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According to the Wolf Foundation’s website, Yau will officially receive his award from Israeli President Shimon Peres and Israeli Education Minister and Wolf Foundation Council Chairman Gideon Sa’ar at a ceremony in Jerusalem this...
...Gideon Lack of King's College London published a startling study comparing the rate of peanut allergies in children in London with that of children in Tel Aviv. The study of 10,000 Jewish children, which appeared in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found that kids in the U.K. were almost 10 times as likely to have a peanut allergy as their peers in Israel, says Lack...
...original version of this article misstated that Britain's National Health Service is funding Gideon Lack's current study of peanut allergy in children. In fact, the study is being funded by the National Institutes of Health...
...Last week, however, Education Minister Gideon Saar made the controversial decision to remove the term “al-naqba” from textbooks in Israel’s Arab schools. “Al-naqba,” or, in English, “the catastrophe,” describes how some Arabs view the State of Israel’s 1948 establishment. While some outspoken leaders of Israel’s Arab community are outraged over the decision on grounds of “repression” of Arab cultural heritage, Israel simply cannot afford to subsidize...
Overseas, however, physicians have prescribed metoclopramide more liberally, and Dr. Gideon Koren, director of the University of Toronto's Motherisk Program for the study of antenatal drugs, saw an opportunity to address divided concerns about the medication. Collaborating with a large HMO in Israel, he and his multinational colleagues studied metoclopramide use in pregnant women and its association with babies' health outcomes - specifically, birth defects, premature birth, low birth weight, Apgar score (which provides an immediate measure of a baby's physical condition at birth) and infant death...