Many of the ExScite friends in Israel will remember the famous or infamous Scitex newsletter Micha Kidron used to write. Here is something he wrote in honor of Efi. Unfortunately it cannot be translated to English since it’s a poem with rhymes. Those that read Hebrew: enjoy!
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Material was supplied by Eva Duvdevani.
After five intensive and successful years as President of Orbotech in Brussels Belgium, Chanoch Biran will return to Israel and be appointed to the position of Corporate Vice President of Business Development & Marketing at the company’s HQ in Yavne. Chanoch managed Orbotech’s European subsidiary during years of extensive growth, in which our traditional business in the PCB Inspection industry was booming and, in parallel diversified into the Component Assembly Inspection market. The ExScite Chanoch (Ex-STCL, STE, Leaf, STA) will be returning with his ExScite wife Mandy Biran-Meyer (Ex-STCL) and their two children.
Orbotech Ltd. (NASDAQ/NM SYMBOL: ORBK) designs, develops, manufactures, markets and services production support solutions for the supply chain of the electronics industry, principally for printed circuit boards (PCBs) and flat panel displays (FPDs). The Company provides automated optical inspection (AOI) systems for bare PCBs and for FPDs, and in imaging solutions for PCB production, and for AOI systems for assembled PCBs. Orbotech headquarters and primary R&D and manufacturing facilities are in Israel, and more than 30 offices worldwide.
Eli Bitan is General Manager and VP R&D at Send2Post. Send2Post mission is to be the leading global infrastructure provider for customized on-demand print-and-delivery services for corporations. Corporate marketing collateral and documents can be personalized, printed and mailed directly from any web browser Individual brochures or entire direct mail campaigns prepared in minutes, printed in brilliant color, and mailed directly to recipients.
Before Send2Post Eli had a distinguished career at Scitex Corporation where he most recently served as R&D Director for the company’s Digital Printing Division. He was also the lead R&D Software Manager for the software team developing desktop applications for the Macintosh.
These pictures (click on image to enlarge) were taken in the 1970?s when the Scitex was managed by the seat of the pants, and the upper management could fit on one Kawasaki. In the pictures- Efi Arazi and Arthur Low zooming to the future.
Gidi Benyamini has joined Notal Vision as COO. Gidi had spent 7 years at Scitex in Israel. Located in Tel Aviv Israel, Notal Vision Ltd. develops Macular Computerized Psychophysical Test, which provides early detection, referral and treatment of Age-related Macular Degeneration. These are critical to prevent vision loss and to maximize treatment benefits.
AMD is the leading cause of blindness in the developed world among people over the age of 50. About 14 million people in the US suffer from AMD and it is the cause of blindness among 1.7 million Americans.
Notal Vision’s MCPT is currently being clinically verified by prominent ophthalmology clinics. Availability of the product is expected in early 2002, after FDA approval.
Following the merger of his old company Zing and a division of Conexant, Philip Lavee as been appointed VP, Sales and Business Development Of Pictos.
Philip has 18 years experience in digital imaging and printing. He has most recently served as President at Zing Network, which he joined in December 1999. Prior to that, as VP Business Development, he helped make Zing one of the best-known online imaging sites in the world. Previously, he was President of Pix.com, following a tenure as Director of Sales and Marketing at Leaf and at Scitex
Pictos Technologies Inc., a $25M company, headquartered in
Homi Shamir, Scitex Digital Printing president and Eli Lubitch VP Biz Development, have been seen smiling all over at a recent party around the Xplor show in California. The ESPN Zone party has been sponsored by SDP.
This picture was taken in Akko, Israel, also at the 1988 trip to the Galilee (see previous Nostalgia posting dated Oct. 25, 2002 below) and was sent to us by Alex Gall.
In the picture from Left to Right:
Top Row – Eliezer Lev, Victor Wrobel.
Bottom Row: Rani Ramot, Gaby Mizrahi, Efi Weinreb, Luci Wharmann, Lucia Smilovici, Yaakov Pluda, white hat-mystery lady, Etan Maron
Hezi
Himelfarb is the CEO of Ceseara Israel based Remon Medical Technologies.
Hezi was with Scitex in Herzlia from 1982 to 1996.
Remon Medical Technologies, an Israeli
startup, develops minute, chip-based devices that are implanted
deep in the body for wireless, non-invasive disease management and treatment.
Remon devices can work either as sensors for measuring and monitoring bodily
medical parameters such as internal pressure, blood flow, and temperature, or as
activators of drug delivery and other medical devices.
Remon has acknowledged that it is raising a $15-million third round of funding
and expects to launch its product at the end of the year. Hezi Himelfarb said
the company has already received a $10-million commitment. The company
previously raised $3 million in its seed round, and $10 million in its second
round.
This picture was sent to us by Alex Gall. The picture had been taken in 1988, on a trip to the Galilee in Israel of the Postscript team.
In the picture from the left: Efi Weinreb, Eliezer Lev, Victor Wrobel and Lucia Smilovici .
Alex worte: ?After the hike we Drank cheap Wine, ate good bread and cheese, told stale jokes and sang off key. We all had good time!?