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The label for an Iota rug and pouf hand-knit by Kefaya, a Bedouin woman. (photo from Iota) Some of the best projects are born out of a desire for change – at least that was the case with Iota, an…
Millions more could be fed by the same resources if our diets changed. (photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) About a third of the food produced for human consumption is estimated to be lost or wasted globally. But the biggest waste, which is…
Israelis and tourists enjoy the beach in Tel Aviv on a hot summer day. (photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90 via Israel21c) A new study says that, by 2100, climate changes will extend the summer season in the eastern Mediterranean – an…
Pigeon bones from 1,500 years ago. (photo from University of Haifa via Ashernet) Israel’s Negev Desert has not always been a dusty, almost treeless place – 1,500 years ago, many parts of the Negev were green and produced basic foods.…
In 2016, under the supervision of Prof. Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, archeologists excavating at the fifth-century CE Huqoq synagogue found a mosaic floor on which there is an image of an Egyptian soldier…
Study brings hope for improving our health. The question of nature versus nurture extends to our microbiome – the personal complement of mostly friendly bacteria we carry around with us. Study after study has found that our microbiome affects nearly…
Jerusalem Marathon winner Kipkogey Shadrack (No. 1) led the field from the start. (photo from Ashernet) More than 35,000 runners, including some 4,000 from 72 countries outside Israel, participated March 8 in this year’s Jerusalem Marathon – the largest to date.…
Former Vancouverite Harvey Sandler opened Harvey’s Smokehouse in Jerusalem a few months ago. (photo by Barry A. Kaplan) Kansas City, Mo., is my hometown. Well, Overland Park, Kan., is more accurate, but Kansas City, the home of barbeque, is just…
(image from Technion) Technion-Israel Institute of Technology doctoral candidate Alona Shagan and assistant professor Boaz Mizrahi have developed a technology that enables drugs to be delivered and released only to the diseased tissue that a drug is targeting. Researchers designed…
Dr. Gideon Rechavi, who founded Sheba Cancer Research Centre, was in Vancouver in January for an international conference at which he presented new findings on “jumping genes.” (photo from Sheba Cancer Research Centre) Dr. Gideon Rechavi, who founded Sheba Cancer…
