In the middle of the war in Gaza, rockets continue to fly into Israel from Hamas in Gaza and Hezbollah in Lebanon, and there are occasional attacks on Israel-bound shipping by the Houthis in Yemen. It’s the second longest war in Israel’s history, so far lasting seven months, while the 1948-1949 Arab-Israeli war lasted less than ten months. During the current conflict, Israel has had to call up 360,000 reservists. This is a war in which the Israeli government was compelled to relocate, for their own safety, nearly 100,000 civilians from their homes both in the south, facing Gaza, and in the north, facing Lebanon. No one can predict when they will be able to return.
In the midst of all this violence, and disruption, and sacrifice, Israelis continue to come up with advances that will benefit many far beyond its borders. More on some of their recent achievements can be found here.
In this week’s Positive newsletter are reminders to the President of Ireland that Israeli technology is saving many lives in a Dublin hospital. The President of Brazil should note that an Israeli blood testing machine is early diagnosing fatal diseases in his country. And the President of Syria need only ask his Israeli neighbor to treat his wife with one of Israel’s many remedies for Acute Myeloid Leukemia.
Meanwhile the UN, ICJ and ICC should bare their heads in shame, knowing that Israeli companies last week announced new treatments for liver cancer, electronic patches to kill bacteria infections, electromagnetic brain rehabilitation after strokes, implants to repair the spine, and remote medical diagnostics in thousands of schools.
Then there are the Israeli innovations for ultra-fast charging of electric vehicles, real-time CCTV security systems, lab alternatives to overfishing, and the removal of a greenhouse gas far more potent than carbon dioxide.
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Saving hundreds of lives in Ireland. Dublin’s Mater Hospital has implemented the AI X-ray analysis software from Israel’s Aidoc It has already saved hundreds of lives. No surprise that the Irish National broadcaster RTE didn’t mention that Aidoc is Israeli!
https://www.rte.ie/news/health/2023/1213/1421765-mater-hospital-ai/
https://www.aidoc.com/about/news/mater-hospital-ai-deployment/
Alpha DaRT treats its first liver cancer patient. The Alpha DaRT innovative alpha-radiation cancer therapy from Israel’s Alpha Tau has been used to treat a liver cancer patient in a Canadian clinical trial. The trial will include up to 10 patients with liver metastases (secondary cancer) from colorectal cancer.
https://www.ourcrowd.com/startup-news/alpha-tau-announces-alpha-dart-treatment-of-first-patient-with-liver-metastases-of-colorectal-cancer https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT058292
Electronic cure for infections. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s Inspira Technologies and Israel’s Ennocure MedTech jointly developed innovative bio-electronic physical stimulation technology (see here previously). Lab blood test showed the treatment cut bacterial growth by 75% in 4 hours and by 100% within 24 hours.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/inspira-ennocure-vitro-study-results-122400051.html
Causing brain cancer cells to burn out. Prof Barak Rotblat of Israel’s Ben-Gurion University is making brain cancer cells self-destruct by increasing their growth rate while shutting down their glucose energy source. He is working with BGN Technologies to block 4EBP1, a protein that regulates cancer to survive glucose starvation.
https://www.bgu.ac.il/en/news-and-articles/rotblat-glucose-starvation/
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-48386
Helping recovery from strokes. Israel’s BrainQ (see here previously) reported promising results from a 15-center clinical trial that uses an AI-powered electromagnetic field therapy to help reduce disabilities in people after suffering a severe ischemic stroke.
US approval for spinal fusion. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s Zygofix (see here previously) has received US-FDA approval for its zLOCK Lumbar Facet Fixation System. Zygofix’s already has European CE certification for its adaptable implant, and says it is now positioned to revolutionize spinal fusion surgery.
There is plenty more where those advances so various and so welcome came from. And these are all being developed in the middle of a war. Think of what Israel’s spectacularly talented people could do if they were permitted to live, as they deserve to, at peace with their unrelentingly hostile neighbors.
Wellington says
Here’s a basic reality even though many are not aware of it, and many more would still actually deny it even though it is true: Some 15 million Jews in the world are far, far more productive than well over 1 billion Muslims are.
Three other points: 1) I am not Jewish; 2) I will defend this statement of mine above against all comers; 3) The Judeo-Christian tradition liberates mankind and the Islamic tradition is a recipe for, a la Ernst Renan, shackling mankind at least as much as any other malevolent ideology, religious or secular, ever has.
John Smith says
So true Wellington, and as you are probably aware 22% of all noble prizes have been awarded to Jews. Compare those figures to the dismal amount that have been awarded to muslims. Such as the farcical peace prizes that were awarded to Sadat and Yasser Arafat.
Wellington says
Thanks for your reply, John Smith. For many years now, actually decades, I have maintained that the two single most productive people per capita in all of history have been the ancient Greeks and the Jews from antiquity to the present (English in third place here to the 18th century and America tied for 3rd place since then).
Thus it is no surprise at all that Western Civilization, easily and no contest here, is the most productive civilization in history when taking into account how the ancient Greeks and Jews throughout one era after another accomplished what they did and have done.
Michael Paul Skok says
Don’t forget that Obama, an anti-Israel president, was awarded the Nobel Peace prize after only 8 months in the WH for doing virtually nothing.
maria says
Obama is the worst Jew haters and he and alzheimer Bidet are the enemies of the whole world.
Why are they not arrested and indicted?
They are exactly like the nazis
carpediadem says
Sure but that was by Norwegians, who hate Israel.
Michael Paul Skok says
Don’t forget that Obama, an anti-Israel president, was awarded the Nobel Peace prize after only 8 months in the WH for doing virtually nothing.
Taffy says
Remember that the Nobel Prizes awarded to Arafat, Sadat (and Obama) was the Peace Prize, awarded by Norway to undeserving individuals and those that promoted war and strife, whereas the scientific/medical and economics Nobel Prizes are awarded by Sweden and are based in pure merit. Norway has historically been very anti-Jewish and anti-Israel and pro-Arab. The Nazi occupation during WWII may have something to do with it.
James Lincoln says
Wellington,
To your point, I couldn’t resist:
15,000,000 is 1.5% of 1,000,000,000
Kuffar says
216 Nobel prizes have been awarded to Jews. Compare this to 3 real prizes awarded to Muslims. This doesn’t count the phony “peace” prizes awarded to the likes of Yasser Arafat the butcher who ruled the PLO and Made himself a BILLIONAIRE in the process. Muslims are mu d grubbing Trogs compared to the Jewish people.
abu taleb says
It reminds meto what somebody told me some years ago. When an earthquake hit an area in my country, the attitude of the Christian locals and the muslim locals were quite different. The Christians started to rebuild their houses right away, while the muslims were busy trying to collect donation.
Cynthia says
The Jewish people have always been hated for their productivity and family values all throughout history. They are altruistic in spite of prejudice and persecution. Doing good deeds is perhaps the strongest value in their religion. In this DEI world that hates success, Jews are more hated than ever.
aum says
Bravo our Jewish Brothers & Sisters.
Christopher Watson says
Thank God for the Jewish people.
beeaware says
Muslim’s are terrorizing the world, on a country by country basis, yet the idiots running these inept governments cannot see the danger of deceptive, subverting Islam, refuse to see the inevitable evilness of totalitarian Islam.
OLD GUY says
SIMPLY: The Jewish people produce for mankind, the Islamic people destroy mankind.