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ISRAEL’S MEDICAL ACHIEVEMENTS
 
Five patients saved by new Covid-19 treatment. Israel’s Enlivex Therapeutics reported positive results in its clinical Covid-19 trial of its Allocetra treatment (reported here previously) Five seriously ill patients made complete recoveries, an average 8.5 days after receiving the treatment.at Jerusalem’s Hadassah hospital.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/5-patients-leave-hadassah-coronavirus-free-after-clinical-trial-644071
https://www.calcalistech.com/ctech/articles/0,7340,L-3852110,00.html
 
Israel’s largest Covid-19 treatment center. Haifa’s Rambam hospital has opened its fortified underground emergency hospital to accommodate the rise in Covid-19 patients in Northern Israel.  Its 770 beds include 170 for patients on ventilators – sufficient for almost the total of Covid-19 patients currently hospitalized in Israel.
https://www.israelhayom.com/2020/09/27/rambam-opens-the-largest-covid-19-facility-in-israel/
 
Monitoring pain in Covid-19 patients. (TY Rachel F) Israel’s Medasense (see here) assesses levels of pain in non-communicative patients using its PMD200 pain monitoring device. The technology is now being advanced on ventilated COVID-19 patients. Medtronic is distributing the tech in Europe and FDA approval is in progress.
https://nocamels.com/2020/09/israeli-pain-monitoring-firm-medasense-raises-18m/
 
Israel & UAE join in fighting Covid. (TY Sharon) Medical professionals from Israel and the UAE attended the JLM-BioCity sponsored IGTCloud Online Conference, “How Big Data & AI Can Fight the COVID-19 Crisis”.  UAE and Israeli medical experts then presented sessions in a webinar on the UAE Healthcare sector.
https://baltimorejewishlife.com/news/news-detail.php?SECTION_ID=37&ARTICLE_ID=136060
 
First joint Israeli-UAE tech product. Israel’s SURE Universal and UAE’s Hamad Bin Khalifa (HBK) have launched HBKiCare – the first joint UAE-Israeli tech product. The homecare kit monitors temperature, ECG, pulse, blood oxygen, blood pressure and detect falls. It is marketed for the UAE and Middle East markets.
https://www.israel21c.org/israeli-uae-health-tech-firms-launch-homecare-product/
https://www.sureuniversal.com/  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51B-1fsAC4w
 
Understanding immune peptides. Scientists at Israel’s Technion Institute have uncovered the atomic structure of Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) in the immune system. It could lead to the design of similar artificial materials for technological and medical applications such as treating infections and even killing cancer cells.   
https://www.technion.ac.il/en/2020/08/diverse-utility-found-in-antimicrobial-peptides-fibril-structure/
 
A healthier future.  The student projects exhibited at Israel’s Technion Faculty of Biomedical Engineering included systems for predicting epileptic seizures, mood tracking in cancer patients, and prevention of sudden death in athletes. First prize went to Lidan Fridman for her new technology to diagnose hearing loss accurately.
https://www.technion.ac.il/en/2020/09/can-anyone-hear-me/
 
AI surgical platform for Tel Aviv hospital. Tel Aviv’s Ichilov (Sourasky) medical center is implementing the advanced AI surgical intelligence platform from US-Israel’s Theator (reported here previously). It extracts and annotates every key moment from a procedure to allow surgeons to review their work from every angle.
https://nocamels.com/2020/09/israels-largest-hospital-implements-ai-powered-surgical-intelligence-platform/
 
Treat sleep apnea and stop snoring.  Israel’s KeepMed is currently conducting clinical trials of its KeePAP device to help patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) open their airways and reduce snoring. The soft, lightweight, hose-less wearable is designed for comfort and to restore good-quality sleep.
https://jewishbusinessnews.com/2020/09/29/israels-keepmed-raises-15-2-million-to-fight-snoring/
https://keepap.com/   https://xenia.co.il/portfolio/ninox/
 
Predicting an epileptic seizure. Ben Gurion University’s Dr Oren Shriki has founded the Israeli startup NeuroHelp to develop the Epiness – a wearable device that combines EEG-based monitoring of brain activity plus machine-learning algorithms to generate a one-hour warning of an upcoming seizure.
https://www.israel21c.org/in-first-wearable-device-predicts-epileptic-seizures-one-hour-ahead/
https://in.bgu.ac.il/en/pages/news/neurohelp_epilepsy.aspx
 
Odor linked to repeat miscarriages. Researchers at Israel’s Weizmann Institute have discovered that women who suffer repeated pregnancy loss (uRPL) process messages concerning male body odor in a different way than other women. Brain scans reveal they have smaller olfactory bulbs – the initial brain-relay for smell.
https://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/life-sciences/repeated-pregnancy-loss-may-be-tied-olfactory-system
 
Preventing premature births. (TY Hazel) Some 1 million preterm babies die each year and many more suffer severe disabilities. Israeli startup PregnanTech has developed a silicone ring which can help prevent preterm births. A clinical trial for pregnant women at risk is planned at King’s College Hospital London.
https://www.timesofisrael.com/israels-pregnantech-creates-silicone-ring-to-help-halt-premature-births/
https://www.trendlines.com/company/pregnantech/
 
Medics save mother and baby. 36-year-old Liron was 39-weeks pregnant with her first child when she collapsed unconscious. Within seconds, three paramedics from Israel’s United Hatzalah arrived. With CPR and a defibrillator, they restored Liron’s heartbeat. Liron, husband Yaron and baby Lior are now a happy family.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvWvlp0iYP0
 
 

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/nidra-poller/myth-fact-and-the-al-dur

This past June, Wafa Samir al-Bis, an aspiring twenty-one-year-old shahida, or “martyr,” was apprehended by Israeli guards at the Erez checkpoint in Gaza and found to be carrying 20 pounds of explosives in her underwear. The young woman intended to make a last trip to the Soroka Medical Center in Be’er Sheva, where she had been receiving medical treatment for severe burns incurred in a domestic accident. Her goal this time was to blow herself up and kill as many young people as possible. Asked why she was aiming specifically at children, she replied that she wanted to retaliate for the death of Muhammad al-Dura.

Wafa Samir al-Bis is but one in a long line of shahids and would-be shahids inspired by the image of a twelve-year-old Palestinian boy whose death scene was broadcast worldwide at the very onset of the so-called al-Aqsa intifada that broke out in September 2000. Televised images of the boy, reportedly killed by Israeli soldiers, instantly ignited anti-Israel and anti-Jewish passions all over the world, provoking a wave of violence from the lynching of two Israeli reservists in Ramallah to synagogue burnings in France. In the ensuing years, the story of Muhammad al-Dura has attained near-mythic stature in the Arab and Muslim world. In the West, though its essence is largely forgotten, it has fired the political imagination of many who accept it as emblematic proof of Israeli culpability for the outbreak of the armed conflict and even for Palestinian “martyrdom operations” against Israel’s civilian population.

The killing of Muhammad al-Dura is not the only long-lived accusation against Israel in the last five years. Another tale of atrocity, perhaps even better known, is the Jenin “massacre.” In the spring of 2002, the Israeli army moved into that West Bank city to wipe out a nest of terrorists responsible for a particularly intense sequence of murder and mayhem. Immediately, Palestinian sources claimed a figure of 5,000 dead (later reduced to a more modest 500) and an entire “refugee camp” bulldozed to rubble. By the time the truth emerged—Palestinians themselves finally confirmed a total of 56 dead, most of them in armed combat, and aerial views demonstrated the pinpoint nature of the Israeli operation—the damage had been done. Still today the Jenin “massacre” endures, out of reach of rational refutation.

But at least there is reliable information on what really happened in Jenin. That is not the case with the death scene of Muhammad al-Dura.

You can see this for yourself by looking at the below links featuring Herut’s work in Israel, Canada, Mexico, Australia, and the United States:

— NEWS —

Herut in the fight against Leila Kahlid at San Francisco State University (SFSU)

https://israelbehindthenews.com/2020/09/24/unapologetic-zionist-unity-leads-to-victory-against-zooms-collaboration-with-terror-in-california/

This was Herut’s 2nd rally in California in September, here’s a news article about the first rally: https://jewishjournal.com/los_angeles/321396/end-jew-hatred-at-usc-protest-held-at-the-grove/ 

Herut Mexico is now on Twitter. This is our 2nd branch in Latin America joining Herut Argentina 

https://twitter.com/herut_mexico

— CAUSING CONVERSATION —

Karma Feinstein Cohen’s recent op-ed received attention from Professor Vershawn Ashanti Young in his op-ed published on multiple major international websites including The National Interest and Yahoo Canada:
https://theconversation.com/white-profs-admission-she-posed-as-black-raises-hard-questions-about-race-and-identity-146456

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/white-prof-admission-she-posed-115454964.html

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/why-did-white-professor-lie-and-claim-be-black-169378

— SPREADING UNAPOLOGETICALLY ZIONIST VIEWS —    

Herut letter in The Washington Times

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/sep/23/letters-to-the-editor-israel-syria-peace-unlikely/

https://twitter.com/HerutAmerica/status/1309617320495583233/photo/1

Karma Feinstein-Cohen’s op-ed about Seth Rogen was featured on the Canadian news website TheJ.ca

https://www.thej.ca/2020/09/23/i-have-had-my-fill-of-self-hating-jews-but-seth-rogen-is-in-a-category-all-his-own/

Herut op-ed on Arab Dictators featured in print and online by The Jewish Press 
https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/we-should-believe-what-arab-dictators-say/2020/09/25/ 

Questions for American Jewish leaders about the Israel-UAE deal op-ed from Herut’s Joshua Goldstien

https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/287256

Herut’s “Zionist History Book Of The Month” feature was published in the Rosh Hashanah issue of this leading Australian Jewish newspaper The Sydney Jewish Report
See page 20 here: https://issuu.com/thejewishreport/docs/btbjewish0920p-hires

Herut op-ed by chair Joshua Goldstein “Shofar sounds and Jewish unity” published in Florida
https://www.heritagefl.com/story/2020/09/18/opinions/shofar-sounds-and-jewish-unity/13813.html

The new website Israel365News featured a Herut op-ed by Moshe Phillips

https://www.israel365news.com/158565/we-should-believe-what-arab-dictators-say-opinion/

The Israel News website in Israel included a Herut op-ed by Moshe Phillips in German
https://www.israel-nachrichten.org/archive/48643

Herut op-ed on the Jewish Press website about the Israel-UAE/Bahrain agreement & Palestinian Arab extremists.

https://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/no-doesnt-mean-rejectionism-jewish-behavior-does-not-enable-palestinian-rejectionism/2020/09/22/

The Washtenaw Jewish News in Ann Arbor, MI published Herut’s tribute to the late Dr. Edward Alexander Z”L last week

https://washtenawjewishnews.org/PDFs/WJN-10-20-web.pdf see page 25

Herut op-ed on the World Israel News website about Arab Dictators
https://worldisraelnews.com/opinion-arab-dictators-and-the-israel-uae-bahrain-agreement/

A Herut op-ed was included by The Foundation for Defense of Democracies / FDD on their Overnight Brief
https://www.fdd.org/overnight-brief/september-21-2020/

Angela Van Der Pluym from Chicago is a part of the Young Leaders Cabinet of Herut North America and she has had four op-ed columns published in recent weeks:
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/288026

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/high-holy-day-wishes-from-president-trump-and-joe-biden-let-the-light-shine-through/

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/meet-republican-congressional-candidate-julie-hall/

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-threat-to-free-speech-by-rabbi-alan-sherman/

http://World Israel News: News From Israel worldisraelnews.com

Every day Israeli citizens are treated to worrying stories about the country’s health system straining under the weight of the pandemic. There aren’t enough doctors, nurses, beds – you name it – to go around.

These cries of woe have been met with sympathy thus far by the Israeli public. That sympathy will turn to irritation if more discover that desperately needed medical staff are stuck at home because they can’t find adequate child care for their kids.

Instead of battling back corona, they’re pushing strollers around the neighborhood and playing Hebrew Monopoly with the twins. As the coronavirus rages, Israel’s frontline fighters are playing nanny.

It shouldn’t be that hard to open a nursery at a hospital. In the States, they have nurseries at movie theaters. But instead of finding a solution to this problem, the government is begging doctors past their prime to come out of retirement and pulling paramedics into corona wards.

The problem wasn’t as serious during the first wave. Local solutions still existed. But Israel’s child care centers have shuttered as the pandemic caught up with them, like with so many businesses.