Good News stories from within Israel

A video of the experiment, posted on Facebook by pro-Israel group StandWithUs, shows the man posing as a blind student asking strangers to break a 20-shekel bill, which was actually a 100 shekel note. In the footage, every single person he stopped on the street — including some who approached to ask if he needed help — pointed out that the bill he was holding was, in fact, a 100 shekel bill. One man even gave him an additional 20 shekels.
Other passersby behaved in exactly the same way when the same experiment was conducted with a 200-shekel bill.
StandWithUs said the concept for the test was borrowed from an American TV show, in which an actor pretended to be blind and asked strangers to break a $5 bill, which was actually $100. Unlike in Israel, many Americans took advantage of the situation.

This is a very special picture and one that I believe perfectly encapsulates Israel. The doctors: Israeli on the left and Palestinian on the right. The woman being comforted in the back is from Uganda. Her son has just been wheeled out of heart surgery at the children’s wing of Wolfson Hospital in Holon. When I saw him coming out of surgery, I got goosebumps as the little guy was rolled out on his stretcher with machinery way bigger than he. On the right, an Arab family having their child treated as well. Just down the hall was a teenage boy from Duhok, Iraqi Kurdistan, where many ISIS refugees live in camps. This moment happened because of Save a Child’s Heart, an Israeli organization that provides free heart surgeries for children in underdeveloped countries. This organization trains doctors and brings children and their families here for surgery without discrimination of who the child is or where he or she is from. This Israeli organization is the real UN.

Roughly 130 million diabetics around the globe suffer from diabetic neuropathy, a type of nerve damage associated with the development of foot ulcers in patients with diabetes. Resulting from anatomical deformation, excessive pressure and poor blood supply, it often damages nerves in patients’ legs and feet.
Diabetic neuropathy is also the leading cause of amputation, which leaves many diabetics handicapped, and is costing the US economy alone more than $10 billion annually. Diabetic patients are encouraged to get regular checkups to monitor for the increased pressure and ulceration that can eventually require amputation. However, ulcers are only diagnosed after they occur, meaning that patients require healing time, which dramatically increases healthcare costs.
But now, an Israeli team of scientists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is working on a unique solution to solve this problem.

SenseGo socks to prevent diabetic ulcers

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“This is a significant medical problem that affects the lives of millions. We thought there must be a way to avoid these wounds altogether,” Danny Bavli, the group’s lead engineer, said in a statement.
To address this challenge, Bavli partnered with Sagi Frishman and Dr. David Morgenstern, a leading orthopedic surgeon at Israel’s Hadassah Medical Center. Together with members of the Hebrew University’s BioDesign group, they developed SenseGO, a machine-washable sock containing dozens of micro-fabricated pressure sensors.
With SenseGO, changes in pressure due to incorrect posture, anatomical deformation or ill-fitting shoes are registered using electrical signals that are relayed to a smartphone app, which in turn informs the patient of developing risks.
According to Prof. Yaakov Nahmias, BioDesign’s program director, “this is a classic mobile health approach. By giving patients and their families the tools they need to prevent the development of ulcers, we can dramatically reduce healthcare costs related to diabetes.”[/size]

Recognizing that not everyone is going to give up their vehicle and take a train or bus, Israeli firm Unitronics has been developing an automated parking system to remedy the situation – providing builders with the ability to fit more cars in less space, saving them time and money, and saving the parking structure’s neighbors from excess pollution.
According to Yair Goldberg, CEO of Unitronics Systems, the company is well-equipped to deploy the novel – and much-needed – solution. “We bring decades of experience in the automated solutions industry, bringing an industrial, compact and cost-efficient approach to residential auto parking,” he said.
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With limited space, the only sensible way to build an above-ground parking structure is up. But, you can only go so high; nobody is going to drive up to the 50th floor to look for a space.
No person, that is – but a machine, like the one developed by Tel Aviv-based Unitronics Systems, doesn’t care if it has to cart a car to the first, 10th, or 100th floor of a parking structure. And while the company has yet to build a 100-story parking structure using its automated “untouched by human hands” parking system, the sky is the limit for the company’s Automated Vehicle Storage and Retrieval System (AVSRS) system.
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In recent years, Unitronics has found an innovative use for its technology – developing automated parking systems, and last week the company opened its third such facility in the US. Located in Hoboken, New Jersey, the parking structure packs 373 cars into four stories instead of the usual 10 that would be required with a “manual” parking facility, saving the developers money and enabling them to use the saved space for activities that will make them more money than parking.
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When a driver pulls into the parking structure, they park their car and walk away, with a system of automated robots, elevators and platforms, controlled by customized software taking over and moving the vehicle to a free space. Since no one is driving around looking for a spot, every square inch of the structure can be utilized to store cars. The vehicle stays where it is until the driver returns and pays for the time they parked. The system reads their ticket and quickly finds the vehicle, which is then sent back down to the parking structure’s exit.
According to Unitronics, customers get their car back in about two minutes (it takes the same amount of time to store a vehicle, as well).
There’s no human involvement in the process at all; no surly parking lot managers, no competing drivers who try to jostle ahead for a better space and no attendants to tip. The whole system can be run by a single manager, who is never seen but is available to help out (reached by pressing the little speaker button in the payment machine) in case someone loses their ticket, or to deal with other issues.





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eddie wrote:I don't know if this video is part of it, but you do know these a lot of these Facebook videos are proven to be staged and set up just for click bait (therefore lots of money for FB?)

I did a thread on it somewhere just recently.