Monthly Archives: December 2025

ADHD can be treated without medication

Posted on December 28, 2025

An Israeli-led international trial of ADHD children shows that a combination of cognitive training and brain stimulation modifies neural efficiency markers to a profile more typical of non-ADHD children.  And some of the changes lasted weeks after treatment ended. https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/mind-and-spirit/article-880352 … Continue reading →

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President has heartwarming meeting in Zambia

Posted on December 28, 2025

On his visit to Zambia, Israeli President Herzog met Zambian doctors trained by Israeli NGO Save a Child’s Heart (SACH). He also met a teenager whose life was saved when he had heart surgery in Israel – one of nearly … Continue reading →

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Cancer innovation winner

Posted on December 28, 2025

Israel’s YuviTal has won a breast cancer innovation challenge sponsored by Roche Israel, Startup Nation Central and Sheba. YuviTal collects real-world health data from breast cancer patients, including dietary patterns, activity levels and mood indicators. It then uses AI to … Continue reading →

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A new biotech to tackle mental illness

Posted on December 28, 2025

Israel’s Syremis Therapeutics develops treatments for severe mental illness. Its ST-905 is a potent M1/M4 muscarinic agonist for schizophrenia and other serious neuropsychiatric conditions, currently in Phase 1 trials. Also ST-901 for major depressive disorder and bipolar depression. https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/s1wxgkrxwx https://syremis.com/#pipe

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Reducing the risk of PTSD

Posted on December 28, 2025

A study by Tel Aviv University researchers, the IDF Medical Corps, and the US Department of Defense has found that out of more than 500 soldiers, just 1% of those who participated in the attention-training computer-based training program developed PTSD, … Continue reading →

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Nil by mouth

Posted on December 28, 2025

36-year-old Daniel Haim Biton hasn’t eaten anything for 17 years, relying on nutrients fed intravenously into the bloodstream. Surgeons at Israel’s Rabin (Beilinson) medical center performed a rare and complex intestinal transplant. If it is not rejected, Daniel plans to … Continue reading →

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Regenerating soft tissue

Posted on December 28, 2025

Israel’s Nurami Medical, a company developing next-generation regenerative solutions for soft tissue repair, has announced successful completion of Phase 1 of its EIC-funded grant for Artifix®, a synthetic, biomimetic, dural repair adhesive patch, its second portfolio product. https://www.prnewswire.com/il/news-releases/nurami-medical-announces-successful-completion-of-phase-1-milestones-in-eic-backed-grant-for-artifix-dural-repair-graft-302610000

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Israeli Rabbis visit Syrian synagogues

Posted on December 28, 2025

Two rabbis from Israel have quietly joined a Jewish delegation in Aleppo, entering synagogues and a former Jewish school that have been locked for decades – a scene that would have been unthinkable under the old Assad regime. https://jewishbreakingnews.com/syria-reopens-its-long-sealed-synagogues-as-israeli-rabbis-make-historic-unprecedented-visit/

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Where did it come from?

Posted on December 28, 2025

Archaeologists digging underneath the southwestern corner of the Temple Mount recently discovered a metal pendant bearing a symbol of a menorah, raising questions about how a clearly Jewish item reached Jerusalem during a time when Jews were banned from entering … Continue reading →

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Unlikely study partners

Posted on December 28, 2025

In 1798, on 19th Kislev, Chabad founder Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Liadi (author of the book of Tanya) was released from prison in Russia. In his honor, MK Tzvi Succot (Religious Zionists) invited reform rabbi Gilad Kariv (Labor) to study … Continue reading →

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