Phage Therapy in Israel, Past, Present, and Future

Amit Rimon; Daniel Gelman; Ortal Yerushalmy; Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer; Eyal Katvan; Ran Nir-Paz; Ronen Hazan

doi:10.1089/phage.2022.0010

Phage Therapy in Israel, Past, Present, and Future

Phage (New Rochelle). 2022 Jun 1;3(2):85-94. doi: 10.1089/phage.2022.0010. Epub 2022 Jun 16.

Authors

Amit Rimon^{1

2}, Daniel Gelman^{1

2}, Ortal Yerushalmy¹, Shunit Coppenhagen-Glazer¹, Eyal Katvan^{3

4}, Ran Nir-Paz⁵, Ronen Hazan¹

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Biomedical and Oral Research (IBOR), Faculty of Dental Medicine, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
² Department of Military Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
³ Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel.
⁴ Peres Academic Center, Rehovot, Israel.
⁵ Department of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Jerusalem, and the Faculty of Medicine, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.

Abstract

The fascinating scientific history of phage therapy has been documented in numerous publications. In this study, however, we focus on an angle of the story that hitherto has remained relatively neglected, namely, phage therapy treatments, and the protagonists that conducted these in Mandatory-Palestine and subsequently the state of Israel, as part of a global trend. We complete the story by describing efforts in the new era of phage therapy in present-day Israel.

Keywords: Israel phage bank; Mandatory-Palestine; phage history; phage therapy.

Publication types

Review