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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 651

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Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstrators rally on the Columbia University campus in New York City to mark a year since the Hamas terror group's onslaught on southern Israel that sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, October 7, 2024 (Alex Kent/Getty Images/AFP)
February 6, 2025, 12:19 am
At Trump’s direction, US medical schools to be investigated for antisemitism
Health Department to probe Harvard, Columbia, Brown and Johns Hopkins universities for ‘reports of antisemitic incidents during their 2024 commencement ceremonies’
By Andrew Lapin
A highly magnified image of the star Earendel. The collection of yellow-looking galaxies form the massive galaxy-cluster lens that magnifies background objects lying behind it. The inset shows the highly magnified red galaxy, host to Earendel, stretched into an arc due to lensing, and the highly magnified star is marked with a white arrow. (NASA, ESA, Brian Welch, Dan Coe)
March 31, 2022, 1:25 pm
US, Israeli scientists document oldest star ever seen, 13 billion light-years away
Light detected is so old it’s from when the universe was just 7% of its current age; Israeli professor plays key role in verifying the finding
By Nathan Jeffay
Illustrative -- The Maryland Hall at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland on Jan. 12, 2011 (Wikimedia Commons)
January 10, 2021, 8:03 am
Johns Hopkins teaching assistant who mooted flunking ‘Zionists’ defends record
Graduate student says she always treated students fairly; university looking into case
By Cnaan Liphshiz
Visitors look out from the Lincoln Memorial across the Reflecting Pool at the Washington Monument as the sun sets on December 26, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images/AFP)
December 28, 2020, 4:43 am
1 in 1,000 Americans has died of COVID-19, as country surpasses 19 million cases
Johns Hopkins data show US has been recording at least a million infections per week since early November
By AFP
Workers at a COVID-19 testing location take a break in the Staten Island neighborhood of Tottenville on November 20, 2020 in New York City.(Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
November 22, 2020, 4:00 am
US surpasses 12 million COVID-19 cases
Johns Hopkins tracker records 12,019,960 infections and 255,414 deaths, both by far the worst global tolls
By AFP
Magen David Adom medical workers wearing protective clothing outside the coronavirus unit at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem on September 14, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
September 21, 2020, 7:34 pm
Israeli virus cases per capita overtake US, deaths surpass global average
Jewish state has 2,115.1 cases per 100,000 people compared to America’s 2,079.9, according to latest Johns Hopkins data
By ToI Staff
Illustrative; Medical personnel prepare to test hundreds of people lined up in vehicles in Phoenix's western neighborhood of Maryvale for free COVID-19 tests organized by Equality Health Foundation, June 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Matt York, File)
July 12, 2020, 6:43 pm
US coronavirus deaths take a long-expected turn for the worse
New data shows 7-day rolling average for daily reported deaths has increased from 578 two weeks ago to 664; researchers expect trend to continue for several weeks
By Mike Stobbe and NICKY FORSTER
Novice Buddhist monks with protective masks and face shields, seated maintaining social distancing participate in a religious class at Molilokayaram Educational Institute in Bangkok, Thailand, April 15, 2020. (AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe)
April 15, 2020, 6:40 pm
World’s coronavirus cases top 2 million — more than doubling in two weeks
US has highest death toll at 24,428; Sweden sees sharp spike in fatalities; Germany is ‘cautiously positive’
By ToI Staff and AP
Ambulance workers clean a gurney at Mount Sinai Hospital amid the coronavirus pandemic in New York City, on April 1, 2020. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
April 2, 2020, 10:30 am
US virus deaths pass 5,000 as Trump predicts ‘horrific’ weeks to come
With a total of 5,116 fatalities, US has more victims than China, but still fewer than Italy and Spain; president says states should decide for themselves on stay-at-home orders
By Agencies
A Palestinian man reads a copy of the Koran, Islam's holy book, in a mosque on the first day of the holy fasting month of Ramadan in Gaza City, on June 18, 2015. (AFP PHOTO/MAHMUD HAMS)
March 24, 2020, 8:00 pm
Hamas closes Gaza mosques in attempt to stop spread of coronavirus
Government body says call to prayer will continue, with muezzins instructing people to pray at home; WHO official says the coastal enclave only has 50-60 ventilators for adults
By Adam Rasgon
Medical workers stretcher a patient from an Italian Red Cross ambulance into an intensive care unit set up in a sports center outside the San Raffaele hospital in Milan, during the coronavirus pandemic, March 23, 2020. (Miguel MEDINA/AFP)
March 23, 2020, 7:57 pm
Virus spread accelerating, WHO chief warns, as global death toll tops 16,000
Italy records over 600 deaths for second straight day, but signs emerge virus may be leveling off there; world health chief says it’s not too late to reverse trajectory of pandemic
By Agencies and ToI Staff
Michael Bloomberg speaks during the plenary session of the Global Action Climate Summit in San Francisco, September 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
November 19, 2018, 1:40 am
Bloomberg donates ‘unprecedented’ $1.8B to Johns Hopkins
Largest-ever donation to any education institution in the US earmarked to boost financial aid for low- and middle-income students
By AP
US Sen. Bernie Sanders (Independent, Vermont) arrives at a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, DC, March 7, 2018. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
October 10, 2018, 2:52 pm
Bernie Sanders cites Israel’s nation-state law in slam of Trump authoritarianism
Independent senator says Netanyahu passed controversial legislation, undermines two-state solution and ignores Gaza because he is confident US president will support him
By JTA
The team of surgeons at Johns Hopkins University gather round a mannequin. The university announced the first total penis and scrotum transplant on April 23, 2018. (Courtesy of Johns Hopkins)
April 24, 2018, 3:07 pm
US veteran who survived blast receives penis transplant
In most extensive operation of its kind, doctors rebuild entire pelvic region, including scrotum, of man injured in Afghanistan
By lauren neergard
A graphic describing the nexus of digital technology and health applications. (Courtesy VLX Ventures)
November 1, 2016, 2:22 pm
OurCrowd to set up $50 million digital health fund
With money raised from crowdfunding platform and other investors, Qure will be global with an emphasis on Israel
By Shoshanna Solomon
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