Ilanit Chernick
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Opinion: For a grieving Israel, a joyous holiday will forever be tainted
Israel's grief over the Mount Meron tragedy is compounded by the fact that it happened on Lag B'Omer, a festival that commemorates the mysterious plague that killed some 24,000 students in the second century CE, writes Ilanit Chernick. Friday's gathering had special resonance because it also symbolized the celebration of Israel's re-emergence from another devastating plague -- coronavirus. → Read More
Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospice
The Hospice provide care to terminally ill patients, helping them meet the challenges of end-stage illness through a holistic approach. → Read More
Discovering my maternal roots through a simple swab of saliva
The Jerusalem Post took a mitochondrial DNA test with Family Tree DNA and local start-up Igentify to trace back my maternal ancestry → Read More
BGU developing system to stop self-driving cars being fooled
The researchers explained that advanced driving assistance systems consider depthless projections of objects as real objects. → Read More
Hyperbaric oxygen therapy improves heart function in healthy, aging peopl
The study was conducted on 31 patients who underwent a 60-session treatment course → Read More
Israeli med-tech start-up launches smartphone app to monitor wounds
Healthy.io said the app measures wounds and captures standardized visual records over time allowing to monitor a wound’s progression, reducing human error → Read More
‘BDS campaign ineffective so far,’ says research analyst says
The Jewish state has continued to thrive and has become known as the start-up nation. → Read More
Israeli start-up creates new tech to target internal solid tumors
CAPS Medical uses Cold Atmospheric Plasma (CAP) technology that is usually used to treat superficial solid tumors to now target solid internal organ tumors. → Read More
Startup’s AI tech wrist-band predicts healthcare risks to elderly
Owlytics specializes in wearable-based analytics technology for the medical sector. → Read More
Agri-tech startup solving 'ever-growing' pollination problem
Edete Precision Technologies for Agriculture has developed high-efficiency artificial pollination → Read More
Santa and Mrs Claus come to Jerusalem
50 Santas and Mrs Clauses from several different countries visited the Old City. → Read More
Antisemitism complaint filed against Columbia University
The Lawfare Project filed a complaint with the US Department of Education's Office for Civil Rights. → Read More
Scientists discover ‘monster’ black hole in our galaxy
Up until now, the largest mass of a black hole ever recorded was only a mass of 15 to 20 times bigger than the sun → Read More
Romanian Holocaust survivors celebrate bar and bat Mitzvahs
The event was organized by The Claims Conference in conjunction with The Association of Romanian Olim in Haifa and The Western Wall Foundation. → Read More
BDS activist to be honored as ‘peace envoy’ at Belgian Holocaust memorial
Brigitte Herremans will receive the “ambassador for peace” prize from Belgian Catholic NGO Pax Christi Vlaanderen (Flanders). → Read More
Uniting the Jewish people through producing Hanukkah menorahs
‘Hanukkah for all Jewish people represents our strong roots,’ says Hazorfim CEO Yakov Merdinger. → Read More
Bowling Green’s mystery missing menorah found 22 years later
In 1997, ‘Charging Bull’ sculptor Arturo Di Modica created the menorah and it was used that year for Hanukkah. → Read More
North America’s oldest synagogue celebrates 256 years of existence
Sephardic merchants, who spoke Spanish and Portuguese, built the synagogue in 1759. → Read More
Antisemitism on campus: violence against Reservists on Duty
Reservists on Duty CEO Amit Deri: It’s time to wake up and realize that this violence will spread → Read More
UNHRC members learn about inclusion in Shalva visit
During their visit, the visiting ambassadors to the UN Human Rights Council met with several of Shalva’s program participants and professional staff as well as Yossi Samuels. → Read More