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From Ultra-Orthodox Schooling to Cancer Innovation, a Rare Haredi Physicist
How 2 Israeli newsrooms covered this story — translated into English and compared side by side.
100% centerFirst reported by Mako · 1 day ago
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What happened
Shikei Stauber, a haredi physicist at Alpha-TAU in Jerusalem, is helping develop a radioactive capsule meant to destroy tumors from inside. He says the treatment is showing encouraging early results in trials for skin and pancreatic cancer, while his own path ran from an extremist haredi education to advanced physics studies.
- 01Alpha-TAU is testing an internal radiation capsule for hard-to-treat cancers.
- 02Early trials showed strong results in skin cancer and promising interim pancreatic data.
- 03Stauber grew up in a strict haredi school system in Jerusalem's Bayit Vagan.
- 04He completed first-grade material at 29 before studying physics at Hebrew University.
- 05He says haredi schools should let parents choose between private and state-haredi frameworks.
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