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The fountain of youth may be made of air, not water. Scientists say they’ve successfully reversed the aging process of elderly people through “oxygen therapy” in a first-of-its-kind study. Researchers from Tel Aviv University used hyperbaric oxygen chambers to target specific cells and DNA linked to shorter lifespans — and found the “Holy Grail” of staying young, according to a press release about the discovery. During the study, researchers investigated whether the therapy — which involves breathing pure oxygen in a pressurized environment — could reverse the effects of aging in 35 people over age 64, according to the study,...

Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, Executive Director of Tel Aviv University's Institute for National Security Studies (INSS), expressed concern over the population density in Israel and called for a drop in the country's birthrate. In an interview with Yediot Aharonot, Trajtenberg said, "When I look ahead, I see a future that is blacker than black." He noted that according to the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), at the end of 2020 there were nearly 9.3 million people living in Israel, and this number grows by nearly 2% each year. "We are living in the third most densely populated country among OECD countries,...

Tel Aviv University is crawling with anti-Israel "Post-Zionist" professors and with openly communist faculty members. It would be hard to pinpoint the very worst and most outrageous of these, but Yehouda Shenhav is surely a serious contender. Shenhav is Associate Professor and past department chairman of sociology at Tel Aviv University He was born Yehouda Shaharabani to Iraqi parents who had immigrated as refugees to Israel, and later changed his name to a less obviously Oriental one. He teaches Marxism and anti-Zionism to Tel Aviv University students and he edits the hardcore Marxist pseudo-academic Israeli journal calling itself "Theory and...