Monthly Archives: March 2025

Outstanding Scientists

The Israel Chemical Society has awarded the Outstanding Young Scientist Awards for 2024 to Prof. Josh Baraban from Ben-Gurion University (see here previously) and Dr. Moran Shalev-Benami from the Weizmann Institute. See also Outstanding Scientists and ICS Gold Medal winners. … Continue reading

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Syrians ask Israel for help

Syrian minorities want Israel to protect them from the new Syrian government and jihadist groups. “Israel is the Iron Dome of the Druze in Syria” said a cleric from the Druze city of Sweida.  And after 1,000+ the pro-Assad Alawites … Continue reading

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40th anniversary of Operation Moses

Israel’s PM headed a ceremony in Jerusalem to celebrate “Operation Moses” – Israel’s 1984 mission, to bring to Israel the community known as Beta Israel from Ethiopia via Sudan. Some 170,000 Ethiopian Jews now live in Israel, including Adi Jegna … Continue reading

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Irish police use Israeli tech to solve murder

Irish police used Israel’s Cellebrite to convict a man who murdered his wife in Dublin two years ago. Technical specialists used Cellebrite to extract data from the husband’s cellphone, having previously been unable to bypass its encryption. The Irish media … Continue reading

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Technion UK on Israel tour

The Technion UK brought a group of British Jews to Israel to hear from key people about the war, the country, the latest innovations and much more. They included ILTV’s Maayan Jaffe-Hoffman, Uri Geller, the British Ambassador, and retired IDF … Continue reading

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90,000 Muslims pray on Temple Mount

Approximately 90,000 Muslims, including thousands from Judea and Samaria, ascended the Temple Mount in Jerusalem’s Old City for prayers on the first Friday of Ramadan. https://www.jns.org/judea-and-samaria-arabs-to-ascend-temple-mount-for-ramadan-prayers/

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Animals rescued in the Negev

Israeli police rescued two monkeys and a lion cub from illegal captivity by Negev Bedouins. They were located through operational activities and identified in social media videos. They were subsequently transferred to the Israel Nature and Parks Authority for medical … Continue reading

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Little Heroes

Volunteers with special needs graduated in communications and logistics from the “Little Heroes Project” at the IDF’s Training Base of the Technology and Logistics Directorate. They stood proudly in their army uniforms to receive their certificates of excellence. https://www.giborimktanim.co.il/ https://www.jgive.com/new/en/usd/donation-targets/72939/about … Continue reading

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Gene deletion shrinks cancer cells

Researchers from Tel Aviv University (Dan Peer’s lab) utilized CRISPR to cut the SOX2 gene from cancer cells of head and neck tumors – and in lab tests successfully eliminated 50% of the tumors. The breakthrough defied general belief that … Continue reading

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No more injections

Researchers at Israel’s Technion Institute have discovered that a protein in breast milk facilitates the passage of nanoparticles through the intestinal wall, delivering essential nutrients to the baby. Mimicking this mechanism, can protect medications from the digestive system and allow … Continue reading

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