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Laris Achlaug (left) and Lama Awwad, PhD students, work in a lab at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. (Courtesy/Nitzan Zohar)
December 26, 2025, 7:27 pm
In surprising breakthrough, scientists in Israel find cancer may help heal the failing heart
Study by researchers at the Technion finds that injecting cancerous serum in mice decreased cardiac fibrosis — paving the way for innovative therapies
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Ido Amit, left, Director of Weizmann’s Immunotherapy Research Center and PhD student Michelle von Locquenghien. (Courtesy)
November 20, 2025, 4:05 am
Scientists create ‘immune-activating’ molecule to help the body fight cancer
Using AI and big data, Weizmann Institute researchers build MiTEs, or natural killer/T-cell Enhancers, to combat cancers, 5 months after Iranian missile attack destroyed their lab
By Diana Bletter
A bacterial cell (elongated shape in the center) inside a glioblastoma tumor cell, as seen through an electron microscope. The black dots within the bacterium are engineered antibodies carrying gold particles that bind specifically to a component found only in bacterial cell envelopes and not in human cells. (Courtesy/Weizmann Institute of Science)
November 14, 2025, 6:35 pm
New study finds bacteria in brain tumors play ‘surprising’ role in cancer growth
Scientists at Weizmann Institute, Hebrew University and Houston’s Baylor College of Medicine say patients with more bacteria in their brain tumors have ‘poorer survival outcomes’
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Ayal Hendel, Bar Ilan University. Goodman Faculty of LIfe(Courtesy/Avishag Shaar-Yashuv)
September 2, 2025, 10:48 am
Israeli researcher joins EU cell therapy initiative for blood cancers and tumors
Bar-Ilan University scientist part of €8 million consortium to ensure accuracy in CAR-T cell therapy, an immunotherapy using CRISPR-Cas9, in European hospitals
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Carmit Levy, left, and Prof. Yaron Carmi of Tel Aviv University. (Tel Aviv University)
November 4, 2024, 4:53 pm
Israeli researchers identify protein that stops immune cells from attacking tumors
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 resistant to immunotherapy
By Diana Bletter
Ozlem Tureci, founder of BioNTech, speaks during an interview in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, March 18, 2021. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)
March 19, 2021, 4:56 pm
Scientist behind Pfizer vaccine: mRNA shots for cancer coming ‘in couple years’
BioNTech’s Ozlem Tureci says the know-how behind revolutionary inoculations could soon be used to treat far more than the coronavirus pandemic
By Frank Jordans
Israel has become a hub for cancer research, including at this lab at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School. (Keren Freeman/Flash90)
August 29, 2019, 10:31 am
Cancer research fund announces 69 new grants to Israeli scientists, institutions
ICRF hopes new donations, at $4.3 million, will encourage the Jewish state to continue to serve as ‘a major source of innovation’
By ToI Staff
CEO and founder of the startup Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies Ltd. (AEBI) Ilan Morad, right, with Hanan Itzhaki, the chief science officer, at their lab (Courtesy)
January 30, 2019, 2:22 pm
‘Cancer cure’ doubted as Israeli team claims it can’t afford to publish findings
Ness Ziona’s Accelerated Evolution Biotechnologies says pre-clinical trial results ‘very good’; foreign experts lambaste claims, Israeli experts say they haven’t seen the research
By Shoshanna Solomon
Kim Kardashian West attending the 2016 MTV Video Music Awards at Madison Square Garden in New York City, August 28, 2016. (Larry Busacca/Getty Images via JTA)
October 9, 2018, 11:06 pm
Jewish group to honor Kim Kardashian for backing bone marrow search
Celebrity shared bone marrow campaign to save father-of-three Adam Krief to millions of social media followers, leading to 4 matches and 1 transplant
By JTA
Jeffrey Kriezelman, left, a lawyer and avid outdoorsman, credits his doctor son Justin, right, with spotting the cancerous lesion on his vertebrae that led to his early diagnosis of multiple myeloma. (Courtesy of Jeffrey Kriezelman/via JTA)
July 8, 2017, 11:03 pm
This Chicago lawyer’s life was saved by two Israeli Nobel Prize winners
Myeloma, a cancer of the blood in bone marrow, used to have a five-year survival rate of 25%. With one new treatment, that number has risen to 75%
By Ben Hartman
Illustrative: Better education about the dangers of sun exposure are credited for helping bring Israel's skin cancer rate down from the world's second-highest a decade ago to 18th today. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
April 29, 2017, 3:45 pm
The 3 cancers Jews need to worry about most — and how to reduce the risks
Since Ashkenazis have a genetic predisposition to several forms of the disease, doctors recommend preventative measures and screening for early detection
By Niv Elis
Hockey player Sam Fields was diagnosed with cancer at age 27, just weeks before he was scheduled to go to NHL training camp. (Courtesy ICRF/via JTA)
March 11, 2017, 4:57 pm
Miracle drug with Israeli roots saves Jewish hockey player hit with cancer
In 2003, when Sam Fields was given two weeks to live, Gleevec wasn’t known to help his condition. 14 years later, back from death’s door, the athlete says without it, he simply ‘wouldn’t be here’
By Abigail Pickus
Adam Krief with his wife, Lia (Facebook)
December 7, 2016, 2:24 am
Jewish cancer patient finds bone marrow donor following worldwide search
Efforts to save Adam Krief received worldwide attention, and support from celebrities such as Kim Kardashian, Mayim Bialik and Jason Biggs
By JTA
US Vice-President Joe Biden (R) is pictured at the end of an audience of Pope Francis (top) to the participants of the International Conference on the Progress of Regenerative Medicine and Its Cultural Impact, on April 29, 2016 at the Paul VI audience hall in Vatican. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP)
April 29, 2016, 10:44 pm
Biden takes ‘Moonshot’ cancer campaign to Vatican
Israel is among the first countries to answer American VP’s efforts to make cancer treatments and research universally available
By AFP
Illustrative: Cancer cells. (Pixabay)
April 3, 2016, 5:05 pm
Weizmann-developed drug may be speedy prostate cancer cure, studies show
In a trial, a photosynthesis-based therapy eliminates cancer in over 80% of patients – and could be used to attack other cancers, too
By David Shamah
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