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From left: Yael Dotan Marom, head of the ADI Negev-Nahalat Eran rehabilitation village's School of Prosthetics and Orthotics, the first in Israel, with Baruch Cohen of Kibbutz Magen's emergency response team who was wounded on October 7, 2023, and Dr. Tzaki Siev-Ner, director of the Harvey and Gloria Kaylie Rehabilitation Center, ADI Negev, on December 24, 2025. (Diana Bletter/Times of Israel)
January 11, 2026, 5:12 am
Home to thousands of amputees, Israel is no longer missing a school to train prosthetists
School of Prosthetics and Orthotics at ADI Negev rehabilitation village addresses a long-standing need for both patients and practitioners, who were previously forced to go abroad
By Diana Bletter
Haneen al-Mabhouh, 34, who lost her leg in an Israeli strike on her home that also killed all four of her daughters, including her 5-month-old baby, sits in a wheelchair in her family home in Nuseirat, central Gaza Strip, Thursday, Nov. 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Abdel Kareem Hana)
December 13, 2025, 10:32 am
Gaza amputees struggle to rebuild lives as enclave faces shortages of prosthetic limbs
Slow rollout of ceasefire and limited medical evacuations leave many amputees waiting for care; they describe lives frozen by injury and grief
By AP and ToI Staff
Screen capture from undated video of Sidra Al Bordeeni, 12, who was injured in the Gaza Strip, being fitted with a prosthetic arm in Amman, Jordan. (X: Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
July 7, 2025, 12:47 pm
Pakistani startup ships prosthetics to Gaza war child survivors
Bioniks uses smartphone app to take pictures from different angles and create a 3D model for custom fittings, which are then provided to young Gazan casualties
By Reuters and ToI Staff
This image released by A24 shows Adrien Brody, left, and Guy Pearce in a scene from 'The Brutalist.' (Lol Crawley/A24 via AP)
February 7, 2025, 9:18 am
‘The Brutalist’s Adrien Brody says makeup artist tried to remove his nose
Star tapped for Best Actor at Oscars for role as Holocaust survivor says his schnoz was mistaken for a prosthetic; he explained that it ‘doesn’t come off’
By ToI Staff
Gali Segal and Ben Binyamin walk in a hospital where they're rehabbing after each losing their right leg during the October 7 onslaught, in a clip aired by Channel 12 on November 17, 2023. (Screen capture/Channel 12)
November 18, 2023, 11:01 pm
Couple who each lost leg in Oct. 7 massacre begin long road to recovery
Ben Binyamin and Gali Segal both lost right legs after terrorists threw grenade into shelter they were hiding in; weeks after engagement, couple still aims to walk down aisle
By ToI Staff
Poway mayor Steve Vaus (L) accompanies Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein as he arrives at a news conference at the Chabad of Poway synagogue, Sunday, April 28, 2019, in Poway, Calif. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)
September 2, 2019, 5:41 am
Poway rabbi who lost finger in synagogue shooting gets lifelike prosthetic
Rabbi Yisroel Goldstein was one of three people wounded in the attack that also killed Lori Kaye
By JTA
In this Thursday, July 5, 2018 photo, Syrian refugee Maya Meri, 8, sits on her father Mohammed's lap after being fitted with prosthetic legs at a rehabilitation clinic in Istanbul. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)
July 8, 2018, 5:36 pm
Syrian girl born without legs gets new prosthetics in Turkey
An Istanbul specialist heard Maya Meri’s story after she was filmed in a camp for displaced Syrians walking on makeshift legs of tuna cans, plastic tubes and fabric
By ZEYNEP BILGINSOY and Mehmet Guzel
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