In this edition we mark the sad birthday of 5-year-old Ariel Bibas, the little redhead being held by Hamas with his baby brother and parents. We also want you to know about the courageous stand taken by Ayelet Samerano against the UNWRA secretary-general in Lausanne.
Read about how long can a hostage survive in captivity, about Turkey in NATO, the threats to Israel from Iran and Hezbollah and what the IDF says might happen.
First steerable 0.035-inch guidewire combines controlled tip deflection and distal support to accelerate catheter access; builds on nearly 5,000 DRIVEWIRE™ 24 cases. Jeremy Rempel, MD, of the University of Alberta Hospital in Edmonton, Canada, performed the first clinical cases worldwide, including successfully navigating catheters to treat an intracranial occlusion without crossing the clot.
More than one-third of NHS mental health trusts across the United Kingdom have now adopted PixCell Medical's HemoScreen point-of-care complete blood count (CBC) analyzer, marking one of the fastest known expansions of near-patient hematology within UK mental health services. Initially introduced through targeted evaluations and clozapine monitoring pilots, HemoScreen has rapidly expanded into routine clinical practice across community mental health clinics, inpatient wards and secure psychiatric units.
Job Fair Monday July 6 at 6 PM. For details contact Carmita@yoqneam.org.il
InMode Ltd. has called its annual general meeting for July 30, 2026, at 17:00 Israel time in Yokneam. Shareholders will vote on four items: re-electing Class I director Dr. Hadar Ron, re-appointing PwC as auditor for 2026, granting a total of 6,000 restricted share units to three non-executive directors, and approving the compensation terms for a special board committee that evaluated a potential sale process.
As part of the “Unicorn” and “Hi-Tech Kid Championship” educational programs, 14 young students from Yokneam’s elementary schools developed tools for the Blind and Autism Spectrum Disorder. This links to an article in Hebrew.
Assaf Gilead at Globes financial newspaper reported that the processor is capable of transferring huge volumes of data at record speed in data centers designed for AI technologies.
Sophie Shulman of CTech reports that the move could reduce pressure from the strong shekel while helping the government service foreign-currency debt.
When Nvidia paid $6.9 billion in 2020 to acquire Mellanox Technologies, an Israeli specialist in high-speed communications chips, the deal was framed as a strategic complement to its dominant graphics processors. Six years later, that acquisition has become one of the most consequential bets in the company’s history.
The Yokneam, Israel-based company said it had net income of 42 cents per share. Earnings, adjusted for stock option expense, came to 46 cents per share.
