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Issue #391  |  Week of January 5, 2009		  
 

Israel's CopperGate brings IP into your home
TODAY’S VIDEO-ONLY NEWS FEATURE
 
The world may be in recession, but Israeli company CopperGate is reporting explosive growth. It's secret: a chip technology that brings IPTV services to your home via existing infrastructure. If it wasn't for the help of doctors from Israel, two-week-old Jafar, from Gaza, would no longer be alive. In the midst of this tragic war, Israeli and Palestinian doctors put aside their differences to save his life, offering a small ray of hope in a violent conflict.

A human reflex during a time of conflict and terror
Small science offers big hope for Israeli and Palestinian scientists
There may be a war going on between Israel and Gaza, but that doesn't stop Israelis from carrying out a number of significant humanitarian efforts to help Gaza's citizens. Despite the ongoing conflict, Palestinian and Israeli scientists are collaborating with colleagues from Hungary in a trilateral research project that uses nanotechnology to investigate diseases such as HIV.

From exoskeletons to cranberries - ISRAEL21c's year in stories
Lightning proves key to predicting flash floods
War and violence are the images of Israel that dominate the media at present, but a year of reporting by ISRAEL21c reveals a completely different story. We take a look at ISRAEL21c's most popular stories in 2008. An Israeli professor has discovered a way to use lightning storms as a method of predicting the location and intensity of hurricanes and flash flooding.
 
Also new this week on ISRAEL21c:

Medical GPS developer MediGuide acquired by St. Jude Medical
Israeli company MediGuide, developer of a navigation system that offers medical teams better imaging information while significantly reducing radiation exposure, has been purchased for $283m. by US company St. Jude Medical.

The biggest Hebrew school in the world
You don't have to be Jewish to want to learn biblical Hebrew, according to Israeli online learning company, eTeacher, which is opening a new course ever month to satisfy demand from the American Christian community.

 
 

     


Shvitzing together
As I drove up the road toward Ramat Rachel the other afternoon, I thought about the fact that I was looking forward to a long-awaited Swedish massage - to offset the very physical aspects of new motherhood - while people living in the south were huddling in bomb shelters and sealed rooms, dealing with a very different set of expectations for the day.

Kids' play
It's one thing to be watching the harrowing TV scenes of IDF soldiers trudging into Gaza as the second week of Operation Cast Lead begins its ground incursion. It's another to know some of those soldiers.

A 'tail' of two cities
Ma'aleh Adumim borders the Arab community of Azariya. There's not much contact between the two peoples, and in fact, since 2002 Israelis from Ma’aleh Adumim are prevented by the army from entering the village for their own safety.

Far and Away
It's not hard to feel somewhat detached from the reality of what is going on in the south. For several years now the citizens of Sderot have been forced to run to their bomb shelters numerous times a day in the wake of Hamas missile volleys while us who live further north just go about our normal lives.

A new year
I was sitting this morning, checking out the status reports of my friends on Facebook, and thinking about the New Year, and the situation in the South.
 

Twittering the war
After so many times of kicking ass on the battlefield, but losing the media war, various government bodies are paying much closer attention this time to explaining Israel’s positions and justification for their current operation in Gaza.
 
 
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