An Israeli looks at a piece of metal with shrapnel holes in it at the scene of a Palestinian rocket hit next to the dining room in 2009, in Kibbutz Karmia, Israel. Ortech Defense Solutions, inspired by the need to defend the community from terrorism was founded in 2006 by Naor who lived in Kibbutz Karmia most of his life, just as the suicide bombing wave was subsiding.URIEL SINAI/GETTY IMAGES.
In the early 2000s, at the height of deadly suicide bombings in Israel, entrepreneur Ran Naor thought about establishing a company that would manufacture anti-blast windows and doors.
In Kibbutz Karmia near the border with the Gaza Strip, where Naor lived most of his life, he founded the Ortech Defense Solutions in 2006 — just as the suicide bombing wave was subsiding.
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