NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News Sometimes accidents lead to the greatest discoveries. In a recent study conducted at Israeli medical center Hadassah, researchers stumbled on a key mechanism in the heart’s regenerative capabilities. Researchers were examining the left atrial appendage, a part of the heart whose role is relatively unknown and is sometimes removed in heart-surgery, when they noticed something astonishing. When a different part of the heart was placed in the left atrial …More

Israeli mothers are in a better than average position compared to global comparisons. The Jewish state was recently ranked the 25th best nation for mothers, in a report by the UK’s Save the Children. The Mothers’ Index, as it is called, ranked the UK at 23 and the US at 30. Factors like child mortality rates, maternal mortality, education, economics and women’s employment in government were considered in making the designations. At the top four spots were Finland, Sweden, Norway and Iceland …More

Anouk Lorie, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News Diagnosing mental illnesses, such as schizophrenia, has long been difficult and controversial. Since physical evidence of the condition can only be gathered from the brain post-mortem, mental health professionals have had to rely on a battery of psychological evaluations and “symptoms” to diagnose their patients. A recent study from Tel Aviv University may now prove to be a significant breakthrough in diagnosing the condition. By collecting tissue from …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News A recent comprehensive study conducted by Israeli and Canadian researchers has shown just how much doctors can lead by example. The study showed that if doctors undergo a certain medical procedure, which they then also recommend to their patients, patients are more likely to go through with it themselves. Researchers isolated eight such procedures in the study. The empiric part of the study was done in Israeli Health Maintenance Organization “Clalit.” …More

Dozens of Dutchmen preyed on Jews for cash during the Holocaust, according to a new study. According to the research by Pinchas Bar Efrat, 82, as many as 80 bounty hunters roamed the Netherlands during the German occupation during World War II. Led by two men, Wim Henneicke and Willem Briede, the bounty hunters were paid by authorities five guilders for every Jew they brought in, the equivalent of a week’s pay for unskilled laborers. The research by Bar Efrat, a Dutch native who two years ago received his …More

John Sullivan was facing prison for the second time. Though he was an addict, his crime wasn’t drug related, so his public defender told him that he couldn’t serve his time in a rehabilitation center. “I was really sick of it. Sick of being in and out of jail,” John said in an interview with Jspace News. A deputy noticed his increased agitation and placed John in a cell alone to cool off. In a fit of anger, John threw a book he had with him against the wall. Sometimes the balance of a …More

Academic-military education in the field of national security is now available for IDF officers at a significantly wider range of academic institutions around the world, according to new directives from the IDF's Operations Branch, which provides for a small number of officers to complete such studies abroad every year. At the request of the office of the Chief of the General Staff, the Doctrine and Training Division within the Operations Branch examined the suitability of courses in national security studies at …More

A comprehensive new study released by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum shows that as many as 42,500 ghettos and concentration camps were operated by Nazi Germany throughout Europe from 1933 to 1945. Even seasoned Holocaust scholars were surprised by the results of the 13-year study. “The numbers are so much higher than what we originally thought,” Hartmut Berghoff, director of the German Historical Institute, said after learning of the new data, the New York Times reported. “We knew …More

Anouk Lorie, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News A new study from Tel Aviv University may have found a way to reverse severe brain damage with a relatively simple oxygen therapy. Brain damage can occur for many reasons, such as strokes, traumatic injuries, and metabolic disorders. In turn this damage often leads to permanent disabilities, including motor dysfunction, psychological disorders and memory loss. The new method of treatment, developed by Dr. Shai Efrati of Tel Aviv University’s Sackler Faculty of …More

A member of the UN peacekeeping force charged with monitoring the cease-fire between Israel and Syria is missing, the United Nations said Monday. [Fox News] Nearly 60 percent of Britain's Jews live in London, a new study shows. [Times of Israel] Israel has bought doorless vehicles specifically for transporting IDF troops inside military bases from China. [Haaretz] Two controversial Egyptian and Qatari films are simultaneously examining Jewish communities that once lived in the Arab world. [Jerusalem Post] New …More

NoCamels Team, NoCamels - Israel Innovation News Israeli researchers at Hadassah Medical Center have developed a test that can predict if healthy women are at a significant risk of developing breast or ovarian cancer. Using a blood test, the researchers were able to identify the presence of a harmful mutation, which may trigger those types of cancers in women. The researchers, led by Dr. Asher Salmon, then Senior Oncologist at Hadassah, developed the test that is able to predict the presence of harmful BRCA1 and …More

With food insecurity on the rise in Israel and around the world, a new study shows Israelis are throwing away nearly half of all the food items they buy. Experts blame consumer habits and expectations for the glut of edible food finding its way to Israeli landfills. A recent report issued by the British-based Institution of Mechanical Engineers ‏(IMechE‏) found that two billion tons of edible food is thrown away each year in the developed world, and countries such as the United States and Israel throw …More