Fighting in Gaza didn't stop 21-year-old soldier Matan Amir from stepping up to donate bone marrow and save a three-year-old boy's life.

'I realized the connection God made here--I am in Israel, an ultra-Orthodox Jew, and I saved the life of a Muslim boy in the United States,' said the bone marrow donor.

Israel’s Novotalk is the only app that includes a therapy aspect for stuttering intervention, and researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have developed a molecule which targets metastatic human melanoma and colon cancer.

Israel is part of an international team working on creating a digital reconstruction of the brain, and Weizmann Institute Professor Michal Schwartz was featured in Good Housekeeping magazine in an article that explains how the brain and the immune system communicate.