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Collaring
Cow Theft

NICKY BLACKBURN
Special to The Jewish News

In the days of the Wild West, cattle
farmers had to camp out by their
herds at night if they wanted to catch
the thieves who tried to steal their
livestock. Today, electronic fences
have replaced night-long vigils, but
the problem of cattle rustling hasn't,
unfortunately, gone away.
For most city dwellers, it's hard to
think of cattle rustling as a modern-
day crime; but farmers all over the
world lose millions of dollars every
year to this scourge.
In Israel, for instance, some 3,000
cows out of a total population of
about 250,000, are stolen from fields
every year. For a farmer who loses 10
to 15 cows in one year, this is a sub-
stantial blow to his finances — each
dairy cow is worth about $2,000-
$3,000 a head, while meat cows
bring in $1,000-$1,500.
Now a small Israeli start-up
believes it's come up with the answer.
Shaked Wireless Control, which was
founded less than one year ago, has
developed a smart electronic collar
which allows farmers to chart each
cow's movement in real time in the
field and sets off an alarm if someone
tries to steal one of the herd.
The system is the brain child of
two men, Alon Korach and Uzi
Hanuny, both 31, who served for 10
years in intelligence units in the Israel
Defense Force. The two men left the
army, where they had specialized in
wireless communications, in 1994,
and began working for high-tech
companies.
In 1995, their first company,
MaxTech Technologies Ltd. was
born. Based in a house on the out-
skirts of Tel Aviv, MaxTech works
primarily with elite units in the IDF,
the police force and other security
agencies. Korach is unwilling to
reveal more, except to say that the
company is private, doesn't publish
results and develops, manufactures
and markets its products successfully.
The same year, a friend who ran
an apiary in the north approached
Korach and Hanuny to ask if they
could find a high-tech solution to
stop thieves from stealing his bee

Nicky Blackburn writes for the
Jerusalem Post Foreign Service.

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