Importance of the defense industry; (Source: Ministry of Foreign Affairs Isr.)
There are five significant industries in Nahhoststaat Israel:
The software industry, the jewelry industry, the telecommunications industry, the construction industry and the security industry.
The most significant and most actively traded is the latter; after 2001 they experienced a huge boom. In 2005 alone, exported the Israeli security industry security technology for $ 3 billion abroad.
It was not always so: The Israeli Foreign Ministry recalled in 2002 in an article entitled "Facets of the Israeli Economy. The Defense Industry ":" In the last 15 years, saw Israeli defense companies with a shrinking market for military hardware confronted and therefore made a concerted effort to use their research and development teams for the invention of products for non-military markets and more frequently for adapting defense technology for civilian applications. In fact, many of the innovative products developed by the Israeli civilian high-tech industry, in particular in the field of telecommunications, trace their origins to military technology. "
A very promising area of expertise of the Israeli security industry today is the Airport security, ie the security and surveillance of airports. The airports of New York (JFK), Heathrow (London), Hannover, Tel-Aviv and Singapore are already equipped with Israeli technology.
Israel has, according to the "Israeli Innovation News Service" over 10 potential "Top Ten" -Security-technology exports. These are:
First trace Safe - An alternative to body scanners.
Is already at least 19 U.S. airports in use, because most people balk at the thought of a full-body scanner that a passenger naked undressing in principle and uses radiation technology. They are dangerous for the psyche and also for frequent flyers are exposed to multiple doses of radiation, but an Israeli company that collaborates with a U.S. partner might have the solution.
Trace-Safe from Israel and Raptor from the United States have joined a chemical reaction, Trace Guard called, developed, the particles can detach from tissue and luggage for rapid discovery and analysis.
The technology discovered only dangerous substances, no benign such as perfumes or medicines. It triggers a false alarm and need no filters or cleaning. "One wants to find only the substances from which you can make explosives or biological warfare agents," Sela [Consultant and military] said.
It can be installed in the scanner and magnetometer and also in a rod that can be run past both to humans and to luggage.
Trace-Safe is fighting for time with financial difficulties, but he believes that Trace Guard has the potential to end the use of all other equipment at airports, including the detested body and shoe scanner. "I am one of the experts who believe that full-body scanners are wrong and not healthy for the people," Sela told Israel 21c. "Especially since they have to pass through radiation. The defeated the matter. "
2nd Suspect Detection System - Tracing the sweat of terror (ie, the detection system for suspects - the sweat of terror track)
The "Suspect Detection System" (SDS) is an automated interrogation and background check technology for both travelers and for airport personnel. It works like a lie detector to catch terrorists - an advanced and automated filter tool filters out potential suspects among tens of thousands of people.
When people and security personnel make the selection, there is always the danger that the human error creeps in control. "SDS's VR-1000" was built with the assumption that very well equipped terrorists may not be on the wanted list of Interpol or the Department of Homeland Security.
The technology works like a lie detector and monitor the psychological and physiological fear of a terrorist suspect and alleviates the fear of Americans to be subjected to profiling. The test works like a robot, looking for trigger stimuli, emit only terror suspects with some probability.
3rd Bell Secure - Consolidating data (that is the merging of data)
Secure Bell is an Israeli security company that is so high up top in the security chain, that it is impossible to figure out their website. The new security platform enables loud Sela communicate in real time and monitors both travelers and cargo. The new company, which was founded by three Israeli engineers is promoted both in Israel and in Canada.
It was created by former soldiers of the very prestigious 8200 IDF Intelligence Corp group [intelligence unit of the Israeli army]; the company provides the missing link between the identification and verification of people and freight by local and global authorities at airports. Since there are many systems in different countries, which are incompatible to a large extent, the Bell-Secure solution can help to identify a safe and reliable no-fly list, pulls the data in real time from a variety of sources.
Sela says the system would manage security in a way, as it could never afford the 14 billion expensive system that would have bought the Americans. At present the company is looking for a pilot airport for a trial run. Bell Secure connects Homeland Security, Interpol data, images, voice and video recordings, and so creates a merged database, which can be operated worldwide.
4 Eltel - Monitoring the monitors (ie monitoring of screens)
Eltel, a subcontractor of Elul Group, supplies the Israeli army and government agencies. Eltel has developed an intelligent computerized training system that helps airport staff to deal quickly and competently with security risks. It is a self-contained training system.
"This company has a very unique competence program, which makes verifiable on scanners, as well a security person is working," said Sela.
"You have to know how they feel and how they feel when they check screens. This company provides a continuous competency check program. No one else in the world has such a thing. It not only helps to show managers when employees need a break to rest the eyes, it could also create standards for how security personnel guided and monitored must, "he predicts.
The training system provides reports and continuously monitors the standards.
5 WeCU - Here's looking at you
WeCU aims to blend high-tech with psychology. It presents symbols and images that only certain terrorist agents "see". Imagine, you see how suddenly a picture of your mother is projected onto the wall of the airport. That's the idea behind WeCU, which collects unusual reactions to his images to track suspects and rendering them harmless. Sela like this idea, but he predicts that some governments, such as Canada, objections to this particular technology will rise, the smell of "Big Brother". "This company has a method that would be considered in some countries as the invasion of privacy - Canada will never use it. I have Canada said that you can not do with political correctness security. As long as you do it without a real plan, it will never work. "
If you could combine with SDS WeCU, this method to profiles terrorists, not so bluntly as an intrusion would be seen, suspected Sela.
6 Breaking the queue at the security check with their own "Biometric VIP" card
Frequent Flyer will be glad to learn that the biometric card, which is published in Israel by the Transportation Security Administration, around the world flights safer and easier could. No one wants to have to arrive hours before departure and have to contend with unpredictable times for queues.
The biometric scanners are maps of similar size such as credit cards, personal, biometric information about each traveler included. Maybe they will be coupled in the future with international programs for frequent flyers. You will still have to wait a little longer because they are issued at the moment in a pilot study only to passengers in the Business Class on El Al.
While Sela likes the idea, he says, that this particular company need a solution as the Secure Bell to authorize the check.
7 MagShoe - Keep your shoes on
While numerous Israeli airport security technologies that are in use around the world, are not visible to the naked eye, the American travelers have become accustomed to the MagShoe. Instead of the sometimes annoying and always uncomfortable procedure, take off your shoes, travelers need in the manufactured in Israel MagShoe to check it rise only to him. The unit only takes a few seconds for scanning to search for hidden weapons.
Once the use of trace-Guard systems is more widespread, MagShoe will be redundant, says Sela. But MagShoe is still very efficient to detect objects that are hidden in the area of the ankle. One can the device anywhere in America next scanners and X-ray machines see.
8 Vigilant (alert) - sleep with one eye open
The Vigilant monitoring system remains awake even if security personnel asleep. The company from Tel Aviv, working together with the company Pelco from Kalifonien has already technologically advanced equipment installed at several locations in the USA, including the "George Bush Intercontinental Airport" in Houston, Texas, and at the "Salt Lake City International Airport" in Utah.
The intelligent system for video surveillance improves crime and terrorism prevention not only in airports, but also on American roads such. B. in Manhattan, one of dozens of locations that are connected to the digital monitoring system of Vigilant. The CCTV headquarters of the company is a fully digital management approach that establishes a monitoring wall. It is the comprehensive solution for each control center which includes a video motion detector.
BriefCam 9 - go back in time
BriefCam security. The Israeli company provides the techology for a video synopsis, which allows security personnel to quickly and effectively to test video sequences again and mark. BriefCam helps to identify individuals at border crossings, airports or in and around power plants around. Since fewer people are needed for scrutinizing video footage, the possibility of human error is reduced dramatically, and the use of people to track events and to discover unusual occurrences.
While Sela likes this technology, he says that airports could decide on the lookout for video surveillance options for the Canadian-Israeli company Visual Defence. The latter is based on technology of army unit 8200 Visual Defense can watch thousands of cameras at the same time. It is the only solution, which is used in the New York subway stations in all. If airports decide to set up video surveillance, it would be this company for camera management, on which you should rely, says Sela.
10 ACRO-PET - Looks like a pen out, sniffs TATP (= APEX, explosives)
When the flight attendants, this unit would have had to board the flight to Detroit, where a terror attack was recently thwarted, the security personnel on the ground would be better prepared for his task to be performed was explained Ehud Keinan from Israeli Technon Institute of Technology. In collaboration with American researchers, the professor has developed a pen-like device that can "sniff out" APEX, a main ingredient in explosives used in terrorist attacks in Israel, and has become famous through the shoe bomber.
The "pin" costs about $ 25 and is now distributed by the Israeli company Acro Security. The ACRO-PET groups (Peroxide Explosives Tester) is a new beruhender by a number of chemical technologies that are eingesezt to make terrorists at airports harmless before they board the aircraft; as they are to investigate suspicious cases and behavior during the flight.
No doubt, saying Israel is a world leader in the field of security technology!
From 31.10.-02.11.2010, an international exhibition of Homeland Security (Homeland Security) took place in the Israeli capital Tel Aviv, on which all the relevant companies were present.
Just these three days, the German Interior Minister Thomas de Mazière in Tel Aviv wanted to be: The Ministry of Interior announced : "Thomas de Maizière will visit from 31 October to 2 November for the first time in his capacity as Minister of the Interior Israel. Emphasis of the journey are general security questions and possible Israeli investments in the new federal states. In addition, a meeting with President Shimon Peres on the agenda. At the Holocaust memorial Yad Vashem in Jerusalem de Maizière will lay a wreath (...) Reason for talks on security issues is the International Homeland Security Conference in Tel Aviv, to the Interior Minister will speak on the topic of international terrorism. De Maizière will also meet with Israeli Public Security Minister, Yitzhak Aharonowitsch, and other experts in the field of security. Israeli investments in German sites are the focus when visiting an investor conference organized by the German-Israeli Chamber of Commerce on behalf of Germany Trade and Invest. "
The journey of the Minister was thwarted: We already know it - two parcels, so we refer to the media, abandoned in Yemen, addressed to a synagogue in Chicago, said to have been transported by UPS air freight.
One of the packages should have been transhipped at Cologne-Bonn Airport and was finally in London, the other seized in Dubai. One day before the Homeland Security Conference logs (according to Focus, 8.11.2010, p 57) a "spy" of Arab intelligence at the "liaison officers of the BKA" in Riyadh. "We have evidence of a planned attack by air."
Al-Faifi must of course have known, even if the focus is not explicitly mentioned parcel number and freight route. Because: The BKA man still calls in the night "to 2 clock in the morning" in Germany to "... but the officers could not intervene.. The Frachtmnaschine the UPS company was lifted at 2:04 clock from Cologne / Bonn airport and already on his way to England. "
De Mazière then announced on Friday "Red Alert" and is due to the terrorist situation in Germany, says his trip from Tel Aviv.
In England it had initially in the "terror-pack" can not find anything special, not even the EDD; and that, although each packet supposedly 400 g of high explosive contained!
As a BBC reporter confirmed on television, was found on a UPS cargo plane in the cargo terminal of the airport East Midlands a suspicious parcel that a toner cartridge with protruding wires contained, but no explosives. The reporter reported that the American President had turned; the estimate is corrected: it had acted to "highly professional and excellent camouflaged explosives". (Focus).
In Yemen, one wondered, meanwhile, how it was possible to get into the media so quickly in this regard. The Yemeni news agency SABA writes:
"UPS planes never land or take off in Yemen, the official made clear."
To German: "UPS AIrCrAFt land or never start from Yemen," said the spokesman authorities clearly. The security measures at Yemeni airports are tightened and the authorities search passengers and luggage well, the official said, adding that Yemen has recently installed modern checking systems that could detect dangerous or suspicious materials to the safety of passengers or aircraft. "
We can over the course of the Homeland Security Conference and Fair in Tel Aviv first hand from a special blog "Doubletapper" learn from Israel about "Arms, Weapons, Militia, Defense, and Homeland Security":
There is to read both packages would contain about 400 grams of PETN. Al Qaeda was thus successfully penetrated the international air cargo system. The Airport Security had obviously failed and there could be many more such sets. The security is manifestly inadequate. In the USA, one would therefore already asked the Department of Homeland Security to install a 100% cargo scanning system at last, such as 9/11 Commission Act, actually provided after for two years. The Israeli TraceTechSecurity Ltd. consider the innovative technology for the detection of any kind of explosives already ready, whether liquid or solid. The system has already been successfully tested by Israeli intelligence.
Former General and Vice Chief of the U.S. Army Intelligence and current head of the Transportation Security Administration, Robert Harding, had already announced to move closer to the Israeli model. The authority had been 2000 officers to detect abnormal behavior, "Behavioral detection officers", and Trainig has to be extended.
Israel is therefore not only a leader in security technology. Also, it apparently had the issue of the two parcels from Yemen terror ahead. The Israeli YNET NEWS reports , in Israel since Thursday had been bomb alert ("Minister Katz: Israel on bomb alert since Thursday").
The Transport Minister gave the notice, the State had, knew about the package terror even before it was made public [Friday, 30/10/10.] Decision. The detailed information you have received from Saudi intelligence.
Lower Saxony Interior Minister Uwe Schünemann (CDU) wants to leave shoot cargo aircraft: "We need clarity surprising that the Bundeswehr can also shoot cargo aircraft with a bomb on board if necessary." "Thus, Schünemann is against the Federal Constitutional Court, which declared 2006 the permission for shooting of passenger aircraft to be unconstitutional." (Focus, cited above)
So a strange proposal - on the other hand can only underline the desire to create clarity. Interior Minister de Mazière should quickly ensure indeed for clarity - but proposed a different way, than by Schünemann ...
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