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Nachi Natan at Israel’s Weizmann Institute has developed Navigut - genetically engineered bacteria that sends a signal in urine tests if it detects gut inflammation. His colleague Ofir Bar’s Wellnitor is a wearable patch designed to monitor stress levels that may predict disease activity.

Doctors at Israel’s Rabin Medical Center have successfully deployed homegrown CAR-T therapy for multiple myeloma. The treatment was developed and manufactured at the Samueli Integrative Cancer Pioneering Institute. Israel diagnoses roughly 550 new cases of multiple myeloma each year.

As the anti-Israel bandwagon attacks Israel for recognizing Somaliland, Israeli humanitarian medical nonprofit Save a Child’s Heart (SACH) reports it has saved the lives 49 children from Somaliland since 2004. It includes 19 from 2025 and 20 from 2024. No other country seems to care.

The first baby born in Israel in 2026 arrived at Hadassah Hospital Mount Scopus in the capital at 1 minute past midnight. The baby (a boy) is the fifth child for Shira-Leah and Uri Rozman from Dolev in Samaria.

United Hatzalah celebrated nearly 1,000 ambulance and emergency drivers at a heartfelt night in Airport City, honoring their tireless, life-saving work across Israel.

During 2025, Israeli emergency medical organization Magen David Adom deployed an ambulance every 22 seconds, in response to a total of 1,383,026 calls. MDA’s 39,200 EMTs, paramedics and volunteers treated 71,736 casualties in 2025, up 6% from 2024. Plus MDA training, blood drives, and more. \

From 1st Jan, four Israeli medical centers will consolidate and operate as the Medica network. They are the NARA clinics, Haifa’s Elisha Hospital, Afula’s Rosen Medical Center and Tel Aviv’s Raphael Hospital. The aim is that 75% of its activity will come from the 4 Israeli health funds.

Prof. Itzhak Fried is establishing a new research center at Reichman University in Herzliya. It will explore the “hybrid brain” – the interface between the human brain and AI, plus research into sleep and memory. It will also investigate free will, addictions, OCD, and how the senses can be bypassed.

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University have uncovered how the longevity-linked protein Sirt6 protects the body from age-related decline and disease. It boosts the body’s production of hydrogen sulfide (H₂S) that supports wound healing, heart health and brain function.

A breakthrough Tel Aviv University study has discovered that melanoma cells release extracellular vesicles (EVs). These tiny bubble-like structures paralyze the immune cells (lymphocytes) that normally attack tumors. Blocking the EVs will allow the lymphocytes to kill the melanoma.