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Remembering Oren Nahari: The storyteller who brought the world into Israeli living rooms - comment

Oren had an extraordinary ability to teach, but above all, to convey one fundamental message: the most important thing is knowing how to tell a story. There is an audience for it.

Israeli journalist Oren Nahari speaks at the annual conference of the Budget Division in at Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem on November 2, 2015.
Television presenter Oren Nahari speaks at the Sapir Prize for Literature award ceremony in Tel Aviv on January 2, 2023.

Journalist Oren Nahari dies at 70 after battle with ALS

Israeli President Isaac Herzog and his wife Michal Herzog meet with residents of the northern moshav of Netu’a, northern Israel, June 10, 2026.

Grapevine, June 24, 2026: Reliving the nightmare - opinion

VETERAN JOURNALIST Oren Nahari, once a fixture of Channel 1’s foreign news coverage, poses with his latest book on the battles that shaped history. Today, Nahari faces a personal battle with ALS while continuing to write, lecture, and reflect on Israel, democracy, and mortality.

'Nothing is inevitable': Veteran journalist Oren Nahari on Israel, history, and battle with ALS


Breakthrough research on fruit flies may pave way for ALS cure

The work on fruit flies in the lab shows how protein interactions can preserve or prevent the nerve cell death that is a hallmark of ALS.

Petri dishes are pictured in an unknown location in a Cancer Research UK laboratory on an unknown date.

Israeli firm uses AI to help fully paralyzed woman speak again

The groundbreaking Israeli development allows patients to regain their voice with the help of AI

 Debi Admoni

Ady Barkan, healthcare activist who fought Lou Gehrig’s disease, dies at 39

In 2017, as a new father given just years to live, he literally threw his body into action, protesting Republican initiatives at the U.S. Capitol, crisscrossing the country and raising millions.

Technicians help develop a stem cell treatment for nerve-degenerative disease ALS in the laboratory.

Tiny sensors allows this ALS patient to communicate

At 62 words per minute, with a vocabulary of 125,000, brain sensor implants helped interpret a woman's intended speech and printed it on screen.

 Frank Willett operates software that translates Pat Bennett's attempts at speech - recorded by sensors in her brain - into words on a screen.

Israeli chain launches campaign for Global ALS Awareness Day

In honor of the Global ALS Awareness Day, Israeli chain Noi Sheda and IsrA.L.S. Association is partnering up for a new campaign.

Prof. Boaz Lerner of Ben-Gurion University uses a new platform for predicting ALS disease progression

Elite soccer players 1.5 times more likely to develop Alzheimer's -study

A new study aimed to determine the risk of neurodegenerative disease among male players in the top Swedish soccer division Allsvenskan compared to the general population.

Djurgarden's Jonathan Ring in action with Sirius' Karl Larson - Allsvenskan - IK Sirius v Djurgardens IF - Uppsala, Sweden, June 14, 2020

New research uncovers method to prevent DNA breakdown, aging - study

The research focuses on a protein called SIRT6, which seems to have remarkable properties.

 What are the scientific processes behind aging?

Weizmann Institute researchers discover new Lou Gehrig’s disease neural pathway

The incurable neurological condition, which affects about one in 50,000 people, gradually paralyzes patients, halting the ability to speak, eat, move and even breathe.

 Microglia (green) that were “matured” in the lab from stem cells of ALS patients; the cells’ nuclei are in blue. Viewed with confocal microscopy

Is ALS reversible? -TAU study

Researchers from Tel Aviv University identified the biological mechanism causing nerve destruction in the neurodegenerative disease ALS.

 Tel Aviv University Campus

Promising stem-cell based drug for treatment of ALS receives patent

The therapeutic drug is safe for administration and helpful in slowing disease progression, as well as increasing life expectancy and the overall quality of life for ALS patients.

THE HADASSAH-UNIVERSITY Medical Center campus is seen in Ein Kerem.