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Cpl. Ermias Bahata. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 13, 2025, 11:02 pm
IDF trainee dies on base after suffering apparent allergic reaction
Cpl. Ermias Bahata, 18, collapses at Logistics Corps training base; medical investigation, Military Police probe launched; panel of experts also appointed to investigate
By Emanuel Fabian
Prof. Ariel Munitz, right, stands with PhD student Anish Dsilva in their lab at Tel Aviv University's Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
August 14, 2025, 12:37 pm
As food-allergy disease EoE rises, Israeli team says blocking a protein can shut it down
Tel Aviv U scientists find that neutralizing TSLP protein halts progression of eosinophilic esophagitis, which affects 1 in 2,500; they want to raise awareness, help sufferers
By Diana Bletter
Family, friends and Israelis attend the funeral of former lone soldier Jordan Cooper at the cemetery in Rishon Lezion, August 13, 2024. (Flash90)
August 14, 2024, 3:05 pm
Thousands attend US-Israeli lone soldier’s funeral after family asks public to show up
Jordan Cooper died of a nut allergy while in Israel after completing more than 200 days of reserve duty since October 7
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Peanut puff snack Bamba. (Nataly Hanin via iStock by Getty Images)
July 24, 2024, 5:07 pm
Study finds eating Israeli Bamba drastically cuts peanut allergy risk in young kids
Confirming a hunch, researchers prove kids who eat popular peanut snack develop resistance to peanut allergy, according to study in The New England Journal of Medicine
By Diana Bletter
Children eating peanut-flavored snack Bamba (Courtesy Osem)
August 28, 2023, 1:11 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 28: A restructure for media outlets; Bamba back in school?
Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on a proposal by the communication minister and health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand on allergens in school and anti-smoking steps
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: First grade students sit in a classroom on their first day of school, at the Tali Geulim school in Jerusalem on September 1, 2020. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
August 27, 2023, 4:02 am
Allergy doctors say it’s time to bring back Bamba as new school year set to start
Israel Medical Association group cites research saying that kids with food allergies do not suffer serious reactions if others bring allergenic foods to class
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Police inspect the site of a terrorist shooting attack in the West Bank Israeli settlement of Ma'ale Adumim, August 1, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 2, 2023, 12:59 pm
Daily Briefing Aug 2 — Terror at Ma’ale Adumim
Diplomatic reporter Lazar Berman on Hezbollah’s escalations in north; health reporter Renee Ghert-Zand on unique surgery to save newborn’s ovaries, cookies to cure food allergies
By ToI Staff
Special cookies developed by Dr. Mona Kidon, director of the pediatric allergy clinic at Safra Children’s Hospital, Sheba Medical Center, to treat children with severe peanut allergies. (Courtesy of Sheba Medical Center)
July 31, 2023, 3:54 am
Years in the baking, Israeli doctor’s cookie could take bite out of peanut allergies
As rates of life-threatening food allergies rise globally, researchers study underlying reasons, develop new immunology treatments, and offer updated feeding guidelines for babies
By Renee Ghert-Zand
An illustrative image of an anaphylaxis auto injector for allergy reactions (CarrieCaptured; iStock by Getty Images)
July 19, 2022, 10:46 am
Israeli backpacker, 22, dies from allergic reaction in Colombia
Traveler reportedly told eatery of allergy to dairy and was reassured the food was safe; friend flagged down passing car to rush him to hospital, but he died days later
By ToI Staff
Yad Mordechai honey. (Courtesy)
April 15, 2022, 9:22 am
Health Ministry warns lactose intolerant of milk traces found in popular honey brand
Yad Mordechai says products with best-before dates of January 2, 2025, and April 14, 2025, are still safe for those without allergies
By ToI Staff
Osher Deri (Courtesy)
April 15, 2021, 11:27 am
23-year-old dies from allergic reaction to whipped cream at meat restaurant
Worker allegedly thought he’d purchased non-dairy dessert for kosher eatery in Rosh Pina; police shut it down, detain 5 employees on suspicion of negligent homicide
By ToI Staff
Chanie Apfelbaum with her son Peretz (Courtesy of Apfelbaum)
July 16, 2017, 2:15 am
This kippah could save the lives of kids with allergies
‘Allergy alert’ skullcap, designed by concerned NY Jewish mother, details information on child’s allergies on underside
By Gabe Friedman
Illustrative photo of an Iberia airline plane touching down in Miami, Florida, 1985. (CC-BY-SA: Aero Icarus/Wikimedia)
May 3, 2017, 1:30 pm
Honeymooning Israeli dies on flight from Europe to Miami
Man said to suffer allergic reaction after eating kosher meal
By Stuart Winer
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