Two people were wounded in a terrorist stabbing attack near the Jaffa Gate entrance to Jerusalem's Old City.

Dr. David Applebaum, a renowned physician and talmid chacham, made significant contributions to Israeli emergency medicine, including developing innovative methods such as administering streptokinase to heart attack patients before reaching the hospital.

Dr. Meyer Lifschitz, a kidney doctor, became a kidney donor for his sister after her kidney function deteriorated, advancing the idea of transplantation over dialysis.