The Vicious Babushka

IDF Soldiers Get Stink-Proof Socks

JERUSALEM — Israel's foot soldiers are getting new odour-free socks that can be worn for two weeks straight without smelling or stinking up the feet, the Maariv daily reported on Thursday.

"It may sound ridiculous... but this is a very important issue that causes many problems during training," the newspaper quoted Brigadier General Nissim Peretz, the commander of the Israeli military's logistics division, as saying.

The socks, which will be distributed to all new infantry recruits beginning in March, also prevent athlete's foot -- "a nuisance with which every soldier is very familiar," the paper said.

The fabric includes metal components to keep bad odours and fungal infections at bay, it said.

AFP.

Oh noes! Teh Juice iz Stealing Organz in Haiti!

'Israelis stealing organs in Haiti'

Even as IDF travels across world to extend hand to country in need, there are those who take opportunity to spread slander, blood libel against Jewish state. Seattle resident, who presents himself as black activist, explains incendiary video he uploaded to YouTube

WASHINGTON – Even when Israel  puts itself on the front lines of medical and humanitarian aid  sent to the ends of the earth and wins great praise for its professionalism in doing so, there are those who prefer to transform the act into an opportunity to spread hatred and lies at the expense of those suffering in Haiti.

An American resident of Seattle, Washington uploaded a video to YouTube on Tuesday accusing soldiers in the IDF delegation to the earthquake site in Haiti of being involved in stealing organs from their patients.

The man, who calls himself T. West, fronts a group called AfriSynergy Productions, whose declared goal is to empower the black man. The video purports to present something to think about while exploiting the horrible tragedy that has befallen Haiti to recycle false claims that IDF soldiers engage in organ trafficking.

The bizarre host of the video collected praises broadcast on television channels regarding the advanced equipment and treatment the Israeli teams are providing in Haiti. After about a minute and a half of such praise, the man looks straight into the camera and made the claim that there are people operating in Haiti who do not have a conscience and are members of the search-and-rescue teams, including, he claimed, the IDF.

Read more at YNet.

Aw jeez, not this shit again.

Muslim Travelers Complain About Airport Profiling

The attempted bombing of the Northwest airliner is raising a lot questions about effective security, including who should get singled out for screening, and if Muslim-Americans and others are being unnecessarily targeted.

Some Muslim-Americans claim they are being profiled on the basis of their religion and that profiling is actually getting in the way of catching the bad guys.

A spokeswoman for the Transportation Security Administration said she could not talk about profiling passengers. Sources say the agency is frankly scared of talking about it.

"Well let me tell you, profiling is alive and well. Anyone that says they're not profiling passengers is lying," says ABC7's aviation consultant Ron Wilson.

As for the folks getting profiled, ABC7 spoke with a number of frequent flyers who say they get extra attention every time they fly.

"I see it as just a very unfair discriminatory practice," says Mahin Ibrahim, who works in online advertising at Google.

"I wish it was only patting me down. They first they search my clothes and everything I have and in many cases they actually take me aside and interrogate me," says Azzam Abdo, who makes semi conductors.

"They do a strip search and they search your luggage before the TSA will let you go," says Mahmood Khan, an I.T. consultant, formerly with Hewlett Packard.

Read more at ABCNews.com

ABC News makes it sound as though only Muslims are being singled out for extra security screening. They don't mention all the elderly, disabled travelers in wheelchairs, with diabetic supplies and CPAP machines.

When was the last time an airliner was blown up by a disabled, elderly diabetic? Do Muslim travelers really expect to breeze through the line ahead of the diabetics?

"Desperate" Gazans Fake Cancer to Enter Israel

 

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A healthy man in blockaded Gaza faked cancer, hoping the deadly disease would be his ticket out of the territory that has become an open-air prison for its 1.4 million residents.

His ploy failed, but several thousand others succeeded in fleeing this shabby sliver of land this year using bribes and fake medical reports, a sign of Gazans' desperation over growing poverty and misery under the strict border closure enforced by Egypt and Israel since Hamas militants overran Gaza in June 2007.

The blockade has few loopholes. Israel allows passage to top business people and a limited number of Gazans seeking treatment for serious illnesses. Egypt sporadically opens its border for university students and those with residency abroad.

Everyone else is stuck, even as Palestinian polls suggest nearly half the population would like to leave if they could. Deepening the Gazans' sense of imprisonment, they must now also obtain permission from the Hamas government before attempting to leave, further complicating an obstacle-ridden path to freedom.

Those trying to bribe their way out usually approach middlemen who put them in touch with local doctors, Palestinian health officials or Egyptian bureaucrats and military officials.

Akram Ghneim, 31, an unemployed father of six living off food handouts, told The Associated Press he promised $260 to a Palestinian middleman, who obtained for him a bogus medical report saying he had cancer. Ghneim said he hoped he'd get a rare spot on the list of Gaza patients with life-threatening illnesses who are allowed to enter Israel for treatment.

Once in Israel, he planned to disappear and work illegally [and maybe kill some Jews?--VB]. But Israeli intelligence officials, who review applications, rejected him last summer, saying his cancer report was forged.

Read more at Associated Press.

If Israel is the "Apartheid Genocide Nazi Horror State" why are they so "desperate" to GET IN?

An Eye From Zion: Israeli Doctors Restoring Sight to the Blind in Third World

A non-profit with zero overhead, Israel's Eye from Zion is restoring sight to hundreds of people in developing countries.

"At first, I thought I'd die." That's what an ex-Mossad (Israel's Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations) chief said about his first "operation." Yoram Hessel, now the director of Eye from Zion, wasn't talking about a secret operation for the Israel government. He was referring to sight-restoring cataract surgery that he had witnessed firsthand.

After observing about 50 cataract operations in countries such as Vietnam, China and the Muslim country of Azerbaijan, Hessel, now an international businessman with his consultancy Vintage Crown is overflowing with enthusiasm about how a relatively straightforward operation can change peoples' lives. In addition to his career in business, Hessel donates his time to Eye from Zion to restore sight to people in developing countries.

He's seen cataracts the size of buttons removed from people's eyes. "It's amazing what you get out of the eye, what they take out," he tells ISRAEL21c.

Eye from Zion grew out of the vision of Israeli businessman Nati Marcus. Since its founding about three years ago, it has grown into a core group comprising five or six influential Israelis like Hessel. With their help, through missions undertaken by dozens of Israeli doctors who donate their time and expertise, Eye from Zion has restored sight to hundreds of people.

With an industry standard tool called a Phaco machine, the Israeli eye doctors use sound waves to blast out a cataract, breaking it into pieces and then sucking it out. Most of the patients who arrive at the mobile clinic are nearly or completely blind in both eyes.

Read more at Israel21c

Of course, Aftonbladet will claim they are stealing Palestinian eyes.
 

Jews and Palestinians Work Together to Save Lives

 

Arab and Jewish medics bridge the divide saying 'let's save some lives'

AT THE same time that Israeli police and Palestinian youths were battling each other at the Temple Mount holy site in Jerusalem last week, a life was being saved nearby by a new emergency rescue project that brings together ultra-Orthodox Jews and Arabs.

As the clashes were going on at the site, known to Moslems as al-Haram al-Sharif, two Arab medics from the new east Jerusalem branch of the ultra- orthodox Jewish Ihud Hatzolah rescue service were arriving at the scene of a heart attack of a 45-year-old Arab woman in the Ras al-Amud neighborhood.

The medics were able to carry out a successful resuscitation, recalled Murad Alayan, head of the new branch. One of them then drove the woman to an ambulance of Israel's national rescue service, Magen David Adom (MDA), that was waiting on the edge of the neighbourhood and continued her treatment.

Arrival time of MDA ambulances at Arab addresses in Jerusalem is a contentious issue, with Palestinians complaining of frequent delays that cost lives. MDA officials say that after its ambulances – which are adorned with its Red Star of David – came under attack in recent years upon entering Arab areas, it was decided that they should wait at the edge of neighbourhoods until police escorts arrived.

That is why medics who live inside Arab neighbourhoods and know their way around them who can get to the scene early can make the difference between life and death. Indeed it was the death from a heart attack last year of an Arab man after an ambulance arrived too late that prompted Eli Beer, the director of Ihud Hatzolah, and Mr Aliyan, from the Arab Beit Safafa neighborhood, to launch the effort.

"Murad said let's save some lives in east Jerusalem and I said why not," recalls Beer.

Read more at The Scotsman.

Incredibly, there are some people opposed to this genuine step of peace, and they are not even Hamas.

The Return of Mumps

MONSEY - At least 45 children in Rockland have been diagnosed with mumps, a highly infectious disease that is also being reported in communities in Brooklyn and Orange County, N.Y., according to the state Department of Health.

The Rockland cases have all occurred in religious communities in Monsey and Spring Valley, according to an alert issued this week by the state Department of Health.

The state is also tracking 62 cases reported in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, as well as seven confirmed cases in Kiryas Joel in Orange County.

Other cases contected to the outbreak have also been reported in Lakewood, N.J., and in Quebec, according to health officials.

The outbreak apparently started in August in a summer camp in Sullivan County, N.Y., attended primarily by children from Borough Park, according to the state.

Rockland health officials are working to try to make sure that the disease doesn't spread, said Commissioner of Health Dr. Joan Facelle.

"We are working with the community to try to contain it," she said. "We are encouraging timely vaccinations and urging parents to keep kids home when they are sick."

The number of cases appear to be increasing, but the disease is not spreading beyond religious communities in Monsey and Spring Valley, she said.

LoHud.com

This is a public service announcement to the frum community from Babushka. Get your children vaccinated. These diseases are deadly.

In the "good old days" many children did not survive from diseases that can be prevented today by simply following the vaccination schedule, which is available at no charge at any public health facility.

There is no reason not to vaccinate!
 

2 Americans and Israeli Win Nobel Prize in Chemistry

STOCKHOLM – Two Americans and an Israeli scientist won the 2009 Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for atom-by-atom mapping of the protein-making factories within cells — a feat that has spurred the development of antibiotics.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Thomas Steitz and Israeli Ada Yonath's work on ribosomes has been fundamental to the scientific understanding of life. They will split the 10 million (US$1.4 million award).

Yonath, 70, is the fourth woman to win the Nobel chemistry prize and the first since 1964, when Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin of Britain received the award.

"I'm really, really happy," Yonath said. "I thought it was wonderful when the discovery came. It was a series of discoveries ... We still don't know every, everything, but we progressed a lot."

Ribosomes are crucial to life because they produce the proteins that control the chemistry of plants, animals and humans. Working separately, the three laureates used a method called X-ray crystallography to pinpoint the positions of the hundreds of thousands of atoms that make up the ribosome.

Their three-dimensional models show how different antibiotics bind to ribosomes — an understanding that has helped other researchers develop new drugs to fight bacterial infections.

"These models are now used by scientists in order to develop new antibiotics, directly assisting the saving of lives and decreasing humanity's suffering," the academy said in its announcement.

Many of today's antibiotics cure diseases by blocking the function of bacterial ribosomes, the citation said. "Without functional ribosomes, bacteria cannot survive. This is why ribosomes are such an important target for new antibiotics."

The work was published in 2000. While many Nobel winners are honored for joint work, this year's chemistry winners were competing with each other, award committee member Mans Ehrenberg said.

Their work builds on Charles Darwin's theory of evolution and, more directly, on the work done by James Watson, Francis Crick and Maurice Wilkins, who won the 1962 Nobel Prize in medicine for mapping DNA's double helix, the citation said.

Read more at AP News.

Scientists Prove Fat People are Stupid

A new study finds obese people have 8 percent less brain tissue than normal-weight individuals. Their brains look 16 years older than the brains of lean individuals, researchers said today.

Those classified as overweight have 4 percent less brain tissue and their brains appear to have aged prematurely by 8 years.

The results, based on brain scans of 94 people in their 70s, represent "severe brain degeneration," said Paul Thompson, senior author of the study and a UCLA professor of neurology.

"That's a big loss of tissue and it depletes your cognitive reserves, putting you at much greater risk of Alzheimer's and other diseases that attack the brain," said Thompson. "But you can greatly reduce your risk for Alzheimer's, if you can eat healthily and keep your weight under control."

The findings are detailed in the online edition of the journal Human Brain Mapping.

Obesity packs many negative health effects, including increased risk of heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, hypertension and some cancers. It's also been shown to reduce sexual activity.

More than 300 million worldwide are now classified as obese, according to the World Health Organization. Another billion are overweight. The main cause, experts say: bad diet, including an increased reliance on highly processed foods.

Read more at Livescience

A Jewish Story You Won't Find in the Media

When the opportunity arose for Chabad-Lubavitch Rabbi Ephraim Simon to potentially risk his life in the preservation of another’s, he paused. He wanted to give one of his kidneys to a suffering man; the problem was that he had to think about how he would communicate that decision to his nine children.

So in July, Simon, co-director of Friends of Lubavitch of Bergen County in Teaneck, N.J., gathered his family around him.

“As emissaries of the Lubavitcher Rebbe,” he told them, referring to Rabbi Menachem M. Schneerson, of righteous memory, “we dedicate our lives to helping other people.”

He went on to describe the terminally-ill man he had met earlier, a father of a large family just like theirs.

“By tatte giving him a new kidney, he will live, G-d willing. This is our gift to him and you are all a part of it.”

Read more at Chabad.org

Shameless: Obama Tells Rabbis to Promote Health Care Plan in High Holiday Sermons

He has cited statistics. He has held town hall meetings. Now President Obama has turned to Jewish tradition for support in his campaign to overhaul health care, urging rabbis to help make the case in their holiday sermons.

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, begins at sundown on Sept. 18, starting the 10-day period when Jews believe their fates for the coming year will be decided. Indeed, that is also around the time when the fate of health care reform — the president’s prime effort — could be determined.

“I am going to need your help,” the president told a telephone audience of about 1,000 rabbis on Wednesday morning, according to the Twitter feed of Rabbi Jack Moline of Alexandria, Va., who added that Mr. Obama advised the group to share stories of health care dilemmas with congregants to illustrate what is at stake in the current debate.

Mr. Obama even recited one of the central prayers of the Jewish New Year. “On Rosh Hashana will be inscribed and on Yom Kippur will be sealed how many will pass from the earth and how many will be created; who will live and who will die; who will die at his predestined time and who before his time,” goes one translation of the prayer he read.

Read more at NY Times.

Israeli Technology: Helping the Blind "See" with Sonics

Jews Discover Cure for Radiation Sickness

 

Cure for radiation sickness found?

Exclusive: Dramatic discovery by Jewish-American scientists could change world; anti-radiation medication proves effective, safe in tests. Further experiments to be fast tracked, FDA approval possible within 1-2 years

Medication that can protect humans against nuclear radiation has been developed by Jewish-American scientists in cooperation with a researcher and investors from Israel. The full story behind the dramatic discovery will be published in Yedioth Ahronoth's weekend edition.

The ground-breaking medication, developed by Professor Andrei Gudkov – Chief Scientific Officer at Cleveland BioLabs - may have far-reaching implications on the balance of power in the world, as states capable of providing their citizens with protection against radiation will enjoy a significant strategic advantage vis-à-vis their rivals.

For Israel, the discovery marks a particularly dramatic development that could deeply affect the main issue on the defense establishment's agenda: Protection against a nuclear attack by Iran or against "dirty bomb" attacks by terror groups.

Gudkov's discovery may also have immense implications for cancer patients by enabling doctors to better protect patients against radiation. Should the new medication enable cancer patients to be treated with more powerful radiation, our ability to fight the disease could greatly improve.

Read more at YNet

Israelis Solve the Mystery of "Bee Colony Collapse"

An Israeli company has developed a revolutionary new drug that could solve the problem of Colony Collapse Disorder, the disturbing syndrome that has been wiping out bee communities and threatening agricultural production all over the world.

The drug, Remembee, which was developed by Beeologics, has completed successful clinical trials on millions of bees in North America. Not only has it proved effective in maintaining bee health, but it also improved the longevity of bees and increased the honey in the hives.

Based on Nobel prize-winning RNAI technology, Remembee helps the bees overcome IAVP virus, also discovered in Israel, which has been associated with colony collapse in scientific literature.

"It's really a tug of war between the virus and the host. We are helping the bee tug the rope more strongly and beat the virus. We take advantage of an immune system that the bees elicit for viral disease. But we are really using naturally occurring phenomenon. It's not a pesticide and it's not toxic," says Nitzan Paldi, CTO of Beeologics.

The US Department of Agriculture has been accompanying Beeologics with its FDA certification process due to the urgency of the need for the drug.

Israel21c.com

Palestinian Fatwa Bans Weddings Without Swine Flu Test

 

Ramallah, West Bank - The Palestinian Authority's top Islamic cleric on Tuesday issued a fatwa, or Islamic ruling, banning the issuance of marriage contracts without a certificate proving that couples are free of the swine flu virus.

The religious ruling was issued after more swine flu cases were registered in the West Bank.

In his fatwa, Chief Justice Taysseer al-Tamimi ordered religious courts in the Palestinian territories not to complete wedding procedures, unless couples bring a document from the Health Ministry proving they are not infected with the flue virus.

Al-Tamimi said the fatwa aims at curbing the spread of the virus in the West Bank.

The Health Ministry said that two new cases were discovered, raising the number of H1N1 cases in the Palestinian territories to 69. No deaths have been reported.

Vos Is Neias

And as we all know, Swine Flu is an eeville plot of the dastardly Jooz.

Mazal tov! 60 year old woman gives birth

 

Forty years of fertility treatments finally give ultra-Orthodox couple their hearts' desire – a healthy baby boy

"I've waited for a baby for so long, I'm so happy," a woman who became the proud mother of a firstborn son at the age of 60, told Yedioth Ahronoth Wednesday.

The woman and her husband, an ultra-Orthodox couple living in the central Israel community of Kfar Khabad, were married over 40 years ago, and have been trying to have a child for nearly four decades.

The woman underwent numerous fertility treatments, and eight months ago finally became pregnant, but experienced various complications, which Prof. Moshe Hod, head of the High-Risk Pregnancy Unit at the Rabin Medical Center in Petah Tikva, said were typical of her age.

The woman went into premature labor about three weeks ago. She was hospitalized in an attempt to stop the early delivery, but soon after that doctors had no choice but to deliver the baby, which came into the world in the 34th week of pregnancy and at 4.29lbs.

"The woman is doing absolutely fine," said Prof. Hod. "She's in recovery with her son and she's euphoric. Naturally, she is going to have to be under observation for a while."

Read more at YNet

Congratulations to the happy parents! Other examples in Jewish history include Sarah, who gave birth to Yitzchak at 90, and Yocheved, who had Moses when she was over 100!

Babushka also has a baby--a 61 year old man.

Israeli Technology Helps Identify "Swine Flu" at Airports

 
Thermal imaging system at Narita Airport.

Israel's Opgal helps identify who's got flu

By Karin Kloosterman

How do you stop a virus like swine flu from sweeping the world? Well you could start at the airport. An Israeli company claims that this is a real possibility with its heat sensor technology that can detect fever in passengers travelling through an airport, a train station or other transportation hubs.

Opgal Optronics Industries' Fever Detection and Alarm System (FDA), can pinpoint people in a crowd that are suffering from elevated temperatures.

The first model of the product was brought to market during the global SARS epidemic, in 2003 and it later found a niche market among Asian customers a couple of years ago when Avian flu became a widespread problem there. The company sold more than 300 units to Asian nations.

Now the Karmiel-based company believes it's the perfect tool to halt the spread of swine flu or other pandemics that might threaten the world's health.

The FDA is an infrared thermal imaging device that can sense the temperature of the body and face in real time. Using sophisticated sensors and algorithms that consider ambient temperature, the FDA device can sense within a half degree centigrade if someone is suffering from a fever, says company CEO Dror Sharon.

Read more at Israel21c

Gaza child dies, unable to reach Israeli hospital (because of Hamas)

 

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip – A sick child in the Gaza Strip died on Sunday after Palestinian infighting and a blockade on the territory prevented his parents from seeking medical treatment abroad for their 10-year-old cancer-stricken son.

Ribhi Jindiyeh is just one child, but his story highlights the price some ordinary Gazans have paid for the conflict between Palestinian rivals, the militant Muslim Hamas and the more secular Fatah.

The power struggle has exacerbated problems caused by a tough blockade imposed by neighbors Egypt and Israel after Hamas wrested control of the strip from Fatah in June 2007.

Since then, the Islamic group has systematically taken over government agencies and in March sought to seize control of a medical committee that handles requests from the seriously ill to travel abroad for treatment unavailable at home. The committee's approval is key in the process of having Palestinian officials apply for essential transmit permits from the Israeli or Egyptian authorities.

As bickering continued, the committee halted work, trapping hundreds of Palestinian patients unable to seek lifesaving treatment for cancer and other diseases beyond Gaza's borders.

The World Health Organization has said eight such patients died by the end of April.

Neither Hamas nor Fatah medical officials could be reached for comment Sunday.

Read the rest at AP, including this part: An Israeli Defense Ministry official said a request to allow the ailing boy to cross into Israel from Gaza was received on Sunday and treated as urgent.

Yet another reason to boycott Israel

Jerusalem - Chareidi Start-Up in Advanced Development of Hormone to Eradicate Cancer, Crohn's and Colitis

Jerusalem - Dr. Yoram Devary, a world famous researcher in chemistry and biology was sitting in a Tel Aviv University lecture on the theory of DNA. Also at the lecture was Professor Uziel Sandler, a Chabad chosid who made aliya from Moscow in 1991 who was an expert in biology theory and math.

The lecture spoke about discovering new peptide hormones. The discovery of one such hormone, insulin, had brought relief and salvation to millions of diabetes sufferers in the world.

After the lecture, Devary and Sandler spoke together. How could it be that in the last ten years, with so many medical breakthroughs, not one peptide hormone had been discovered?

"We toyed around with discovering a peptide hormone in a different way," says Devary. "Then one day Professor Sandler came to me and said that theoretically, at a certain place on Chromosome 10, there should be a new peptide hormone. We located a virtual sequence of amino acids that we thought would belong to that hormone."

Read more at Vos is Neias

Swine Flu: It's a Zionist/Amreekan Conspiracy!