Biopharmaceutical firm NasVax is making waves with its VaxiSome delivery system which helps boost the body’s response to a vaccine. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90. Flu shots and other vaccinations could be more effective using immunotherapy developed by Israeli company …
Author Archives: David Bender
Israeli rescue device promises a ‘safe exit’ from world’s high-rises
SAFEXIT’s Yoav Barzilai: The system is designed to correct ‘user-errors,’ even of those who are literally ‘running for their lives’Getting people out of a high-rise office tower or apartment building quickly and safely in an emergency usually means using the …
Telecom 2006 – where Israeli technology and communication come together
The Israel Export Institute’s Yair Ofek: Visitors will return to their countries and say, ‘hey – we saw the power in the telecom business.’Communications prowess is a key to technological leadership, and Israel’s world-class telecom/information technology industry combines both to …
Real life hoop dreams for Israel’s Gaza evacuees
Home Game chronicles daily life before and during the evacuation of the 30-year-old farming community of Netzer Hazani, in the southern Gush Katif settlement bloc, as its teenage basketball players prepared for a tournament.While media coverage of Israel’s evacuation of …
Make way for Israel’s next-generation video content
The NeGeV consortium has the ‘capabilities to produce generic technologies that will enable a new personal TV reality to be adopted worldwide.’If you think viewing fuzzy, slow-downloading news clips on your cellphone, or watching over-pixillated YouTube Internet posts are the …
Angling for the security market
“I believe that the Corner Shot weapon system can be extremely beneficial in the global war on terror,” – Corner Shot co-founder Amos Golan.A tense SWAT team, masked and clad in body-armor cautiously sidles up to a decrepit urban warehouse …
Magen David Adom ‘joins the ranks’ of the international rescue service community
The emblem of Magen David Adom joined those of the other international rescue organizations at a recent conference in Israel.Red Cross officials from around the world gathered in Israel last week for a three-day disaster management workshop hosted by Magen …
Keeping things in perspective
Some 30,000 painstakingly modeled and painted human figurines dot Mini Israel, including 4,500 military and sports figurines that actually walk, wave their arms and kick around soccer balls.Yoni Shapira is a big guy who likes little things; 1:25 scale little …