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Patient Receives New Knee Made From Coral, Thanks to Israeli Startup Company
Israeli Technology

Patient Receives New Knee Made From Coral, Thanks to Israeli Startup Company

Israel has just completed its first successful knee surgery using a coral-based implant invented by an Israeli startup.

Earlier this month, a 30-year-old patient who had undergone several unsuccessful knee surgeries in the past received an Agili-C implant at Hadassah University Medical Center on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus campus, created by the...

New ‘Jerusalem’ neighborhood of Guatemala rises from ashes
Israeli Society

New ‘Jerusalem’ neighborhood of Guatemala rises from ashes

Thousands of Guatemalans lost their homes to the Volcán de Fuego (“Volcano of Fire”) in early June. One hundred new houses for refugees are now being built thanks to a charitable initiative spearheaded by the Central American country’s rabbi in his capacity as head of the Guatemalan branch of Israeli search-and-rescue and victim identification...

Israeli Technology

New laser solution could slow spread of forest fires

Aggressive wildfires are rampaging through many countries this summer, bringing death and destruction in their wake. In California alone, firefighters are scrambling to control 18 separate blazes.

Texas, Oregon, Florida, New Jersey, as well as Canada, Greece, India, Mexico, Portugal, Spain, Sweden and the UK are among other areas battling massive...

Stefan Abrahamsson announced Thursday on Facebook that his yacht, Elida, will set sail from Sweden on Aug. 25 to Israel to show solidarity with the Jewish state and Middle East Christians.
Hamas

Swedish Christian Zionists to Sail to Israel on Solidarity Mission

Following Swedish pro-Palestinian activists’ failed attempt to reach Gaza by sea, a Christian supporter of Israel from Sweden announced he would take dozens of pro-Zionists to Israel on his yacht.

Stefan Abrahamsson announced Thursday on Facebook that his yacht, Elida, will set sail from Sweden on Aug. 25 to Israel to show solidarity with the...

Huge incendiary kite from Gaza lands on kibbutz power lines
Hamas

Huge incendiary kite from Gaza lands on kibbutz power lines

 

A large incendiary kite launched from Gaza landed on power lines near Kibbutz Sufa, sparking a quick operation by employees from the Israeli Electric Corporation to remove the device before a fire was started.

The 4-meter (about 13-foot) kite, which landed on Friday, caused a power outage at the kibbutz and in the surrounding area.

It...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (R) and Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman (2nd-L) meet with top IDF generals and Israeli security officials at the military's Kirya headquarters in Tel Aviv on August 9, 2018. (Ariel Hermoni/ Defense Ministry)
Iran

When weighing Gaza actions, ministers reportedly looked to Iran threat in north

A leading consideration as top ministers deliberated Thursday how to respond to ongoing rocket attacks from the Gaza Strip was the need to focus on the northern border with Syria and the Iranian threat emanating from there, Channel 10 news reported Friday.

According to the TV report, ministers at the emergency security cabinet meeting were...

Ten Months On, Palestinian School Built With Belgian Aid Still Named After Terrorist Who Massacred 38 People
Incitement

Ten Months On, Palestinian School Built With Belgian Aid Still Named After Terrorist Who Massacred 38 People

A Palestinian school built with support from Brussels still bears the name of a mass-murdering terrorist and continues to display a plaque with the Belgian flag.

The elementary school in the West Bank was gifted to the Palestinian Authority in 2013 and subsequently renamed in honor of Dalal Mughrabi — a Palestinian nationalist who in 1978 helped...

Hamas

Senior Israeli officials deny existence of ceasefire with Hamas

A senior diplomatic official told Israeli television Friday that Hamas’s announcement of a ceasefire with Israel following a major flareup between the sides was a lie.

Speaking with Hadashot TV news, the unnamed Israeli official insisted Israel never agreed to a ceasefire, which Hamas announced late Thursday and said went into effect at midnight....

Talking Points

Talking Points – 9th August 2018

 

For weeks we have heard that the leadership of the Israel Defense Forces was concerned that Hamas would soon escalate the violence from Gaza into a full-scale war. Since March, Hamas has incited violent riots along the Gaza border fence and encouraged thousands of Palestinians to attack the IDF. Burning kites and balloons rigged with...

Hamas

After Gaza rocket hits Beersheba, IDF levels an alleged Hamas HQ

The Israeli Air Force on Thursday evening flattened a five-story building in the northern Gaza Strip that served as a headquarters for the Hamas terrorist group’s internal security service, the army said.

The Israel Defense Forces said the strike on the building in the northern Gaza Strip, which also served as a cultural center in the coastal...

Hamas

Beersheba targeted by rocket attack for first time since 2014 war

A rocket launched from the Gaza Strip struck a field north of Beersheba on Thursday afternoon, setting off sirens in the southern city for the first time since the 2014 Gaza war and puncturing a purported ceasefire that lasted approximately two hours.

There were no immediate reports of injuries or damage.

Beersheba Mayor Ruvik Danilovich said...

Hamas

Dozens of Rockets Hit Southern Israel, IAF Strikes Back by Targeting Hamas Sites in Gaza

Dozens of rockets — at least 70 — were fired by Palestinian terrorists in the Gaza Strip into southern Israel on Wednesday night, as the long-simmering tensions on the Jewish state’s southern border heated up yet again.

Three Israelis were reported wounded in a rocket attack on the southern city of Sderot.

According to the Israeli military, at...

Hamas

Israel Under Attack

Hamas

Where Hamas Rockets Have Targeted

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children in the city of Sderot, Israel, running as a rocket from Gaza explodes near them

Hamas

Israel Under Attack

Hamas

The reality in Israel for the last 8 hours

 

Syria

Assads curriculum: Hating Israel, ignoring Holocaust

Syrian students are exposed to anti-Semitic content encouraging Jihad and acts of terrorism.

The study was written by Dr. Eldad Pardo and Maya Yaakobi from the Institute for Monitoring Peace and Cultural Tolerance in School Education (IMPACT-SE).

Since 1998, the organization has explored and analyzed official textbooks from all over the globe to...

Israel Defense Force (IDF)

IDF -Israel’s Higher Moral Standard

https://youtu.be/hNlEAErZOYU

Israeli Technology

New home-use breast cancer detection device wins Creator Award

It’s always inspiring when the good guys win. That was certainly the feeling that swept the 5,000-person strong audience at the WeWork Creator Awards last week when Jerusalem-based MonitHer won the $360,000 grand prize.

The company was founded by American immigrant to Israel Yehudit Abrams who honed her ultrasound expertise while doing a post-doc...