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In a column “Jewish Origins of Everyday Phrases” Rabbi Dovid Campbell who lives in Israel, notes the biblical locus of the expression: “By the Sweat of Your Brow” (Genesis 3:19).

https://aish.com/the-jewish-origins-of-everyday-phrases/

“After Adam’s expulsion from the Garden of Eden, God declares: “By the sweat of your brow you shall eat bread.”

How apposite for Israel, where“ by the sweat of the brow” of tireless researchers and developers who are surrounded by enemies and victimized by war and terror on every front, contribute to every single beneficent endeavor to billions of citizens throughout the world.

Read Michael Ordman’s dazzling catalogue. rsk

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
Daniella has bullet removed. (TY Yanky) Ex-hostage Daniella Gilboa has finally had a Hamas bullet removed from her ankle at Rabin Medical Center-Beilinson Campus. She had put off undergoing the surgery because the bullet was a daily reminder of how grateful she is to the Almighty for protecting her.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-860704 
 
A sanctuary for combat soldiers. (TY Yanky) NGO Nechama and Hatzala for Israel has dedicated Dekel House in Moshav Patish to the memory of brave Captain Dekel Swissa, who fell on Oct 7 2023. Dekel House gives combat soldiers from Gaza a place to relax, swim, eat, drink and wind down during short periods of leave.
https://www.ynetnews.com/article/bkutc0w8xl   https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/culture/article-864016
https://hatzala4israel.org/
 
“Miracle” saves IDF soldiers. The recent night attack on an IDF camp by 18 Hamas terrorists near Khan Younis could have been catastrophic. But six of Hamas’ eight grenades failed to explode. They also blew up an empty building. The soldiers responded, quickly eliminating 10 terrorists and air support finished the job.
https://worldisraelnews.com/soldiers-attacked-by-hamas-last-week-call-survival-a-miracle/
https://unitedwithisrael.org/watch-soldiers-tefillin-remain-unscathed-after-hamas-attack/
 
Arab boy reunited with medic who saved him on 7 Oct. 7-year-old Atala Osma Abu Madian was shot in the stomach and his father was murdered by Hamas on 7 Oct 2023. Atala was saved by MDA paramedic Zvi. They had a very emotional reunion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpKayVLjdgg
 
Floyd is back. (TY Yanky & JNS) ) At the BAYZ restaurant on Tel Aviv’s Hilton Beach, World boxing champion Floyd Mayweather met soldiers who have fought in Gaza’s alleyways or battles against Hezbollah in Lebanon. The soldiers showered him with love. “Know that you are winners,” he told them.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2025/07/25/floyd-mayweather-to-idf-soldiers-you-are-winners-im-proud-of-you/
 
Quietly helping since 2024. You will have read here about IsraAid and its relief work in global catastrophes. But it kept quiet about its work in Gaza since early 2024, coordinating international aid organizations with the Israeli government and military. It is now publicizing its work and directly creating a logistics hub for partners.
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/after-quietly-supporting-gaza-relief-work-since-early-2024-israaid-ceo-opens-up-and-warns-we-are-reaching-an-extreme-humanitarian-situation/?utm_source=cio
 
Famine?  Where? COGAT: “1,300 aid trucks entered Gaza during past week.” Meanwhile, almost 1,900 trucks waiting inside the Strip were collected and their supplies distributed by the U.N. and other international organizations. And more than 1,000 aid packages have been airdropped into the Strip since late last month.
https://www.jns.org/cogat-1300-aid-trucks-entered-gaza-during-past-week/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVPf-6wtDyI  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/413974
https://www.jns.org/huckabee-slams-cbs-for-selectively-editing-interview-on-israel/
 
Hope and renewal. (TY Yanky) Hadas Loewenstern is widow of Rabbi Elisha Loewenstern, who heroically fell in Gaza. Elisha told Hadas that if anything happened to him, she was to “quickly find a new partner.” Hadas is now engaged to Hod Reichert whose wife during childbirth and they will raise their 10 children together.
https://www.jfeed.com/news-israel/widow-idf-soldier-engagement
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Valve repair for heart transplant patient. Doctors at Israel’s Rabin Medical Center successfully performed an emergency mitral valve repair on a heart transplant patient. The procedure has been performed only twice in patients after heart transplantation worldwide – and never before attempted on a patient in cardiogenic shock.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-doctors-perform-1st-ever-emergency-mitral-valve-repair-on-heart-transplant-patient/
 
Promising treatment for cancer. Israel’s Silexion reported here in April that its SIL-204 reduced pancreatic tumors. Latest studies show it also works on lung cancer. Its silencing of KRAS protein mutations achieved unprecedented inhibition rates of up to 97% in pancreatic cancer cells and nearly 90% in colorectal cancer cells.
https://www.investing.com/news/company-news/silexion-reports-97-cancer-cell-inhibition-with-kras-therapy-93CH-4163541
 
The first fingerstick infection blood test. Israel’s MeMed (see here previously) has completed a multi-year development of MeMed BV Flex. The test enables accurate differentiation between bacterial and viral infections in just 15 minutes using only a few drops of capillary blood from a finger prick.
https://www.ourcrowd.com/startup-news/memed-completes-development-of-first-ever-fingerstick-host-response-test-for-rapid-differentiation-of-bacterial-and-viral-infections
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.07.21.25331877v1
 
BGU scientists return to their work. The direct missile hit on Soroka hospital in Be’er Sheva during the war with Iran also froze groundbreaking research on curing diabetes at Ben-Gurion University. Now, after two months, the scientists have returned to alternate laboratories to continue their work on life-saving medications.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFsZencAT5E
 
US FDA helps clear the airways. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s Synchrony Medical (see here previously) has received FDA clearance for its LibAirty™ Airway Clearance System for At-Home Respiratory Relief. It can now bring relief to millions of patients in the USA, living with chronic lung diseases.
https://sheba-global.com/synchrony-medicals-libairtytm-cleared-by-fda/
 
1,600+ more Ethiopians can now see. Dr Morris Hartstein (see here previously) led an annual delegation from Israel’s Shamir Medical Center under the auspices of his Operation Ethiopia, where they treated 1,653 patients suffering from cataracts, infections, and preventable diseases.  They also distributed 440+ pairs of eyeglasses.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/413822
 
Massive donation for “Hope Tower”. Israelis Shmuel and Anat Harlap have donated $180 million to Israel’s Rabin Medical Center for the construction of the largest cardiological and neurological center in the Middle East. It is the largest-ever single gift to an Israeli hospital and the new center is to be named “Hope Tower”.
https://ejewishphilanthropy.com/shmuel-and-anat-harlap-donate-180-million-to-rabin-medical-center-the-largest-gift-ever-made-to-an-israeli-hospital/ 

https://amgreatness.com/2025/08/30/gaza-part-three-root-causes-and-real-world-consequences/

Rewarding Hamas with a “two-state solution” ensures more terror, fuels antisemitism, and ignores Israel’s right to defend itself against eradication.

This is the third and final installment of a three-part series on the Gaza situation, political fallout, root causes, and real-world ramifications.

Certainly, the spark of the present crisis is Hamas’ cowardly terrorist attack upon Israeli civilians. Indeed, for many people—and not only in Gaza and the Arab world—the existence and continued survival of Israel is the paramount problem. But absent Israel’s eradication and, quite likely, a genocide of its Jewish citizens, this root cause must be taken as a given. What, then, within Gaza, the Arab world, and many Western nations, are some corollary root causes exacerbating the difficulty in forging an Arab recognition of Israel’s right to exist?

As patently evidenced by their customary lack of material support and unwillingness to permit resettlement, most Arab nations use the Palestinians as a pawn to deflect their own populations from focusing on liberty, democracy, and prosperity at home. This would constitute an existential crisis for these authoritarian nations, which would likely be unable to survive their failure to meet the rising expectations of their peoples. The great dilemma for these Arab nations: should a free, democratic, prosperous, and peaceful Gazan state be created, it will not be in their regimes’ best interests. Far better for them to have Palestinians’ and the Arab world’s unrest, invective, and violence directed at Israel than internally at their governments. For example, following this cynical strategy, many Sunni and Shia nations abet the propagation of hatred within the Palestinian people. This includes inculcating the young with hatred of Israel and Jews in general, which will poison the prospects for peace for generations to come.

These Arab regimes are not alone in doing so, for, despite claiming to support peace and the “two-state solution,” they have partners in international institutions and many Western nations who have their own root causes for promoting hatred of the Jewish state and its citizens, including their prejudicial ideological imperatives and domestic political aims.

In the West, particularly, an ancient hatred has melded with postmodernism to produce virulent antisemitism. Traditionally housed on the right, over the past half-century, antisemitism had been in retreat or at least dormant in this political quarter. This is no longer the case, as an influential cadre of neo-isolationists spinning many thinly veiled anti-Israel tropes has spurred a recrudescence of antisemitism on the right. Why has this not been routinely and righteously denounced by the left, which until recently had been a bastion against antisemitism?

Because, unlike yesterday’s liberals, today’s progressive movement is postmodernist. Influenced by the Baby Boomers’ old New Left that, in turn, was imbued with the radical theories of European socialists and Marxists, today’s postmodernists—including the bulk of American progressives—are secular to the core and hostile to all religion. As a result, they have rejected the Biblical notion that we are all created in God’s image and hence are all endowed with human dignity. 

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/27/when-hospitals-become-battlefields/

The IDF’s strike on the Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis in Gaza on Monday, reportedly killing 20 Palestinians, including five journalists, has put Israel back at the centre of international attention. The reaction has followed a predictable pattern: a shocking video, immediate accusations of war crimes levelled against Israel, and near-ubiquitous international condemnation. But to understand what happened, and why the situation around the Nasser Hospital is so fraught, a longer and more sceptical view is required.

The first point that needs making is that the Nasser Hospital has not been a neutral space during the war in Gaza. In fact, it has repeatedly been abused by Palestinian militant groups. In February 2024, the IDF arrested more than 100 militants inside the hospital, some of whom were directly involved in the 7 October 2023 massacre. Weeks earlier, freed Israeli hostage Sharon Aloni Cunio told CNN that hostages had been held in the hospital. In April, the hospital’s own director of nursing, Mohammed Saqer, revealed in a since-deleted social-media post that Palestinian Islamic Jihad had threatened him after he reopened wards to the sick and wounded.

It is common knowledge that Hamas uses hospitals and schools as military bases, which is why Israel has had no option but to strike them at times. Mohammed Sinwar – who became the de facto leader of Hamas after the death of his brother, Yahya – was killed by the IDF at Gaza’s European Hospital in May. Nor was Monday the first time Israel has targeted the Nasser Hospital. In May, a strike on the complex killed notorious 7 October live-streamer Hassan Aslih, along with Ahmad al-Qidra, a senior Hamas militant.

The identities of some of those killed on Monday further complicates matters. Indeed, some of the journalists killed in the strike appear to have been members of, or have close ties to, Hamas. Mohammed Salama, a journalist for Al Jazeera, videoed and participated in the 7 October invasion of Israel that started the war. Mariam Abu Daqqa, who freelanced for the Associated Press, allegedly used her press credentials to protect Hamas fighters. Another, Ahmed Abu Aziz, openly celebrated the 7 October massacre. These connections do not necessarily justify their deaths, or even suggest they were knowingly targeted. But this does illustrate, once again, the way Hamas deliberately blurs the line between civilian and combatant, between journalist and operative.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/26/we-are-not-being-told-the-truth-about-gaza/

These are dangerous days for Israel. It faces a two-pronged attack. From one flank come the radical Islamists, from the other Western intellectuals. The former are entrenched in dank tunnels in Gaza City prepping IEDs for their last stand against the Jews they so feverishly loathe. The latter are ensconced in the airless ivory towers of the West, prepping hyperbolic claims bordering on misinfo to the end of delegitimising the Jewish State they so manically oppose. One’s weapon of choice is violence, the other’s propaganda. Their aim, though, is the same: to wound, possibly fatally, the world’s only Jewish nation.

The West-Hamas alliance is undeniable now. Events of the past week have made it clear that however unwitting this unholiest of hook-ups might be, it is nonetheless real. Hamas has scurried to its tunnels in Gaza City, one of its ‘last major strongholds’, where a brigade under the command of Izz al-Din al-Haddad is planning to ‘resist’ the forthcoming IDF assault. Meanwhile, the Israelophobic influencers of the West pump out report after report on how criminal Israel is. The ante has been upped. The terrorists throw grenades, the intellectuals throw shade. They’re in league in all but name, united by a merciless antipathy for the Jewish State.

The most pressing front in Israel’s multi-flank war with its haters is in Gaza City. We should soon see a bloody showdown there between the IDF and Hamas’s surviving battalions. Benjamin Netanyahu says it will be Israel’s ‘Battle of Berlin’. The IDF is mobilising thousands of reservists. They will encounter an army of anti-Semites that has turned from a conventional fighting force into localised guerrilla units planning surprise strikes. Hamas’s threat remains largely subterranean: its Gaza City militants lurk and plot in a ‘highly developed underground’.

The coming battle for Gaza City will give the lie to the claim that Israel is carrying out a genocide. Israel has delayed its ‘Battle of Berlin’ so that civilians can flee Gaza City for safer zones – odd behaviour for a ‘uniquely murderous’ state hell-bent on ‘erasing’ the Palestinian people. The sight of Hamas’s fascistic guerrillas striking at the army of the Jewish nation will confirm this is war. War between the army of a democratic state and the army of an aspiring caliphate. The genocide libel will become unsustainable in the face of what promises to be brutal urban conflict between two parties.

Hamas will be on the back foot in this face-off, having had its ranks devastated by the IDF. But it has something in its favour: the anti-Israel hysteria of the West’s influencers. Over the past week, our elites’ crusade of criminalisation against the Jewish State has reached dizzying new heights. Israel has been found guilty in the kangaroo court of the West’s puffed-up moralists of every war crime imaginable. It has been judged the most savage nation in existence. Such shrill damnation of the Jewish State has one effect and one effect only: to inspire Hamas to continue its ruinous war in Gaza.

https://newsblaze.com/world/israel/jerusalemcares-why-israels-fight-is-everyones-fight_207237/

A soldier of two nations — and one moral mission, to shine the light on the state of Israel. #JerusalemCares

What does it mean to fight for freedom? For most Americans, it’s a matter of principle. For Mark Hardie, it became a matter of service — twice. Long Beach, Southern California native, Mark wore the uniform of both the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and the United States Army.

Mark, a convert to Judaism, risked his life for two homelands united by shared democratic values.

In a time when Israel is often reduced to headlines and hashtags, Mark’s journey reminds us that support for the Jewish state is not merely a Jewish issue — it is a human one. It is about defending democracy, human rights, and the dignity of all people against extremism and terror.

The Unexpected Path To Israel

Mark’s path began in California politics — serving as a staff attorney for Governor Pete Wilson and later as a special assistant to Senator Barbara Boxer. But in 1995, he took upon himself a new life commitment by converting to Judaism.

When Israel’s security came under threat in the early 2000s, Mark made an extraordinary decision — to enlist in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF).

While serving in the IDF ranks Mark became fully aware that he is serving with what is nowadays known as “the world’s most moral army.” He served with soldiers who were always mindful of human rights, even on the front line while their mission was to protect life, not take it needlessly.

Mark Hardie is almost certainly the first African American Jew to have served in the IDF.

As an IDF soldier he was treated “like a celebrity,” he recalls. He was featured in a local newspaper article, the IDF spokesperson’s department arranged for him to appear on shows and his comrades were forever curious to know about American celebrities, e.g., singer Michael Jackson, Oprah Winfrey, basketball star Michael Jordan.

The attention Mark received brought about the idea to call himself a “diplomat of peace,” proving that strength and compassion are not opposites but partners.

https://www.manhattancontrarian.com/blog/2025-8-24-no-there-is-not-a-genocide-in-gaza

The accusation that Israel is committing a “genocide” in Gaza has become pervasive on the Left, and particularly in academia. I think that the accusation is absurd, so much so that until now I haven’t thought it worthy of a response. However, the accusation has recently arrived on my own website. In the comment thread on the prior post, one of the commenters (regular readers can guess who) has leveled against President Trump the charge that he “is sending weapons to Israel for the genocide in Gaza.” Really? It’s time for a response.

In my opinion, what’s going on in Gaza is not a genocide, but a war. Deaths in war are not a genocide. On October 7, 2023, the governing entity of Gaza, Hamas, conducted an unprovoked attack on Israel, killing approximately 1,200 people, and taking some 250 hostages. Israel has responded with a military action. This is a classic war. The norm in war is that the parties fight until one of the parties surrenders, or there is an armistice. When the parties are fighting, the whole idea is to kill as many of the enemy as possible. Hamas could end the war by surrendering. It has not done so. Moreover, it continues to hold hostages. Therefore, the normal expectation of war would be that Israel will continue to kill as many of the enemy as possible until there is a surrender.

You may disagree with my characterization that the October 7 attack by Hamas on Israel was “unprovoked.” It doesn’t matter. Assume that the attack was provoked. This is still a war. In war, it is entirely the norm that a party that has been attacked tries to kill as many of the enemy as it can until the enemy surrenders.

Is there any other example of the term “genocide” being applied to a full-scale military response to an armed attack by an enemy state actor that has not surrendered? If there is, I don’t know of it.

Consider, for example, the Russia/Ukraine war. In this case I would say that Russia’s attack and invasion were unprovoked. The Russian version of events of course differs, and accuses the Ukrainians of provocations that caused the conflict. But again, even if Russia’s invasion was completely unprovoked, the conflict is still a war between enemy state actors, where neither has surrendered. Unlike Israel, which makes extensive efforts to minimize civilian casualties, Russia regularly sends drones to bomb civilian targets and residential buildings in Ukrainian cities. But does anyone call Russia’s conduct toward Ukraine a “genocide”? Not that I’ve seen. Contrast this with the conduct of the Soviet Union toward Ukraine in the 1930s, when it imposed an intentional famine in which millions of innocents starved to death. There was no war going on; Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union. That was a genocide.

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21867/qatar-scholars-killing-israelis

As far as Qatar’s Muslim scholars are concerned… the war in the Gaza Strip did not start on the day Hamas launched its invasion of Israel. Rather, the war began the moment Israel fired back, and the only victims are the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, not those who were murdered, raped, beheaded and burned alive on October 7.

Several Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain have added Qatar’s IUMS to their terrorism blacklists, saying it used “Islamic rhetoric as a cover to facilitate terrorist activities.”

Needless to say, the scholars have not called on Hamas to release the Israeli hostages and accept a ceasefire that would end the war and the suffering of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Instead, the conference has unleashed scathing criticism of Israel for daring to defend itself against Hamas’s terrorism.

For the Muslim scholars, boycotting and isolating Israel is more important than halting the death and destruction in the Gaza Strip. Their interpretation of Sharia laws and international humanitarian principles suggests that it is fine to sacrifice as many Palestinians as necessary for the sake of murdering Jews and destroying Israel.

The IUMS’s position does not come as a surprise. Instead of urging Muslims to denounce terrorism and renounce violence, the organization, earlier this year, issued a fatwa (Islamic ruling) in which it called on all Muslims to wage Jihad (holy war) against Israel. The scholars want to see Muslims commit more massacres against Jews.

Once again, Qatar and Turkey have proven that their top priority is to promote the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates as part of the Islamists’ Jihad to destroy Israel…. It is time for the Trump administration to call out Qatar and Turkey for their ongoing support for Hamas. It is also time for the US to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

Once again, Qatar and Turkey have proven that their top priority is to promote the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates as part of the Islamists’ Jihad to destroy Israel…. It is time for the Trump administration to call out Qatar and Turkey for their ongoing support for Hamas. It is also time for the US to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.

More than 150 prominent Muslim scholars from 50 countries are currently attending a conference in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss the situation in the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the October 7, 2023 Hamas-led massacre of Israelis and foreign nationals. At least 20 Muslim citizens of Israel were among 1,200 people murdered by Hamas terrorists and ordinary Palestinians that day. Thousands more were injured, and 251 Israelis and foreign nationals were kidnapped and taken to the Gaza Strip, where 50 — dead and alive — are still held captive.

www.verygoodnewsisrael.blogspot.com

Heartwarming Israeli recovery stories from the war in Gaza.

Israeli breakthrough in spinal cord surgery.

Israelis are restoring vines and olive trees at a monastery

Israeli startup speeds up production of eco-friendly aviation fuel.

Two Israeli women win the lottery on consecutive days.

Israeli comedy about kidnapping is a (surprise?) hit with Israeli audiences.

Israelis were dancing for joy (and medals) in Vietnam.

More ancient Jewish history unearthed in Israel.

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
Avi and Eden are married. IDF Commander Avi, shot in the head on Oct 7 2023, was rehabilitated at Raanana’s Lowenstein center where he met and got engaged to his nurse Eden (see here previously).  They were recently married.  See links here. And here. And note the multicultural Jewish wedding in Israel.
 
Idan Amedi’s reunion with medic who saved his life. Actor and singer Idan Amedi reunited with the doctor who saved his life after he was severely injured in Gaza. At his Jerusalem concert for thousands of fans, Amedi paused his performance, hugged Dr Tuvia Book, saying “I love you, “I will never be able to thank you enough.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/413376  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/413495
 
Hearts go out to female soldiers. (TY Yanky) Lev LeChayalot (Heart for Female Soldiers) was started as a grassroots initiative to raise the spirits of thousands of courageous female IDF soldiers defending the country, providing them with the vital care they need to help them better able to serve their country.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-835281  https://chayalot.com/who-we-are/
 https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/defense-news/article-864530
 
Attack on Iran stopped its cyber-attacks against the UK. (TY OurCrowd) In May, Israel’s Cyabra (see here previously) uncovered an Iranian bot network attack intending to manipulate UK political sentiment and deepen domestic divisions. But for 16 days in June, after Israel began attacking Iran, the bots went silent.
https://www.globenewswire.com/en/news-release/2025/07/11/3114008/0/en/Cyabra-Uncovers-Iranian-Bot-Operation-Undermining-UK-Democracy.html 
 
Oct 8. Jewish-American filmmaker and author Wendy Sachs showed her documentary “October 8”, which tries to reclaim control of the narrative, at the Jerusalem Film Festival. According to her, the film seeks to explain “how we got to where we got,” and it’s intended for an international and not necessarily Jewish audience.
https://www.jns.org/hollywood-has-no-spine-jewish-director-fights-antisemitism/
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
The first human spinal cord implant. Tel Aviv University and Israel’s Matricelf (see here previously) are to perform the world’s first surgery, where a personalized engineered human spinal cord will be implanted in a paralyzed patient. The procedure aims to enable the patient to rise from a wheelchair and walk again.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-864808  https://www.youtube.com/shorts/UYHX2NNLRUg
 
Eliminating EoE. Eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) is a food allergy (milk, eggs, wheat, nuts, fish etc.,) disease that affects 1 in 2,500 people. Now a team of researchers from Tel Aviv University have found that blocking the protein TSLP might stop the disease from developing. It may also help understand other allergic disorders.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/as-food-allergy-disease-eoe-rises-israeli-team-says-blocking-a-protein-can-shut-it-down/   https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.25.640192v1
 
4th FDA clearance for AI blood analysis. Israel’s Scopio Labs (see here previously) has now received the fourth FDA clearance for its groundbreaking, full-field digital hematology imaging platform. The new Decision Support System significantly helps labs analyze blood smears for anomalies.
https://www.ourcrowd.com/startup-news/scopio-labs-receives-fourth-fda-clearance-elevating-digital-morphology-with-enhanced-ai-powered-rbc-and-platelet-capabilities
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9HqaBCg4Ac
 
Good Medicine. (TY Sharon) The Good Medicine experience at Jerusalem’s Friends of Zion, featured Chief Joseph and Dr. Laralyn RiverWind, founders of FireKeepers International, a Native American Zionist charity. They gave messages of support and the gift of healing, from one indigenous people to another.
https://rjstreets.com/2025/08/17/jerusalem-protests-beating-drums-but-more/
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/r9bg_iR3Pk0  https://www.firekeepersinternational.org/  
https://www.firekeepersinternational.org/copy-of-projects
 
Therapeutic playroom in memory of Bibas family. Schneider Children’s Medical Center has inaugurated its first therapeutic playroom, dedicated to the memory of murdered hostages Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir Bibas. It offers hospitalized children a space for play, healing, and hope. It was created thanks to non-profit “Toys for Simcha.”
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/413450  https://israelactive.com/?s=%22Toys+for+Simcha%22