Prior to the sale of VTEK in 1989, Mr. Israel also found time to acquire a law degree, and to practice law while also managing a growing and successful electronics company. Following the sale of that company in 1989, to Telesensory Corporation, a Silicon-Valley competitor to VTEK, Mr. Israel became involved with the formation and operation of a number of other companies in both manufacturing and service industries, include steel fabrication, health and personal fitness, and catalog publication.

In 1993, Mr. Israel returned to Telesensory, the company which had acquired VTEK, and in 1994 became its Chairman, President and CEO until his retirement from that position in 1999, in part so that he could devote himself to the full-time practice of business law. He continues as a Director and the largest individual shareholder of that company

He served as the founding President of the Assistive Technology Industry Association (see www.atia.org) from its formation in 1998 through January 2001.  He currently serves as the Executive Director of ATIA.

Civic:  He has served as a Planning Commissioner in the City of Santa Monica and the Town of Woodside, as well as being active in many other public-service and community activities. He is a general aviation pilot, and actively supports "Angel Flight", an organization of volunteer pilots who devote their time, their planes and their flight costs to provide "missions of help" to both patients and their families who are unable to make the necessary connections by commercial airliner to obtain medical treatment, or to be present at the bedside of a loved one.