The following three items - one obscene, one causing wonderment, and one "Go Israel! - were gleaned from Wednesday's Israel HaYom email.
The "full story" URLs are given following each article.
The obscenity is headlined:
Family of Toulouse gunman sues police over son's death
The family of French gunman Mohamed Merah, who killed four people at a Jewish school in Toulouse in March and was later shot dead by police, filed a lawsuit Monday suggesting he was effectively murdered.
Prosecutors say Merah was a radical Islamist who killed three Jewish schoolchildren, a rabbi and three French paratroopers in a rampage in March that shocked the country. Merah was shot and killed after a 32-hour standoff at his apartment in the southern city of Toulouse.
Algerian lawyer Zahia Mokhtari and French lawyer Isabelle Coutant-Peyre filed the lawsuit in the main Paris courthouse Monday alleging "murder with aggravating circumstances."
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4648
The "How can it be?" article is titled
'Peace poll' considers Israel less peaceful than Syria
Only eight nations worldwide are less peaceful than Israel, and Syria, which daily sees massacres against civilians and opposition fighters, is not one of them, suggests the annual Global Peace Index, compiled by the global non-profit American-Australian research organization, Institute for Economics and Peace.
Almost all of Israel's neighbors in the Middle East are ranked more peaceful than the only democracy in the region. Iran ranks 128, Lebanon ranks 136, Egypt ranks 111 despite its current instability and even Syria, where children are being massacred almost daily, ranks higher than Israel at 147 (dropping from 106 last year). Israel ranked 150th of 158.
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4657
Finally, the "Way to go, Israel!" article with the heading:
Fixing broken bones a growth industry
This is an article Israel HaYom picked up from Australia's Sydney Morning Herald that begins: Scientists have grown human bone from stem cells in a laboratory, paving the way for patients to have broken bones repaired - or even replaced with new ones grown outside the body from their own cells.
The first trial in patients is on course for later this year by an Israeli biotechnology company that has been working with academics on the technology."
The technology was developed with researchers at the Technion Institute of Research in Israel, Professor Avinoam Kadouri, head of the scientific advisory board for Bonus BioGroup, said: ''We use three-dimensional structures to fabricate the bone in the right shape and geometry. We can grow these bones outside the body and then transplant them to the patient.
''By scanning the damaged bone area, the implant should fit perfectly and merge with the surrounding tissue. There are no rejection problems as the cells come from the patient.''
http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/fixing-broken-bones-a-growth-industry-20120610-204fd.html
The Bonus BioGroup is located at 11 HaMelacha Street, Afek Park, Rosh Haayin, Israel. (Information from Bloombeerg, http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/BONS:IT/profile).
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