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Stillborn baby whose mother had coronavirus likely died from Covid after being infected through the placenta, Israeli doctors say A 29-year-old woman arrived at the Assuta Hospital in Ashdod last weekend She tested positive for Covid and tests after birth revealed child also had virus It is the first known incident of its kind in … Read more
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pleaded not guilty on Monday to corruption charges at the resumption of his trial some six weeks before Israeli voters again pass judgment on his leadership. ‘I confirm the written answer submitted in my name,’ Netanyahu said, standing before a three-judge panel in a heavily-guarded Jerusalem District Court. He was … Read more
An experimental cancer drug could help hospitalised coronavirus recover quicker, researchers believe. Israeli academics today claimed 29 of 30 patients with moderate to severe case of Covid treated with EXO-CD24 made a full recovery within five days. Further human trials are now needed to prove that the inhaled drug – designed as a medication to fight … Read more
An Israeli healthcare group on Friday said coronavirus infections had plunged among people aged over 60 who had been vaccinated. Israel is currently leading the global vaccination drive, with around 30 per cent of its citizens having had at least a single dose of a jab so far. But concern had risen globally over infection, … Read more
Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is found guilty of corruption in Switzerland, sentenced to five years in jail and fined $56million Beny Steinmetz, a diamond and minerals tycoon, found guilty of corruption 64-year-old was accused of paying $10million in bribes to officials in Guinea In return, his company was granted exploration rites to an area believed … Read more
Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz is found guilty of corruption in Switzerland, sentenced to five years in jail and fined $56million By Reuters Published: 16:45 GMT, 22 January 2021 | Updated: 16:54 GMT, 22 January 2021 Israeli businessman Beny Steinmetz has been found guilty of corruption in Switzerland in a dispute over the world’s richest untapped … Read more
Israel’s top coronavirus medic has claimed the first dose of Pfizer’s Covid vaccine is less effective than he expected after watching it rolled out in his country. Dr Nachman Ash, one of the medics leading the Covid-19 response in Israel, said the first instalment of the jab did not cut infection rates as much as … Read more
Initial studies of data from Israel’s vaccination drive suggest that the first dose of the Pfizer jab curbs coronavirus infections by up to 50 percent after 14 days. The news offers a ray of hope to the rest of the world as initial studies point to the vaccine not only stopping symptoms, but cutting the … Read more
Archaeologists believe they’ve found the oldest known tool used for grinding or scraping, dating back some 350,000 years. Found in the Tabun Cave in northern Israel, the implement is a cobble, a type of small rounded stone, and predates homo sapiens by at least 50,000 years. Previously, such tools weren’t thought to have been introduced … Read more
Mankind has made contact with an alien ‘Galactic Federation’ but it has been kept secret because ‘humanity isn’t ready’, former head of Israel’s space security program claims Haim Eshed said aliens are real and secretly in contact with America and Israel He claimed the ‘Galactic Federation’ runs an underground Mars base with the US The … Read more