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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 646

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Itay & Beyond scientists and researchers at a lab at the Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem. (Courtesy)
February 23, 2025, 8:18 am
Israeli scientists fuse ‘brain tissue’ and electronic chips to test autism treatment
Biotech startup Itay & Beyond uses AI analysis of a ‘brain-on-a-chip’ made from stem cells to predict drug efficacy for neuropsychiatric disorders, expedite testing and development
By Sharon Wrobel
Master Sgt. (res.) Raz Abulafia, 27, from Rishpon, of the 12th Brigade's 6863rd Battalion. (IDF)
February 19, 2025, 3:27 pm
Researcher names potent lifesaving virus after soldier boyfriend killed in Gaza War
As antibiotic-resistant bacteria pose growing health risk, Hebrew University scientists search for ‘good’ viruses and name them after heroes killed on or after Oct. 7
By Diana Bletter
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is heading to the hospital for surgery, in a video he issued from the Prime Minister's Office on December 29, 2024. (Screenshot)
December 31, 2024, 12:56 am
Netanyahu stays in the hospital Monday night after prostate surgery
Sara Netanyahu reportedly did not return from Miami for husband’s surgery because she has COVID; PM calls ultra-Orthodox leader from hospital promising to advance Haredi draft bill
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he is heading to the hospital for surgery, in a video he issued from the Prime Minister's Office on December 29, 2024. (Screenshot)
December 30, 2024, 2:24 am
Netanyahu recovering after successful prostate removal surgery
PM awake and ‘in good condition,’ moved to underground, fortified recovery ward at Hadassah Medical Center in Jerusalem; urology department head says no suspicion of malignancy or cancer
By ToI Staff, Jeremy Sharon and Lazar Berman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu enters a courtroom at the Tel Aviv District Court before the start of his testimony, December 23, 2024. (Reuven Kastro/POOL)
December 28, 2024, 11:44 pm
Netanyahu to undergo prostate removal surgery on Sunday
Operation follows the discovery of infection in PM’s urinary tract; cabinet meeting to be held on Sunday as planned, but some days of his testimony at trial could be put off
By Lazar Berman
Prof. Alon Pikarsky explains a new surgical procedure he is about to perform at Jerusalem's Hadassah Medical Center, in a video released by the hospital on October 3, 2019. (Screen capture: Youtube/Hadassah Medical Center, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
August 15, 2024, 12:27 pm
Eyebrows raised as PM’s surgeon appointed to board of state-owned arms maker
MK warns of ‘political slant’ in selection of Alon Pikarsky, a Netanyahu ally who wrote opinion clearing troops of sodomizing Palestinian inmate, and attested to premier’s health
By ToI Staff
A woman passes a cigarette during a protest calling for the release of the people held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza, outside the Defense Headquarters in Tel Aviv, November 3, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/ Flash90)
April 12, 2024, 9:10 pm
Stressed out by war, Israelis appear to be smoking more than they have in years
Soldiers, hostages’ families and others seem to be lighting up at increasing levels, reversing years of falling rates, but health experts aren’t pushing them to kick the habit yet
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Illustrative photo of newborn babies in an Israeli hospital nursery. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
March 27, 2024, 6:39 pm
COVID protocols pave new way of detecting common congenital viral infection in newborns
Hebrew University and Hadassah Medical Center researchers prove the efficiency and accuracy of pooled saliva PCR testing for congenital cytomegalovirus
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dr. Gal Yaniv sits next to his computer at Sheba Medical Center that shows how Aidoc platform used AI to identify potentially lethal tiny aneurysm in brain of Nova festival victim and immediately notified relevant medical staff to take action, December 28, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)
January 17, 2024, 9:24 am
How cutting-edge Israeli med tech is boosting survival rates of war wounded
AI reviews scans at Sheba Medical Center and sends alerts to doctors’ phones, while at Hadassah, wounded soldiers recover quickly after surgeons remove bullets with robots
By Renee Ghert-Zand
President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal Herzog (right) visit with a wounded soldier and staff at the Loewenstein Rehabilitation Hospital in Ra'anana, November 13, 2023 (Courtesy of Loewenstein Hospital)
December 17, 2023, 9:10 am
War caught Israeli rehab hospitals unprepared to handle number of wounded
Crucial aspect of recovery in danger if more beds are not opened and additional staff not hired to heal body and soul: ‘There is no rehabilitation without mental health’
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Anesthesiologist Prof. Suzanne Karan from the University of Rochester volunteers at Hadassah Medical Center in Ein Kerem, Jerusalem, during the war with Hamas, November 2023. (Courtesy of Hadassah Medical Center)
November 23, 2023, 2:38 pm
Why doctors come volunteer in Israel at war: ‘I couldn’t live with myself if I didn’t’
Filling in for Israeli doctors called to military duty or preoccupied with emergency preparedness, these 5 physicians are picking up the slack wherever and however they are needed
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Dream Doctors medical clowns peform a pretend wedding for a nurse and her fiancé, who had to cancel their real wedding because of the Israel-Hamas war. Sheba Medical Center, October 2023. (Dream Doctors)
October 26, 2023, 9:04 am
For Israel’s medical clowns, getting a giggle has never been a tougher sell
With the whole country traumatized — including themselves — ‘Dream Doctors’ do their best to therapeutically raise the spirits of the war wounded and displaced
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Nurse Michal Elon was shot by a terrorist while helping wounded soldiers at the IDF Zikim base on October 7, 2023. She spoke to The Times of Israel at Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, October 19, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)
October 24, 2023, 11:45 pm
Heroic nurse was shot by Hamas terrorist as she treated wounded at Zikim IDF base
At base with rabbi husband and eight of their 10 kids on Oct. 7 to celebrate holiday with troops, Michal Elon bravely left protective shelter to help injured soldier
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Itai, a soldier in the special forces of the IDF's Nahal Brigade, tells a visiting delegation from the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations about his fight with Hamas terrorists who infiltrated Israel on October 7, 2023. Hadassah Medical Center, October 19, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/TOI)
October 24, 2023, 6:42 pm
Wounded soldier recounts battling terrorists for hours without backup or medics
Itai, shot in the leg, says his 9-man squad, 7 of them injured, fended off terrorists targeting them with RPGs, grenades and nonstop gunfire until help arrived
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rhoda Smolow, president of Hadassah, The Women's Zionist Organization of America, visits Michael Elon, who was injured by a Hamas terrorist at the Zikim IDF base on October 7, 2023. Hadassah Medical Center, October 19, 2023. (Ariel Jerozolimski)
October 22, 2023, 1:11 am
Hadassah Organization heads double down on support for their hospitals during war
At Hadassah Ein Kerem on her 2nd trip to Israel since Oct. 7, president Rhoda Smolow joins CEO Naomi Adler to comfort the victims of Hamas’s brutality while raising emergency funds
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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