HealthAI chatbots can identify unnecessary medical tests – but also exhibit ‘uncertainty’ of humans, study findsAI models ‘stumble’ when medical experts disagreeBy Melanie Swan1 min read
TechnologyChildren’s hospital creates AI tool that helps intensive care patients ‘speak’ with doctorsThe system generates personalised, printable communication boards allow children who cannot speak to convey their pain, emotions and needsBy Melanie Swan1 min read
TechnologySadiq Khan backs down from comments about Palantir’s ‘values’ and settles legal battle with US tech firmPalantir drops legal case against London mayor over cancelled £50m AI deal with the Metropolitan PoliceBy Jane Prinsley2 min read
TechnologyIsrael emerges as global gaming powerhouseA new industry report describes the country as one of the ‘Mediterranean corridors of gaming influence and innovation’By Melanie Swan1 min read
WarRobotics wars: IDF to establish ‘AI and autonomous warfare branch’It will oversee the deployment of robotic systems across the air, land and seaBy Melanie Swan1 min read
Technology‘Project Nexus’ plan to make Israel quantum computing global power launchedFormer Prime Minister Naftali Bennett has warned that the so-called ‘Q Day,’ when the tech renders encryptions protecting global financial systems ‘useless’ by the tech, could occur in the near futureBy John Jeffay2 min read
SchoolsPhone ban in Tel Aviv schools sees pupils’ screen time drop dramaticallyNearly 80 per cent of children said they used their phones during break-times either rarely or neverBy Melanie Swan1 min read
Houdini-inspired British-Jewish start-up uses AI to fix genes linked to fatal diseasesThe cutting-edge tech applies a ‘camouflage’ to edited genes, preventing the body from rejecting attempted curesBy John Jeffay3 min read||August 28, 2026 16:59
Israeli health provider lauded as AI pioneer by WHOClalit’s analysis was 100 times more effective than traditional screening in identifying undiagnosed hepatitis CBy John Jeffay1 min read||August 21, 2026 12:05
Grow your own milk: Israeli scientists engineer plants to create key dairy proteinThe team at Hebrew University worked out how to derive beta-casein, which gives cheese its melting properties, which they say could eradicate the need for industrialised livestock farmingBy Jacob Jaffa1 min read||August 17, 2026 16:46
Israeli start up develops ‘brain-decoding’ AI in hopes of treating Alzheimer’s disease and PTSDThe firm has trained its AI model, named Descartes, using 250,000 hours of EEG brain dataBy Mark Wood1 min read||August 12, 2026 12:12
What can rabbis say in an age of driverless cars and killer drones?We may need our spiritual resources more than ever to preserve our humanityBy Simon Rocker4 min read||August 3, 2026 13:01
Israel’s biggest hospital partners with OpenAI as it aims to become fully AI-poweredClinicians at Sheba Medical Centre will use the platform to support decision-making and carry out administrative tasksBy Melanie Swan1 min read||July 29, 2026 11:50
Israeli doctors rebuild man’s face in 22-hour operation ‘at limits’ of modern surgeryThe patient, Roman, 50, has now returned home and is breathing, eating and drinking independentlyBy JC Reporter3 min read||July 14, 2026 12:30
Tel Aviv retains place among world’s top startup hubsIsrael’s second city sits behind only Silicon Valley, New York and LondonBy Melanie Swan1 min read||June 18, 2026 13:54
Luciana Berger: ‘Social media pushes never-ending harmful content onto young people’The Labour peer has urged the government to make good on a manifesto pledge to protect children onlineBy Daniel Ben-David2 min read||May 26, 2026 14:04
