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NEWS FROM OUR JEWISH HOME Israelis Invent New Cancer Treatment Tests By mimicking cancer cells, researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev have developed a nanochip for testing a variety of cancer treatments. Professor Mark Schvartzman, leader of
“We look at it under a microscope and see whether the treatment works when faced with ‘cancer,’ and if so, how well it works.” Because of the repetition required for the tests, there are a variety of benefits to using nanochips for testing rather than real canIDF Spokesperson’s Unit// The four women who cer cells that vary as they are earned their IAF wings earlier this month. extracted from real patients, Schvartzman said. The development has already led to an unexpected A new class graduated in June of four women discovery about the distance required for re- and 35 men, including the first woman in ceptors to suppress cancer cells, according to nearly five years to become a fighter pilot in Israel, and only the fifth ever. The Jerusalem Post. The ceremony took place in Hatzerim Airbase in the Negev Desert. Fifth Female Fighter Pilot Joins
Israeli Air Force Shutterstock//Nanotechnology used to create breakthrough cancer treatment tests. the research team, explained to The Times of Israel, “Our new chip is like an artificial cancer that can be put in a petri dish with lymphocytes that have been genetically engineered and comprise an immunotherapy treatment.
Today in Israeli History June 30, 2012 — Israel’s seventh prime minister, Yitzhak Shamir, dies at age 96. Born in Poland, he made aliyah in 1935. joined the Irgun in 1937 and jumped to the more militant Lehi during World War II. He became prime minister at the head of Likud in 1983. July 1, 1973 — Col. Yosef “Joe” Alon, an Israeli military attache, is fatally shot in his driveway in Chevy Chase, Maryland. A Palestinian radio broadcast calls it revenge for a terrorist’s killing two days earlier. July 2, 2011 — Longtime tourism official Uri Dvir dies at age 80 in Tel Aviv, where he was born in 1931. He planned and initiated Shvil Yisrael (the Israel National Trail), a 620-mile hiking path that runs the length of the state.
Central Zionist Archive/ Simon Wiesenthal Center Theodor Herzl, shown in Switzerland in 1901, organized and led the Zionist Congress from 1897 until his death.
July 3, 1904 — Theodor Herzl, known as the “father of mod-
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A fifth female pilot is joining combat operations for the Israeli Air Force after four women graduated the program earlier this month, according to Israel Hayom via the Jewish News Syndicate. While 62 women have completed the IAF’s pilot’s course since it opened to women in the 1990s, only four women have been assigned to combat roles.
ern Zionism,” dies of cardiac sclerosis at age 44 in Edlach, Austria, seven years after he organized the First Zionist Congress. His body is reburied on Mount Herzl in 1949. July 4, 1975 — Fourteen people are killed and 62 others are wounded when a bomb built with mortar shells and hidden inside a refrigerator explodes in Jerusalem’s Zion Square. The PLO’s Fatah faction claims responsibility. July 5, 1979 — Israel National Opera Company founder and star Edis De Philippe dies at age 67. A New York native and renowned singer in prewar Europe, she made aliyah in 1945 and opened the opera company in 1947. July 6, 1973 — Otto Klemperer, a German Jewish conductor and composer, dies at age 88 in Zurich. Having visited pre-state Palestine, Klemperer first performed in the State of Israel in 1970 and gained Israeli citizenship. July 7, 1969 — U.N. Secretary-General U Thant says he is considering withdrawing the 96 U.N. observers from the Suez Canal zone because of a state of “open warfare” there. U.N. soldiers were fired on 26 times in June.
be at the Olympics,” the 22-year-old told World Archery after clinching his spot. “I need to see on paper my name and ‘Tokyo qualification," he added in joking disbelief. Unable to practice frequently during the pandemic, Shanny used visualization to practice, telling World Archery he would stand in a hotel room with all his gear and imagine every detail of the field. “If you envision yourself in the Olympics, you’re going to get used to the idea of you being there and – as a result, maybe – change accordingly and evolve toward that goal,” Shanny said months before his visualizations became reality.
First Israeli Archer Qualifies for Tokyo Olympics Itay Shanny made history as the first Israeli archer to qualify for the Olympics, after a Paris tournament for qualification and initially placing 23rd out of 94 contenders, according to The Times of Israel. “It’s surreal. I’m going to be the first archer from Israel to
July 8, 1989 — Judoka Yarden Gerbi is born in Kfar Saba. She wins eight national championships and, in August 2013, the world judo championship. She wins a bronze at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Facebook // Israeli archer Itay Shanny.
July 13, 1941 — Singer-songwriter and TV and radio host Ehud Manor is born in Binyamina. He composes about 1,200 songs and translates 600 others into Hebrew. He also translates musicals and Shakespearean plays.
July 9, 1959 — Riots break out in the Haifa neighborhood of Wadi Salib, whose residents suffer from poverty and discrimination, after police shoot Yaakov Elkarif while trying to arrest him for being drunk and disorderly. July 10, 1957 — Yiddish novelist and playwright Sholem Asch dies at age 76 in London. He first visited Palestine in 1908 and wrote about the Jewish connection to the land. He lived his final years in Bat Yam near Tel Aviv. July 11, 1927 — A major earthquake kills 300 to 500 people in Jerusalem, Jericho, Nablus and other cities. Although it is known as the Jericho earthquake, later research concludes that the epicenter is 30 miles away near the Dead Sea.
July 12, 2006 — The Second Lebanon War begins when Yarden Gerbi is Israel’s first judo world Hezbollah launches rockets and champion and one of mortars as a diversion for a raid five Israeli Olympic in which three Israeli soldiers medalists in the sport. are killed and two abducted. The month long war kills 140 Israelis.
A 2009 Israeli stamp honors Ehud Manor.
July 14, 1958 — Army officers overthrow and kill Iraqi King Faisal. King Hussein of Jordan, Faisal’s cousin, condemns the coup, but the Nasser-led United Arab Republic quickly signs a defense pact with the new government.
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