An Israeli firm says it has sold US customers hundreds of its bulletproof schoolbags, introduced in the wake of the Parkland school massacre.
“We designed a bullet-proof backpack at the request of our distributors in the United States after the huge trauma caused by the February shooting in Florida,” Snir Koren, CEO of Masada Armor, tells AFP.
In a matter of months protective gear manufacturer Masada Armor, based in the northern Israeli town of Julis, developed its bulletproof backpack and got it certified by the Israeli army and police.
Police walk outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Wednesday, February 28, 2018. (AP Photo/Terry Renna)
“Since then, orders from the United States have been coming in,” Koren says. “In two months we have sold hundreds and are gearing up to increase production rates to 500 units per month.”
— AFP
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