Israel cannabis news
Research & Culture
Clinical trials, cultivation science, university research and the wider culture around cannabis in Israel.
- Maariv (Hebrew)Research & Culture
Over 500 Nova festival survivors attend Israel’s first conference on trauma and substance use
The Nova Tribe Community association and the ICA brought together survivors of the October 7 parties, freed hostages and bereaved families to talk openly about alcohol and cannabis use after trauma, aiming to cut stigma and get people to seek help earlier.
- Ynet (Hebrew)Research & Culture
'Fauda' star Dafi Shoshana Alpern's other job: running a medical-cannabis pharmacy
The actress, who played Hagit across three seasons of 'Fauda', tells Ynet that she and her husband have managed a licensed medical-cannabis pharmacy since the pandemic — a venture her father moved into after the family's pharmacy chain wound down — and describes the strict criteria, heavy bureaucracy and dedicated on-site safe the regulator requires.
- Cannabis Magazine (Hebrew)Research & Culture
The protein craze's missing superfood: hemp seeds top the plant-protein tables but stay banned in Israel
With protein-enriched foods everywhere in Israeli supermarkets, this feature points out the oddity that hemp seeds — around 31.6g of protein per 100g by USDA figures, near the top of the plant-protein rankings — cannot legally be sold in Israel, while hemp-seed oil, which contains almost none, can.
- JNSResearch & Culture
Medical cannabis can 'significantly reduce' chronic pain in over-65s, Israeli researchers find
Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and the Cannabis Clinical Research Institute at Soroka University Medical Center in Beersheva report that medical-cannabis therapy significantly reduced chronic pain in patients aged 65 and over, without adverse effects.
- YnetnewsResearch & Culture
Israeli 'turbo cannabis' breakthrough could reshape medical marijuana cultivation
Researchers say a new cultivation method can sharply increase yields — a potential edge for Israeli producers.
- Ynet (Hebrew)Research & Culture
Medical cannabis in Israel: essential medicine or dangerous overhype?
A feature weighs the clinical evidence for and against medical cannabis in Israel, examining whether the treatment lives up to its reputation.
- Kan 11 (Hebrew)Research & Culture
'No need to fly to Amsterdam': how Israel became a cannabis power
A feature on the rise of Israel's cannabis sector, from its research roots to one of the world's largest patient bases.