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New recruits to the IDF’s 401st Armored Brigade arrive at Ariel Sharon Park in central Israel on their enlistment day, August 2, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
September 3, 2026, 9:09 am
IDF didn’t take DNA from 20,000 new recruits, including fighters, amid budget dispute
Military Rabbinate and Medical Corps can’t agree on whose budget should pay for equipment used to preserve DNA samples, collected by the army to identify soldiers killed in action
By ToI Staff
Shalom Korai poses for a picture with members of his extended family just after he met them in person for the first time on Wednesday, July 10, 2024, in North Charleston, South Carolina. (AP Photo/Jeffrey Collins)
July 12, 2024, 6:37 am
Holocaust survivor who never met any family finds cousins through DNA testing
Saved from the streets of Warsaw in 1943, Shalom Korai had long accepted that he had no relatives, until a sample submitted to MyHeritage matched that of a woman in South Carolina
By Jeffrey Collins
23andMe headquarters in Silicon Valley, Sunnyvale, California, July 26, 2020. (Michael Vi/Shutterstock.com)
January 31, 2024, 6:01 pm
23andMe faces lawsuit as hackers sell information on users with Jewish heritage
DNA testing company 23andMe blames users’ recycled passwords for data breach that affected 6.9 million accounts; August lawsuit indicates other companies may be implicated
By Ariella Oldfield
Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal assisting with DNA extraction and amplification at the National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir), November 2023. (Courtesy)
December 11, 2023, 2:32 am
Expert in ancient DNA and wildlife forensics helps identify Oct. 7 massacre victims
Hebrew University Prof. Gila Kahila Bar-Gal uses her knowledge of difficult DNA extraction and physical anthropology as she volunteers at Abu Kabir
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Charred bone shards are all that remain of some of the victims of the mass murderous attack by Hamas on southern Israeli communities on October 7, 2023. Scientists and anthropologists examine and try to extract DNA from them for identification purposes at the National Center of Forensic Medicine (Abu Kabir) in Jaffa, October 16, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 17, 2023, 4:08 pm
Foreign media given unprecedented access to forensic institute to witness atrocities
Staff at Abu Kabir work 24/7 along with colleagues in IDF and police to identify victims of mass butchery by Hamas terrorists; in some cases identification likely impossible
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Undated photo of Monica Nabukenya, who was allegedly murdered by her Israeli husband in Uganda, July 2023. (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 19, 2023, 11:37 am
Israeli man arrested in Uganda on suspicion of murdering his wife
Local police say Raed Wated, 58, confessed to killing Monica Nabukenya, 25, because DNA test showed he is not the father of their six-month-old baby
By Stuart Winer
Murder and rape suspect Sami Abu Al-Asal, left, in 2023, and right in 2002. (Israel Police)
July 16, 2023, 4:44 pm
20 years on, man charged with sexual assault and murder of woman in Eilat
Sami Abu Al-Asal, who previously served 13 years for another assault, indicted due to DNA match
By ToI Staff
Undated photo of Margarita Levy (Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 13, 2023, 12:34 pm
After 20 years, police say they solved Eilat murder and rape cold case
Advances in forensic methods enabled fresh DNA testing that led police to Sami Abu Al-Asal, who previously served 13 years for assault of another woman
By ToI Staff
The original locks of Ludwig van Beethoven are presented at the Beethoven Haus in Bonn, Germany, that were used to sequence the genome of the world famous composer by an international team of researchers led by Cambridge University, March 21, 2023 (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)
March 23, 2023, 1:19 pm
DNA analysis of Beethoven’s hair gives clues to his death
Researchers say liver failure likely cause of death, brought about by number of factors including alcohol consumption; child from extramarital relationship in direct paternal line
By Chris Lefkow
A woman is seen at Shoah Name Wall Memorial in Vienna on the occasion of its inauguration on November 9, 2021. (GEORG HOCHMUTH / APA / AFP)
November 30, 2022, 11:40 am
Project offers free DNA kits to Holocaust survivors to help them find lost relatives
New York-based Center for Jewish History launches initiative to help people learn about family connections severed by genocide
By Deepti Hajela
The grave of Yosef Melamed, at the Nahalat Yitzhak cemetery, Tel Aviv. (Channel 12 screenshot; used in accordance with clause 27a of the copyright law)
September 25, 2022, 12:56 pm
Fate of Yemenite baby determined after DNA from exhumed body matches relatives’
Forensic scientists confirm grave belongs to Yosef Melamed, whose remains were the first of 9 due to be tested as part of probe into Yemenite children affair
By ToI Staff
The reconstructed faces of a male and a child discovered in the well in Norwich, UK, believed to date back to 1190 CE. (Professor Caroline Wilkinson/Natural History Museum)
August 30, 2022, 11:27 pm
DNA analysis suggests bodies found in UK well are victims of 1190 antisemitic attack
Study published in scientific journal uses radiocarbon dating and genome sequencing, comparing to genetic data from modern Jews, to match remains to medieval massacre in Norwich
By Amy Spiro
Jackie Young in his London apartment (Detail from photograph by Dennis Carlyle Darling. Portrait from the soon-to-be-released 'Borrowed Time: Survivors Of Nazi Terezín Remember,' published by University of Texas Press)
August 24, 2022, 4:19 pm
UK man who survived concentration camp as baby finally learns his family’s identity
Jewish genealogist duo solves 80-year mystery, builds a family tree and locates living relatives after reading a ToI article about octogenarian Jackie Young’s search for his roots
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Forensic teams exhumes the grave of Yosef Melamed at the Nahalat Yitzhak Cemetery on July 27, 2022 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 9, 2022, 6:52 pm
Experts said to identify DNA from remains exhumed in state kidnapping probe
Genetic profile successfully reconstructed for first time in Yemenite Children Affair; results to be compared with Yosef Melamed’s relatives to see if exhumed remains belong to him
By ToI Staff
Vardit Beckerknut (Courtesy)
July 10, 2022, 11:38 am
After nearly 30 years, man gets life sentence for murdering woman
Valery Sakovic, 67, admits in pleas deal to killing Vardit Beckerknut; was nabbed after advances in DNA; victim’s mother: ‘I do not remember the last time I was happy’
By ToI Staff
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