Israeli doctors 3D-printed an ear and attached it to a six-year-old boy born with microtia, a deformity that stops the development of a baby’s ear in the womb, usually during the first trimester of pregnancy.
Using a 3D printer, staff from the plastic...
(April 25, 2022 / JNS) An American Jewish Committee survey of U.S. and Israeli Jewish millennials shows that Israel-Diaspora relations remain strong but also indicates points of divergence regarding what role Diaspora Jews should have in influencing...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21c
• Published April 25, 2022
Travel + Leisure’s list of 10 recommended healing destinations around the world for 2022 is topped by the Dead Sea.
This unique body of water, bordered by Israel and Jordan at the lowest point on Earth is called the Salt Sea in Hebrew because...
BILL MOTCHAN, Special to the Jewish Light
• Published April 21, 2022
More than 6,000 miles and eight time zones separate St. Louis from the Yokneam-Megiddo region in Israel, but the distance hasn’t stopped the communities from regularly celebrating holidays together. The sister cities participated in their latest Zoom...
(JNS) The U.S. State Department announced on Tuesday that Acting Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern Affairs Yael Lempert has flown to the Middle East and is scheduled to stay there through April 26.
According to a news release, Lempert plans to meet...
(JNS) Israel’s indoor mask mandate is to be lifted on April 23 at 8 p.m., pending approval by the Knesset Health Committee, Israel’s prime minister and health minister announced in a joint statement on Wednesday.
The decision was made by Israeli...
(JNS) Israel will send helmets and vests to Ukraine’s rescue and emergency services, the Office of Defense Minister Benny Gantz announced on Wednesday.
During a phone call between Gantz and Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov, the Israeli...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The political action committee affiliated with AIPAC, the pro-Israel powerhouse lobby, has in less than six months of existence become the biggest pro-Israel PAC, delivering $6 million to 326 candidates.
It is also now endorsing...
(Israel Hayom via JNS) -- Decades after they were lost, the tefillin (phylacteries) of Irgun fighter Dov Gruner, who was hanged by the British in 1947 after being caught during a raid on the Ramat Gan police station, are going on display in a new exhibition...
WASHINGTON (JTA) — The White House’s top COVID-19 response coordinator said that Americans over 60 should be getting a second vaccine booster shot, citing Israeli data.
“The data out of Israel is pretty compelling for people over 60,”...
(JNS) As violence continued in Jerusalem on Sunday, politicians expressed outrage and frustration at the Bennett-Lapid government.
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu tweeted: “We must not ignore that dozens of buses were targeted by rocks today...
(JTA) — Two Hasidic Jews were shot and wounded while trying to visit Joseph’s Tomb, a shrine in the West Bank city of Nablus believed by some to be the site where Joseph, the son of the forefather Jacob, was buried.
The two men did not coordinate...
