Israel21C is a wonderful source of all things good about Israel. This week’s edition has some gloat-worthy news items about Israeli technology helping the world:
What if they gave a winter Olympics and there was no snow?
That was the dilemma facing organizers of this winter’s Olympic games taking place in Torino, Italy. And the solution they found, believe it or not, came from the hot and dry Middle East.
Israeli company Bermad has been charged with a key element of supplying man-made snow to the Games, which open on February 10.
Until last week, the organizers of the Games had a crisis on their hands: the quantity and the quality of snow was not up to the level necessary for world-class competition.
Yes, Israel rescues the Winter Olympics. Chalk up another one for the Zionists. But wait, there’s more:
In one of those cruel medical ironies, the hepatitis C virus (HCV) is most commonly found in developing countries, where blood tests and other costly methods of detection are less available.
More than 170 million people are infected with the HCV virus around the world, including 4 million Americans and 9 million Europeans. Infection by the hepatitis C virus becomes persistent in about 70 percent of people afflicted, leading to problems such as cirrhosis and cancer of the liver.
That’s why the news that Israeli researchers have developed a test for the HCV based on a simple sample of saliva is so important and far-reaching. The findings of scientists at Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva were recently published in the online edition of the Journal of Virological Methods. It suggests mass screening for the liver disease may be possible in the future in parts of the developing world where blood testing is less feasible.
“The procedure is entirely manual, you don’t even need electricity for illumination, just a pipette to take the drops of saliva and place in the testing kit. In developing countries, that could be a big deal,” said Dr. Arieh Yaari, head of the investigative team at Soroka.
Yes, Israeli doctors, trying to save lives. What a counterpoint to the lies in the Arab and Muslim media.
That’s Israel21C, folks. A good source.