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vatize the company. It was one
of the first companies to be pri-
vatized in Israel. Even-Ezra and
Nathan Kirsh, now company di-
rector, bought 74 percent of the
company.
"We had one customer at the
time, the Israel Defense Force,
and knew that to survive we
would have to go international
because the Israeli market was
too small," says Even-Ezra.
"In 1984, the company earned
$2.5 million but it was losing
money. We wanted to turn it
around."
While Magal's main export
target was the United States, it
also approached other countries
worldwide. Today, Magal is the
sole supplier to the U.S. Army
and Air Force, and has supplied
nearly 2,500 miles of perimeter
systems for prisons, national bor-
ders, airports, military bases,
power-plant installations and
even private housing to 40 coun-
tries.
One of Magal's best known
customers is the Queen of Eng-
land. Magal supplies the perime-
ter security for Buckingham
N
Palace.
At the end of the 1980s, Even-
Ezra and Kirsch decided it was
time the company broadened its
horizons. 'We realized that one
system isn't an answer to any ex-
isting threat. When a problem
occurs we have to come up with
the right answer. With one prod-
uct, you always give one answer.
With more, then you give a real
answer," explains Even-Ezra.
In 1990, Magal bought the
rights to the automatic bomb de-
tection system from Israel's
Soreq Nuclear Research Center.
Called Aisys, the promising ma-
chine uses X-rays to identify ex-
plosive devices in a variety of
hiding places, including airline
passenger baggage, postal bags,
letters and parcels. It has a low
false alarm rate and works with-
out a human operator.
"It's difficult to detect bombs
in passenger luggage," says
Even-Ezra, "because they don't
have a typical shape. In the case
of Lockerbie [when a Pan Am jet
plunged into a Scottish village],
they think the bomb was hidden
within a tape recorder.
"Operators can't open every --\
tape recorder they see. We
thought it better to develop a ma-
chine that automatically detects
bombs, without human inter-
vention."
The machine, which costs
$400,000, went on sale four years
ago, and so far 23 systems have
been sold in Israel and Europe.
Market potential is large. In
the U.S., according to new regu- --\

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