OME INTERESTING NEWS ITEM ABOUT ISRAEL (en ingles)

Some interesting news items about what's happening in Israel that may impact us all.

ISRAEL'S ACHIEVEMENTS IN THE FIRST MONTHS OF 2008 1. Scientists in Israel, found that the brackish water, drilledfrom underground desert aquifers, hundreds of feet deep, could be used toraise warm-water fish. The geothermal water, less than one-tenth as salineas sea water, free of pollutants, and a toasty 98 degrees on average, provesan ideal environment.

2. Israeli-developed designer-eyeglasses, promise mobile phoneand iPod users, a personalized, high-tech video display. Available to USconsumers next year, Lumus-Optical's lightweight and fashionable videoeyeglasses, feature a large transparent screen, floating in front of theviewer's face that projects their choice of movie, TV show, or video Game.

3. When Stephen Hawkins visited Israel recently, he shared hiswisdom with scientists, students, and even the Prime Minister. But theworld's most renown victim of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), or LouGehrig's disease, also learned something, due to the Israeli Association forALS' advanced work in both embryonic and adult stem cell research, as wellas its proven track record with neurodegenerative diseases. The Israeliresearch community is well on its way to finding a treatment for this fataldisease hich affects 30,000 Americans.

4. Israeli start-up, Veterix, has developed an innovative newelectronic capsule that sits in the stomach of a cow, sheep, or goat,sending out real-time information on the health of the herd, to the farmervia Email or cell phone. The e-capsule, which also sends out alerts ifanimals are distressed, injured, or lost, is now being tested on a herd ofcows, in the hopes that the device will lead to tastier and healthier meatand milk supplies.

5. The millions of Skype users worldwide will soon have access tothe newly developed KishKish lie-detector. This free internet service, basedon voice stress analysis (a technique, commonly used in criminalinvestigations), will be able to measure just how truthful that person onthe other end of the line, really is.

6. Beating cardiac tissue has been created in a lab from humanembryonic stem cells by researchers at the Rappaport Medical Faculty andthe Technion-Israel Institute of Technology's biomedical Engineerin gfaculty. The work of Dr. Shulamit Levenberg and Prof. Lior Gepstein, hasalso led to the creation of tiny blood vessels within the tissue, makingpossible its implantation in a human heart.

7. Israel's Magal Security Systems, is a worldwide leader incomputerized security systems, with products used in more than 70 countriesaround the world, protecting anything from national borders, to nuclearfacilities, refineries, and airports. The company's latest Product,DreamBox, a state-of-the-art security system that includes Intelligentvideo, audio and sensor management, is now being used by a major waterauthority on the US east coast to safeguard the utility's sites.

8. It is common knowledge that dogs have better night vision thanhumans and a vastly superior sense of smell and hearing. Israel'sBio-Sense Technologies, recently delved further, and electronicallyanalyzed 350 different barks. Finding that dogs of all breeds and sizes,bark the same alarm when they sense a threat, the firm has designed the dogbark-reader, a sensor that can pick up a dog's alarm bark, and alert thehuman operators. This is just one of a batch of innovative security systemsto emerge from Israel, which Forbes calls 'the go-to country foranti-terrorism technologies.'

9. Israeli company, BioControl Medical, sold its first electricalstimulator to treat urinary incontinence to a US company for $50 Million.Now, it is working on CardioFit, which uses electrical nerve stimulation totreat congestive heart failure. With nearly five million Americans presentlyaffected by heart failure, and more than 400,000 new cases diagnosed yearly,the CardioFit is already generating a great deal of excitement as the firstdevice with the potential to halt this deadly disease.

10. One year after Norway's Socialist Left Party launched itsboycott Israel campaign, the importing of Israeli goods has increased by15%, the strongest increase in many years, Statistics Norway reports.