Paul Ben Ishai, at The Blogs

Jan 22, 2022, 6:54 PM

Just why is the 5G roll out in trouble in the USA

The principle of a Radio Altimeter (Wikipedia copyright Creative Commons, creator: Charly Whisky)

A story is rocking the world of communications today. You won’t have heard about it in our tiny corner of the world. It has nothing to do with cyber misdemeanors of our police or Bibi’s plea. Instead, it is...

Nov 20, 2021, 11:29 PM

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The 5G dilemma for Tamar Zandberg

Tamar Zandberg, Minister of Environmental Protection !

attribution: Mr. Kate (photography-Itamar Rotem), CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The planned new broadband cellular standard is one of the least green technologies around and amounts to a solution for a problem that doesn't exist

Aug 14, 2021, 6:20 PM

The FCC has fallen to the sword of Lady Justice!

Opening page of the Decision by the Court of Appeals against the FCC (reproduced from https://www.cadc.uscourts.gov/internet/opinions.nsf Copyright : Public Access to Court Electronic Records)

Today I am joyous!! In a landmark decision, the Court of Appeals of Washington DC (one level below the Supreme Court) has ruled against the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). The plaintiffs were a coalition of groups advocating safer limits...

Aug 9, 2021, 7:08 PM

The sorry story of cell phone radiation exposure — how did we get here? Part II

A synopsis At the end of Part I left you in 1980. A great year! Punk was in full swing. I was 15. Cellphones hadn’t been invented (they had, but in Thatcher’s Britain we didn’t know about them). It was...

Jul 14, 2021, 5:11 PM

The sorry story of cell phone radiation exposure — how did we get here? Part I

This is going to be a long post, so I will split it into two parts: Part 1 and then its thrilling sequel! Let me describe my day. I wake up at 6:15 to a nagging tune, which I duly...

May 18, 2021, 12:12 PM

Dear John – Or why John Oliver is a sanctimonious little pr…

Dear John, I am, I suppose, a fan of yours. I enjoy your wry British humour picking apart the inconsistencies and injustices of American society. I love the casual use of British swearing and depreciating behaviour. It reminds me of...

Apr 3, 2021, 1:00 PM

The Green Dilemma of 5G Densification

As a physicist, my job involves a lot of reading. Mainly articles that turn on an obscure point in an obscure field that interests me, the author and maybe one other person – and he’s a physicist too. Occasionally,...

Mar 20, 2021, 3:54 PM

Barrister battles over 5G — many a David and one Goliath

As I finished my last post I reflected on the title and realized that there was more than one Don Quixote titling at that windmill (see The day Don Quixote found his mark ). In that petition against the...

Feb 26, 2021, 7:00 PM

The day Don Quixote found his mark

Don Quixote Tilting at a Windmill by William Stewart Watson - Art UK, Public Domain

Challenging powerful regulatory agencies is often like Don Quixote tilting at windmills. A futile attack on an immovable monolith. But sometimes, not often I’ll grant you, the lance finds its mark and the monolith teeters a little. Something like...

Feb 20, 2021, 10:06 PM

The art of conspiracy and 5G

What possesses a person to believe murky and sometimes fantastical ideas on the Internet? And what drives some people to invent these fantastic myths? Well, I am not the one to delve into the darkest places of the human psyche,...

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Originally from the UK, I made Aliyah 36 years ago. I am an Academic Staff member of the Physics Department of Ariel University, married with 3 children. I have authored of 80 publications in various fields of Physics and Chemistry. One of the subjects I specialize in is the interaction of Human skin and high frequency radio waves. I am also a scientific advisor for the Environmental Health Trust (www.ehtrust.org)

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