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Golani soldier leaves Gaza fighting to donate bone marrow to 5-year-old girl

1 day ago | timesofisrael.com | Diana Bletter

A 21-year-old soldier, identified as only by his first initial “Aleph,” serving in Gaza, took a short leave from the fighting to donate bone marrow to a five-year-old girl suffering from leukemia on Thursday at Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem, the hospital said. The soldier, who serves in the elite Golani Brigade’s reconnaissance unit, was found to be a rare genetic match through the Eli Alkobi bone marrow donor registry at Hadassah.
In an Israeli first, researchers snap pix of 3 generations of dolphins off Tel Aviv coast

1 day ago | timesofisrael.com | Diana Bletter

For the first time in Israel, researchers captured images of three generations of bottlenose dolphins swimming together off the coast of Tel Aviv on Sunday. The “grandmother” dolphin, known as Hooks, was photographed with her daughter and her daughter’s calf. Meytal Markovich, a volunteer of the environmental nonprofit Delphis Association and a University of Haifa student, took the photographs of the three dolphins.
Offspring of anonymous sperm donor 40-50 years ago told to get checked for genetic condition

1 day ago | timesofisrael.com | Diana Bletter

The Health Ministry says a man who donated sperm anonymously in the central region of the country from 1974 to 1985 has been identified as a carrier of Lynch syndrome, a hereditary genetic condition that increases the risk of developing cancer, including uterine and colorectal cancer. The ministry recommends recipients of sperm donations during these years inform their offspring so that they can consult with a genetic laboratory.
WZO heads likely to throw out thousands of suspect ballots as they meet on voter fraud

2 days ago | timesofisrael.com | Zev Stub

Members of the World Zionist Organization’s Area Election Committee (AEC) are preparing to meet on Thursday to decide how to handle allegations of widespread voter fraud in the World Zionist Congress vote held March 10- May 4. More than 16,000 votes, out of some 250,000 total votes cast, have been flagged as suspicious and will likely be thrown out, according to internal documents obtained by the Times of Israel.
In breakthrough that may aid blind, Israeli scientists find mice use whiskers to 'hear'

2 days ago | timesofisrael.com | Diana Bletter

Navigating through the night, mice move their whiskers, brushing them against objects to detect and identify them. For the past few decades, scientists viewed this behavior, known as whisking, as purely an act of touch. But researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science have discovered that subtle sounds are produced by the movements of a mouse’s whiskers. These sounds are then picked up by the mouse’s ears and processed in its auditory cortex.
Pro-terror activists circulate videos backing Colorado attack, urging further violence - ADL

3 days ago | timesofisrael.com | Luke Tress

Antisemitic, pro-terror US activists are sharing videos purportedly showing the suspect in the Colorado firebombing attack to urge followers toward further violence, the Anti-Defamation League says. The videos are posted on an Arabic-language Telegram channel called Taufan al-Ummah that has 30,000 followers.
Boulder city council member refuses to sign statement condemning firebombing, since it doesn't say 'anti-Zionist'

3 days ago | timesofisrael.com | Luke Tress

A member of the Boulder, Colorado, city council refuses to sign onto a statement condemning the firebombing attack against a rally for Israeli hostages because it calls the attack antisemitic, and not anti-Zionist. “I could not sign into the joint letter because my request to add the anti-Zionist to the antisemitism attack sentence or the word anywhere in the document was denied,” council member Taishya Adams writes on Facebook.
Colorado suspect disguised himself as a gardener to approach victims - police

3 days ago | timesofisrael.com | Luke Tress

The suspect in the firebomb attack on a rally for Israeli hostages in Colorado on Sunday disguised himself as a gardener to approach the group and has no regrets about the attack that aimed to kill all of the participants at the demonstration, according to an affidavit for an arrest warrant filed by a Boulder detective. The affidavit, filed by a detective who interviewed Mohamed Sabry Soliman after the attack, came alongside a statement filed by an FBI agent who also spoke with the suspect.
Michael Steinhardt sells Jerusalem luxury home for $21 million

3 days ago | timesofisrael.com | Zev Stub

Billionaire philanthropist Michael Steinhardt has sold a home in Jerusalem’s Talbieh neighborhood for $21 million in one of the capital’s most significant housing deals in recent years. The 650-square-meter (6,996 square feet) home at 3 Hovevei Zion Street, built in the 1920s, was acquired by Ronnen Harary, a Canadian entrepreneur and philanthropist whose entertainment company, Spin Master, created the Paw Patrol animated children’s show.
In first day of cross-examination, Netanyahu pressed on the veracity of his memory

3 days ago | timesofisrael.com | Jeremy Sharon

Prosecution challenges PM on his relationship with Milchan and his police testimony, pointing to 1,778 times he told officers he ‘doesn’t remember’ At the start of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s cross-examination Tuesday morning in the Tel Aviv District Court, five years after his corruption trial began, the prosecution sought to undermine his credibility as a witness and chip away at the veracity of his testimony. Netanyahu had to contend with sharp questions about his preparations for...