Israel has a history of sending successful ‘medical SWAT’ teams to disaster zones. For example, it was the first country to set up a field surgery in Haiti. And now three teams are being dispatched from the Holy Land in order the fight the Ebola epidemic.

However, the Israeli contribution to combatting Ebola may turn out to be far more effective than just sending  aboard an airplane some top medics and a whole load of equipment

POINT ONE: Israel’s CollPlant has strong expertise in preparing vaccines from tobacco, which is seen as a key to the treatment to Ebola. They appear to be one of the few companies with an ability to mass produce an antidote, although the results of such drugs are still mixed.

POINT TWO: Argaman, based in Jerusalem, is manufacturing a set of fabrics that can used in hospitals: Sheets, clothing attire, socks, etc – by using Argaman products, infection rates have dropped by tens of percentage points in trials. At least one NGO operating in the Ebola region has approached the CEO of Argaman to consider how such products could protect their employees in the field.

POINT THREE: SYS Technologies near Haifa, Israel, has begun to send special sterile tents to Liberia and other countries in the region. The tents can be used as either field operating surgical units or sterile isolation areas. This latter issue is critical, when one considers that there is yet to be prescribed a comprehensive vaccine. So, it is essential to ensure that any person suspected of having the disease can be set aside effectively from the rest of the surrounding population and then monitored effectively.

If you follow Israel this week on CNN, BBC or SKY, the country comes across as a militaristic, uncaring society, determined to punish Palestinians. And yet there is an old phrase that ‘actions speak louder than words’. On the issue of Ebola, Israel is acting way beyond what any other Middle Eastern country is doing and even beyond what most fellow members of the OECD are providing. So why is the world so determined to silence these holy voices of hope and play to rhetoric of distrust?