1.Israelis develop cancer 'cluster bomb'
Israeli medical researchers say they have developed a new technique for blasting cancer tumors from the inside out which reduces the risk of the disease returning after treatment. Tel Aviv University Professors Yona Keisari and Itzhak Kelson are about to start clinical trials of a pin-sized radioactive implant that beams short-range alpha radiation from within the tumour. Read more http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4166115,00.html
2.Israel's unemployment rate falls to all-time low
Israel's unemployment rate fell to 5% of the civilian labor force in October 2011, an all-time low, the Central Bureau of Statistics reported today. The unemployment fell from 6.2% in January to 5.6% in May and 5% in October.
3.Israel, The Third Nation on the Moon?
Won't Israels neighbors be jealous? but what else is new............
If all goes according to plan, by December 2012 a team of three young Israeli scientists will have landed a tiny spacecraft on the moon, explored the lunar surface, and transmitted live video back to earth, thereby scooping up a $20 million prize (the Google Lunar X Prize), revolutionizing space exploration, and making the Jewish State the third nation (after the U.S. and Russia) to land a probe on the moon. And they’re doing it in their spare time. Read more..http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=f1b_1301625399
4.Israel, Cyprus sign defense agreements - reports
The agreements were signed during the official visit to Israel by Cypriot Minister of Defense Demetris Eliades, at the invitation of Minister of Defense Ehud Barak, who said Cyprus and Israel share common values and wish for peace with their neighboring countries. Eliades also said that the natural gas reserves found in the exclusive economic zones of Cyprus and Israel opened a new chapter in relations between the two countries.
5.IAI signs $1.6b arms deal
In a brief notice to the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange (TASE), IAI announced that it has signed a four-year $1.6 billion arms deal with an Asian country. It did not name the customer or the systems that would be sold, but said that advances would be paid in exchange for guarantees in the same amount. The customer requested to remain anonymous.
COMMENT: There are probably only two Asian countries who might request this anonymity. That would be China or Turkey. Countries that have made their deals with Israel publicly, are India and Russia.
6.Tamar partners sign two gas contracts for $1.2b
Delek, Isramco, Noble Energy, and Alon Gas signed to contracts with private power companies owned by Edeltech and Turkey's Zorlu. Edeltech had previously signed a gas supply contract with Egypt's East Mediterranean Gas Company (EMG) in 2009, with deliveries due to begin in June 2012. Edeltech has apparently decided not to rely on Egyptian gas, which is currently not flowing due to attacks on pipelines in Sinai, and signed a deal with the Tamar partners.
7.Women Now Majority in Israeli Justice System
More than half of the 646 judges serving on the benches of Israeli courts are women, and Israel’s Labor Court is also presided over by a woman, Nili Arad, with women comprising just over 60 percent of the labor court judges. Israeli female judges vastly outnumber their American counterparts, where in the U.S. roughly one fifth of federal judges are women, while at the state level that number goes up to only 26 percent. Read more http://www.theisraelproject.org/site/apps/nlnet/content3.aspxc=ewJXKcOUJlIaG&b=7712195&ct=11580271#.Tw96OJjYfHh
COMMENT: What say you Hillary?
8.Israeli company produces cancer vaccine
Vaxil BioTherapeutics, a biotechnical company based in Ness Ziona, near Tel Aviv, has produced a ground-breaking therapeutic vaccine for cancer patients which could prevent about 90% of cancers from coming back. Read more http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4170853,00.html
COMMENT: Clearly Israel has declared war again....this time on cancer.
The future is not something we enter, it's something we create - Leonard I. Sweet
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