If you've got a heavy load to haul, carrying it in a backpack will be easier than lugging it by hand -- whether it's camping gear or an injured person.

And that's the simple reason why Jerusalem-based Agilite has gotten thousands of inquiries about its recently introduced IPC (Injured Personnel Carrier).

The patent-pending, trademarked IPC weighs in at three-quarters of a pound, yet it can bear 5,000 pounds and enables a rescuer to carry someone on his or her back. The unit's 12.5-foot length folds down to just 10 inches.

Harmless ozone beats chlorine every time for disinfecting water. Now an Israeli company offers a new technology that makes it affordable, too.

"Clean" isn't always as clean as you think. While the chemicals in cleaning solutions and water purification systems do away with germs, they dirty the environment and aren't healthy for humans.

An Israeli company is offering an alternative: an ozone-based cleaning system to purify tap water. The system, says Ittai Weissberg, CEO of Greeneng Solutions, is better at getting rid of germs, and is a lot safer than chlorine- and ammonia-based cleaning solutions. And it does the job cheaply.

BillGuard scans your bills for scams, saving users more than $250,000 in first two months of beta testing.

If you're like many people, when you get your credit card statement you probably give it a quick skim. Going through all the charges line by line just takes too much time, so you hope for the best and trust in your card provider.

That's not the best idea, says Yaron Samid, CEO of the hot new Israeli startup BillGuard. But not to worry: BillGuard will do the scanning for you, looking for scams, bad billing practices, double charges and errors. Samid estimates that BillGuard finds at least one bad charge for one out of every five subscribers of the free service.

A new exhibit pays homage to Israeli ingenuity behind gadgets like the Disk-on-Key, PillCam, solar windows and a space camera.

One of Israel's sources of pride is the enormous number of inventions and innovations that have taken root on its soil over 63 years -- despite challenges of geography, size and diplomacy. The ever-churning Israeli mind has brought us drip irrigation, the cherry tomato, the electric car grid, the Disk-on-Key and much more.