Another remarkable list of Israel’s gifts to the world that the boycotters must now deny themselves
Isn’t it amazing that the country that is most denigrated by the UN and the laughable Human Rights Council is one of the tiniest countries yet has given more benefit to the world than virtually any other country. It makes all the results of its amazing technical, medical and agricultural research available to all, does so much for Third World countries and is truly a Light to the World, yet comes September when a UN vote is likely to unilaterally declare a state of Palestine with no demands on that state that it should recognise its neighbouring Jewish state and stop violence and retract its vow to destroy Israel, and all the hands of all the nations Israel has helped will go up in unison to threaten her very future existence.
List of achivements in a wide variety of fields
Chemistry
Discovery of Quasicrystals by Dan Shechtman of the Technion[1]
Discovery of the role of protein Ubiquitin by Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion Institute (together with the American Jewish biologist Irwin Rose). The discovery led them to receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.[2][3]
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Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation
Prediction of Quarks by Yuval Ne'eman of Tel Aviv University (together with the American physicist Murray Gell-Mann).[4]
Discovery of the Aharonov–Bohm effect by Yakir Aharonov and David Bohm.[5]
Formulation of Black holes Entropy by Jacob Bekenstein of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.[6][7]
Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation – a notation system for recording movement on paper that has been used in many fields, including dance, physical therapy, animal behavior and early diagnosis of autism.[8]
Medicine
Development of the Copaxone immunomodulator drug for treating multiple sclerosis. It was developed in the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel by Michael Sela, Ruth Arnon and Deborah Teitelbaum.[9][10]
Development of the Interferon proteins by Michel Revel from the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.[citation needed]
Development of the “Pillcam” by Given Imaging, the first Capsule endoscopy solution to record images of the digestive tract. The capsule is the size and shape of a pill and contains a tiny camera.[citation needed]
Optics
World’s tiniest camera – a camera the size of 0.99 mm, designed to fit in a tiny endoscope. Designed by Medigus.[11]
Economics
Work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem explaining irrational human economic choices.[citation needed]
Developments in Game theory. Israel Aumann of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem received the Nobel Prize in Economics for his work in this field.[citation needed]
Biotechnology
DNA conducting electricity (called also “Nanowire”) – a conductive wire made of a a string of tiny particles of silver, a thousand times thinner than a human hair. developed by Uri Sivan, Erez Braun and Yoav Eichen from the Technion.[citation needed]
DNA computing machine system – “the smallest biological computing device” ever constructed, according to Guinness Book of Records, which is composed of enzymes and DNA molecules capable of performing simple mathematical calculations and which uses its input DNA molecule as its sole source of energy it was developed in 2003 in the Weizmann Institute of Science by professor Ehud Shapiro and his team.[12][13]
[Defense
Uzi Submachine gun - invented by Uzi Gal. The development was completed in 1955.[14][15]
Gabriel – a sea-skimming anti-ship missile.[16]
Arrow – a family of operational anti-ballistic missiles. Jointly funded and produced by Israel and the United States.[17][18]
Merkava tank – a tank optimized for crew survival and rapid repair of battle damage.[19][20]
IAI Lavi – an ambitious Israeli production of a modern fighter aircraft. The production of the plane was carried out at Israel Aircraft Industries. The production of the plane was disbanded when the Israeli government concluded it could not finance production on its own.[citation needed]
Python – a family of air-to-air missiles (AAMs) built by the Israeli weapons manufacturer Rafael Advanced Defense Systems.[citation needed]
Unmanned aerial vehicles – an aircraft that flies without a human crew on board the aircraft. Their largest uses are in military applications. Developed by Israel Aircraft Industries.[citation needed]
Nautilus laser system – a laser developed for military use. Jointly funded and produced by Israel and the United States.[citation needed]
Iron Dome – a mobile air defense system in development by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems designed to intercept short-range rockets and artillery shells. On April 7, 2011, the system successfully intercepted a Grad rocket launched from Gaza, marking the first time in history a short-range rocket was ever intercepted.[21]
Barak – a surface-to-air missile designed to be used as a point-defense missile system on warships, defending against aircraft, anti-ship missiles, and UAVs. Jointly produced and developed by Rafael and Israel Aircraft Industries.[citation needed]
MUSIC (Multi Spectral Infrared Countermeasure) – a system that counter surface-to-air heat-seeking missiles. It is manufactured by Elbit Systems.[citation needed]
MagnoShocker – combines a metal detector and a taser which could be used to neutralized immediately a dangerous person. It was developed by the mathematician Amit Weissman and his colleagues Adir Kahn and Zvi Jordan.[citation needed]
Reconnaissance satellite TecSAR – developed and built by Israel Aerospace Industries.[citation needed]
Tavor TAR-21 assault rifle – a modern assault rifle designed with the aim to be used as the IDF’s standard assault rifle. The rifle was the developed by “Magen”, the small arms division of the Israel Military Industries (IMI). The development of Tavor was completed in 2001. In 2005 Magen was sold to the Israeli company Israel Weapon Industries (IWI) which continues to develop and produce the rifle. The MTAR-21 (Micro Tavor) was recently selected as the future assault rifle of the Israeli Defense Forces, and within the next few years it will become the standard Israeli infantry weapon.[citation needed]
Technion Satellite – launched into space in July 1998, it is one of the smallest satellites in the world. Cube-shaped satellite which has 45 centimeter-long sides and weighs 48 kilograms and has an extremely low power consumption. The Technion satellite began as a student project of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, supervised by Haim Eshed and initiated by Giora Shaviv, head of the Asher Space Research Institute (ASRI) at the Technion.[citation needed]
Wall radar – a unique radar which utilizes Ultra Wide Band (UWB) to allows users to see through walls. Developed by the Israeli company Camro.[22]
Computer hardware
USB flash drive, originally marketed as the DiskOnKey
USB flash drive – a flash memory data storage device integrated with a USB interface. Developed and manufactured by the Israeli company M-Systems.[23]
Quicktionary Electronic dictionary – a tiny pen-sized scanner which is able to scan words or phrases and immediately translate them into other languages, or keep them in memory in order to transfer them to the PC. Developed by the Israeli company Wizcom Technologies Ltd.[24]
Laser Keyboard – virtual keyboard is projected onto a wall or table top and allows to type handheld computers and cell phones. Produced by the Israeli company Lumio.[25]
[Computer software
Lempel–Ziv–Welch algorithm - a universal lossless data compression algorithm created by Abraham Lempel and Jacob Ziv of the Technion institute together with the American Information theorist Terry Welch.[26]
Babylon – a single-click computer translation, dictionary and information source utility program developed by Amnon Ovadia.[27]
Internet
ICQ – an Instant Messaging software developed initially in 1996 by the Israeli company Mirabilis.[28]
Agriculture
Cherry tomatoes
Drip Irrigation System – a system for watering plants that dispenses a single drop of liquid at a time. Invented by the Israeli engineer Simcha Blass and his son Yeshayahu in the early 1960s. This method was very successful and subsequently spread to Australia, North America, and South America by the late 1960s.[29]
Cherry tomatoes – Developed by a group led by Nachum Kedar and Haim Rabinovich from the Agriculture Faculty of the Hebrew University in Rehovot.[30]
Energy
Rooftop solar hot-water system
Super iron battery – A new class of a rechargeable electric battery based on a special kind of iron. More environment friendly because the super-iron eventually rusts. It was developed by Stuart Licht of the Technion.[31][32]
Energy tower – Alternative electricity generation and water desalination technology in low cost. The Energy towers spray water on hot air at the top of the tower, making the cooled air fall through the tower and drive a turbine at the tower’s bottom. The brainchild of the American physicist Phillip Carlson which as expanded by Professor Dan Zaslavsky and Rami Guetta from the Technion.[33][34]
A unique technology for producing hydrogen in vehicles as an alternative fuel source. It is produced by the Israeli company Engineuity and was invented by Amnon Yogev and Eli Gmaazaon.[35]
Solar water heating – home facility which converts solar energy to thermal energy. Following the energy crisis in the 1970s, The Israeli law requires the installation of solar water heaters in all new homes. It was developed by Zvi Tavor.[36]
Consumer goods and household appliances
Epilator (originally “Epilady”) – an electrical device used to remove hair by mechanically grasping multiple hairs simultaneously and pulling them out. It was developed by Yair Dar and Shimon Yahav and originally manufactured at Kibbutz HaGoshrim.[37][38]
Micronized coating instant hot water pipes – developed by A.C.T.[39]
Artificial gills – a special diving system, developed by the Israeli company Like-A-Fish Technologies, which produces oxygen from water making the oxygen tanks unnecessary. It was developed by Alon Bodner.[40]
Games
Rummikub
Rummikub – a tile-based game for two to four players invented in Israel by Ephraim Hertzano.[41][42]
Hidato – a logic puzzle game invented by the Israeli mathematician Gyora Benedek.[43]
Taki – an Israeli card game invented by Haim Shafir.[44][45]
[Foods
Shkedei marak - small yellow crisp crouton squares used as a soup accompaniment.[46]
Bamba – peanut butter-flavored snack which has been manufactured by the Osem corporation since 1966. Bamba is one of the leading snack foods produced and sold in Israel.[47][48]
Ptitim – wheat-based baked pasta. It was initially invented during the austerity period in Israel when rice was scarce.[49]