Israel's Medical Achievements

Robot surgery to remove pancreas (and more)

Surgeons at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya are the first in Israel to use a robot to completely remove a patient's pancreas and other organs. The 78-year-old patient had multiple cystic (no...

New AI medical solutions

Israel's AIDOC (see previously) has announced seven new CE-approved AI solutions for European healthcare. They help analyze blocked blood vessels; a tear in the aorta; spinal frac...

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Science & Technology

Converting waste into energy

Israel's Co-Energy turns plastic and organic waste into energy. No waste pre-sorting is necessary. The process involves pyrolysis - super-heating without the use of oxygen. It turns plastic into a ...

Removing Greenhouse Gas at scale

Israel's BomVento (see previously) is developing a coating for the blades on wind turbines that can extract greenhouse gasses (GHG) from the air even as the turbines operate. BomV...

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Israel is Inclusive &
Global

How to make people positive about Israel

A survey of 1,000 18- to 25-year-old Americans who have never visited Israel found that 63% of them can be persuaded to view Israel more positively through engaging, visually appealing social-media...

Israel and Cyprus perform 8 transplants together

A record eight kidney cross-transplant operations were performed in Israel and Cyprus in one day: five in Israel and three in Cyprus. Israel's National Center for Transplantation has been pairing c...

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Culture, Entertainment & Sport

Oops!

Thanks to the Hecht Museum in Haifa. After 4-year-old Ariel Geller accidentally knocked over a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age jar, the museum invited him back to witness its restoration process firsthan...

4 more paralympic golds

Israelis have won another three gold medals, a silver and two bronze at the Paris Paralympic Games. Swimmer Ami Dadaon (watch ) won three medals (gold 100m freestyle, silver 150m m...

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Economy & Business

Solar panels to be mandatory

New Israeli Energy Ministry regulations have been approved requiring all new detached houses and non-residential buildings of a certain size to install solar panels for electricity generation. The ...

$1.9 billion exit

Salesforce is to acquire Israel's Own Company, formerly known as OwnBackup (see previously), for $1.9 billion in cash. Salesforce already owned 10% of Own Company, giving a total ...

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The Jewish State

The breath of life

Kfir Zar's lungs were badly damaged when Hamas fired a rocket at his tank in Gaza. He was put on a heart-lung machine until he received a double lung transplant at Sheba Medical Center from fallen ...

30,000 make Aliyah since Oct 7

Nearly 30,000 new immigrants have arrived in Israel since the Oct. 7 massacre, according to figures released by the World Zionist Organization. 6,000 US Jews have opened Aliyah files - 62% more tha...

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