The pomegranate is one of the most-mentioned fruits in the Bible. It is one of the seven species that are abundant in the Land of Israel, and the High Priest’s robes had golden pomegranates hung around the hem.
Medical Miracles
A pioneering international study led by Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers who conducted DNA tests in skeletons placed 6,500 years in a burial cave in Peki’in reveals their origins
Magen David Adom and United Hatzalah rescue teams treated almost 250 cases of near drowning or death by drowning– most of them off the Mediterranean coast – since the beginning of the swimming season in the middle of March; of these, 53 people, including 30 young children, have died.
On a day in August, annually for the last 12 years, physicians and ordinary citizens take off for a face-to-face discussion of the latest in Israeli medicine. Some 1,500 people, most of them Jerusalemites, filled Teddy Hall (named in memory of the city’s legendary mayor Teddy Kollek) at the city’s International Convention Center for a… Read more »
It is an irony of the Middle East. At the same time that Gaza terrorists send burning balloons and kites and have – for now – stopped hurling rockets and missiles at southern Israel, Israeli and Palestinian physicians are collaborating at Haifa’s Rambam Medical Center. Medicine and caring for the sick it seems, can bring enemies together.
The divine promise to increase the number of Jews is coming to fruition, as maternity departments in numerous medical centers are overflowing. Three hospitals in particular – Emek Medical Center in Afula, Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba and Sourasky Medical Center in Tel Aviv – have just reported a record number of births in the… Read more »
Our six-year-old son – our first child – is starting first grade in September. He enjoyed his preschool kindergarten, but we worry if he will fit in easily at school, where everything is more regimented. How can we help him prepare for this big change? B.N., Trenton, New Jersey, US
It seems there is another sector in the Israeli population that has been almost ignored – those with permanent physical or sensory disabilities, who have now been found at a high risk for developing post-traumatic stress symptoms (PTSS) from terrorism and war.
It certainly hasn’t reached the dimensions of the Ten Biblical Plagues, but leishmaniasis – dubbed “Rose of Jericho” because of the red rash it can cause – is a potentially disfiguring but not life-threatening skin disease. It is endemic to the Middle East, Latin America, southern Europe and other hot regions and is spreading, causing concern to Israeli parasitologists and dermatologists.
I am a 23-year-old woman. When I was 10 years old, I fell from my bicycle onto rough pavement and suffered a large cut on my cheek and chin. It left me with a scar that even today is disfiguring and causes me much embarrassment.
Breaking Israel News is excited to inaugurate a new Medical Miracles section that will bring together Israel’s innovative medicine, science and spirituality. The section will feature articles by Judy Siegel-Itzkovich.
Religions do not regard gluttony (from the Latin word for “gulping down”) as a virtue. According to the list compiled by the great Middle Ages Jewish scholar and physician Maimonides (the Rambam), of the 613 commandments that Jews must observe, excessive eating or drinking is prohibited (and is listed as #169). In Christianity too, overindulgence at the dinner table is regarded as a transgression and even one of the Seven Deadly Sins.
Trials of voluntary medical male circumcision in sub-Saharan Africa are paying dividends in the prevention of AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases.
8,000 Falash Mura – “remnants of the descendants of the Jewish Beta Israel community” – in Ethiopia, have suffered malnutrition, stunted growth and irreversible brain damage in many babies and toddlers.
Save A Child’s Heart (SACH) was recently awarded the UN Population Award for saving the lives of more than 5,000 Third-World children born with congenital heart defects.
