IceSense Freezes Lumps and Tumors

{image_1}Israel’s Arbel Medical hopes hopes that its IceSense technology will pave the way for simple cryotherapy, a method of surgery that uses extreme cold to kill diseased tissue. “At present there are no non-invasive treatments for benign breast lumps,” says Didier Toubia, CEO of the Yokneam-based company. IceSense offers the hope of efficient treatment in local clinics without the need for hospitalization, recuperation, or scarring.

“Agro-Housing” A Residential Greenhouse

{image_1}The massive upsurge of people toward the cities creates severe humanitarian problems, as well as environmental issues. Severe overcrowding makes it difficult to provide suitable sanitation and places a strain on energy resources. The movement of workers toward city centers increases air pollution and disrupts the quality of life and health of the residents.

Ridding the World of Waste

{image_1}Shai Pinczewski is the founder and CEO of waste disposal company REN Waste, a state-of-the-art treatment plant that he claims can rid the world of municipal trash by transforming it into recycled material and electricity. Municipal waste is an environmental hazard that pollutes air, land and groundwater resources, causes health hazards, and costs world consumers billions of dollars a year. With REN Waste, garbage and sewage are bought to the plant, shredded, run through magnetic sorters, separated, and tipped into a bio-chemical oxidation chamber for seven days for aerobic digestion. After fermentation, a pyrolysis plant breaks down waste rubber, plastics and unfermentable organic matter. By the end of the process, the waste has been separated and segregated into component materials and concentrated to a high degree of purity.

Bridges for Peace Named a “Shining Light”

{image_1}MinistryWatch.com has named Bridges for Peace one of 30 “Shining Light” Christian ministries for 2007. MinistryWatch.com compiles an annual list of 30 ministries—from nearly 500 ministries—which demonstrated outstanding effectiveness and efficiency in their ministry and financial operations.

Tu’Bshvat: Happy New Year for Trees

{image_1}Tu’Bshvat is Israel’s Arbor Day, every year on the fifteenth of the Jewish month of Shvat, which falls this year on January 22. Though it is not a biblical holiday, it does have its roots in biblical law, as fruit had to be tithed according to its age, so a New Year for trees was created from which the age of all trees could be calculated.

50,000 Israeli Arabs Will Flee PA-Controlled Jerusalem!

{image_1}Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) has told peace-talk negotiators that Jerusalem will be the capital of the proposed new Palestinian state. Protests have not been as loud or demonstrative as many might have expected.

Crane Visits Increase 30%

{image_1}Cranes have become familiar guests at Hula Lake. During Israel’s autumn and winter months (October to March), there is an average of 10,000–30,000 cranes at the lake every day. Recently, a new daily record was set at Hula Lake—41,600 cranes in one day, as compared to last year’s record of 32,000, a 30% increase! They migrate from Europe to Africa and back, passing through the Hula on their way. Their habitat is primarily swamp areas and quicksand.

Watering the Prospects for Peace

{image_1}Can water resources unite Jordanians, Israelis, and Palestinians?

Leggy Beauty

{image_1}Denise the giraffe and her new baby are wowing the crowds at the Ramat Gan Safari Park in Israel. Denise, now seventeen years old, gave birth to her tenth calf, following a fifteen-month pregnancy. Mother and child are left to their own devices in a small, covered enclosure. Safari’s veterinary staff says, from their observation, the new calf looks very well. After all, Denise has had a lot of previous experience with her previous offspring! In fact, it is likely that Denise will break the world record for giraffe births in captivity. The previous record was 10 calves before age 20.

Remembering the Courage of the Light Horse Brigade

{image_1}The 90th anniversary of the lightning strike of the Light Horse Brigade was commemorated in Beersheva with a realistic reenactment of the last-ditch, seemingly near-suicidal charge by Australian and New Zealand horsemen against the Turks on October 31, 1917. It was a turning point in World War I and helped pave the way for the creation of the State of Israel. Nearly 1,000 Australians, New Zealanders, Israelis, Britons, and others gathered to remember the heroic battle that led to the liberation of Beersheba and was a vital key in opening the gateway to the ancient city of Jerusalem. On the same day as the Beersheva charge, the British Government drafted the Balfour Declaration, which was the foundation for the recognition of the State of Israel.

Israel—Alone Again?

{image_1}We have experienced a series of earthquakes in Israel this year but none recorded anything like the shock that came with the US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE). “Iran froze its nuclear weapons program in 2003” was the intelligence assessment that shook the foundations here. The NIE report was issued by 16 American intelligence agencies. The spy guys were leaders in their field and included the FBI, CIA, The Department of Homeland Security, The US State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the National Security Agency, and the Defense Intelligence Agency. It was stunning news in Israel, which has a particular awareness of Iran and its objective to “wipe Israel off the map.” The highest priority for the Mossad (Israeli intelligence agency) for the past five years has been the Iranian nuclear program and its increasing risk for Israel.

Light—God’s Redeeming “Or”—Or

{image_1}What was the first thing that God made during His 6-day process of creation? He created light (“or”), and not because He needed light to see by, but because His original heavens and earth were still dark and void, and His future creation would need light to live and subsist by. When God said, “‘Let there be light’; and there was light” (Gen. 1:3)—or in Hebrew, “Yehi or, vayehi or”—His very words caused the light to come forth from His countenance and expel the darkness. “LORD, lift Thou up the light of Thy countenance upon us” (Ps. 4:6b, KJV). His light now reached into the darkest depths of the universe.

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