Science, Medicine, & Education

By Kobi Arieli PETACH TIKVAH, Israel — For the last three years or so, I have had the honor of serving Ezer Mizion in an original and unique way. I do not physically help the patients. I don’t volunteer to distribute meals, provide transport, attend patients, or give money. Unfortunately, my monetary contributions to the

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Surprisingly little is known about schizophrenia. It was only recognized as a medical condition in the past few decades, and its exact causes remain unclear. Since there is no objective test for schizophrenia, its diagnosis is based on an assortment of reported symptoms. The standard treatment, antipsychotic medication, works less

By Dr. Navras Jaat Aafreedi NEW DELHI, India — The need for the strengthening of Indo-Israel academic ties has been increasingly felt lately. Two events held  in Delhi within a week drew attention to the neglect India-Israel academic ties suffer from, in spite of the great strengthening of trade relations between the two countries during

  By Suzanne Pollak Ruven Gelfond has changed surgical nails into complex screws and converted regular equipment into tools for eye surgery. He has helped blind people see, delivered babies and set scores of bones. His day job is a nurse in charge of running the hospital surgical unit at Hadassah Mount Scopus. But in

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Coffee and beer are polar opposites in the beverage world. Coffee picks you up, and beer winds you down. Now Prof. Martin Kupiec and his team at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology have discovered that the beverages may also have opposite effects on your genome. Working

  By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM — In recent months remains of an impressive structure from the Hasmonean period (second century BCE) have been unearthed in excavations conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority in the Giv‘ati site, located in the City of David near the walls surrounding the Old City. Josephus wrote about Hasmonean Jerusalem, but

By Aryeh Savir JERUSALEM–After spending two weeks in the areas devastated by typhoon Haiyan and treating over 1,000 patients, the 15 member Israeli F.I.R.S.T (Fast Israeli Rescue and Saving Teams) civilian rescue team returned to Israel from the Philippines. After establishing a field hospital, the team operated a mobile medical care unit, moving from one

By Anav Silverman BEER-SHEVA, Israel — A replacement for oil has become a burning need in the 21st century, with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu having made it clear that for the Jewish state at least, developing oil alternative is a national priority. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers have invented a process to make a green