(Israel21c) - Ten years after Spencer Tunick first set his lens on the Dead Sea, the world-renowned photographer will once more capture the quickly disappearing natural wonder against the backdrop of hundreds of nude people.
The photoshoot, which...
Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published October 12, 2021
About six years ago, a friend approached Michael Staenberg, a St. Louis Jewish philanthropist, and told him about a project he was working on: the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem.
The project had been in the works since 2000 and experienced numerous...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published October 12, 2021
(Israel21c) - The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine against Covid-19 loses considerable effectiveness six months after the second dose, according to new Israeli research published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
The study echoes findings published by...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published October 10, 2021
(Israel21c) - If you tend to choose foods and beverages made with artificial sweeteners rather than sugar, you may want to reconsider.
While we know that added sugar is not good for our bodies, now we also know that six FDA-approved artificial sweeteners...
(Israel21c) - White blood cells called Eosinophils can be “summoned” in order to fight cancer by both destroying the cancer cells directly as well as recruiting the immune system’s cancer-fighting T-cells, according to a new study published in...
(Israel21c) - Tel Aviv is known for being one of the most innovative, artistic and fashion-forward cities in the Middle East.
With its budding fashion scene, original independent labels, and social-media influencers that exist to make you feel old...
Naomi Adler’s connection with Hadassah began two decades before she was even born, when noted cantor Hugo Chaim Adler and his wife, Selma, stepped off the ship in New York—a ship that had taken them from their home in Germany via London.
Arriving...
Idan Avni and Yehuda Shlezinger, JNS
• Published October 4, 2021
(Israel Hayom) — Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett said on Monday that a recently foiled plot in Cyprus reportedly targeting Israeli tycoon Teddy Sagi was in fact a much wider Iranian attempt to kill Israelis residing in the island nation.
“As...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published September 30, 2021
(Israel21c) - When Asaf Zviran was diagnosed with cancer, he was doing operations research and R&D in the Israeli navy and earning his master’s degree at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.
Maybe that’s why he pictured cancer as an...
The bus, carrying children and teenagers returning from a Bnei Akiva youth movement trip, flipped on its side after the crash, trapping several people underneath and making it difficult for rescue services to arrive.
(Israel21c) - In bad news, a report assessing the state of trees worldwide has found that 30 percent of tree species are threatened with extinction. But in good news, it would seem that only two out of Israel’s 60 or so tree species are threatened –...
(Israel21c) - The bacteria wars are coming. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have pitted “good” bacteria against “bad” bacteria and the good guys, it appears, are winning.
If the system can be scaled, this new approach could potentially replace...
