Another reason I love Israel

Israel’s MaxTech Networks’ marketing tagline is “Connecting you when no one else can.”

But the Israeli company took that to a whole new level last week when it supplied the vital technology necessary to save 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach trapped in a flooded cave with dwindling oxygen and little food.

“On every rescue mission, you need to coordinate the rescue team and to know at all times where they are, and what their status is,” explained Uzi Hanuni, MaxTech’s CEO. “These caves are very long, and you can’t send messengers back and forth through them. The divers need to be in constant contact with their base so that everyone knows where they are.

“No other system could work here, except ours,” said Hanuni, adding that it was essential to keeping the first responders alive.

Thanks to the hard work of MaxTech and many others around the world, the entire team and their coach were rescued. But few in the watching world realize just how much they relied on Israel’s innovation.