/81291-islamists-hack-abvp-leader-to-death-in-kerala.html Activists of Islamist students’ organization Campus Front of India brutally murdered an ABVP leader at Christian College at Chengannur in Kerala’s Alappuzha district. Two other ABVP workers were injured in the Islamists’ attack. ABVP leader Vishal (19), who was hacked by a bike-mounted gang of Islamists in front of Christian College on Monday morning, […]

http://blogs.jpost.com/content/responding-prof-n-berman To address the response of Prof. Berman to my previous post on international law and Israel’s legality to administer Judea, Samaria and Gaza or, at the very least, to facilitate and encourage Jewish residency therein, requires more than a comment box so I’ll devote this post to the subject. I will simply break up […]

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/gop-rep-yells-at-janet-napolitano-for-claiming-shes-unaware-of-classified-doc-leak-wh-terror-group-visit/ GOOD MAN BUT HE SHOULD STAY OUT OF THEOLOGY….HIS STATEMENT ON THE AURORA KILLINGS WAS DUMB AND DUMBER….”IT WAS SPURRED BY OUR TELLING GOD THAT WE DON’T WANT HIM AROUND”…..RSK GOP Rep. Yells at Janet Napolitano For Claiming She’s Unaware of Classified Doc Leak, WH Terror Group Visit Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) yelled at […]

Instead of roads and bridges, Obama-sized government funds stasis and sclerosis: The Hoover Dam of regulatory obstruction, the Golden Gateway to dependency. http://www.ocregister.com/opinion/obama-364707-build-golden.htmlOn the evidence of last week’s Republican campaign events, President Obama’s instant classic – “You didn’t build that” – is to Mitt Romney what that radioactive arachnid is to Spider-Man: It got under […]

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1424/according_to_the_bbc_israel_has_no_capital_city In just nine days the Olympics in London will commence with a now shorter than planned opening ceremony, a questionable representation from those chosen to secure the Games and growing public disquiet over the hardline sponsorship rights which restrict local sellers from serving chips (only the McDonald’s overlords may sell you potato-based goods!) But […]

http://www.thecommentator.com/article/1435/bbc_pictures_reveal_more_about_their_attitudes_to_the_middle_east_conflict_than_they_might_wish

With the BBC continuing to report on the Middle East conflict in the way it does – who needs the Balen Report?

On Wednesday, The Commentator brought you the exclusive story that the BBC refused to recognise anywhere as the capital city of the State of Israel.

While our other outlets picked up on the story (and failed to credit us, ahem) we were busy celebrating what was bound to be a BBC response, especially after Mark Regev, foreign press officer for the Prime Minister of the State of Israel, issued a stern letter to the BBC.

Sure enough, a partial cave from auntie’s end has occurred (Oo-er). Instead of now leaving the capital up to the imagination of the reader, the BBC Olympics page now recognises that the government sits in Jerusalem, although a caveat insists that most foreign embassies are based in Tel Aviv (spin, spin, spin).

Nonetheless, The Commentator was also the first to discover on Wednesday night that this wasn’t an incident limited to the BBC Sport site. In fact, this was a trend set by the BBC News section in the first place, confirming our suspicions of an institutional line on the State of Israel having no recognisable capital. As an extension of the British government – question must now be asked of the British Foreign Office as well.

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/310198/questions-about-huma-abedin-andrew-c-mccarthy

Der Spiegel pointed out the obvious: “A certain role of the Muslim Brotherhood in the transition process [to ‘democracy’] in Egypt seems acceptable to the Obama White House.” It was early February 2011, the moment when the uprising that would oust Hosni Mubarak was bubbling over in Tahrir Square. The prominent German newsmagazine figured, who better to ask about the Muslim Brotherhood than the American political establishment’s resident foreign-policy genius, John McCain?

So, the reporter asked him, does Obama’s tolerance of the Muslim Brotherhood “concern you”?

Senator Maverick shot back without hesitation: “It concerns me so much that I am unalterably opposed to it. I think it would be a mistake of historic proportions.”

Senator McCain elaborated that he was “deeply, deeply concerned that this whole movement [toward democracy] could be hijacked by radical Islamic extremists.” And what, he was specifically asked, “is your assessment of the Muslim Brotherhood”? McCain pulled no punches:

I think they are a radical group that, first of all, supports sharia law; that in itself is anti-democratic — at least as far as women are concerned. They have been involved with other terrorist organizations and I believe that they should be specifically excluded from any transition government.

In fact, so apprehensive was he over the Brotherhood and its sharia agenda that McCain was quick to brand Mohamed ElBaradei, the Nobel laureate, as a Brotherhood tool. Many of us watching developments at the time noted the apparent collusion between ElBaradei and the Brothers. McCain went farther: “Oh yeah, I think it’s very clear that the scenario is very likely he could be their front man.”

Senator Straight Talk reasoned that since ElBaradei appeared to be on the same page as the Brotherhood, and was being hailed as a potential Mubarak successor despite having “no following nor political influence in Egypt,” we should assume that he must be in cahoots with the Brotherhood. It did not matter that ElBaradei was a renowned international figure and an important leftist ally of President Obama’s. So pernicious was the threat posed by the Brotherhood that, in McCain’s considered opinion, you just had to assume the worst.