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Hebrew University researchers say their innovative test can find tRNA fragments unique to the neurodegenerative disease before patients even have...
Kaplan Medical Center researchers establish a baseline number of swallows for healthy people depending on their age, enabling more effective use of...
Tel Aviv University team’s scNET algorithm combines data on cells with protein ‘social network’ to cut ‘high noise’ and shed light on immune...
Judge finds US Army veteran David Piegaro showed poor judgment but it did not amount to ‘criminal recklessness’
Growers uprooted by months of rocket attacks and others who dug in despite the danger are salvaging their lands, but some fear a tense truce with...
In times of peace or war, church bells sound in Fassuta every day, giving some residents a sense of hope while others worry about the next generation...
Masoud Pezeshkian leaves door open for ‘indirect negotiations,’ a method that has so far failed over the past few years to revive curbs on...
Using mRNA model made famous by COVID vaccine, researchers from Israel, US and Canada find protein to ‘awaken’ adult stem cells in mice; could...
Solaris launches in Isfiya as part of a government program to increase space research in the Arab Israeli community
Women from the IDF Widows and Orphans Organization whose spouses are among the 35 dead hostages in Gaza call for ‘the immediate release of all...
Yehuda Ashkelon of Ben-Gurion University recited 25,333 decimal places in Spanish, setting world record in language, new Israeli record and placing...
Tel Aviv University scientists say that they can inject CRISPR genetic ‘molecular scissors’ to shrink tumors by 90%; researcher...
After a Haifa stabbing attack mislabeled as terrorism sent fear through the close-knit Druze community last week, Sunday’s government package sparks...
The evidence behind a New York Times op-ed suggesting troops targeted children is less clear-cut than it seems, and there is reason to question the...
Technion researcher Dr. Assaf Zinger says his team’s work shows that the proteins cover and protect nanoparticles as they pass through intestinal...
With schools now open, the communities of Arab al-Aramshe and neighboring Kibbutz Adamit in the Western Galilee rethink their ‘naivete’ about...
Walking with crutches through the ice and snow, Maayan Gabai ascends Africa’s tallest mountain with a group of 30 Israelis, helps raise NIS 1...
With main street a construction site, the school in ruins and most residents still reticent to return, Mayor David Azoulay wants the government to...
Five days after he was released from Gaza, family says ‘the journey to recovery for Iair and our family will be long, and will not end until...
As antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose growing health risk, Hebrew University scientists search for ‘good’ viruses and name them after...
While many trauma experts say humans have a remarkable capacity for resilience, studies show that the psychological damage of captivity endures a...
Debunking a myth, Bar-Ilan researcher says adults with Down syndrome and nonspecific intellectual disabilities improve their cognitive functioning...
University of Haifa’s medical school aims to strengthen healthcare in the north; Weizmann Institute’s school is tuition-free, combining scientific...
Teacher, deemed wrongfully detained, had been held since 2021; White House says development ‘sign’ of heading in right direction to end war in Ukraine
Engelman faults Health Ministry for ‘collapsed’ health care system; Health Minister Uriel Buso set to double the scope of mental health services
The 15-month war took its toll ‘not only physically but also emotionally’ on residents evacuated from Mattat, and those who stayed put in the...
After enduring decades of isolation amid border disputes, residents of Ghajar are focused on their Syrian kin, who face retribution for belonging to...
Armed with hard-won experience from first release, central Israel medical center preps rooms and staff amid speculation that 10 foreign nationals...
Ministry official says new protocols differ ‘significantly’ from November 2023 hostage release, as captives return from over 15 months in...
Israel Prize winner Prof. Michal Schwartz says her team’s work fighting Alzheimer’s can lead to treatments that boost immune system to slow down...
A Weizmann Institute of Science team has found that ants have better group smarts than people when maneuvering a large load through a maze. Prof....
Hebrew University researchers say they have discovered that fish embryos are able to decide when they want to be born. Dr. Matan Golan from the...
Friends Shamoun Najm, 54, and Ziv Belfer, 52, didn’t have time to reach a nearby shelter before impact of lethal Hezbollah rockets, say Nahariya...
Tel Aviv University team finds Ly6a protein ‘puts the brake’ on the immune system, in discovery that points to a cure for cancers, including those...
At an agricultural village 15km from the Lebanon border, after a Soviet Grad directly hits a Western Galilee house, residents race to put out fires...
Hebrew University researcher says there’s a ‘hierarchy of grief’; urges government to give mourning siblings the same benefits as widows,...
There are over 1,000 species of fungi in the Holy Land; what started as one scientist’s hobby has mushroomed into a collective effort on a scale...
Trudeau says he’s ‘very disturbed’ by incident, which comes amid dramatic rise in antisemitic attacks in the country as war rages in Middle East
Former SLA members refuse to speak in the face of reprisals, but these young Lebanese-Israelis believe it’s their mission to raise the curtain on...
Undaunted by Hezbollah’s rockets and drones, a group of war-hardened farmers refuses to evacuate from Moshav Liman, a long-standing cooperative...
Taub Center for Social Policy Studies urges more support for spouses and kids of reservists, displaced families and Arab parents of young kids,...
Medical assocations seek to bring attention to captives held in Hamas tunnels under Gaza, where a freed hostage recalled ‘we didn’t have oxygen… we...
Mateh Asher Regional Council head says he is worried about the war’s emotional toll on residents; ‘This isn’t normal life,’ says one evacuated...
‘Most people live in stress and worry,’ one Safed resident says with cities on war footing; ‘My blood pressure goes up every time I hear a siren...
Guterres says global body ready to monitor potential ceasefire but doubts Israel would agree, urges two-state solution to end Israeli-Palestinian...
Drone hits apartment of members of urban kibbutz who moved to the city out of idealism; now they say they have to deal with their own shock before...
Tel Aviv University team explains how the plants grow close together and move in zigzag patterns for optimal growth in a collective ‘dance party’
Short on cash but long on grit, Reem and Imad Younis co-founded their company Alpha Omega in 1993 to make a ‘brain Waze.’ Now they’re taking a...
With ‘First Contractions,’ expectant mothers get ready for worst-case scenarios: delivering their babies safely at home if they can’t get to a...
Israeli nonprofit formed after Oct. 7 takes combat soldiers far off the grid to a homestead where Tel Aviv and Harvard researchers offer techniques...