By Michael Ordman
As we leave behind the celebrations of Israel’s independence, it is important not only to look back at what Israel has achieved in the past, but also at what Israel is doing right now! Both indicators show that the Jewish State is leading mankind into a future that is vastly different both medically and technically from our current environment.
The world we are beginning to see is one where humans no longer suffer from dementia. The research by Professor Michal Schwartz and her team at the Weizmann Institute highlights the changes in the brains of the elderly that prevent immune cells traveling to repair brain trauma. It opens up the possibility of new treatments to prevent brain degeneration. Similarly, Parkinson’s will be cured – maybe using the sugar substitute mannitol that researchers from Tel Aviv University found to protect the brain against the disease.
The “Big C” will one day be a thing of the past, thanks to specialists like Israel’s Professor Alexander Levitzki of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The American Association for Cancer Research has just awarded him its 2013 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research. Other problems with the immune system will be resolved. Professor Rifaat Safadi’s team from Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem has already identified the way the system’s Neuroliglin 4 protein can either fight fatty liver disease or exacerbate it.
Whilst on the subject of medicine, Israel’s Teva is the world’s largest producer of generic medications. In the US, one in six prescriptions are for Teva products. CEO Jeremy Levin recently stated, “We are an Israeli company, and we will remain an Israeli company. At our Ashdod plant, whilst people (in Gaza) fire rockets, we make medicines.”
In the new golden age, no one would dream of accusing Israel of being an apartheid state. Everyone will know how Israel’s hospitals employ Arab Muslims alongside Jews at all staff levels. For example, 57-year-old cardiologist Dr. Aziz Darawshe from the Arab village of Iksal, near Nazareth is the new director of the emergency department at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem, and chairman of the Israel Society for Urgent Medicine. Everyone will hear that Israeli hospitals treat thousands of Palestinian Arab children every year. Like siblings Ahmad and Hadil Hamdan from Gaza, who both suffer from chronic kidney disease and receive dialysis treatment at the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa, Israel. Now just sit back and enjoy some beautiful images of Israel’s diverse population and cultures.
Israel is the world’s third most innovative country, according to a Massachusetts Institute of Technology survey of 61 experts from 20 countries. Israel’s agricultural technology is starting to eliminate hunger in Africa, India and China. The latest innovations include a low-cost robot milking machine from Israeli start-up MiRobot, which is marketed as “the greatest thing to happen in dairy farming in 100 years”. MiRobot is embarking on a road show of the US with four other Israeli agri-tech start-ups including SolChip (solar powered livestock tracking sensors) and EdenShield (natural herbs to prevent insect infestation of plants).
Storage of electricity will soon become far more efficient than at present. Two Israeli companies are at the forefront of this technology. First, Tel Aviv’s Enstorage has produced the first ever Hydrogen-Bromine flow battery to be connected to the national grid. It is the cheapest, smallest and most powerful flow battery on the market. The second company, Phinergy, impressed US President Obama with its evolutionaryaluminum-air battery. It can power an electric vehicle for up to 1,000 miles (1600 km) before needing a recharge – three times longer than any competitor.
There will be no drought or water shortages in tomorrow’s world. Israel – the world’s most efficient user of water – invested NIS 3 billion in water infrastructures in 2012. Israel is marketing its desalination and recycling facilities across the world. Israel will also be an economic powerhouse. Already its currency is the strongest in the world. Of the 31 currencies monitored by Bloomberg, Israel’s shekel had the best performance in the first three months of 2013. Reasons include Israel’s stable growth and anticipation of the favorable economic impact of new natural gas flowing from the Tamar field.
But financial strength and technological advances alone are not enough. “What the world needs now is love” and the composer of that song, Burt Bacharach, is coming to the Jewish State in July to perform some of his 70 top 40 hits. We all should “Say a little prayer” and maybe we will receive a few “Magic Moments” to inspire us towards a better future. Meanwhile our homegrown vocal group “The Fountainheads” has used the translation of the title of our National Anthem (Hatikvah) to energetically express this “Hope”.
@ yamit82:
Thank you. Whenever I watch these arrivals on video they bring tears to my eyes. It’s a very moving scene, particularly when put in a historical context, with all those painful chapters of the past in juxtaposition to these Jews happily coming home.
I love Israel and Israelis. But you deserve better leadership.
Ted, you should not have your email on your upper right of the page.
Internet automated spider programs detect your email, and use it.
Instead, convert your email to an image and insert it as a jpg image.
People will have to type it out, not capture it.
However, because your email is already out there, it is too late.
A) Create a new email
B) Make an image where the email is on the image. Screen shot of a text file for example
C) Install the new email image.
I run WP sites.
Now guess who just got spamed. (see my previous post)
@ Ted Belman:
Sorry about that Ted. Maybe if we post a sign “SPAM NOT ALLOWED”.
Someone needs to come up with a better Mouse Trap.
Of course, there is no limit to what the Israelis have invented. Put the word out, Israpundit needs a better Spam Can.
@ Canadian Otter:
@ Bert:
This might be inspirational if you have the time
@ rongrand:
Well said, Rongrand. Enough with Israeli authorities’ pusillanimous attitude!
British War against the Jews – the Sequel
Op Ed – In the Service of Palestinians – In light of its dark past, Britain’s involvement in building of PA’s army very problematic – British Ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould is doing all he can for the Palestinian army, which he claims plays a crucial role in the establishment of a Palestinian state. He is urging Israel to transfer authority to the Palestinian army in areas B and C and reveals that the UK “invests in training the Palestinian security forces…We have senior and experienced officers embedded in Palestinian training academies.”
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4371351,00.html
@ rongrand:I get hundreds of spam every day. I need a spam program to deal with them.
@ Canadian Otter:
I have been advocating the deporting of the rock throwing knuckleheads. In fact they should be removed from the Temple area.
Your right, Israel needs to kick some ass (excuse – when I get worked up I cuss)
Your right about Israel doesn’t need to justify it’s existence.
You heard me say it here more than once, screw world opinion, I don’t see world opinion speaking out against terrorist attacks against Israel, their silence is deafening.
The liberal left media continues to report on false accusations spun by the Pals and the Muslim world.
Listen, keep building communities taking control of the Holy Land, your land.
And those Jewish protesters in NY claiming Israel’s mistreatment of the Pals, well just be sure they don’t show their faces in Israel. Israel should be off limits to them.
Whenever I see reports about Israeli accomplishments I feel very proud for the country. But then I get a tinge of unease as I sense the conscious or unconscious effort to justify Israel’s existence to the world.
The country would be much more respected if the government showed more appreciation for Jewish lives and Jewish dignity. Allowing Arabs to attack Jewish motorists on a daily basis and with impunity conveys the message that Jewish lives are expendable and less important than inconveniencing the rock throwers with arrests. ~~~ And apologizing Turkey (whose leader spouts anti-Semitic statements with regularity) for the IDF commandos’ sin of defending themselves is another case of self-debasing and outright dimmitude, admitting that Jewish lives are worth less than Muslim lives.
Israel could get a dozen Nobel Prizes every year and it would not make any difference as long as your authorities show such disrespct for Jews in Israel. This government attitude elicits contempt.
Why not try to achieve greater security for Jews on Israeli roads? That would certainly be an accomplishment.
Report: Arabs carried out a rock terror ambush against a bus carrying children to school in Samaria Tuesday morning. No one was hurt.In the meantime baby Adele is still fighting for her life. Samaria leader says: The terrorism on the roads is a direct result of the “limp policy and lack of determination in the face of “a fully fledged terror campaign organized by the PA”.- http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167397
In the meantime, 15 million sheckels have been allocated for security at mosques.Not a single sheckel for synagogue security. The march towards complete dhimmitude in Israel continues. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167414
I wish the “good news” included major progress on reducing poverty in Israel, an end to Israel’s commitment to the suicidal “two state solution” and reducing dependence on the corrupt Obama Administration.