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Knesset advances bill to recognize Israeli Sign Language as first language of deaf people
The bill would formally recognize Israeli Sign Language while maintaining the status of other sign languages used in Israel. It would also require the state to preserve, develop, and promote ISL.
'I wanted to serve fully': NGO support program enables young deaf adults to serve in the IDF
Beyond the Headlines: Moments at Ben-Gurion Airport, the Kotel - opinion
TAU researchers develop groundbreaking gene therapy to treat hearing, balance disabilities
Bats suffering from hearing loss can teach us about age-related hearing loss in people
The researchers found that the bats’ sense of hearing does in fact deteriorate with age, but at a relatively slow rate compared to humans and other mammals.
German and Israeli researchers test novel titanium-air battery
Useful when compact size is important or in large-scale stationary storage systems
Israel’s Sign Now is changing the lives of deaf people
The Israeli company provides on-demand sign language, and even provided sign language services to FIFA for the World Cup.
30 hearing-impaired youth celebrate Bar, Bat Mitzvahs in new initiative
The Wednesday event started at Beit Knesset Nitzanim in Jerusalem’s Baka neighborhood and then continued into the Old City for a tour and ceremony at the Western Wall.
Jewish-American deaf teacher in Israel breaks through mask barrier
Masa Teaching Fellow Giselle Nissenbaum is deaf and relied on lip reading in her classes. But when COVID-19 forced people to wear masks, she started teaching sign language.
Technion researchers print a functional ear implant
This new creation will hopefully prove useful for children born with microtia, a condition that results in underdeveloped, small or malformed ears at birth.
Celebrating ‘CODA’s inclusiveness
Even before its Oscar and SAG wins, CODA received the Ruderman Foundation’s Seal of Authentic Representation award
Can the deaf and hard of hearing understand sound through touch?
Herzliya researchers have developed a unique technology that uses the sense of touch to help understand speech and sound.
Radio host goes on hiatus after insulting MK for being deaf
The comments made by Yossi Ben-Atar not only hurt her, but "a community of about 800,000 people, women and children, deaf and hard of hearing, who were ridiculed."
MK Shirley Pinto delivers first ever Knesset speech in sign language
In her debut speech, Shirley Pinto, the first deaf MK in the history of Israel, explained that she represents disabled people in Israel.