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130 Inspiring Israel Headlines from 2021
What word best describes a country that:
Pioneers revolutionary treatments for Covid, ALS, ADHD, autism, brain, skin, bladder and pancreatic cancer, heart attacks and strokes, blindness, nerve damage, Alzheimer’s, bacterial infections, Parkinson’s, glaucoma and tuberculosis?
Sends medical and disaster relief teams throughout the world to friend and foe alike?
Discovers innovative ways to remove CO2 from the air, repair DNA, slash carbon emissions, kill germs, suppress hunger, kill nasal viruses, calm panic attacks?
Partners with other nations, including former adversaries, and philanthropic foundations on vaccine development, space exploration, scientific research, agriculture, greentech innovation, self-driving shuttles, and ocean wave energy production?
Saves the lives of thousands of its enemies’ children and leads the world in the donation of kidneys to strangers?
That country is Israel. What word fits it best? Visionary? Innovative? Entrepreneurial? Compassionate?
How about Amazing, Astonishing, Admirable? Miraculous? A Blessing?
Needless to say, Israel cannot be described as “perfect.” No country can. But calling out Israel for its flaws – real, exaggerated, and imagined – while ignoring every other nation’s faults, is among the world’s most obsessive compulsions. It has a one-word name: Antisemitism.
Fair-minded criticism of Israel’s shortcomings, by contrast, is entirely legitimate, so long as one applies the same standards to other nations AND one also credits its virtues and achievements. Far too few are aware of the latter, often through no fault of their own, since these are rarely featured in major media headlines.
So here are 130 headlines from 2021 you may have missed. They demonstrate that Israel is vastly more than the sum of its imperfections and conflicts. Perhaps, after perusing them and reading a few, you’ll agree that word describing Israel best is: Inspiring.
Israeli Drug Saves 100% of Covid Patients During Trial
21 reasons to be cheerful at the end of 2021
Has Israel Just Found a Cure for Covid?
Israel To Send 1 Million Doses of Covid Vaccine to Africa
A Simple Israeli Invention That Could Help Billions of People…and NASA
Fleets of Balloons Could Remove CO2 from Air
ADHD: Cracking the Code on its Cause
Peace Being Written – a New Israeli-Emirati Art Exhibit
Sleep Vital to Repair DNA – Israeli Study
Immunotherapy drug now works with a millionth of a dose — thanks to Israeli tech
Fauci: Israel is where you wanted to be for Covid vaccines
A Cut Above: Israel’s Redefined Meat Acclaimed by Leading Chefs
Israeli scientists devise AI-based system for personalized antibiotic treatment
Israel Entrepreneurs Pay It Forward: Scale Up Nation
Israeli Startup Launches First Saliva-based Pregnancy Test
4 Israeli inventions feature in TIME magazine’s 100 Best Inventions for 2021
Israeli COVID vaccine tablet development receives major grant
Knesset Passes Revolutionary Budget
Israeli team ID’s COVID proteins that trigger heart attacks and strokes
Israel and Gates Foundation Create Climate Change Working Group
Israel autism center receives massive donation,aims to make worldwide impact
Israel’s oral COVID vaccine approved for trial in S. Africa
Tel Aviv U 5th in the world in entrepreneurship
1200+ Israeli startups working on solutions to the global climate crisis
Israel and UAE poised to cooperate in outer space
Female Arab physician enters one of Israel’s “most coveted positions in public medicine”
1500 year old winery found in Israel. L’chaim!
Possible immunotherapy breakthrough for cancer treatment
Israeli-US project uses ultrasound waves to treat Alzheimer’s, cancer
Israelis spirit vulnerable Afghans from Taliban-led country
In first, Israeli researchers print blood vessels using 3D technology
Boosters dramatically reduce COVID risk
>300 Prominent Iraqis call for peace with Israel
Israeli app allows tracking wildfires around the world in real time
Israeli ‘antibacterial weapon’ arms good germs to kill bad germs
$15 drug gets COVID patients off oxygen support in under week – study
Israeli researchers tout ‘breakthrough’ 3D bioprints of active tumor
Israeli universities to partner with Moroccan tech school for joint research, degrees
Jordan, Israel sign agriculture agreement for shmita year
Freezing tumor instead of cutting, Israelis pioneer new bladder cancer approach
Dog walkers on the autism spectrum get new leash on life
Israeli law school journal No. 3 in world in human rights, beats Harvard
COVID: 90% of patients treated with new Israeli drug discharged in 5 days
Israel sends firefighting team, equipment to Greece as thousands flee blazes
3 women receive kidneys in Israel-UAE organ exchange, 1st with Arab state
As global demand for microchips surges, tech giants go all-in on Israel
Israel announces plan to slash carbon emissions by at least 85% by 2050
Israeli COVID vaccine in pill form to start clinical trial in Tel Aviv
Where Arab and Jewish teens learn tech skills together
Israeli study offers hope of ‘rewiring’ nerves to restore lost sense of touch
34 stereotype-breaking photos of Israelis inspire unity
Israeli expertise brings closure to Surfside disaster in matter of days
A remedy for the growing epidemic of medical waste
Israeli delegation wins Olympic medals in computer science competition
PayingBills An Israeli technology helping Americans afford healthcare
Touted as a lifesaver for millions, Israeli nano-patch smells skin to detect TB
UAE-Israel peace is more than an agreement. It’s a way of life.
Israel to dispatch firefighting planes to Cyprus to battle large wildfire
Israeli army forms 3D images of fallen Florida condo to find victims
How a staunch rightist gave her kidney to a Gaza boy — simply to do a good deed
Israel sends IDF team to Florida to assist with tower collapse rescue efforts
EU studying Arab Israelis as a paragon of child vaccination, to help Europe
Israeli tech investment shatters all records in first half 2021
he startup ensuring that no woman walks alone
Transfer of power crucially affirms Israeli democracy
From Startup Nation to Scale up Nation: Israeli unicorns being ‘born’ faster than ever, report finds
Sadness turns to resolve and optimism after Acre violence
Israeli breakthrough COVID treatment gets approval for advanced trial
The Israeli companies taking a stand for coexistence
‘Muslim historians consistently confirm Jewish ties to Jerusalem’
Israeli scientists develop tiny swallowable ‘tweezers’ for use against bacteria
Israel’s Baruch Padeh sends medical delegation to Botswana, Africa
Why global startups want to be accelerated in Israel
Israel sends medical aid to Covid-stricken Uruguay
Mutual trust is the motor running this Arab-Jewish startup
14 disruptive technologies to help the planet
Israeli tech said to give precise, knife-free skin cancer diagnosis in seconds
Haifa hospital saves life of boy from Gaza suffering from kidney failure
Israeli scientists say they’ve paved way to turn off the brain’s ‘hunger switch’
The technologies making Israel proud in 2021
Tel Aviv University reveals brain cancer cure breakthrough
Israel tops world in kidney donations to strangers
Why Israel is becoming a hub for Parkinson’s research
Meet 6 Druze leaders changing Israel for the better
First Reform Rabbi Elected to Israel’s Knesset
WinWin Algae cleared from Caribbean beaches can power hotels
‘Life-saving’ nose spray that kills 99.9% of viruses begins production in Israel
Israeli and Emirati companies sign deal to bring greentech innovation to region
OscarShortlist Why Israeli short films are winning international awards
AI can now pick the best embryo to implant for IVF
Colombia community gets fresh-water system to boost health for students, residents
IsraAID sends vaccine-support team to Eswatini
Israeli delegation arrives in E. Guinea to treat wounded after deadly blasts
Where Arab-led Israeli startups find mentors and partners
The glaucoma treatment that only takes seconds
Israel, Brazil ink deal to establish joint team to research, produce vaccines
Visiting Israel, leaders of Denmark, Austria agree on joint vaccine development
Revolutionary spray-on skin is better than a bandage for wounds
New biological antibiotics can beat tuberculosis
‘Travel and Leisure’ names Israel No. 1 post-COVID tourism destination
Mobileye teams up with French firms to develop self-driving shuttles by 2023
A new handheld device aims to calm panic attacks fast
Israeli-Swedish ocean wave energy producer wins Global Innovation Award in Abu Dhabi
Israeli, Moroccan pediatric hospitals join forces for children’s health
A no BS answer to the world’s massive manure problem
Israeli stroke therapy granted FDA breakthrough device status
Israel makes top 10 (again) in ranking of world’s most innovative countries
Tel Aviv U. opens unique Center for Combating Pandemics
Vaccinated people less likely to transmit coronavirus, Israeli study suggests
8 smart technologies to help us get traveling again
Israeli firm providing mobile ventilators to California
Jerusalem picked to host world’s leading cannabis research conference
Special Olympics Israel to transform accessible healthcare
Israeli scientists say they’ve found ‘Achilles’ heel’ of cancer cells
Bedouin volunteers fix vandalized Jewish Israeli graveyard
An air conditioner that can kill viruses and other germs
Recycling single-use plastic with bacteria
Israel, UAE give wing to preservation of rare desert bird
5-minute charge battery from Israeli startup could revolutionize electric vehicle industry
Israeli researchers use novel methods to seek treatments for deadly pancreatic cancer
13 Israeli startups that made waves at 2021’s virtual CES in Las Vegas
A biological alternative to antibiotics for dairy cows
Blind man regains sight thanks to Israeli startup’s synthetic cornea
Sudan officially normalizes ties with Israel
Microbiome transplants can reprogram immune system to attack tumors
Revolutionary multi-patient ventilators for Covid ICU care
You can now check your phone for hyperlocal air quality
Small wonder: How Israel rolled up its sleeves and became vaccination nation
Sources: JPost.com; Israel21C.org; TIMESOFISRAEL.com; ISRAELHAYOM.COM; HAARETZ.COM; JEWISHINSIDER.COM; SMITHSONIANMAG.COM; JNS.ORG; NYPOST.COM;
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