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Israel's Solution for COVID Quarantine Violators? A Kosher Tracking System

'Vaccines Work, No Doubt About It': Israel’s Top COVID Expert Answers Your Questions

The Dangers of Heat Waves on the Body – and How to Defend Yourself

COVID Delta Variant as Contagious as Chickenpox, CDC Report Says

The Flaw With Medical Research That Puts Lives at Risk

Medical staff entering the COVID unit at Hillel Yaffeh Medical Center, Hadera, last week. The sign says "No entry: COVID-19."

Analysis Analysis |

Four Dilemmas Facing Vaccination Champ Israel as Delta Variant Surges

Medical personnel test Israeli youth for the coronavirus at a basketball court turned into a coronavirus testing center, in Binyamina, Israel, last month

Rapid and Home COVID Tests in Israel: Everything You Need to Know

Professor Ran Balicer.

Israeli Expert: ‘I Believe COVID Will Catch Up With Us All Eventually’

Prof. Zeev Rothstein

After 5 Turbulent Years, Chief of Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital Steps Down

Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) antigen rapid test kits for self-testing.

Home COVID Tests Go on Sale in Israel, but With Limited Promise

A woman has Botox injected to her eye area. There has been no delay or slowdown in the aging process in the study.

Can the Aging Process Be Slowed Down? Scientists Found a Disappointing Answer

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett

Israeli PM Bennett: We Can Beat Delta Variant of COVID-19 in 5 Weeks

Sharon Malka, who has worked as a nursing aide at Rambam Medical Center for 27 years said her job had been getting more difficult year by year. 'It’s inhuman, really.'

Garbage Piles Up, Surgeries Deferred as Hospital Support Staff Strike Continues Garbage Overflows, Surgeries Delayed: Support Staff Strike in Hospitals Takes Its Toll

Med students in Sheba Hospital. A short training period compared with the OECD average

Israel Has Abandoned Medical Training. This Is What It Can Do Fix It

Rina Natan, the country’s first known transsexual woman, after she started living as a woman.

The Story of Israel’s First Trans Woman, Who Resorted to Operating on Herself

A group of masked women waiting for a tour of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art last month.

The Case for Masks — Even if You're Vaccinated COVID in Israel: The Case for Masks — Even if You're Vaccinated

A freckled person with their eyes closed

The Israeli Scientist Exploring the Dark Side of Lucid Dreams

A child being inoculated in the central city of Kfar Sava, yesterday.

Israel Re-establishes COVID Cabinet as Delta Variant Spreads

Otto Warburg in his laboratory in 1960.

The Gay, Jewish Scientist Spared by the Nazis

Psychoanalyst Orna Guralnik,

'People Said It Would Ruin My Career,' Says 'Couples Therapy' Star Dr. Guralnik 'People Said It Would Destroy My Career': Interview With 'Couples Therapy' Star Dr. Orna Guralnik

Breakfast time. “Children are fussy because we made them fussy... Obviously, colorful, sugar-rich cereals will tempt kids more than the hot cereal we prepare ourselves,” says Monsonego Ornan.

'You Have a Bomb on Your Hands': The Food That Destroys Kids' Bones

Knafo.

How Gender Equality and Technology Ruined Sex

"I’m aware of the difficulties piled on the shoulders of parents," says McKenna. "...But I’m not sure that the changes of the modern world should be loaded onto the narrow shoulders of the infant."

Why Bed-sharing Is Healthy and Sleep Training Is Child Abuse, According to Expert Why Bed-sharing Is Healthy and Sleep Training Is Child Abuse, According to a Biological Anthropologist

A primeval caveman holding a bone and hitting a rock with it.

Neanderthals Ate Carbs Too, Fossil Plaque Study Finds

The Sackler family’s name being removed from a wall at Tuft University’s biomedical campus, in 2019.

The Rise and Fall of the Sacklers, the Family That Gave America OxyContin

Members of the Korubo indigenous people in Brazil's Amazon rain forest.

Fossil Feces Analysis Shows How Human Diet Changed Over 2,000 Years

Arthur Sackler, the driving force behind Purdue Frederick, whose OxyContin painkiller would trigger the opioid crisis that has killed over 500,000 Americans in 25 years.

This HBO Doc About the Opioid Crisis and Sackler Family Should Be Prescribed Viewing

Mouna Maroun

Israel's First Arab Woman to Become a Neuroscience Professor Wants to Eliminate Fear Israel's First Arab Woman to Become a Neuroscience Professor Wants to Erase Your Fear

Stampede infographic

Scientists Explain How Stampedes Happen - and How to Prevent Them Why the Mount Meron Disaster Happened, and How to Prevent Stampedes? Scientists Explain

A woman receives a coronavirus vaccine at a Clalit vaccination station in Jerusalem, last month.

Women Say COVID Vaccines Impact Their Periods, So Why Don't Doctors Care Women Say COVID Vaccine Side Effects Impact Their Periods, So Why Don't Doctors Care?

A pregnant woman with sticky notes on her belly.

What's Pregnancy Brain? Israeli Research Offers a Revolutionary New Explanation

An illustration of drug-resistant Salmonella bacteria.

Way Worse Than COVID: This Is the End of the Road for Antibiotics

Processed food Pac-Man GIF

Why You Should Never Eat Potato Chips With Diet Coke, According to Brain Science

The Jaffa Clock Tower.

Is Daylight Saving Time Hazardous to Your Health?

Anav Youlevich.

How to Identify Gaslighting, According to a Clinical Psychologist

A patient receiving a coronavirus vaccination in Tel Aviv last week.

100 Million COVID Vaccine Doses Have Now Been Administered. This Is What We Know

“Death in the Sickroom” by Edvard Munch (1893).

Do the Five Stages of Grief Still Hold Up?

Aharon Adler.

'We Were a Step Away From Italy's COVID Crisis. How Did Israel Allow This?'

An image from a Rorschach test.

Do the Rorschach Inkblots Really Offer an X-ray of Human Psyche?

Ukko was co-founded in 2016 by Anat Binur, a Ph.D. in political science, who is the company’s CEO and Yanay Ofran, a professor in computational biophysics at Bar-Ilan University

This Israeli Firm Wants to Hack Gluten and Peanut Allergies This Israeli Firm Wants to Hack Gluten and Peanut Allergies. Big Pharma Is Investing

A gif of a bee hovering between a cactus and a flower.

Amid Pandemic, Sexual Surrogacy Sees Rising Demand 'Some Patients Have Never Kissed Anyone': Amid Pandemic, Sexual Surrogacy Sees Rising Demand

A 3D heart printed by Matricelf, whose founder, Tal Dvir, says, “I think that within 10 to 15 years, we’ll be able to print for every patient the personalized organ or tissue they need.”

From 3D-printed Hearts to Healthy Pizza: 6 Promising Israeli Companies From 3D-printed Human Hearts to Healthy Pizza: Six Israeli Companies Developing Life-improving Ideas

"The Plague at Ashdod," by Nicolas Poussin.

How Scholars Got the Plague Totally Wrong Scapegoating Rats and Other Mistakes: Here's How Scholars Got the Plague Totally Wrong

Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu removes his face mask before giving a speech at a ceremony to celebrate the first commercial flight from Dubai to Israel, Novemner 26, 2020.

Israeli Government Lied About Shutting Down the Airport Over COVID

An illustration of a vaccination.

Israel Prepares for COVID Vaccine: Is It Safe? Experts Reveal All Israel Prepares for COVID Vaccine: Is It Safe, What Are the Side Effects? Experts Provide Answers

Lightning bolts strike Cocoa, Florida, amid its power lines.

Why Greening the Earth Won't Save Us, and Other Climate Briefs

Some of the doctors and officials interviewed for the article

Lockdown Is a Big Mistake: What Top Israeli Doctors Think About COVID-19 Lockdown Is a Big Mistake: What Top Israeli Doctors Really Think About COVID-19

woman wears a face mask while walking under a sign that reads "Relax think COVID free thoughts" during the coronavirus outbreak in San Francisco, May 23, 2020.

Why We Shouldn't Freak Out About Long COVID

Prof. Amir Amedi.

The Israeli Scientist Who Is Trying to Hack the Brain to Create Super Senses

And some people complain about having to wear a mask in the 21st century...

Medieval Black Death May Have Sped Up Because of Droplets in the Air

An image of surgical mask layered with a colorful filter

Is a COVID Cure Already Sold at Pharmacies? Some Experts Believe So Is a Cure for COVID-19 Already Sold at a Pharmacy Near You? Some Experts Believe So

A blurry crowd on a street.

At Its Most Extreme, This Disorder Is Known as Split Personality. But We All Have It At Its Most Extreme, This Disorder Is Known as Split Personality. But We All Experience It

A street trader sells face masks from a stall following the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Manchester, Britain, October 5, 2020

Study Finds What Sounds Propel Virus Droplets Longer Distances

The Science of Yom Kippur Fasting

Two people walking through Jerusalem on a rainy winter's day.

Want to Predict the Next Virus Outbreak? Check the Weather Forecast