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Staff in the coronavirus ward of Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, on Jan. 1, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.

Israeli hospital claims it has developed drug to cure serious cases of COVID

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Researchers at Israel’s Ichilov Hospital, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center claim that they have developed a drug that may cure serious cases of the coronavirus. According to the hospital, 29 out of 30 patients with...

February 5, 1993: Hans Jonas, a pioneer of medical ethics, died

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Hans Jonas, who fled Nazi Germany (his mother died in Auschwitz), fought in Israel’s war of independence, and in 1964 publicly denounced his mentor, Martin Heidegger, for having pro-Nazi views, died on this date...

December 3, 1857: Dr. Carl Koller, an opthalmologist who pioneered the use of cocaine...

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Dr. Carl Koller, an opthalmologist who pioneered the use of cocaine as a local anesthetic, was born in Bohemia on this date in 1857. A medical colleague of Sigmund Freud in Vienna, Koller recognized...
Israeli orthopedic surgeon Dr. Elhanan Bar-On, head of the Israel Center for Disaster Medicine and Humanitarian Response. Credit: Sheba Medical Center.

A doctor without borders

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Micka, 23, was the last person rescued from under the rubble of the January 2010 Haiti earthquake and brought to the Israel Defense Forces field hospital in Port-au-Prince. Though one leg had to be amputated,...
Dr. Harvey J. Alter. Credit: U.S. National Institutes of Health via Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish scientist among three recipients of Nobel Prize for medicine

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A Jewish scientist was one of three professors jointly awarded on Monday the 2020 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. Harvey J. Alter, along with Michael Houghton and Charles M. Rice, received the prestigious prize for...
Israeli surgeons and nurses conduct open-heart surgery in an Israeli hospital on Jan. 15, 2007. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Israeli surgeons safely remove disappearing bullet from boy’s brain

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On the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha on Friday, in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Ras al-Amud, a stray bullet from celebratory gunfire hit a 9-year-old boy in the head. He was rushed to Hadassah...
Australia's Ambassador to the Israel Chris Cannan lays a wreath at the British war cemetery in Jerusalem on ANZAC Day in 2019, where Australian soldiers who took part in World War I are buried. Source: Chris Cannan via Twitter.

Australia-Israel relationship a ‘mateship’ based on trade, trust and mutual values

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At the 43rd session of the U.N. Human Rights Council (UNHRC) that recently concluded, Australia was the only country to vote against all five anti-Israel resolutions, including the notoriously biased Agenda Item 7. In Australia’s...
Participants in the “Wheels of Love” charity ride in Israel. Photo by Tomer Feder.

As many as 500 cyclists to gear up for 20th ‘Wheels of Love’ charity...

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The luggage-handlers at Ben-Gurion International Airport have seen an increase in the number of bicycles coming in and out of late, as an expected 500 participants from 12 countries arrive to participate in the...
Eliana Cohen, 2, of Aventura, Fla., received a highly expensive drug called Zolgensma to treat spinal muscular atrophy after the Jewish community raised more than $2.2 million for the family. Credit: Screenshot.

Jewish community raises more than $2 million in five days for drug to treat...

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The Jewish community in and outside South Florida raised more than $2 million for a young couple in Aventura, Fla., to be able to afford the world’s most expensive treatment—a $2.1 million drug called...
Yeshiva University's Mendel Gottesman Library at 2520 Amsterdam Ave. between West 185th and 186th Streets in the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan, was built in 1967 and designed by Armand Bartos & Assocs. Credit: Beyond My Ken/Wikimedia Commons.

Yeshiva University to NYC-based hub for Israeli startups

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Yeshiva University is scheduled to launch a hub this month for Israeli startups based in New York City to enable Israeli entrepreneurs access to business infrastructure and access to students among other tools. The YU...