Isaiah 5:7 “for the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the House of Israel”.
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Feasts That Foretell
MY FRIENDS in that superb Palace of Divine Revelation called “The Bible,” there are innumerable reception halls where ɭɹɤ ɧɥɸ, the Divine Spirit, willingly receives, instructs, and enthralls all who are eager for His enlightenment. Over one of these great theatres of Divine intelligence we read the title: LEVITICUS, CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE.
Even as we stand together outside its portals they swing wide open before us in cordial invitation. We enter, and remain transfixed at the colossal and colorful scene being enacted before us in a veritable Theatre of Pageantry, where both time and terrain blend and form a stage whereon the timeless tread of Israel’s multitudes beat out the soundful symphony of man’s deep need and God’s sweet supply. But more than this. These are pageants that prophesy; these are festivals that foretell. How can I best describe the spectacle? Doubtless you have seen a proficient needlewoman take a basic fabric of some uniform mesh-like material, in appearance resembling a fine fly-proof wire screen. Through its fine mesh squares her consummate skill weaves and interweaves multi-colored threads until there appears a clear pattern of positive and purposive design. So it is with what our wandering eyes behold in this amazing chapter of prophecy pageanted.
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God, out of His inexhaustible workbasket of Time and Space, took in His mighty hands the seasons of the year and He stretched them out taut and tight over the Promised Land of Israel to make a colorful basic mesh-material tinted with all the tender tones of Spring, the strong hues of Summer and the flamboyant complexion of the Fall. Then, summoning His chosen people Israel together — equally colorful in all their varieties of temperament and disposition — He interwove their national religious movements through the meshes of Spring, Summer, and Fall in a colorful symbolic and prophetic pageantry as eloquent and significant in its INTERVALS as in its ACTIVITY. Sounds captivating, doesn’t it? Well, it is captivating. But, more than that, it is very important. For here is a clear, graphic, picturesque, panoramic presentation and prophecy of God’s redemptive purpose and provision for all
mankind individually and, for Israel nationally, a corporate personation of redemption quite breathtaking in its meaningfulness, its magnitude and its magnificence. The Hebrew employs two words in outlining this purposive national expression. The first is ɣɲɥɮ or “appointed meeting” and seems to embrace all seasonal observations including Sabbaths and New Moons, many of which are called also ɹɣɷ ɩɠɸɷɮ or “holy convocations.” The second Hebrew word is ɢɧ which comes from a root meaning “to dance,” that is, with joy, to be joyous. This word applies exclusively to Israel’s three feasts, Unleavened Bread, Pentecost and Tabernacles which, however, are included in the annual cycle of ɭɩɣɲɥɮ itemized in Leviticus chapter 23. At the three feasts all the males were to appear before the Lord in His sanctuary. Only a genius like Cecil B. deMille could attempt to reproduce for you the spectacle of a whole nation coming to a particular spot to tryst with God! Have you heard anything like this before? Do please try to capture the wonder of it. Do you have
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appointment diary on your table? Good! Well, can you imagine receiving a message from God Himself calling you to meet Him at a certain time and place? Can you anticipate your feelings as you turn to the appropriate date page on your diary and, opposite the exact time fixed, you write the one word “God!” Three times a year, at times evidently ordained in Divine wisdom to interfere as little as possible with the work of the people, God called the whole nation to feast. Obtaining his data from the Talmud, the historian Josephus recounts that some of these assemblies held in Jerusalem numbered up to two million souls! (Exodus 23:14-16; Deuteronomy 16:16) Think of it! Two million souls, each a living thread to be Divinely woven and interwoven within the basic checker-pattern of seasonal time and space to produce ultimately a prophetic picture, the ends of which reach into and beyond the days in which we ourselves are now living. That you may catch the prophetic panorama which I hope to unfold to you in succeeding messages let me itemize these three Feasts and the other two ɭɩɣɲɥɮ included in this five featured annual religious cycle. ɺɥɶɮɤ ɢɧ ɺɲɡɹ ɢɧ ɤɲɥɸɺ ɯɥɸɫɦ ɭɩɸɥɴɫɤ ɭɥɩ ɺɥɫɱɤ ɢɧ
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Feast of Unleavened Bread (1), Feast of Pentecost (2), Memorial Blast of the Horn (3), Day of Atonements (4) and the Feast of Tabernacles (5). You will notice of these five annual appointments only three are feasts (ɭɩɢɧ). Five is a numeral signifying “grace”; three is a numeral associated with the Deity. To those of you who are expecting the introduction of the “precious seventh,” I am happy to gratify your expectations by saying that to the five annual ɭɩɣɲɥɮ we turn to the twenty-fifth chapter of Leviticus and add the ɯɥɺɡɹ ɺɡɹ, or seventhyear Sabbath, and the ɬɡɥɩ, or Jubilee Year, that punctuated each seven-multiplied-byseven of years. So Pentecost occurred seven weeks after ɧɱɴ (Passover); ɧɱɴ and ɺɥɫɱ (Tabernacles) each have a seven day duration; in each year the ɹɣɷ ɭɩɣɲɥɮ (Holy Convocations) are seven in number; ɺɥɫɱ (Tabernacles) and ɭɩɸɥɴɫɤ ɭɥɩ (Day of Atonements) each occur in the seventh month of the religious year; and thus the whole cycle of annual ɭɩɣɲɥɮ (“appointments”) extend over the seven months from Nisan to Tishri. Such is the remarkable seven-patterned structure of these seasonal appointments. But there is more. In this total cycle of ɭɩɣɲɥɮ there are INTERVALS. You will remember that I said the intervals were eloquent, too. They are. They divide three feasts and group the other ɭɩɣɲɥɮ round them. First, ɺɥɶɮɤ ɢɧ (Feast of Unleavened Bread) with its eloquent enactments associated with
ɧɱɴ (Passover) and ɺɩɹɠɸ ɸɮɲ (First Sheaf). This feast is followed by the first and shorter of the two eloquent intervals. The second pilgrim festival, ɺɲɡɹ ɢɧ (Pentecost), with its ɭɧɬ ɺɰɥɴɤ ɹɺɩɭ (Two Wave-loaves) comes next and is separated from the third feast by the second and longer eloquent interval. The third pilgrim festival, ɺɥɫɱɤ ɢɧ (Feast of Tabernacles), is preceded by ɤɲɥɸɺ ɯɥɸɫɦ (Memorial Horn Blast) and ɭɩɸɥɴɫɤ ɭɥɩ (Day of Atonements).
Such was the basic concept upon which the feasts were built; but they were not mere outward observances, mere ceremonies; they all had a deeper spiritual meaning, a soul, a symbolism; and this soul, this symbolism, was again life and fruitfulness. For the threeact drama of life and fruitfulness could be described as follows: FEAST ONE. LIFE: Messiah’s Redemptive Bestowal FEAST TWO. INDIVIDUAL FRUIT: Messiah’s Redeemed Peoples
My friends, as our thoughts revolve around these three Festivals that foretell, these Pageants that Prophesy, you will be amazed to discover that they supply a symbolical and chronologically progressive picturization like a three-act drama, with this distinction: that they are not related to histrionics, but to life. Real life. Vital life.
FEAST THREE. NATIONAL FRUIT: Messiah’s Redeemed Nation
I want to impress you with the nexus between these three feasts and the thought of life.
Dr Lawrence Duff-Forbes (1900-1964)
Agriculture was the very basis of the Mosaic economy. The Jewish people are born agriculturists. If commerce or industry has claimed their qualities, it is because they have been forced, by Gentile pressures, into these avenues. The three great festivals fixed the Jewish calendar, revolving it around the seasons of green, ripe, and fully gathered produce. In short, life and fruitfulness.
Be sure to be with all our listeners as we unfold, act by act, the multiplying wonders of this superlative drama of love, life, freedom and fruitfulness.
Founding Director of David House Fellowship Inc. This article is an extract from the very popular radio series, “Treasures From Tenach”, which are also transcribed. Both audio (click MP3 tab, then “096feastsforetell.mp3”, and transcriptions are available for free download at www.thevineyard.org.au
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How to avoid going broke Israeli nonprofit Chaim BePlus gives 17 to 21-year-olds the skills to manage their finances, stick to a budget and stay out of overdraft. “Living in minus” is a well-known phrase in Israel. It means one’s bank account is chronically overdrawn. Not only low wage-earners live in minus. The problem stems from mismanagement of whatever amount of money one has, according to Mindy Ajzner, CEO of Chaim BePlus (Living in Plus), a nonprofit organization that trains Israeli youth from all sectors of society how to avoid a lifetime of overdraft. Since she founded Chaim BePlus in 2006, more than 8,000 Jewish, Arab, Druze and Bedouin 17- to 21-year-olds across Israel have learned how to manage their finances, stick to a budget and save money. Ajzner has a senior bookkeeping certificate and a degree in education. “I started counseling families in debt, and realized I wanted to work on prevention. That’s why I started Chaim BePlus,” explains the Canadian immigrant living in Ra’anana for three decades. The course is taught by trained college-age mentors with excellent communication and leadership abilities. Using a kit with lesson
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plans, film clips, games and worksheets, they’re dispatched to fill “orders” from high schools and other youth programs to mentor students in grade 11 and 12 – that critical age when most teens have a bank account and a driver’s license. “The whole idea is that the mentors are peers going through the same process themselves. They also want to buy a motorcycle, travel overseas, go on dates and buy things in the mall. It’s not academic; it’s about ‘Do I really need two new pairs of shoes in my closet?’ ‘Will I have enough money for a vacation if I go out every week?’ It’s all about choices,” Ajzner tells ISRAEL21c. Originally the program used printed materials. Today everything is digitized. Mentors present five frontal teaching sessions interspersed with five one-on-one coaching sessions via phone, Facebook and/or Whatsapp for each participant. “We’ve got 46 mentors in every part of Israel, and because we’re all hooked up to Google Drive, everyone has access to the same
curriculum and content,” she continues. “The mentors have a smartphone app we made for them with checklists for each of the 1,500 kids, and that allows us to monitor everyone’s progress in the office. The kids use Facebook to send us feedback on how they are saving money.”
Ethiopian-Israelis, middle-class teens and everything in between. We want to embrace everybody,” says Ajzner.
Tangible results
“We never tell anybody what to do. We tell them rules for financial well-being and they make their own choices,” she emphasizes.
Ajzner says the results of the lessons are very tangible. “After a lesson, kids may go to their bank and demand to get service charges reduced, or they’ll call their cell phone company to make sure they’re getting the best deal,” says Ajzner. “All these small steps build you up to be a financially healthy person.” Chaim BePlus partners with major educational networks like Amal, Atid, ORT, AMIT, Tamat, Naamat and Sherut Leumi (National Service). “They order the course and form the groups. As soon as they have a group of 10, we send a mentor to give the specific lessons chosen by the head of that group.” On May 26, Chaim BePlus is presenting “How to Help Our Children Become Financially Independent” in Petah Tikva with Michal Dalyot, Israel’s “Super Nanny,” and Nachman Lidor, an Israeli expert on family finance. “A lot of teachers want to learn about financial management and we can’t be in every school, so we decided to bring them all together for one night with experts on this topic,” says Ajzner, who was alarmed to read a recent report that 87 percent of married Israelis are still supported by their parents. Two years ago, Chaim BePlus began a partnership with the Arab-Jewish Center for Equality, Empowerment and Cooperation – Negev Institute for Strategies of Peace and Development in Beersheva, through which Bedouin mentors are being trained. All materials have been translated into Arabic.
Preparation for peace The course is meant to stimulate each participant’s better judgment.
“It’s great preparation for marriage, because our goal is not about the money but to help them have a good life, which in our view means peace of mind. If you have peace of mind — when you can make do with what you have and don’t owe anybody money — you’ll smile at your spouse and be relaxed with your children. This is the basis of a happy marriage and good health.” Moreover, Ajzner sees Chaim BePlus as a peacemaker. “My vision is economic stability as the basis for peace in Israel,” says Ajzner. “If all these sectors are financially stable from their youth, then they won’t be interested in conflict.” Chaim BePlus, which has just two full-time employees, is financed by foundations and private donors. Additional funders are needed as demand for the program grows. “Donors want to see long-term results, and we are fighting poverty not with short-term ‘bandaids’ like food donations, but with life skills,” says Ajzner. “Many kids growing up in families in overdraft are worried they will go through that, too. When a mentor comes in with ideas on how to break that pattern, that’s really special and gives them hope.” Abigail Klein Leichman (18 May 2014) Courtesy Israel 21C (www.israel21c.org)
“We’ve got youth at risk, high-school dropouts, technological pre-army program participants,
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Background photo: the park excavations in 2011. Inset photos clockwise: Mt Olives on the horizon, grey dome of Al Aksa mosque, park environs right and front; visitors tour the park excavations; view to Hill of Evil Counsel.
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Israel’s National Enactment MY DEAR FRIENDS, in the Hebrew language there is a very interesting Hebrew root Yarah ɤɸɩ which means “to throw,” “to cast.” It is employed to indicate the casting forth of arrows by an archer; to cast lots by which oracular responses would produce guidance or instruction; to throw forth the finger as in pointing out the way, the direction. With these basic ideas in mind it is easy to see the origin and development of two Hebrew nouns from this very same root. The first is “moreh” ɤɸɥɮ meaning a teacher or instructor; the second is “torah” ɤɸɥɺ meaning the teaching or instruction itself. It is interesting as well as instructive to observe that this last word “torah” is used in Scripture before the time of Moses and the Ten Commandments. We discern its initial employment in connection with our father Abraham of whom the Eternal God declared: “In reward that Abraham hearkened to My voice, and kept My charge, My commandments, My statutes, and My laws.” (Genesis 26:5) Thus, the first Biblical reference relates the word to the expressed will of God as conveyed to man. In a more limited sense, particularly when the noun carries the definite article, in nine cases out of ten it relates to the Law of Moses given four hundred and thirty years after Abraham received God’s gracious promises (Galatians 3:17).
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Again, it should be mentioned that the title “The Law” can be Scripturally applied to the whole Tenach — the so-called “Old Testament” (e.g. John 10:34 with Psalm 82:6; John 15:25 with Psalm 35:19; I Corinthians 14:21 with Isaiah 28:11, 12). Since the expressed will of God is Divinely revealed in the Scriptures we are on Biblical, and hence on safe, ground in applying the word Torah in that sense to the whole of the Scriptures both Old and New Covenants, for without doubt the New is promised and prophesied in the Old (Jeremiah 31:31-35). If, however, we unwisely extend the term Torah to extra-Biblical writings we transfer our steps from the solid rock Divine reflection to the shifting sands and dust of human opinions and traditions. I find I cannot agree with the American educator Israel Chipkin (1891-1955) who says that “Torah represents the accumulated literary and spiritual heritage of the Jewish people through the centuries.” (Religious Education, Sept. 1953, p338) Behold the polished brilliance of some burnished surface, how it reflects the glorious sunlight! But each passing day brings the threat of accumulated dust to dim that brilliance and if we are not watchful the layer upon layer of foreign particles will ultimately blot out altogether the reflected light.
So it is, I am convinced, with the Revealed Truth of Holy Scripture. It reflects brilliantly for our enjoyment and guidance the expressed will of God to mankind. But if we allow the literary dust of uninspired human tradition and opinion to pour its accumulated centuries, layer after layer, upon that Divine reflector, the Bible, then we shut its light from our path and its warmth from our soul. Our great teacher Moses knew something of the importance of impressing upon Israel the expressed will of God when, prior to his death, he commanded General Joshua to engage the nation of Israel in a national act, the like of which has never been witnessed on earth before or since. (Deuteronomy 27) Let me attempt to describe it to you. In the Divine battle against the darkness of heathenism, God, by the miracles of Jordan and Jericho and the lesson in the capitulation of Ai and Bethel, as it were, had handed to Joshua the keys of the Kingdom of God on earth and had invited — nay, commissioned
— Israel to lay its foundations and prepare the way for Messiah, his King. It was the accumulated dust of heathenism that was now to be removed in order that the pristine light of God’s love and God’s law might again shine upon mankind in general and Israel in particular. There were to be three major movements in this national symphony of Divine revelation. The first related to the Law, the second to the Altar, and the third to the Obligations. This national enactment is so rich in its spiritual fare and so brilliant in its radiance that I have devoted a whole message to it on a previous occasion entitled “Sermons in Stones.” In the first phase, the “statutes,” and “rights,” and all the words of the Law were to be written upon great stones which had previously been covered in plaster. The climate of the country, by the way, would tend to preserve such inscriptions for reasonably long periods and certainly, in this
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case, for the particular generation of Israel whose important mission called for such an impression of the Divine Will. It was the responsibility of succeeding generations to learn the Divine Revelation from the preceding one — “... and you shalt teach them diligently unto your children ...” (Deuteronomy 6:7) It was also the responsibility of Israel to preserve the Divine Revelation against the threat of accumulated human tradition lest the light of Revelation be thus obscured. God’s command is very explicit on this point: “You shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall you diminish from it ... ” (Deuteronomy 4:2; 13:1; English tr. 12:32) This is a principle we all do well to note. Personally, I am of the opinion that the progress towards, and the completion of, what is known as the Canon of the Holy
Scriptures of both the Old and the New Covenants was overshadowed and guarded by the Holy Spirit of God; I am also convinced that it is the “adding to” and “diminishing from” this Divine Revelation which is responsible for so much confusion even where the light of God’s Word is so freely available.
Both altar and sacrifice are closely related even in their Hebrew etymology.
The second phase in Israel’s national enactment under Joshua was the offering of sacrifices upon an altar.
Now for the third phase. This was a most impressive pageantry. Whilst the priests (Joshua 8:33) with the Ark of the Covenant of God stationed themselves in the intermediate valley, six of Israel’s tribes were to stand on Mount Ebal and six upon Mount Gerazim and all were to listen to the priests recital (Joshua 8:33) and Joshua’s reading of all the words of the Law — the blessing and the curse.
The stones comprising this altar of God were to be unhewn stones, “whole stones,” just as God in Nature had left them. No iron tool was to be lifted up upon them to add man’s contribution in their formation. Again a reminder that the altar, as well as the sacrifices, are wholly God’s and man must have no part beyond the acceptance of that which both altar and sacrifice signify. (Deuteronomy 27:5; cf. Exodus 20:22, English tr. 20:25)
The Tannaitic Midrash on Exodus, usually known as Mechilta, declares — and here I quote from this ancient document — “The purpose of the altar was to preserve life (through atonement), whereas iron destroys it (by the sword).”
Mount Gerazim is associated with the blessing and Mount Ebal with the curse. Twelve times the people were to respond “Amen” to the twelve itemizations of the curse; however, we strain our ears in vain for any recorded echo of the blessings. Let me add just two more interesting features. Those standing on the Mount of Blessing — Simeon, Levi, Judah, Issachar, Joseph, and Benjamin — had all been born of the lawful wives of Israel. Of those standing on the Mount of Cursing five had been born of the matriarch’s handmaids. To these five, Reuben, on account of his great sin (Genesis 49:4) had been added.
The Law of the Eternal is perfect restoring the soul but — and here is the point — man fails to keep it and in consequence the curses resound and the blessings fail to echo from human experience. Nevertheless, where the curse of the Law falls, there is an altar of sacrifice, Godinitiated, and God-provided; and just as the Law points to the moral spiritual quality of the Messianic Kingdom yet to be established on earth so the Altar and the Sacrifice point to the Messianic King Who came, as Scripturally promised, two thousand years ago and made a full atonement for the sins of Israel and all mankind. By trusting in the atoning efficacy of His blood we shall hear the echo of the blessings and the curses shall lose their sound in the everlasting hills of Divine forgiveness. Dr Lawrence Duff-Forbes (1900-1964) Founding Director of David House Fellowship Inc. This article is an extract from the very popular radio series, “Treasures From Tenach”, which are also transcribed. Both audio (click MP3 tab, then “168israel’snationalenactment. mp3”, and transcriptions are available for free download at www.thevineyard.org.au
The second feature of interest to be observed is that Ebal, the Mount of Cursing, has both the plastered stones of the Law and the Altar of Sacrifice. My friends, here is rich prophetic pageantry and blazing Divine illumination. Israel’s national enactment illuminates the Divine “torah,” teaching, upon LAW, ATONEMENT, and CONSEQUENCE.
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Is your food and water contaminated?
Bactusense from Israel will give real-time identification and analysis of bacteria in food processing plants, water systems, hospitals and more. What if one product could detect bacteria in food-processing plants, hospitals and municipal water supplies — inexpensively and in real time? Thanks to Israeli nanotechnology, that product is on the horizon and has the potential to save millions of lives lost to bacterial contamination every year. The Bactusense optical biosensor, still in development, uses silicon-based microchips to trap bacteria from any liquid – such as water, milk or blood — flowing through the system. The optical scanner then identifies the trapped microbes. Bactusense’s technology was invented by Prof. Amir Saar of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Prof. Ester Segal of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The IP was licensed in May to Capitalnano, Israel’s leading investor and founder of startup companies based on nanotechnologies coming out of Israeli universities. Capitalnano Managing Partner Ofer Dunour says the system could be configured in different versions to identify specific kinds of bacteria in water, food, air, soil and body fluid samples. Each chip in the system will cost less than $1 to manufacture, while the cost of the entire optical setup is estimated to be around $10,000 depending on its intended use.
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“It can be used as a continuous monitor for water systems or for food processing,” Dunour tells ISRAEL21c. “Or it can be used on an as-needed basis for analyzing blood or urine samples of patients being admitted to hospitals. Basically it’s the same core system with slight variations. There would be an add-on for water systems to provide remote sensing, so it can be in the field without any need for a person to operate it.”
Bactusense is not the first Israeli technology to attempt to address the lag in identifying hospital-borne infections. Real-time solutions on the drawing board include a bedside kit and an automated DNA analysis of PCR (polymerase chain reaction) tests, the most popular molecular diagnostic technique However, nothing quite like Bactusense exists in the market, the company claims.
Access to clean water has become one of the major challenges on the planet. It’s estimated that more than 780 million people worldwide can’t find clean drinking water, and that 3.4 million people die each year from diseases related to contaminated water.
“We saw several attempts to do what we do, and it comes down to the sensitivity of the system and its ability to distinguish between live and dead bacteria,” says Du-nour. “This is important in the food industry, because after you’ve cleaned the machinery you still have dead bacteria present and you don’t want to count them.”
The picture is nearly as grim in regard to processed foods. In the United States alone, bacterial contamination developed during food processing causes 3,000 deaths and 48 million non-fatal illnesses each year.
In addition, “it’s not enough to know you have bacteria; you have to know which one. Usually you’re looking for a specific type, and we’ll have chips to find those and ignore the other types.”
And in hospitals, where bacterial infections are a constant concern, current technology takes two or three days to positively identify the presence of bacteria and its type. In the meantime, the patient is not receiving treatment – or possibly getting the wrong treatment — putting all surrounding patients and staff members in danger and encouraging the growth of resistant “superbugs.”
No surprises in your processed food
Lots of potential customers
Du-nour predicts that Bactusense will be commercialized within two or three years. “I believe the first target would be the food industry,” he says.
that several potential customers from this sector have already expressed keen interest in getting a prototype of the Bactusense system installed their factories ASAP. “The basis of Capitalnano is that we think there is a huge potential for technologies in universities, especially in the area of nanotech, and we look for those we think are the best, for which we think the investment of time and money is not that large,” says Du-nour. “We license technologies that are pretty close to being mature and we build startup companies around them. We always aim for things that are not only wise in a business sense but have some value for helping humanity.” Capitalnano was founded in 2012 by entrepreneur and investor Nir Davison, and its advisory board includes Prof. Chezi Barenholtz and Prof. Shlomo Magdassi of the Hebrew University, Prof. Arie Zaban of Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Rafi Semiat of the Technion, Prof. Alexander Blankstein of Tel-Aviv University and Yaron Kniajer of the Rhodium investment fund. For more information, see www.capitalnano.com. Abigail Klein Leichman (19 May 2014) Courtesy Israel 21C (www.israel21c.org)
The cost of bacterial contamination for the food industry is huge, especially when you factor in the costs of widespread recalls and public-relations damage. So it’s not surprising
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