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AI Model Could Help Formulate Treatments for Rare and Orphan Diseases

Utilizing the extensive database of approximately 23,000 diseases documented in the Open Targets Platform, the researchers derived new capabilities to predict diseases with subtypes using direct evidence. The Open Targets Platform (OT) integrates biomedical, genetic, and biochemical datasets, including 23,000 diseases, to empower disease ontologies, classifications, and potential gene targets. [Press Release]

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Israel, Press Release, Science, Medicine, & Education, Technology

Technion Researchers Pursue 21st Century Water Solutions

Prof. Eran Friedler co-invented a system that produces clean water from the air with a colleague, Professor David Broday. Their atmospheric water generator harvests air moisture by an innovative continuous liquid desiccant system. Energy is only invested when condensing the vapor into liquid water. It even works in desert regions and can run on solar energy. They founded a startup, H2OLL, to commercialize the product. [Press Release]

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Israel, Jewish History, Press Release, Science, Medicine, & Education, Technology

Evangelicals Compare Trump to the Biblical Kings. That’s Actually an Indictment

For those, like myself, who take the bible’s wisdom with great seriousness, supporting Trump as a biblical king is a gross misreading of the Hebrew Bible. A fair, close reading shows that the Hebrew Bible not only disapproves of the kings Trump is most compared with, but also disapproves of the monarchy itself, depicting it as a disastrously corrupt institution. [Rabbi Philip Graubart]

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Israel, Jewish History, Jewish Religion, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Drexel Prof. Arrested on Charge of Stealing Pro-Israel Signs

Mariana Chilton, PhD is a college professor in Philadelphia by day and a suspected thief in the night in a wealthy suburb. She faces charges in Montgomery County Court for swiping pro-Israel signs from a neighboring synagogue and a private home. [Bruce S. Ticker]

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Bruce Ticker, Israel, Opinion, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

Jewish Agency’s Head of North America: Israel Needs ‘Character Witnesses’ on Campus

Given the surge in anti-Israel and antisemitic incidents with the growth of the BDS movement and the ongoing war, The Jewish Agency for Israel’s Campus Israel Fellows are supporting Jewish college students by maintaining an authentic and engaging Israeli presence on campuses. [Jacob Kamaras]

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Antisemitism, Israel, Jacob Kamaras, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors, USA

World Jewish Congress Cheers Meta’s New Rules on Hate Messages

World Jewish Congress President Ronald S. Lauder stated, “Meta’s decision is a much-needed advancement in our ongoing fight against online antisemitism and hatred. By recognizing and addressing the misuse of the term ‘Zionist,’ Meta is taking a bold stand against those who seek to mask their hatred of Jews.” [World Jewish Congress]

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Antisemitism, Business & Finance, Israel, World Jewish Congress

San Diego County Fair Evokes Memories of Another Fair in Tel Aviv

Twenty years later on July 7th, I’m in San Diego going to the last day of the county fair with my husband. This time, going by car. Coming in, I thought it was so grand. Honestly, Luna Park has nothing on the set up of the San Diego County Fair. [Miriam Gershenson]

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Albert Kreimerman, Israel, Lifestyles, Miriam Gershenson, San Diego County, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Travel and Food, USA

Musicians in the Family Led Lives of Disharmony

Nachum was an awkward provincial boy with a gentle soul. He was drawn to beauty and was fascinated by the art of music and by my aunt’s appearance. He idolized her and fell under her power. At that time, she was a beautiful young woman, ambitious, bossy, capricious, and everything worked out for her: she was successful in her career and in winning men’s hearts. However, she was at the mercy of national tradition and married a Jew, Nachum, without loving him. [Alex Gordon]

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Alex Gordon, International, Israel, Jewish History, Lifestyles, Music, Dance, and Visual Arts, Science, Medicine, & Education, Staff and Bylined Contributors

Oct. 7th Convinced Medical Students of Necessity of Specialty in Trauma Surgery

Soroka University Medical Center needed to reinvent itself on the fly and dramatically expand its capacity amid the overwhelming amount of severe, traumatic injuries suffered by Israelis on Oct. 7. The number of children treated at the facility that day was equivalent to the usual number treated in an entire year, Perry said. [Jacob Kamaras]

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Israel, Jacob Kamaras, News Media, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education, Times of San Diego, USA

OpEd: U.S. Prevents Israel from Winning War with Hamas

Increasing the risk to our soldiers and prolonging the war, Israel has had to coordinate much of its strategy and tactics with the US State Department; reduce its offensive attacks, especially airborne ones; use less potent munitions; and limit the IDF’s efforts to destroy all the hundreds of tunnels underground in Gaza. [Steve Kramer]

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Israel, Staff and Bylined Contributors, Steve Kramer, USA