X-Test Team

Yuval Amsterdam

VP Homeland Security

Captain (res.), Israeli Defense Force, Special Forces, EOD unit.

B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, MBA.

Former head of detection equipment evaluation unit at the Israeli Security Agency.

Former a member of the development team at L3 Proview mmWave screening technology.

 

Rami Schiffer

Marketing Director

Captain (res.), Israeli Defense Force, Special Forces, EOD unit.

LL.B., B.A. Economics.

Former officer at the security detail, Israel International Airport.

 

 

Jasmin Bar-Or

IED Specialist

Sergeant retired, Israeli Engineering Corps, Israeli Defense Force.

Shift chief security officer, Ben Gurion Airport.

Head trainer, Hong Kong station, EL AL Israel Airlines.

 

R&D Team:

Dr. Gad Friedman

PhD in Photochemistry, Researcher (Weizmann Institute of Science).

Expert in organic chemistry, pharmaceuticals, chemical analysis, photochemistry, polymers and their application.

Former head of the Israel Defense Force's R&D chemistry laboratories.

Dr. Vladimir Magidenko 

PhD in Material Engineering.

Expert in development of specifications for equipment used to collect trace quantities of explosives, performance of experiments using this equipment, implementation of methods for detecting explosive materials.

Operation of IMS equipment, collection, management and analysis of test data.

Galina Brodsky

MSc in Material Engineering.

Expert in development and implementation of methods for detecting explosive materials, operation of HPLC and IMS equipment, sampling and testing, data management and analysis.
Authorized to store explosive materials by the Israeli Ministry of Labor.

Eleonora Hizkiya

B.Sc in Life Sciences.

Expert in development and manufacture of explosive simulants, supervisor of work with explosives, proficient in chemistry laboratory work, development of laboratory procedures.