By Lauren Kramer
A student at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Neurobiochemistry has developed what is possibly the first tablet-based treatment for kids and adults with Type 1 Diabetes. Adi Mor’s early results in animals show that the compound is effective in restoring insulin production.
Mor works under Professor Yoel Kloog, the dean of the Faculty of [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Two extremely different cities, two extremely different kinds of people. One kind of norm. It’s always hard to explain Israel to my Canadian family, who I am now visiting in North Bay, Ontario. It’s the little things that you see, I explain to them. Like when I was on the mini-bus (moneet shirut) [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal

Israel’s top tennis talent Shahar Pe’er strutted her stuff recently in Toronto with a strong showing at the Rogers Cup event.
Adoring crowds cheered ‘Kadima, Shahar’ for the 22-year-old, who made it to the third round of the $2 million (US) tournament, before falling to eventual champion, Elena Dementieva of Russia.
Pe’er took out [...]

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