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Psalm 147:3. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds.

Psalm 104:14-15
“You cause the grass to grow for the livestock, and plants for people to cultivate— bringing forth food from the earth. You make wine that gladdens the heart of man, oil to make his face shine, and bread that sustains his heart”
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In medicine, an Israeli Arab Professor has cleared away dangerous proteins to potentially prevent millions of young patients dying from loss of blood.  Another Israeli invention clears wounds of dead tissue to enable faster healing. And an Israeli blood test gives doctors a clear indication of the best treatment for a patient with major depression. Michael Ordman

An Israeli father, mother and two sons are in the same IDF unit in Gaza.

An Israeli invention to stop bleeding wounds could save millions of lives.

Israel honors some of its many friends in Africa and South America.

Vegan “real” milk is being launched into Israeli supermarkets.

Israeli companies are soaring in value.

The US and NATO are buying more Israeli defense systems.

More “golden” Israeli sports men and women.

Beautiful views of the pre-New Year lunar eclipse from the Holy Land.

POSITIVE NEWS IN A WAR
 
And mother makes four. (TY Yanky) Shlomit has left her job as a nurse at Meir Medical Center in order to enlist in the IDF reserves. She treats wounded soldiers in the IDF’s 401st Armored Corps deep inside Gaza where her husband (600 days reserve duty) and two sons (total of 10 months in the reserves) all serve.
https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/s18v004rdlx
 
The barriers are coming down. With no more threats from snipers, anti-tank weapons and mortars from Gaza, the concrete barriers that concealed Kibbutz Nahal Oz from north and central Gaza are being taken down. All terrorist infrastructure has been destroyed and the IDF now control the vantage points.
https://worldisraelnews.com/kibbutz-nahal-oz-barriers-dismantled-amid-diminished-gaza-threat/
 
A performance of honor. Singer Idan Amedi performed at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park for 30,000 reservists, their families, wounded IDF soldiers, and bereaved families. The performance was dedicated entirely to honoring those who have risked their lives and made significant sacrifices for the security of the State of Israel.
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/414803
 
$1.2 million for Ashkelon schools. (TY Yanky) The UK-based Gerald and Gail Ronson Family Foundation donated $1.2 million for two Sci-Tech schools in Ashkelon, a city heavily impacted by Hamas rockets. Ronson Afridar school will receive a new state-of-the-art open-air theatre. Henry Ronson school will also be renovated.
https://www.jewishnews.co.uk/ronson-family-foundation-gives-890k-to-israel-sci-tech-schools-affected-by-gaza-war/
 
Not only, but also. The record $180 million to Rabin (Beilinson) Medical Center (see here previously) was not the only donation from Israelis Shmuel and Anat Harlap. They also contributed tens of millions of shekels to the Weizmann Institute for restoring a building damaged in last June’s Iranian missile attack.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/hkxliir5xl
 
 
ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
The bleeding edge. (TY Hazel) Prof. Abd Al-Roof Higazi of Hadassah Medical Center has developed ClearPlasma, a device that removes clot-dissolving proteins from donated plasma to quickly stop bleeding, His startup Plas-Free is now marketing ClearPlasma in Israel. Blood loss is the leading cause of death in under-45s.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-plasma-filter-promises-cutting-edge-solution-to-life-threatening-bleeds/
https://www.plas-free.com/   https://www.plas-free.com/clearplasma
 
A clean wound heals faster. (TY Atid-EDI) Israel’s MediWound (see here previously) has successfully completed a Phase III trial that shows its EscharEx topical, non-surgical treatment to wound bed preparation ensures a much quicker recovery for venous leg ulcers. Trials on diabetic foot ulcers are being planned.
https://mediwound.com/product/escharex/
 
Blood test identifies depression treatment. Israel’s NeuroKaire (previously Genetika+ see here) has launched BrightKaire, the world’s first blood test to personalize depression treatment. It uses AI and stem cell tech to match patients with major depressive disorder (MDD) to effective medications. Approved in US and Israel.
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctechnews/article/byof9tp9ge
 
Preventing deadly weight loss in cancer patients. Scientists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute, and Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, have discovered the cause of cachexia – deadly weight loss responsible for roughly one-third of global cancer deaths. Targeted blockade of the right vagus nerve could prevent onset of cachexia.
https://www.jpost.com/health-and-wellness/article-866643
 
Millions for Hadassah hospital. Members and supporters of Hadassah, The Women’s Zionist Organization of America, pledged $23 million for Hadassah Medical Organization, its Jerusalem medical center, as well as programs in Israel and the US. It includes $5 million for a neurorehabilitation center and $3 million for IVF.
https://www.jns.org/hadassah-supporters-pledge-23-million-for-pediatric-care-ivf-neurorehabilitation/
https://www.hadassah.org/press-release/hadassah-supporters-pledge-23-million-for-its-jerusalem-medical-center-and-other-programs
 

https://www.jns.org/memos-point-to-red-cross-knowledge-of-hamas-presence-in-gaza-hospitals/

Two Hamas documents found by Israeli forces in Gaza indicate that international organizations such as the Red Cross and Doctors without Borders are well aware of the presence of Hamas in the Gaza Strip’s medical facilities despite obfuscating or outright denying it publicly, NGO Monitor revealed on Wednesday.

The internal Hamas memos were among a cache of documents declassified by the Israel Defense Forces. NGO Monitor translated the Arabic-language documents into English and released them to the public.

“While repeatedly echoing Hamas allegations and condemning Israel’s operations to end the exploitation of hospitals for terror, these groups clearly knew that Hamas exploited these facilities and chose to remain silent,” said Gerald Steinberg, president of NGO Monitor.

The documents, dated February and March 2020, not only show Hamas’s deliberate strategy of placing its fighters, leaders and terror infrastructure inside hospitals in Gaza, but reveal that NGOs worked right next to them, in at least one case in an adjoining office.

“The [International Committee of the] Red Cross chose a wing in Al-Shifa medical complex that is adjacent to the [Hamas] movement offices,” notes the February 2020 document.

The memo also notes that the French branch of Doctors Without Borders “chose the only room in Abu Yousef El-Najar Hospital that has a (safe) communication landline.”

The Hamas documents explicitly state the terror group’s position that medical facilities are not neutral spaces, but a critical part of its infrastructure.

“Furthermore, these health facilities are a place of gathering for numerous leaders of the [Hamas] movement and the government during times of escalation,” the February memo said.

The memos, which originate with Gaza’s Interior Security Mechanism (ISM), an official body in the Hamas Ministry of Interior and National Security (MoINS), raise concerns about the Gaza Health Ministry authorizing NGO operations in Gaza without first consulting Hamas’s security apparatus.

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/11/charlie-kirk-was-a-better-anti-fascist-than-most-of-the-left/

There was a clip doing the rounds a few months ago from Charlie Kirk’s clash with students at the Cambridge Union. It featured Kirk going head to head with a fidgeting posh oddball whose ginger bouffant defied gravity. Anyone who’s ever visited Cambridge will be familiar with this kind of kid: woke, pompous, his arrogance entirely out of proportion to his intellect. Tell me this, said Kirk: ‘In the conflict of Israel vs Hamas, who’s the good guy?’ His diminutive adversary twitched and stuttered, then finally spoke. ‘Both Hamas and the Israeli government are evil’, he said, giving perfect voice to that bourgeois pusillanimity that falsely calls itself ‘activism’.

I was reminded of that clip today as lowlifes online branded Kirk a ‘Nazi’ in the wake of his brutal slaying in Utah. In the sewer of the internet, the seventh circle of woke, they’ve openly celebrated the savage killing of this young father of two. The more mainstream left, and the ‘liberal’ press, have played it safer, merely hinting that Kirk was ‘hard right’ and not averse to stirring up animosity himself. The Oxford Student – another university he visited on his trip to the UK – called him a ‘far-right influencer’ following his death. It’s a shameful piece that could have been headlined: ‘A fascist dies.’

Here’s what is so galling about the tarring of Kirk as a crypto-Nazi: he was a better anti-fascist than most of the left. It would have been absurd at any time to call him ‘far right’. You don’t have to share his views – he was anti-abortion, pro-gun rights, sceptical about climate change, worried about mass immigration and dubious that you can have a dick and be a woman – to recognise that they all fall within the realm of legitimate opinion. Millions of Americans think this way. But for the left to call him ‘far right’ now, in the post-7 October moment, after they’ve spent two years making excuses for the fascistic murder of Jews while Kirk raged against it, is risible. It is a sinister inversion of truth.

Kirk was enraged by the pogrom of 7 October. In that clash at Cambridge, with the student so well trained in the moral relativism of the modern campus that he couldn’t even draw a moral distinction between a neo-fascist army and the democratic state it attacked, he reminded his overeducated jeerers of what happened that day.

https://jewishjournal.com/commentary/opinion/383639/up-close-killers-then-and-now/

    What kind of human being is capable of walking up to another person—an innocent, defenseless, unarmed civilian—and, at close range, shooting him or her?

    That question must be on the minds of many who are reading about the Palestinian Arab terrorist attack on bus passengers in Jerusalem this week. The killers were within a few feet of their victims.

    Prof. Daniel Goldhagen considered this question in his famous book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners. There are those who dislike comparisons between contemporary terrorists and the Nazis. Let’s take a closer look at Goldhagen’s analysis and consider whether it’s valid to compare up-close killers, then and now.

    Goldhagen focused on a particular German police unit, Reserve Police Battalion 101, which carried out up-close shootings. That segment of the genocide, which historians today call “the Holocaust by bullets,” took place before gas chambers became the Germans’ primary means of mass murder.

    In June 1942, five hundred battalion members were assigned to the town of Jozefow, in German-­occupied southern Poland. They were instructed to force local Jews out of their homes, take them to a nearby forest, and shoot them point-­blank.

    When a truck unloaded its Jewish prisoners at the edge of the Józefów forest, each of the waiting policemen selected a victim. The two then walked together to the nearby execution site. Many of the captives were children. The walk “afforded each perpetrator an opportunity for reflection,” Goldhagen noted. “It is highly likely that, back in Germany, these men had previously walked through woods with their own children by their sides. . . . In these moments, each killer had a personalized, face-­to-face relationship to his victims.”

    Goldhagen wondered if the typical killer ever “asked himself why he was about to kill this little, delicate human being who, if seen as a little girl by him, would normally have received his compassion, protection, and nurturing.” Or perhaps it was that the killer could only “see a Jew, a young one, but a Jew nonetheless,” and therefore accepted “the reasonableness of the order, the necessity of nipping the believed-­in Jewish blight in the bud.”

https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/09/10/the-pathological-chutzpah-of-israels-critics/

Israel’s in trouble now. For none other than Alastair Campbell and Rory Stewart, the two cheeks of the bony arse of British centrism, have done an ‘emergency podcast’ on its bombing of Hamas leaders in Qatar yesterday. I bet the Jewish nation is quaking. It might have faced off against the neo-fascists of Hamas and Hezbollah but now it faces a far more formidable foe: an army of turbo-smug centrist dads in Next cardigans nodding vigorously as the two perfumed ponces of The Rest is Politics give it what-for on an impromptu pod. It’s curtains for you now, Israel!

Have you ever, in your life, heard of anything as hubristic and ridiculous as an ‘emergency podcast’? These are hitherto untapped depths of human vanity, as if the world and its dog are just sitting around waiting to hear what a cranky old spin doctor and failed Tory have to say about Israel’s wars. It was Campbell who announced it. ‘We will be doing an emergency podcast [at] 4.15pm’, he said, ‘on the catastrophic events in Qatar’. It’s hard to know what’s more batshit: telling us the weirdly specific time at which they’ll be recording their prattle, or thinking it’s ‘catastrophic’ that some Hamas cunts got blown up.

Actually, here’s what’s most batshit: the idea that Alastair Campbell has the moral authority to wag a finger at a nation at war. The Qatar strike proves we live in a world where ‘strongman leaders think they can do what they want where they want with impunity’, he said. That sound you can hear is a hundred thousand Iraqis rolling in their graves. This is the man whose bollocks and bluster when he was Tony Blair’s spin doctor helped to justify a truly ‘catastrophic’ war against a nation that hadn’t even attacked us. And he thinks he can hold forth on Israel’s targeting of the anti-Semitic freaks who raped and murdered more than a thousand of its citizens? These are industrial-strength levels of brass neck.

The Campbell / Stewart wang-fest on Israel’s ‘catastrophic’ bombing of Islamofascists really does sum up the imperious conceit of Israelophobia. Here we have a propagandist for one of the bloodiest wars of modern times (Campbell), and the man who served as a colonial-style governor in Iraq once it had been violently subdued by the West (Stewart), badgering Israel for firing a few missiles at the terror army that invaded its territory and murdered its people. It’s like being lectured about misogyny by Fred West.

Israel’s strike on the Hamas leaders holed up in Doha really has exposed the pathological chutzpah, the cavernous gall, of its preening critics in the West. No sooner had it fired its missiles at the assembled militants than a chorus of condemnation was ringing out in the West’s corridors of power and our haughty media. This was a ‘flagrant violation of Qatar’s sovereignty’, yelped useless Keir Starmer. Oh, so Mr Second Referendum, that implacable old foe of Brexit, suddenly gives a shit about sovereignty? Good to know.

To be clear, Israel’s whack on Doha is a striking development. This is the first time Israel has fired at a Western-backed Gulf state. Qatar had long considered itself immune to the Middle East’s waves of violence, not least because it is close to mighty America and home to Al Udeid, the largest US airbase in the Middle East. It seems Britain had no advance warning of Israel’s attack but America did, and apparently America is not best pleased. Trump reportedly feels ‘very badly’ about it. And it’s unclear if the strike was a success: Hamas says five of its members were killed but its leaders survived.

https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/the-end-game/

Just ten days after the Israeli Air Force all but decapitated the Yemeni Houthis’ leadership in one deft blow, and just under a year after the Israelis meted out a similar fate to Hezbollah’s senior commanders, Hamas’s Politburo abroad may have been eliminated in an Israeli airstrike.

In an unprecedented airstrike, Israel finally took long-threatened action against Hamas’s leadership inside Doha, Qatar – the senior members of which were apparently still taking shelter in Qatar’s capital city despite the government’s pledge to kick Hamas out at Washington’s request in November of last year.

“For years, these members of the Hamas leadership have led the terrorist organization’s operations, are directly responsible for the brutal October 7 massacre, and have been orchestrating and managing the war against the State of Israel,” the Israeli Defense Forces said in a statement.

As of this writing, there are still conflicting reports about the status of the figures Israel targeted. We do, however, know who those targets were:

Nizar Awadallah, a U.S.-branded Specially Designated Global Terrorist and an associate of Hamas’s founders and spiritual leaders who has played a central role in negotiating prisoner exchanges with Israel going back decades.
Mohammed Darwish, the head of Hamas’ Shura Council and reportedly one of the figures considered to replace Ismail Haniyeh (who was neutralized in a covert Israeli operation inside Tehran) as the head of the terrorist group’s political bureau.
Zaher Jabarin, “considered Hamas’s ‘economic brain,’” according to Ynet, Jabarin was described as Hamas’s “CEO” – the man at the top of the terrorist group’s global financial network who underwrote Hamas’s terror attacks, including the 10/7 massacre.
Khaled Mashaal, Hamas’s leader abroad and the head of Hamas’s political bureau before Haniyah’s ascension, is under indictment in the United States for his involvement in a “decades-long campaign” of terrorism that has claimed hundreds of lives, including American citizens.

The Qatari government has bitterly protested Israel’s “reckless” conduct and the “blatant violation” of its sovereignty — language that mirrors Doha’s protests over the “flagrant violation” of its borders and international law following Iran’s effort to retaliate for Operation Midnight Hammer against the U.S.-run Al Udeid base inside Qatar. We subsequently learned that Tehran had given Qatar a heads-up in advance of that strike. The Wall Street Journal reported that similar forewarning was provided to the Qataris ahead of Tuesday’s action.

https://quillette.com/2025/09/10/gaza-and-the-collapse-of-truth-seeking-united-nations/

One of the biggest stories of the year sits on a shelf, unreported and unremarked upon in serious ways. For those willing to look closely, this omission indicates a larger and increasingly dangerous breakdown of truth-seeking in public life.

On 31 July 2025, the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) issued a press release in which it announced that “at least 1,373 Palestinians have been killed while seeking food” since 27 May. “Most of these killings,” the statement added, “were committed by the Israeli military.” Subsequent UN “situation updates” during early September have increased that number to 2,146. If the UN is telling the truth, this would constitute the largest military atrocity committed by a liberal democracy in at least half a century, by a wide margin. For context, according to official tallies, US troops murdered between 347 and 504 civilians during the 1968 My Lai Massacre in Vietnam. There are, however, good reasons to believe that the UN’s figures are wrong.

The exquisite precision of “1,373” and “2,146” notwithstanding, the OHCHR has dispensed entirely with evidence and sources for its Gaza claims. Instead, it hung its entire late-July press release on the word “reportedly,” and offered no external attribution whatsoever in its subsequent updates. That was deemed sufficient by far too many people in today’s information environment, especially after the claims are laundered through credulous “news media.” Not only clickbait sites and wire services but also legacy media such as the BBC and the New York Times promoted the UN’s precise numbers this summer. Other news sources hedged with “more than 1,000” killed, while influencers on social media simply printed the bumper stickers.

This is the kind of information and these are the supposedly reliable sources from which AI chatbots collect their internet scrapings when they are asked, “How many Gazans have been killed by Israel trying to get to food aid sites since May?” Try it yourself.

Missing from any of these information sources, however, are photographs or videos of the killings, documentary records of any kind, or any independent confirmation of the UN’s claims besides a handful of (unverified) first-person anecdotes. In a typical example, USA Today and its local-news affiliates linked a “gallery” of 22 photographs to a 4 August wire story about aid-site killings in Gaza, not one of which includes a dead person, let alone evidence of a larger atrocity. The slide-show makes clear that cameras do exist in Gaza, but we are invited to believe that not a single phone or other image-recording device documented even one of 1,400 killings that by then had allegedly taken place near crowded food-delivery locations and access routes over the course of more than two months.