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Israel may be known as the startup nation, but after a series of acquisitions in the field of augmented reality, could the world’s most compact tech hub soon gain the recognition it deserves as a driving force for innovation?
Despite the looming presence of COVID-19, Israeli startups have raised record levels of funding and played a pivotal role in the development of transformative technology – particularly in when it comes to augmented reality and mixed reality.
President Reuven Rivlin visits a Syrian civil war patient in a Nahariya hospital, April 09, 2017.
With the outbreak of the civil war in Syria ten years ago, Israel began admitting wounded Syrian nationals for humanitarian medical treatment. The IDF medical corps and hospitals in northern Israel have since provided medical treatment to thousands of wounded Syrians. The logistics of evacuating the injured from the battlefield and transferring them to Israeli territory was often prolonged because Israel and Syria are enemies.
Most of the wounded were brought to the Galilee Medical Center (GMC) in northern Israel. Some were admitted within 24 hours of their injury. For others, it took as long as 14 to 28 days to reach Israel from the combat zone.
Following the civil war outbreak in Syria nearly ten years ago, Israel began admitting wounded Syrians into the country for humanitarian medical treatment.
Researchers report that patients injured in the facial bones by high-speed fire and operated on approximately 2-4 weeks after the injury suffered fewer post-operative complications compared to those wounded who underwent immediate surgical treatment. They hypothesize that this is due to a critical period of time before surgery, which facilitates healing and formation of new blood vessels in the area of the injury and, subsequently, an improvement in the blood and oxygen supply.