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Portrait of a pregnant woman. (Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)
November 28, 2025, 12:52 pm
Health Ministry said to flag error in genetic test kit detecting rare mutation, reread results
Haaretz report concerns MECR mutation, part of Israel’s expanded screening panel; can lead to problems with movement, speech, vision; rare disease more common among Ashkenazi Jews
By Diana Bletter
A sign is posted in front of the 23andMe headquarters on February 1, 2024, in Sunnyvale, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images/AFP)
September 18, 2024, 6:42 am
23andMe agrees to $30m settlement over data breach targeting Jewish and Chinese users
Genetic testing company settles with plaintiffs over breach that was revealed when hacker published link to database labeled ‘ashkenazi DNA Data of Celebrities’
By Jackie Hajdenberg
Illustrative photo of a newborn baby girl holding her mother's finger, Jerusalem, December 30, 2020. (Shir Torem/Flash90)
March 7, 2024, 10:56 pm
Parents of baby born in 2022 IVF mix-up found through testing
Rishon Lezion Family Court allows publication of limited information about widely covered story of now 18-month-old child born to parents with no genetic links
By ToI Staff and Renee Ghert-Zand
Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv's Ramat HaHayal neighborhood, May 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 10, 2023, 11:30 am
Couple sues Assuta Hospital for $9.2 million over IVF paternity mix-up
Under Health Ministry censure, hospital faces demand for damages; lawyer for unnamed pair says they won’t tell anyone, not even their kids, that the dad isn’t their genetic parent
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Assuta Medical Center in Tel Aviv's Ramat HaHayal neighborhood, May 20, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 20, 2023, 7:11 pm
Health Ministry expected to probe hospital’s latest possible embryo mix-up
Report says officials deliberating between having committee that is already investigating similar case examine matter or forming new panel
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: A lab in an IVF clinic. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
May 19, 2023, 9:56 pm
Health Ministry slams hospital’s handling of potential embryo mix-up
Assuta Medical Center denies improper conduct after ministry accuses it of serious breach of protocol at Tel Aviv facility
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Genetic testing. (AP Photo/Douglas C. Pizac)
October 24, 2022, 6:44 pm
Genetic test finds couple are not biological parents of mistakenly implanted embryo
With woman carrying child that isn’t biologically hers due to give birth within days, Rishon Lezion hospital must now test further women to determine who is biological mother
By ToI Staff
Illustrative image: A lab in an IVF clinic. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
October 19, 2022, 8:05 pm
Court orders genetic test to identify biological parents in embryo mix-up
If a match is found, a legal process will determine who receives custody over the baby, due within days; woman carrying embryo has so far refused such tests
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: An in vitro fertilization embryologist works on a petri dish at a fertility clinic in London, August 14, 2013. (AP Photo/Sang Tan)
October 14, 2022, 1:27 pm
Designer babies? Hi-tech preimplantation genetic testing may soon come to Israel
Unlike simpler forms of testing used in IVF today, screening for polygenic diseases doesn’t offer a clear diagnosis but rather a ‘risk score’ for a Pandora’s box full of conditions
By Nirit Sandman Eriksson
Illustrative: An employe of a genetic institute works with a DNA sample. (AP Photo/Fernando Vergara)
June 15, 2020, 3:38 am
Study highlights dangers of DNA tests used to back up preexisting ideas of race
Two-year study by Prof. Wendy Roth shows the less people know about genetics, the more likely they are to associate genes with behavior; product marketing feeds the misconception
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustration (above and at top of article) by Avi Katz
October 7, 2019, 12:33 pm
Rabbinate DNA tests seek Jewishness in the blood, become a bone of contention
Controversial method began in Moscow, spread to Jerusalem and Sydney, as a private bid to confirm ex-Soviets as Jews. Now it faces a High Court challenge and a thunderous outcry
By Marissa Newman
File: An Orthodox Jewish Colombian family shown in 2012. (Paul Smith/For the Washington Post/via JTA)
December 27, 2018, 11:04 pm
Study finds widespread traces of Sephardic genes in Latin America
Geneticists study genomes of 6,589 people from 5 countries; about one-quarter show what may be remnants of Jewish converso ancestry
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Carl Zimmer got his genome examined when he found out he was going to be a father. (Courtesy)
June 25, 2018, 5:53 am
Hands-on science journalist unlocks the secrets of genetic hand-me-downs
Through self-experimentation and posting his genome online, Carl Zimmer learns what heredity really means — and why DNA and lineage are not one and the same
By Cathryn J. Prince
Larry David played democratic candidate Bernie Sanders in a Saturday Night Live skit of the first 2016 Democratic Presidential Debate, October 17, 2015 (Screenshot from YouTube)
October 5, 2017, 6:02 pm
Larry David and Bernie Sanders learn they’re distant cousins, flip out
Curb / Seinfeld star: ‘What the hell!’ Bernie: ‘You’re kidding! Omigod’
By Gabe Friedman
Igbo mother and child. (photo credit: Shai Afsai/Times of Israel)
August 11, 2017, 5:08 pm
Messianic Jews to Nigerians: You’re not ‘real’ Jews
Religious group from Arizona claims DNA testing proves that Igbo tribe are not genetically Jewish, drawing ire
By Melanie Lidman
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