In a risky and delicate procedure performed for the first time in Israel this week, an interdisciplinary team of Hadassah Medical Center physicians fixed a severe heart defect in a 28-week-old fetus in the womb. The medical team widened the baby’s aorta using a balloon technique similar to adult catheterization....
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The lead singer of the popular British rock group Radiohead, which is slated to perform in Israel next week, raised his middle finger at anti-Israel protesters who were disrupting the band’s Glasgow concert on Friday, The Jerusalem Post reported. Supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions campaign, which seeks to...
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The Palestinian terrorist group Hamas, which rules the Gaza Strip, expressed its support for the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel in a Twitter post last week. “We salute and support the influential BDS Movement,” the Islamist faction tweeted on its official English-language account. We salute and support...
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Modi Embraced in Israel Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi completed a historic, three-day tour of Israel this week, a significant part of which he spent with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with whom he seems to have an excellent rapport. His trip included, among others, visits to Mt. Herzl, Yad Vashem, and the Danziger...
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Israeli officials slammed UNESCO on Friday after it passed a Palestinian-backed resolution calling Hebron “Islamic” and designating its Old City, home of the biblical Tomb of the Patriarchs, as a Palestinian world heritage site in danger. .@UNESCO resolution recognizing Palestinian version of Hebron history omitted little things like 1929 massacre that expelled...
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The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development (BIRD) Foundation has approved $7 million in funding for eight new projects between American and Israeli companies. The projects include innovations in areas of autonomous vehicles, biotechnology, digital health, homeland security, and nanotechnology. “The BIRD Foundation is undoubtedly a major anchor in the...
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