A cardiac catheterization using sound waves was successfully performed for the first time in Israel on Sunday by the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem.
The procedure was done to treat a complex case of severe arterial congestion, reported the Tazpit News Agency.
The 66-year-old patient had calcium build-up, and doctors used special equipment developed by SHOCKWAVE after a previously performed catheterization failed to help the issue.

Rav Yosef Yoizel Horowitz, Alter of Novardok (1849[or 1858]-1919). Born in the Lithuanian town of Plongian to Rav Shlomo Zalman, Rav and Dayan of the town, Rav Yosef Yoizel joined Kovno’s Kollel Perushim where he studied under Rav Itzele Blazer, Rav Naftali Amsterdam and Rav Avraham Shenker, spending at least 18 hours a day – most of the time standing- studying.

A man faces federal charges for allegedly threatening to kill a Republican congressman after he says he was enraged by a political ad and accused the Republican representative of “backing the Russians over our own intelligence.”
Randall E. Tarr, 64, is accused of threatening Rep. Rodney Davis, R-Ill., in a profane voice mail in which he says he just saw Davis on TV, according to a criminal complaint. Identifying himself as an eight-year military veteran and “sharpshooter,” the Rochester, Illinois, resident said he would like to shoot Davis’ “head off,” the complaint states.

All of the presidential candidates who qualified for next week’s Democratic debate are threatening to skip the event in response to a labor dispute taking place at the debate venue, Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts; Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.; businessman Andrew Yang; former vice president Joe Biden; billionaire activist Tom Steyer; Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg said Friday they would refuse to cross picket lines in solidarity with Unite Here Local 11, which represents food service workers at the university who have been negotiating for a collective bargaining agreement.

Senior Likud MK Gideon Sa’ar on Saturday night called on Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to debate him.
On the “Mahadurat Hashabbat” show, Sa’ar said, “I call on Netanyahu to hold a debate – like they do in the US.”
“I think that Likud members deserve to hear content as well – what each of us is offering regarding Gaza, the health and social reforms. I think that this is appropriate, just like this happens in the entire Western world. I’ll accommodate Netanyahu’s schedule.”
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
{Matzav.com}

Airbnb has removed over 60 accounts belonging to individuals identified as neo-Nazis, the Daily Mail reported.
The neo-Nazis were indentified during a data dump of the online neo-Nazi group “Iron March.”
In a statement to the Daily Mail, Airbnb said banning Iron March members was “a no-brainer” because “anyone sympathetic to neo-Nazi ideology and violent extremism has absolutely no place.”
“When we see people on our platform pursuing behavior antithetical to our Community Commitment, we take action to prioritize the safety of our community,” the spokesperson added. “Through our trust and safety systems, we are continuously seeking to proactively identify those who could put our hosts and guests at risk.”

Britain’s Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis said on Friday that despite the results of Thursday election, challenges in combating bigotry and hatred in the United Kingdom continue.
“The elections may be over, but concerns about the resurgence of anti-Semitism remain,” Mirvis said in a statement.
“Islamophobia, racism and other forms of prejudice continue to afflict our communities and, as has been well publicized, even our political parties,” he said.
“It is vital that we now bring the country together, ensuring that the voices of people from across our society are heard and respected. We must focus on our shared values and leave all hatred and prejudice far behind us,” Mirvis added.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy ordered flags across the state to be flown at half-mast for a full week beginning on Friday, Dec. 13, in “recognition and mourning of the passing of the victims in Jersey City.”
Jersey City Police Det. Joseph Seals was killed in the line of duty on Dec. 10 at the start of an afternoon of terror in the city.
His two attackers then drove to the JC Kosher Supermarket in the Greenville section of the city. There, they killed two Chassidic Jews—store owner Leah Mindel Ferencz, 33, and customer Moshe Deutsch, 24—and Miguel Rodriguez, 49, a store employee who is being remembered as a hero for helping a customer escape out the back when the attack began.

The enormous door at the entrance to the main synagogue in the central German city of Halle that withstood the neo-Nazi gunman who attempted to massacre worshipers on Yom Kippur this year is to be turned into a symbolic art object, the head of the Jewish community announced on Friday.
More than 50 people were attending services on Oct. 9 to mark Judaism’s holiest day when the gunman — Stephan Balliet — tried to break into the building, in an attack that was livestreamed on the internet.
Foiled by the heavy security door to the synagogue, Balliet subsequently murdered a 40-year-old woman and a 20-year-old man who were in the vicinity of the building.

A new report says the Israeli Mossad helped foil several terror attacks in Denmark, Keshet 12 reported.
Nir Dvori, the site’s army and security journalist, on Saturday night reported that the ones helping Danish police and intelligence services foil a long list of terror attacks was the Israeli Mossad.
The terror attacks were planned out, but were foiled at the last moment by the Mossad, which was aiding its counterparts to end the threat of terror in Europe.
Read more at Arutz Sheva.
{Matzav.com}