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Illustration of an elderly man walking with a walker, August 31, 2025. (Yossi Aloni/FLASH90)
June 22, 2026, 10:42 am
Comptroller warns National Insurance will be unable to fund its welfare commitments by 2035
Report on Israel’s preparations to deal with aging population finds state welfare agency burning through its reserves at an alarming rate since implementation of 2018 reform
By ToI Staff
Prof. Haim Cohen, Director of the Sagol Healthy Human Longevity Center at Bar-Ilan University’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences. (Courtesy/Bar-Ilan University)
May 27, 2026, 5:18 pm
In step toward immortality, Israeli scientists say they can ‘rewind’ aging in mouse livers
SIRT6 ‘longevity’ protein reverses DNA structure in new peer-reviewed study by researchers at Bar-Ilan University and US National Institute on Aging; treatment seeks to extend healthy human lifespan
By Diana Bletter
Elderly people work out with wooden dumb-bells in the grounds of a temple in Tokyo on September 17, 2012, to celebrate Japan's Respect-for-the-Aged-Day. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP)
March 2, 2026, 12:58 pm
Israeli scientists: ‘SuperAger’ brains make twice as many new neurons as their healthy peers
A team of researchers from Israel and the US say their findings about biological brain flexibility in a new peer-reviewed study may help design therapeutics for healthy aging
By Diana Bletter
Elderly people work out with wooden dumb-bells in the grounds of a temple in Tokyo on September 17, 2012, to celebrate Japan's Respect-for-the-Aged-Day. (YOSHIKAZU TSUNO / AFP)
December 2, 2025, 7:23 am
Medical Holy Grail: Israeli researchers isolate elusive cells that may slow down aging
In peer-reviewed study, Prof. Alon Monsonego’s lab finds that ‘T helper’ blood cells, abundant in ‘super-centenarians’ in high-life-expectancy zone in Japan, may point the way to longevity
By Diana Bletter
An aging vulture wearing a GPS radio transmitter. (Tovale Solomon)
September 3, 2024, 11:25 am
While young vultures gad about, older ones prefer to stay home – study
Tel Aviv University research shows that aging vultures become less sociable
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: A woman undergoing an MRI scan (Povozniuk via iStock by Getty Images)
September 20, 2023, 6:05 pm
Israeli researchers develop noninvasive method to assess iron levels in brain
Using MRI images and physical calculations, team led by Hebrew University PhD student gains vital data previously available only via autopsy or tissue sample examinations
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Kibbutz Tzora pickleball players in their former dining hall pickleball court, January 2023. (Jessica Steinberg/Times of Israel)
March 4, 2023, 6:52 am
Kibbutz pickleballers have a ball while courting more team members
The racquet game is slowly gaining local fans, and so too are walking football and Mamanet, as mature Israelis seek out team sports that are easier on the joints
By Jessica Steinberg
Illustrative: An artificial intelligence tool identifies elements of a human face for analysis (vchal via iStock by Getty Images)
February 12, 2023, 10:03 pm
How old do you look? Israeli experts find humans still outguess AI, and suggest why
‘Rather than overcoming our biases for assessing ages, AI is actually exaggerating the same biases,’ says author of peer-reviewed research
By Nathan Jeffay
Intuition Robotics' ElliQ system is specifically designed for the elderly population. (Courtesy)
July 25, 2022, 5:10 pm
Israeli AI robotic companion for elderly launches in US market
After five years of development, Intuition Robotics officially released the ElliQ system this spring to help aging population stay active, connected, and engaged
By Ricky Ben-David
A man receiving hyperbaric oxygen therapy while nurse is checking his mask. (Drazen Zigic via iStock by Getty Images)
September 9, 2021, 8:59 pm
Oxygen therapy may slow Alzheimer’s, say Israeli researchers after mice study
Plaque fell away from brains of mice after oxygen chamber stints, and scientists say it may ‘significantly slow progression and severity’ of Alzheimer’s; but others are skeptical
By Nathan Jeffay
Agnes Keleti reacts to fireworks going off on her birthday cake in Budapest, Hungary Monday Jan. 4, 2021. At 103, she is one of the oldest Holocaust survivors living in 2023. (AP Photo/Laszlo Balogh)
June 1, 2021, 7:42 am
Israeli scientists extend mice’s lives by 23%, say method may work on humans
Mice not only live longer, but are more youthful and less susceptible to cancer, after team from Bar Ilan University and US National Institutes of Health boosts a single protein
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: A neuron network with electrical activity of neuron cells (libre de droit; iStock by Getty Images)
December 3, 2020, 7:03 am
Scientists successfully restore cells to youth, bring back sight in mice
David Sinclair, a Harvard professor of Jewish heritage who co-authored study, says he hopes to turn back time at cellular level, reversing damage caused by injury, disease and age
By AFP and ToI Staff
Patient wearing a mask while having hyperbaric oxygen therapy. (iStock)
November 22, 2020, 11:35 pm
Israeli scientist claims to ‘reverse’ aging in blood cells
‘This means we can start to look at aging as a reversible disease,’ says Prof Shai Efrati; top geriatrician says he is skeptical, and raises concerns
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative: Studies into the genetics of 'super-ager' Ashkenazi Jews could mean drugs that could help the general population live up to 35 years longer. (iStock)
September 18, 2020, 11:06 pm
Only as old as your genes: Ashkenazi ‘super-agers’ could hold key to long life
‘Aging as we know it shouldn’t happen,’ says Israeli researcher Nir Barzilai, whose new book studies 750 centenarians, finding that drugs may delay the onset of major diseases
By Rich Tenorio
People inside a hyperbaric chamber like those used by Israeli researchers for their study on aging (Shutterstock)
July 15, 2020, 3:52 pm
Israeli doctor claims to ‘reverse’ aging with pure oxygen treatment study
Volunteers aged 65-plus ended up with sharper brains after sessions in a special oxygen chamber, says Shai Efrati. One volunteer: ‘I entered healthy and left a tiger’
By Nathan Jeffay
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