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United Hatzalah’s Leight Legacy Heroes Program empowers kids and teens across America to save lives. Each participant is challenged to raise $180 which will sponsor an oxygen tank for a medic in Israel - vital for emergency responses. It also teaches tzedakah and strengthens links to Israel.

Teva has also has partnered with Israel’s Momentum over the past 20 months to run the “Support the Soul” program for 1,300 mental health professionals. It gives therapists training and safe spaces to release the trauma they absorb from their patients; plus therapy support tools. No Teva remedies involved.

Current treatments from Israel’s Teva include Austedo (involuntary movements), Ajovy (migraine), and Uzedy (schizophrenia). It expects soon to launch Olanzapine (schizophrenia), Duvakitug (IBD), Dari (asthma), Emrusolmin (Multiple System Atrophy), and has fast-tracked TEV-53408 (Celiac).

More about the discovery (see previously) by Israeli scientists of the natural antibiotic properties of the proteasome – a protein complex known as the “garbage can” of many cells because it removes non-working proteins. Its antibiotic function, however, was previously unknown.

A medical team at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center saved the life of a 63-year-old Israeli man with the first-ever implantation in Israel of an artificial heart. The man’s heart was replaced with a unique artificial organ made of titanium, animal-derived tissues and advanced sensors.

More than 300 doctors and medical students from France, Belgium, and Switzerland attended the MedEx conference in Paris. Since the start of 2024, approximately 650 doctors have made Aliyah, with an additional 130 already arriving in 2025.

Using AI to interpret ECG readings saves time and can find things the doctor might miss. But it’s hard to stop false positives. Scientists at Israel’s Technion have developed a new AI interpretability tool, designed for photographed ECG images, that explains to the doctors the “alerts” and what can be ignored.

Maya Ben Yitzhak, a lone IDF soldier from Chicago, saved the life of a 64-year-old Massachusetts doctor after she donated her bone marrow through Ezer Mizion. Dr. Rothenberg has been battling multiple forms of cancer since she was first diagnosed with the disease in 2014.

15-year-old Lana, from Tel Aviv, used skills from her MDA youth training to identify a life-threatening condition in her father’s brain and urged immediate hospital care.  Doctors diagnosed and treated a severe bacterial infection in his brain and said that Lana’s actions had saved his life.

Norman Rosenbaum (see previously), a retired surgeon and newsletter subscriber living in North London, passed away aged 90. Over two decades, he crowdfunded 16 ambulances for Israel’s emergency service Magen David Adom, which helped save some 132,000 lives and deliver 997 babies.