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New-generation lung cancer drugs can be very effective, but within about a year the patients tend to develop resistance to the therapy. Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science led a study using a new combination of existing drugs to help crush potential resistance to the treatment in mice. Their...

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When the United States, Canada, and European Union wanted someone to rescue members of the Syrian Civil Defense organization, also known as the White Helmets, from southwestern Syria as the Assad regime and its allies were closing in last week, who did they call? They called Israel. And Israel came...

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A leading international rating agency has raised its rating outlook for the economy of Israel from “stable” to “positive”, despite the volatile security situation in the region. The rating for now remains unchanged, however, with an upgrade in outlook Israel’s rating could be upgraded in the next 12-18 months for...

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Two United States officials blasted the Palestinian Authority’s leadership for failing to condemn terror, following a fatal terror attack that left a 31-year-old father of two dead, and two others injured. Jason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s Special Representative for International Negotiations, called the terror attack in the West Bank community of Adam...

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Zebra Medical Vision of Kibbutz Shefayim has received 510(k) clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration for its automatic coronary calcium scoring algorithm, an artificial-intelligence tool that helps physicians assess the risk of coronary artery disease. The algorithm can detect and quantify the presence of calcium, or plaque, in coronary...

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Asserting that the election of a Jeremy Corbyn-led Labour Party into power in the United Kingdom would pose an “existential threat” to the Jewish community in the UK, the three leading Jewish newspapers ran a shared editorial titled “United we Stand,” on Wednesday. In the jointly authored editorial, The Jewish News,...

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