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Antibiotic resistance is one of the world’s most serious health threats. Here’s how Israeli scientists are trying to overcome the problem.

Antibiotics are one of the most effective ways to treat bacterial infections. However, they have been overprescribed and misprescribed for years, leading to the development of bacterial strains that are resistant to specific antibiotics.

The World Health Organization considers this one of the biggest threats to global health because antimicrobial resistant (AMR) infections kill more than 700,000 people worldwide every year.

Israeli researchers and entrepreneurs are approaching the problem from various different perspectives. Here are 10 promising advances.

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Biblical ‘royal purple’ found at Timna offers look at King David's wardrobe

Biblical ‘royal purple’ found at Timna offers look at King David’s wardrobe

The color, a bright shade of purple, was extracted from mollusks fished in the Mediterranean Sea through a very expensive process. The special purple described in the Bible and worn by the kings of Israel, including David and Solomon, was recently identified on 3,000 year-old fragments of fabrics unearthed at the iconic site of Timna in the Negev. “King Solomon made for himself the carriage; he…

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Copper masks are more expensive than typical cloth ones. Are they worth the cost?

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Tűz és víz a Jordán völgyében

Erre az utamra nehéz lélekkel indultam: egyrészt tudtam, hogy csodálatos kalandok várnak, másrészt azt is tudtam, hogy 1967-ben Jordániától elfoglalt területre készülök, ahol mintegy ötezer telepes él. Izrael történelmi múltjának egyik meghatározó részét nem hagyhatom ki a turista hetiszakaszból, bárhol is van, nekivágtam hát, és közben azzal nyugtattam magam, hogy nem mint palesztinokat elnyomó…

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