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Israel's Good News Newsletter to 2nd Feb 2025

In the 2nd Feb 25 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

An Israeli university offers full scholarships to freed Gaza hostages.

An Israeli life-support system is being deployed to US hospitals.

The Head of Hadassah hospital saved a passenger on an El Al flight.

Israeli organizations saved lives in Las Angeles and Georgia.

See how cows are milked on an autonomous Israeli dairy farm.

Israeli tech will protect India and its trains.

You can behave like an animal at a new Israeli zoo.

Buy a home in Israel – while you can.

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The portions of the Torah read in most synagogues during the last two weeks included the hardening of Pharaoh's heart and its disastrous consequences for Egypt. In contrast there have been many recent heartening and enheartening events and activities in Israel which are strengthening the nation and benefiting the world.

Medical news includes the US launch of a unique Israeli respiratory system to boost the heart's function of oxygenating the blood in life-support patients. Read how Israeli charity Belev Echad ("One Heart") helps rehabilitate wounded IDF soldiers. The AI system of Israeli emergency NGO United Hatzalah sent its EMTs to a shopping mall to treat a heart attack patient that it had predicted would need saving. And it certainly was a heart-stopping moment when an El Al passenger had a heart attack and was saved thanks to the Head of Hadassah hospital being on the flight.

There have been many enheartening stories in the last week, not least that of released hostages being reunited with their loved ones. The sight of Israeli SmartAID volunteers restoring power to dialysis patients in Los Angeles. New housing for Israeli lone soldiers. Free scholarships for ex-hostages at Israeli Universities. And the Swedish Member of the European Parliament who fights anti-Zionism. 

Finally, thanks to the generous hearts of Australians who made cases for mezuzahs that will be fixed to the doors of residents of Israel returning to their rebuilt homes. And we hope that the heart of 101-year-old Walter Bingham, the world's oldest journalist, will keep beating until he reaches 120.

A while back, I drew an illustration of Staphylococcus bacteria being destroyed by the new antibiotic mechanism that I discovered. The bacteria membrane loses the wavy structure needed for their communication and cell cycle. It was selected as a cover of the Nano Letter journal, where my article got published.

Super proud!

Paper here:

i see all these fucking nurses on reddit saying that technically everyone can carry a staph . yeah but it matters when the infection is ACTIVE.

and their logic is so reductive too. their thinking is "oh just take the right antibiotics!" first of all mrsa multiplies fast so you are even lucky if you get prescribed in time, as it might not always be that obvious.

and this idea that only hospital acquired MRSA is deadly .. is just fucking bogus and straight up medical gaslighting.

once any infection becomes invasive, the mortality rate significantly jumps and mrsa, if anything, is way more aggressive and multiplies so fast that you are lucky if you even catch it in time.

you do know that this actively DESTROYS your tissue and could turn flesh eating right?

and lastly i dont think anything that leaves people chronically ill should be considered "minor". full stop.

this is the type of ignorance that kills peopple and i cant believe i even have to say this but here we are.

anyways if you take away anything from this post just know that if you have ANY weird skin thing that popped out of nowhere (even if it’s just a small red bump) please get it checked out asap as you never know and god forbid it be a staph like MRSA .. you do NOT wanna take chances with that .

Ad for penicillin, Life Magazine, 8/14/1944.

MIXED MESSAGE: SMOKE AND RECOVER? WW2 poster, NARA ID 515170.

#OTD 1928 "WONDER DRUG" Penicillin Discovered Modern medicine saves lives - antibiotics & vaccines By Miriam Kleiman, Public Affairs

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During WWI, tens of thousands of service personnel died not from their actual wounds but from sepsis, a massive body-wide infection. At the time, very little could be done to prevent these deaths. However, one of the many who sought to help was bacteriologist Alexander Fleming, who as a captain in WWI saw many wounded men die from such infections.

#OTD 1928, Fleming's accidental discovery transformed modern medicine. He'd left a plate of staphylococcus bacteria uncovered, and saw that a mold (similar to the kind found on moldy bread) that had fallen on the culture had killed many of the bacteria. He called the mold by-product penicillin.

“When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn’t plan to revolutionize all medicine by discovering the world’s first antibiotic, or bacteria killer. But I guess that was exactly what I did." ---Dr. Alexander Fleming

Commercial production of penicillin began after the start of WWII. In advance of D-Day, scientists prepared more than two million doses. Government communicators worked with the pharmaceutical industry to produce a robust ad campaign - including posters below from our holdings - to establish penicillin as "the wonder drug." The posters - a snapshot of the time - include a happy soldier smoking while recovering in bed, anti-Japanese propaganda, and concerns about STDs. See Powers of Persuasion online exhibit.

NARA ID 183507561.

NARA ID 183507561.

NARA ID 183507560.