18 Lifesaving Israeli Inventions

[phkrause]

Israeli ingenuity is benefiting people everywhere. Here are 18 inventions designed to save lives.

http://www.aish.com/jw/id/18-Lifesaving-Israeli-Inventions.html

[Sojourner]

It is truly amazing how many inventions that better mankind and advances in technology and start up companies that go on to employ thousands of people all over the world, SodaStream is one good example!

[fccool]

Yes, there's a lot of tech coming out of Israel. You may not know this, but Microsoft Kinect was developed by Israeli company. I followed the project since before Microsoft bought it out.

The downside to that ingenuity is that there's enormous amount of credit card fraud and hacking coming from that region in general. My card only has been compromised twice, and both times it was someone in Israel.

[Gregory Matthews]

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It is truly amazing how many inventions that better mankind and advances in technology and start up companies that go on to employ thousands of people all over the world, SodaStream is one good example!

O.K. So, a machine that sits on your kitchen counter and turns tap water into Root Beer is an amazing advance in technology. Just what every home in the United States needs.

[nuff sed]

Yeah, I bought one for 3 bucks a couple of weeks ago in a thrift shop... Nuff Sed

[Sojourner]

SodaStream employ a number of people - Jew, Christian, Bahai, Muslim and they seem to work in peace together, not a bad model for the rest of the world to follow...

At the same time it cuts down on environmental waste by recycling bottles, not simply supplying an endless amount of rubbish for landfill as is the case with Coke, Pepsi containers. I would consider that a great advancement in technology that benefits a number of people via the protection of the environment.

[Gregory Matthews]

So Soda Stream is a wonderful company where Jews, Christians, Bahai & Muslims work together in peace:

1) So, it is a wonderful invention that increases sugar consumption?

2) So, it is a wonderful invention that is designed in a manner that increases the cost to replace the CO2 gas by 10 to 20 times.

3) So, it is a wonderful invention that costs 75 cents per liter of drink.

4) So, all the people work together in peace:

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The SodaStream controversy is part of an effort launched by Palestinians in 2005 to pressure Israel to end its occupation of the Palestinian Territories, support full rights for Arab citizens of Israel and support the right of return for Palestinian refugees.[101] SodaStream has been criticized for operating its primary manufacturing plant in the Mishor Adumim industrial zone, located inside Ma'ale Adumim, a settlement in the occupied West Bank and a Jerusalem suburb.[102][103]

The Ma'ale Adumim settlement was established on land expropriated by Israel.[104][105] According to the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem, the settlement (including the Mishor Adumim SodaStream factory), was built on land taken from five Palestinian towns and two Bedouin tribes evicted by the Israeli army.[104][105] Israeli settlements in the West Bank, including Ma'ale Adumim, are regarded by many as illegal under international law.[106]

The European Union's highest court ruled in 2010 that SodaStream was not entitled to claim a "Made in Israel" exemption from EU customs payments for products manufactured in the West Bank because Israeli settlements in occupied Palestinian territory are outside the territorial scope of the EC-Israel Agreement.[107][108][109][110]

Norway, Sweden and Finland have boycotted SodaStream products from the Mishor Adumim factory. According to SodaStream CEO Daniel Birnbaum, the boycott against SodaStream products manufactured in the West Bank had no impact on the growth rate of SodaStream, and that all SodaStream products sold in Norway, Sweden and Finland are manufactured in China, which he sarcastically called "The mother of human rights".[111]

In January 2014 a Paris court ruled that Association France Palestine Solidarité (AFPS), a group campaigning to remove SodaStream from stores, must compensate SodaStream €6500 because the group incorrectly claimed the products are sold "illegally and fraudulently" due to their use of the "Made in Israel" label while being partly manufactured in the West Bank.[112]

Human Rights Watch has stated that "It is impossible to ignore the Israeli system of unlawful discrimination, land confiscation, natural resource theft, and forced displacement of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, where SodaStream is located".[10][113][114] The United Church of Canada launched a campaign to boycott SodaStream's products manufactured in the occupied West Bank.[115]

NOTE: SodaStream products are made in china, as well as in other countries.