We Can Kill the Coronavirus:’ Israeli Startup Says

 By Benjamin Brown, TPS

With the novel Coronavirus (Covid-19) spreading globally and the world longing for medical solutions to the pandemic, all eyes are on labs in Europe, China, the US, and Israel, currently in the process of developing vaccines for Covid-19.

One medical innovation that may not be able to single-handedly end the pandemic but is expected to succeed in slowing the virus’ spread, is protective clothing, most notably masks, manufactured by Israeli medical company Sonovia.

Sonovia specializes in using anti-microbial textiles to prevent patients and employees at hospitals from contracting diseases. Dr. Jason Migdal, a researcher with Sonovia, told TPS that there were “dramatic reductions in hospital infections when our products were used.”

“Cutting-edge nano-coating technology” originally developed at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan allows the company to use sound waves to place chemicals and materials such as copper into textiles, thus ensuring long-term protection against bacteria.

Dr. Migdal says he and his team are “leading the revolution in this field,” with the materials produced by Sonovia “stronger than antibiotics and even working against bacteria resistant to antibiotics.”

As the number of Covid-19 cases grew, research showed that certain materials, including the copper nano-particles used in Sonovia’s materials, were able to kill off the virus.

With the crisis reaching Israel, the company decided to import all of its raw materials from Germany and have them made into protective masks in a factory in Jerusalem. “We have donated 98% of our masks, and merely kept a few for strategic purposes. 

We will deliver more, as soon as we scale up our production,” Dr. Migdal told TPS.

With 120,000 masks already donated to be distributed among medical workers and employees in critical infrastructure, Sonovia is proud of its achievements. “The heart of our business is truly Israeli. We originated here and are now utilizing out technology for the public good,” Migdal stated.

Migdal would not state whether his company could spell the end to the Coronavirus outbreak. And yet, he is optimistic: “We can say very positively, though, we know that we can kill any bacteria, and kill viruses. Specifically the novel Coronavirus.”

Breakthrough in Development of COVID-19 Vaccine?

For full report see http://www.migal.org.il/Migal.covid

After 4 years of research funded by Israel’s Ministry of Science & Technology, MIGAL’s researchers have developed an effective vaccine against avian coronavirus Infectious Bronchitis Virus (IBV), to be adapted soon and create a human vaccine against COVID-19

Israel’s Minister of Science and Technology, Mr. Ofir Akunis, commented: “Congratulations to MIGAL on this exciting breakthrough. I am confident that there will be further rapid progress, enabling us to provide a needed response to the grave global COVID-19 threat.” Minister Akunis has instructed the Director General of the Ministry of Science and Technology to fast-track all approval processes with the goal of bringing the human vaccine to market as quickly as possible.

MIGAL has achieved a scientific breakthrough that will lead to the rapid creation of a vaccine against Coronavirus. This possibility was identified as a by-product of MIGAL’s development of a vaccine against IBV (Infectious Bronchitis Virus), a disease affecting poultry, whose effectiveness has been proven in pre-clinical trials carried out at the Volcani Institute. MIGAL has now made required genetic adjustments to adapt the vaccine to COVID-19, the human strain of coronavirus, and is working to achieve the safety approvals that will enable in-vivo testing, enable the initiation of production of a vaccine to counter the Coronavirus epidemic currently spreading throughout the world, which so far has claimed 2,666 lives.

From research conducted at MIGAL, it has been found that the poultry coronavirus has high genetic similarity to the human COVID-19, and that it uses the same infection mechanism, a fact that increases the likelihood of achieving an effective human vaccine in a very short period of time.

Syrian Journalist Says"Learn From Israel"

A Syrian journalist on the Al-Jazeera network told Arab viewers to stop believing preposterous conspiracies about Israel and insteadlearn from the Jewish people’s example.

Did the Arabs oppose the creation of a Jewish State at San Remo? NO!

Before the San Remo conference there did not exist a single Arab independent nation state.  Not one.  All 22 Arab states that exist today (as part of the Arab League) became nation states either as a direct result of the San Remo conference, or much later.  Therefore, the legitimacy of Israel as a Jewish state is exactly equal to or greater than the legitimacy of any of the Arab nation states.

TRUTH BE TOLD

Here is one brave Arabs who defend Israel, tell the truth and confront the lies and the terror of their Arab brethren.

Ex-Terrorist Shocks Israeli Teenagers with the Truth About the Two-State Solution

By Avi Abelow - February 19, 2020  in Israel Unwired

This Arab Muslim lecturer once was a terrorist who tried to kill Israelis and IDF soldiers.  He feels he was blessed because he was stopped before he blew himself up as a suicide bomber and instead arrested and jailed in Israel.  This saved his life!

Jail time was good for him, since he concluded that he did not want to sacrifice his life for a cause that didn’t care about him, so he stopped being a terrorist and was then tortured by the Palestinian Authority secret services who thought that he was a traitor.

Subsequently, he escaped to Israel and today lives as an Israeli citizen in the Israeli city of Haifa.

He now dedicates his life to trying to stop Arab Muslims from wanting to kill Jews.  He also lectures to Jewish audiences trying to convince them that the left which supports the two-state solution is the problem, not the solution.

The video here is from a lecture to High School students where he was explaining that voting for the leftwing parties that support a two-state solution is bad, and hence they must only vote for the right-wing parties that are against the two-state solution.  It would be a disaster to establish a country for people with a culture of murder and bloodshed, (who) educate them (their people) for generations that Jews should become food for fish.

Under no circumstances is a Palestinian state (to be) established.

Why Palestinians prefer to work for Israeli employers(

(Thanks to Palestinian Media Watch)

• "Whenever Palestinian workers have the opportunity to work for Israeli employers, they are quick to quit their jobs with their Palestinian employers”

[Official PA daily, Al-Hayat Al-Jadida, Sept. 21, 2014]

• "Israeli labor law is a very good law regarding workers' rights... Unfortunately… the Palestinian middleman… takes 50 percent, 60 percent, and even 70 percent of her salary. If her daily salary is 180 shekels, in the end she receives 60 shekels. The [Palestinian] middleman steals two thirds of her salary."

[Official PA TV, Workers' Affairs, March 16, 2016]

• “The average daily wage for [Palestinian] employees in the West Bank was 98.8 shekels…  Gaza Strip 56.7 shekels… in Israel and the Israeli settlements 233.3 shekels”

[Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, Nov. 9, 2017]

• "There are more than 120,000 women in Palestine whose [monthly] salaries are less than 500 shekels."

[Official PA TV News, Nov. 3, 2018] 

• “It is inconceivable that the Palestinian worker receives his full rights from the Israeli employers, but not from the Palestinian ones.”

[Wael Nazif, CEO PA Labor Union, in official PA daily, Sept. 21, 2014]

Fatah Condemns a Two State Solution

“A speech condemning the deal of the century given by 

[Fatah Central Committee member] brother Tawfiq Tirawi 

during a meeting with the [Fatah] Movement associations and bureaus, 

Jan. 30, 2020” 

Israel’s South Flooded with Booby-Trapped Balloons from Gaza

Gaza-based terrorists on Monday launched dozens of balloons connected to explosive charges which flew to several locations throughout Israel’s south.

By Aryeh Savir, TPS

In the Eshkol region, adjacent to the Gaza Strip, balloon clusters landed at three different locations. One exploded in midair, and another two landed and were neutralized by police sappers.

Another balloon tied to an explosive charge landed in the Merchavim area and a sapper was dispatched to the site.

An explosive device tied to a balloon landed in a backyard of a home in Kfar Azza.

Booby-trapped balloons also landed in the cities of Sderot and Kiryat Gat. Several explosions were heard in Kiryat Gat.

Another explosive charge landed near Sa’ad Junction in the south. The road was closed until the police cleared the bomb.

Train traffic in the south was halted for a short while due to the attacks.

No one was injured in any of the attacks and no damage was caused. However, explosions were heard throughout the south as many of the charges exploded in midair.

Israel’s south had seen a significant escalation in the attacks from Gaza in the past few weeks with the renewed launch of balloons attached to explosive charges, and the intensification of rocket fire in recent days.

The explosive and flammable balloon attacks have returned to haunt Israel’s residents in the south in the past weeks after several months in which such attacks from Gaza ceased. Over 60 such explosive charges have landed in Israeli territory in the past two weeks. No one was injured in the attacks.