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March 27, 2011 - New York-based ICare4autism plans to build the first global research and education center for autism on Jerusalem’s Mt. Scopus. The campus will house the world's first university-level school of autism studies, with the aim of raising therapeutic standards worldwide.
March 20, 2011 - Intel is investing $2.7 billion in its Israeli plant in southern Israel, which will produce next-generation 22-nanometer chips to make computers faster, smaller and lighter.
March 13, 2011 - Only about 1.2 million of the world's 400 million ethnic Arabs live in Israel, yet the sole registry for Arab bone marrow donors is located in Jerusalem’s Hadassah Medical Center.
March 6, 2011 - Israeli scientists at IBM Haifa joined colleagues from the United States, China and Japan to put the brains in Watson, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered supercomputer that plays jeopardy with game-show champs on American TV in February.
February 27, 2011 - Overfishing may be depleting the world’s oceans of seafood, but Israel’s Grow Fish Anywhere has found a way to raise them in the desert.
February 20, 2011 - A tiny telescope implant developed by an Israeli company is the world’s first and only treatment for end-stage age-related macular degeneration, the most common cause of blindness in the elderly in developed countries.
February 13, 2011 - The revolutionary “Sandy Bridge” microprocessor developed at Intel’s R&D facility in Haifa wowed the digital world when it was unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
February 6, 2011 - A memory-sharpening computer program developed at an Israeli Alzheimer’s care facility has sparked interest from several countries and the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America.
January 30, 2011 - With fewer and fewer fish in the sea each passing year, Israel’s Grow Fish Anywhere has found a way to raise them in the desert.
January 23, 2011 - Eyeglasses have remained virtually the same for hundreds of years, but now an Israeli company has developed a new monofocal lens that could revolutionize bifocal and multifocal glasses .
January 12, 2011 - The customized Java platform for Amazon’s hot e-book reader, Kindle, was developed by an Israeli team at Oracle Herzliya.
January 6, 2011 - An Israeli-designed robotic device that allows paraplegics to walk and climb stairs, was featured on the hit American TV series Glee. An ISRAEL21c story introduced ReWalk to the world more than two years ago.
January 2, 2011 - Scientists from Israel, Britain, Brazil, Canada and the US have created an atom of anti-hydrogen. This breakthrough may help solve one of the biggest riddles of physics: What happened to all the antimatter that has vanished since the Big Bang?
December 26, 2010 - An advanced plastic patch from Israel that disables microorganisms can knock out acne, keep milk from spoiling, make juice boxes bacteria-free, and reduce infections.
December 19, 2010 - A group of 10 young men with autism have joined the ranks of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), marking the first time the IDF has accepted soldiers with this neurological disorder. The new soldiers will work at equipment bases.
December 12, 2010 - An Israeli company’s emotional decoding software can detect your physical and emotional state just from the sound of your voice over the phone.
December 8, 2010 - The Negev desert is smaller than it was in 1948, thanks to Israel’s expertise in fighting desertification. Many countries benefit from Israeli innovations in transforming dry land into a fertile farmland and protecting arid areas from deterioration.
November 24, 2010 - Ten months after the devastating earthquake in Haiti, Israeli aid workers are still providing vital aid to the troubled country, helping citizens rebuild their communities in the face of poverty, and outbreaks of disease.
November 17, 2010 - An Israeli company has developed a breakthrough device that can detect skin cancer at a much earlier stage than traditional tests, potentially revolutionizing the way doctors diagnose skin cancer.
November 10, 2010 - Israeli scientists have discovered that hair can be used to diagnose stress levels, drug intake and even your risks of a heart attack.
November 3, 2010 - Israel’s oldest winery, Carmel won a major trophy from the Decanter World Wine Awards, upstaging traditional wine producers from Italy and France, and becoming the “sensation of the competition”.
October 27, 2010 - In a radio address, US President Barack Obama praised Israeli solar company BrightSource Energy, which is now building the world’s largest solar energy plants in California, calling its technology “revolutionary.
October 20, 2010 - A new treatment that can destroy drug-resistant superbugs is being developed by scientists in Israel.
October 13, 2010 - Israeli industrialist Stef Wertheimer has opened a new industrial park in Nazareth, Israel’s largest Arab city, in an effort to help improve employment prospects among the Arab population.
October 6, 2010 - Israeli researchers have developed a new treatment that can destroy HIV-infected human cells without damaging healthy ones. The unique development, from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, could be a major step forward in the race against AIDS.
September 29, 2010 - An antibacterial material developed originally to make socks for Israeli soldiers is now being used to create anti-bacterial sheets, curtains, gowns and towels for hospitals. The material, impregnated with zinc oxide nanoparticles could drastically reduce the 1.7 million hospital-associated infections that occur in the US every year.
September 21, 2010 - A new keyless biometric security system based on voice and face recognition technologies and developed by a former head of the IDF Military Intelligence Corps is now in use in residential buildings, police stations and offices throughout the US.
September 15, 2010 - Israeli clinical psychologists have developed an online depression detector which can identify depression 78 percent of the time, enabling human experts to home in on people at risk of suicide, or providing data for crime fighters, pollsters, or homeland security personnel.
September 7, 2010 - A new device controlled by sniffing has been designed in Israel to help severely disabled people communicate, surf the Net, and steer their wheelchairs.
August 25, 2010 - Extensive new research from Israel has shown that babies who are exposed to cow’s milk within 15 days of birth, are less likely to suffer from dangerous lactose allergies later in life.
August 18, 2010 - Israeli researchers have discovered that smoking is not an addiction, it’s just a habit . The research has huge implications for anti-smoking treatments which currently focus on breaking an addiction, and also suggests that stopping smoking is primarily a question of willpower.
August 11, 2010 - Israeli burn specialists were first on the scene after a devastating fire in Congo killed over 235 people and left hundreds more severely burned. Another Israeli emergency response team visited Chile earlier in the summer to help train emergency response personnel in the aftermath of a destructive earthquake that hit in February and killed hundreds.
August 4, 2010 - IBM Israel has developed new self-healing software that enables a computer to repair bugs and glitches automatically, by emulating processes that occur in the human body, and applying them to computers.
July 28, 2010 - An anti-aging vitamin supplement sold over-the-counter in drugstores worldwide has been found to triple a woman’s chance of getting pregnant and help the woman carry to baby to term, according to new Israeli research.
July 21, 2010 - An Israeli-US psychologist has been honored by Time Magazine as one of the most influential people of 2010 for her work healing traumatized war veterans in the US and Israel.
July 14, 2010 - An Israeli professor has created a new birth control pill for men, which has no side effects, and only needs to be taken every one to three months.
July 7, 2010 - We already use the sun to heat our homes and our water, now an Israeli company is proposing to use the sun’s rays to cool our homes, reducing the chances of energy blackouts during heat waves.
June 30, 2010 - A breakthrough finding by an Israeli professor could lead to earlier diagnosis, more effective treatment, and possibly even a cure for the debilitating autoimmune disease multiple sclerosis.
June 23, 2010 - The core component of Microsoft’s newest Xbox video game console is a radical new 3D sensoring technology developed by an Israeli company.
June 16, 2010 - Israel plans to begin introducing solar panels and small wind turbines to its highway infrastructure to power thousands of streetlights across the country .
June 9, 2010 - An Israeli researcher is building an electronic brain that resembles a human brain, down to the smallest synapses, and which has almost all the same cognitive abilities, in an effort to recreate the most powerful ‘computer’ in existence.
June 2, 2010 - An Israeli startup has developed a new iPhone application that lets you see how much radiation emissions you are exposed to from your mobile device and offers advice on how to counter it. Similar applications for other phone brands will follow.
May 25, 2010 - Scientists from Jerusalem have made a breakthrough in the cultivation of embryonic stem cells, bringing mass-market manufacturing of the cells, anticipated to create new treatments for Parkinson’s and diabetes, closer than ever before.
May 19, 2010 - Israeli researchers have discovered that high levels of stress activate a gene which affects our metabolism and causes us to crave sweet, fatty foods.
May 12, 2010 - An Israeli clinical psychologist was named one of this year’s top 100 most influential people by Time Magazine. Prof. Edna Foa has developed a breakthrough therapy to treat Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, which is now being used by the US army to treat veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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How can a war-torn persecuted race of people dodging bullets on their way to work each day crying foreign AID-mouth achieve so much across every academic, scientific, EVERYTHINGific field imaginable, yet still manages to tug at our governments heart strings, particularly that of Rudds and Gillards?
Even their robots are smarter than us, as per their own admission.
