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Israelis empowering Yazidi survivors of ISIS
ISIS tried to wipe out the Yazidi people, killing thousands and leaving countless others with physical and psychological trauma. In response, Israeli experts worked with Yazidi women, empowering them to overcome PTSD and help others in their community do the same.
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Science Education in Israel
Israel has the highest ratio of trained scientists and technicians with 135 per 10,000 citizens, compared to 81 in the US, over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany.
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Israeli Nobel Prize Winners
Israeli scientists Dr. Avram Hershko and Dr. Aaron Ciechanover won a Nobel Prize for research that could lead to new treatments and cures for diseases like Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s as well as genetic disorders.
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Diagnosing disease
An Israeli company, Given Imaging, pioneered the PillCam, an ingestible video camera that allows pain-free, noninvasive visualization of the small intestine and esophagus to detect disease.
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Curing AIDS
Israeli scientists developed an AIDS treatment that targets and reduces the decrease the HIV virus count by up to 97 percent in HIV-infected cells without affecting healthy cells.
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Overcoming disabilities
An Israeli company developed ReWalk, the first commercially viable upright walking assistance tool, enabling paraplegics to stand, walk, and climb stairs.
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Save a Child's Heart helps anyone in need
Israeli nonprofit organization Save a Child’s Heart performs free open-heart surgeries for underprivileged children from around the world, regardless of race, religion, or ethnicity. Forty-nine percent of the patients are Palestinian Jordanian, Iraqi, and Moroccan.
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Computer technology
Instant messaging, firewall security software, Intel wireless computer chips, the Windows NT operating system, voicemail technology, VOIP technology, and the USB drive were all developed in Israel.
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Reforestation and nature preservation
Israel is a global leader in reforestation and nature preservation. It has established over 150 nature reserves and 65 national parks throughout the country.
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Planting trees
Israel is one of the few countries that had more trees at the beginning of the 21st century than it had at the beginning of the 20th century. The Jewish National Fund (JNF) has planted more than 240 million trees in Israel, including 12,500 acres of forest every year.
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Reducing dependence on oil
The Israeli company Solel has operated a field of solar panels in California’s Mojave Desert since the 1980s, reducing U.S. dependence on oil by 2 million barrels per day.
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The Land of Milk and Honey
Competing with larger, more fertile countries and massive agricultural corporations, Israeli farmers use a mixture of hard work and innovation to make Israel “a land of milk and honey.”
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Innovating Fish
An Israeli scientist developed a hybrid fish that thrives in hot, salty waters. Using fish ponds in the Negev desert, Israeli fish farmers now produce ten times more fish than they would with a traditional pond.
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Dairy Cows in Israel
Thanks to balanced diets and the latest scientific innovations, Israeli dairy cows rank number one in total milk output. Israeli dairy techniques are now utilized across the globe.
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Environmentalism in the desert
Israel’s Negev Desert is home to the Jacob Blaustein Institute for Desert Research, where students from around the world study Israeli methods of preserving drylands.
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Water desalination and conservation
In the 1960s Israel began converting sea water into fresh water with the invention of desalination. Israel’s desalination plant in the city of Ashkelon is the largest such facility in the world, and as of 2019, up to 80 percent of Israel’s domestic water comes from desalination.
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Drip irrigation around the world
The Israeli company Netafim pioneered the use of drip irrigation in agriculture. Drip irrigation helps conserve water, improves crop yields and helps protect the environment all over the world.
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Drip irrigation benefits
Through the use of innovative irrigation techniques, Israeli farms have increased water efficiency to 90 percent, compared to 64 percent with traditional irrigation.
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Israel's agriculture research
Israel’s Volcani Center for agricultural research has partnered with 32 countries, providing superior cattle bloodlines to improve milk output and assisting the dairy industries of developing countries.
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Israeli science solving agricultural problems
Using a mutant gene, Israeli scientists have developed strains of corn to resist witchweed, a parasite that harms crops in much of sub-Saharan Africa, leading to improved crop yields.
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Israeli Science Preventing Disease
Israelis discovered a natural bacterium which helps control mosquitoes and black flies, preventing river blindness and malaria in 11 African nations and reducing infection along China’s Yangtze River by 90 percent.
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Making The Desert Bloom
Having successfully realized the Zionist pioneers’ dream of “making the desert bloom,” Israel now utilizes its expertise and innovative technology so that other nations may blossom.
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Lowering Cholesterol
The Israeli-developed pomelit fruit lowers cholesterol by increasing antioxidant activity, which is good news for millions suffering from high cholesterol.
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Emergency Bandage
Before Israel’s Emergency Bandage, soldiers often bled to death while awaiting treatment. This new bandage, utilized by American soldiers in Iraq, saves lives by preventing hemorrhaging.
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Economic Growth In Brazil
In 2006, the Brazilian state of Ceara used a development plan crafted at Israel's Ben-Gurion University to increase economic growth while reducing inequality. This model now being adopted elsewhere in South America.