{image_1} Plastics, sheep gut, silk, and metal wire—The materials that doctors have used to stitch wounds together on the battlefield and in the clinic have changed over time, but none of the solutions are perfect. Researchers from the Technion–Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have “spun” together something brand new, a kind of fiber, which can be applied like a dressing to help a body stitch together wounds.
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{image_1} Professor Ehud Netzer of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced that his team, excavating at the Herodium fortress near Bethlehem, made some exciting new discoveries there. Among the finds were two carved and decorated white-limestone sarcophagi (large stone burial boxes), remains of a mausoleum, and a theater with a royal box.
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{image_1} Israel is suffering through a brutal water crisis that, if not righted, could lead to permanent damage to the Sea of Galilee and possibly even to water rationing. Uri Schor, spokesperson for the Israel Water Authority, said, “If you take into consideration all the results that we have in [water in] Israel, then Israel was never in such a bad situation.”
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{image_1} Even though the Internet has democratized the way people communicate and receive news and product information, it remains Western-focused and ignores 70% of the world that can’t read English—about 1 billion people online. However, a new Israeli company Alfabetic is taking a major leap towards changing the way the non-English world consumes content, creating new business opportunities for content owners.
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{image_1} The economic crisis is devastating. Major governments have thrown multi-billion dollar rescue packages at the problem, and many have announced dramatic reductions in interest rates. This is meant to stimulate activity and resuscitate the ailing markets. Economists speak in billions and trillions, and sometimes the enormity of the problem seems to be insurmountable.
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{image_1} There are two ways to shake hands in the Arab world. In the regular way, you quickly rub palms while shaking hands, yet, in the warmer way, you place both your palms on the hand you are shaking and hold them there for a long moment. The warm way is meant to symbolize intimate friendship and positive intentions, as well as close familiarity.
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{image_1} One in four Israelis fears falling into poverty. More than 1.5 million Israelis (25% of the population) live in poverty and 36% of them (540,000) live in hunger. One in five has contemplated suicide, and 10% of the needy know someone who died due to inability to fund medical care. These statistics were all revealed in the 2008 Alternative Poverty Report published by the LATET aid organization.
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{image_1} The earliest known Hebrew text, written in a Proto-Canaanite script, has been discovered by Hebrew University archaeologists in an ancient city in the area where David slew Goliath, the earliest Judean city found to date.
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{image_1} A process to transmit medical images via cellular phones, developed by Professor Boris Rubinsky of Hebrew University in Jerusalem, has the potential to provide sophisticated radiological diagnoses and treatment to the majority of the world’s population lacking access to such technology. According to the World Health Organization, some three-quarters of the world’s population have no access to ultrasounds, X-rays, magnetic resonance images, and other medical imaging technology.
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{image_1} “Do you ever feel scared over there?” my aunt wanted to know. I was home visiting family I had not seen in a while. Moving from America to Jerusalem had made me a bit of a curiosity to relatives who had, for the most part, stayed close to home. They had a lot of questions mostly about whether or not it was safe to live in Israel.
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