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...able to stop 100% of terrorist infiltrations," asserts Brigadier General Israel Yitzchak, who heads the Border Police unit responsible for patrolling the seam line between Israel and the West Bank. A fence constructed around the entire Gaza Strip in 1994 has proved valuable. According to Avi Dichter, head of the Shin Bet, Israel's domestic-security agency, not one suicide bomber has entered Israel from the Gaza Strip since the current uprising began. The new barrier, at least initially, won't completely fence off the West Bank. But it will make it much harder for Palestinians to cross between...
TFTP acts as a mediator, a time-consuming process of getting two strangers to meet, like each other and form a happy union. "We travel a lot, know the needs of that region, which nation needs what technology and which country can provide it," Dichter says. After a business-to-business match is made, TFTP prepares contracts and monitors the transfer of production technology. "These are countries where the notion of business as we know it is not the way of life," Dichter says. "But they want to save money and make a profit like any Western company...
...does TFTP thrive in the process? The company is paid on a contract-to-contract basis by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. So far, Dichter has brokered 75 deals involving the transfer of production technologies. "It's a laborious process that sometimes involves a lot of hand holding, almost like being a marriage counselor," Dichter says...
Those who know him agree. "David sees to it that there are no communication gaps," says longtime business associate Sunil Gambers, director of Sunil Gambers Laboratories in Bombay, a company Dichter matched up with Vita Laboratories in the Republic of Georgia for an herbal-medicine venture. "He will go out of his way to see to it that a project he has undertaken gets positive results...
...Dichter says his goal now is to apply his formula to sub-Saharan nations, where poverty levels are the world's worst. "I believe technology transfers from Asia could be Africa's wave of the future and a boon to its economic growth," he says. "But the challenge is getting venture capital to a region shunned by foreign investors." Sounds like a good match for his talents...