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Israeli researchers close in on vaccine for autoimmune diseases. A revolutionary approach developed in Israel which uses the body's own cells as a vaccine for treating autoimmune diseases is showing tremendous potential in human trials.
Israeli Counter-Terrorism Expert Trains U.S. Police. A counterterrorism expert who was once an Israeli police officer is in South Florida this week to train police in antiterrorism and crime-fighting techniques. In addition he now lectures and teaches methods of counter-terrorism to international police agencies, the U.S. Counter Terrorism Bureau, and U.S. congressmen and their advisers.
Israeli Researchers: Trials Are On for New MS Treatment. Researchers in Israel are working on a new treatment they hope will slow down the progressive deterioration suffered by patients with multiple sclerosis and other autoimmune diseases. The new treatment uses the body’s own cells as a vaccine against autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS).
Intel Core Duo Changing the Face of Mobile and Desktop Computing. Intel's Israeli labs produced the Pentium M, which solved the heat problems that plagued its Pentium III and Pentium 4M chips. Combined with a marketing effort around the Centrino mobile platform, the Pentium M was a huge hit and now powers most mobile computers.
Healthy Heart. Israeli researchers have found that eating just one pink grapefruit a day can can keep heart disease at bay. They discovered that eating the fruit drastically cut levels of cholesterol.
Israeli doctors to assist Viet Nam in heart surgery for children. A group of Israeli heart doctors from the Save a Child's Heart (SACH) organisation arrived in Viet Nam on March 22 to accelerate cooperation in children's heart surgery. The Israel-based humanitarian organisation has since 1996 conducted heart operations for 1,400 children in 24 countries.
Israeli light surgeryA group of Israeli researchers have shown how to carry out surgery using focused sun light. The device could provide a cheaper and safer alternative to conventional laser surgery. The device has a number of advantages over lasers -- one is that its output contains visible wavelengths, which can penetrate more deeply into tissue than the infrared or ultraviolet radiation from lasers. Another bonus is cost: Gordon says that the system can destroy as much tissue per unit of energy as a laser, but is at least ten times cheaper. The device is also safer than conventional laser systems because the light can be seen, in contrast to lasers that operate outside visible wavelengths.
The team has used its new device to carry out surgery on ex-vivo chicken livers and kidneys (figures 2 & 3) and has also begun clinical trials on live animals. 'The trials have so far yielded excellent preliminary indications and will be followed by trials on animals with cancer,' says Gordon."
Israeli venture capital funds raise $1.2bn in 2005Israeli venture capital funds raised $1.2bn in 2005, which represents an increase of 40 per cent from the $724m raised in 2004, according to the Annual Survey of Israeli Venture Capital Fund Raising.
U.S. Military Relies on Israeli Ammo. WASHINGTON [MENL] -- The U.S. military, saddled with two major military operations, has been depending on ammunition from Israel. The General Accountability Office said Israel has been supplying the U.S. military with ammunition amid rising demand.
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Facts about the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population.
Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.
Israel is the only liberal democracy in the Middle East.
In 1984 and 1991, Israel airlifted a total of 22,000 Ethiopian Jews at risk in Ethiopia to safety in Israel.
When Golda Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she became the world's second elected female leader in modern times.
When the U. S. Embassy in Nairobi, Kenya was bombed in 1998, Israeli rescue teams were on the scene within a day - and saved three victims from the rubble.
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship - and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.
Relative to its population, Israel is the largest immigrant-absorbing nation on earth. Immigrants come in search of democracy, religious freedom, and economic opportunity.
Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."
Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.
Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert.
Israel has more museums per capita than any other country.
Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U.S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.
Israel has the highest per capita ratio of scientific publications in the world by a large margin, as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.
In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).
Israel is ranked #2 in the world for VC funds right behind the US.
Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.
Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies
Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2000 is over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.
With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).
With an aerial arsenal of over 250 F-16s, Israel has the largest fleet of the aircraft outside of the US.
Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.
The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola-Israel. Motorola built its largest development center worldwide in Israel.
Windows NT software was developed by Microsoft-Israel.
The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.
Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.
AOL's instant message program was designed by an Israeli software company.
Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel
The city of Beer Sheva in Israel has the highest percentage in the world of Chess Grand Masters per capita – one for every 22,875 residents.
On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups
Israel has the largest raptor migration in the world, with hundreds of thousands of African birds of prey crossing as they fan out into Asia.
Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees -- ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland -- and 12 percent hold advanced degrees.
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