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Surgeons at Samson Assuta Ashdod University Hospital remove tissue from a huge cyst in a 12-year-old girl, January 2024. (Courtesy of Assuta)
March 14, 2024, 2:39 pm
Surgeons in Ashdod remove remnants of twin from 12-year-old girl’s swollen abdomen
Girl suffered from a 10-kilogram cyst growing in her belly before doctors discovered it contained an embryo’s hair, bones, and cartilage
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Identical twins Yael Yishai, right, and Avital Segel, left, pose with their newborn sons at Shaare Zedek hospital in Jerusalem, May 30, 2022. (Shaare Zedek via JTA)
June 2, 2022, 8:13 am
Identical twins give birth to boys on same day in Jerusalem
Sisters from Gush Etzion each already had two girls, one boy; hospital says similar event happened in 1997
By Ron Kampeas
An X-ray showing the stomach of a newborn baby girl who was found to have an embryo inside her, July 2021. (Assuta Medical Center)
July 28, 2021, 12:18 pm
One in half a million: Girl born in Israel with twin inside her stomach
Doctors swiftly remove remains of what was at least one sibling from baby; mother and daughter healthy
By ToI Staff
The Vainer twins, just hanging out (Courtesy Guy Vainer)
January 8, 2018, 1:38 pm
This Israeli dad takes absurd photos of his twin boys
From superheroes to a couple of guys having a beer in a bar, Guy Vainer documents his baby sons’ first years with outlandish, photoshopped pictures
By Jessica Steinberg
Shiri Sobol seen during a court hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court on June 29, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 19, 2017, 1:20 pm
Man sentenced to 20 years for murder of girlfriend’s twin sister
In plea deal, Shiri Sobol gets 6 years for her role in brutal killing of Hili Sobol outside her Tel Aviv home last year
By ToI Staff
Former inmate and Mengele twin, Eva Mozes Kor walks the grounds at Auschwitz in 2007, on one of her many trips there as a lecturer. (courtesy)
December 8, 2016, 3:54 am
Holocaust survivor preaches forgiveness of Nazis as ‘ultimate revenge’
Reviled by many, Mengele twin Eva Mozes Kor is steadfast in her belief that there is no criminal who cannot be forgiven, even those who murdered her family
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Notorious Nazi physician Josef Mengele as a young doctor, left, and the 'ramp' at Auschwitz-Birkenau in May of 1944, where Mengele sometimes selected inmates for life, death or 'experimentation.' (Public domain)
October 27, 2016, 12:02 pm
The long, twisted shadow cast by Nazi medical experiments
Seven decades after Nazi camp inmates were tortured in the name of medical research, it is increasingly clear the experimentation was conducted by scientists well beyond known ‘Nazi hacks and SS quacks’
By Matt Lebovic
Shiri Sobol at a court hearing at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on February 19, 2016 (Flash90)
March 17, 2016, 5:33 pm
Teen stabbed ‘more than 130 times’ by twin sister’s boyfriend
David Eran and Shiri Sobol, 18, charged with murdering Hili Sobol last month, sent for psychiatric observation
By Sue Surkes
A scene from 'My Sister' with twins Elizabeth and Emily Hinkler. (Encio Box)
March 3, 2016, 11:56 pm
On stage in LA, a sisterhood of survival in pre-Nazi Germany
Two-woman show ‘My Sister’ explores life in Germany’s Weimar Republic, and the ominous threats on the horizon
By Lisa Klug
Diana Hawila (left), and Nadia Hawila (right), twin sisters from the Palestinian city of Tulkarem, were arrested by Israeli security forces in December 2015 for making pipe bombs and other explosive devices for use in terror attacks, the Shin Bet security service revealed on January 25, 2016. (Shin Bet)
January 25, 2016, 3:00 pm
Palestinian twin sisters accused of making bombs for attacks
One 18-year-old learned how to make explosives from online videos, second helped hide them in their house, Shin Bet says
By Judah Ari Gross
In this Nov. 25, 1979 photo, Jack Yufe, left, and his twin brother, Oskar, look on. Separated soon after birth, Jack Yufe was raised as a Jew in Trinidad while his sibling Oskar grew up in Nazi Germany where he joined the Hitler Youth when he was 12. Jack Yufe, who survived his brother by 18 years, died Monday, Nov. 9, 2015, at age 82. (Robert Lachman/Los Angeles Times via AP)
November 12, 2015, 3:40 am
Jewish man with Nazi-raised identical twin dies at age 82
Jack Yufe and Oskar Stohr were separated at birth and grew up in radically different environments, yet shared similar habits and mannerisms
By JTA
Illustrative photo of newborn babies in an Israeli hospital nursery. (Chen Leopold/Flash90)
July 23, 2015, 4:21 pm
Twins married to twins give birth minutes apart
Israeli identical twin sisters married to identical twin brothers deliver their first-born girls almost simultaneously
By ToI Staff
Revital and her husband with their twins. Revital is the second woman to have twins following a revolutionary procedure to freeze ovarian tissue and surgically reimplant it after having received treatment for cancer. (screenshot Channel 2)
May 26, 2015, 3:00 pm
Woman beats cancer, has twins after revolutionary operation
Thanks to ovarian tissue transplant, Revital, 41, gives birth five years after treatment left her infertile
By ToI Staff
Daniel Maoz in the Jerusalem District court on July 1, 2013. The Jerusalem Disctrict Court handed down two consecutive life sentences for Daniel Maoz, who was convicted of murdering his parents. (photo credit: Emil Salman/POOL/Flash 90)
July 1, 2013, 12:23 pm
Man who murdered parents given two life terms
Daniel Maoz continues to insist that it was his twin brother who committed the double homicide
By Stuart Winer
CT scan image of the conjoined twins separated by Rambam Medical Center doctors (photo credit: courtesy Rambam Medical Center)
May 1, 2013, 5:51 pm
Haifa hospital performs rare separation of conjoined twins
In a first for Israel, doctors remove partially developed twin with no prospect of survival from his fully developed brother, who is in critical condition
By Gavriel Fiske
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