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The IDF’s Unit 9900: ‘Seeing’ their service come to fruition

Yaakov Lappin04.05.2018

The secretive and sensitive Unit 9900, which specializes in visual intelligence and plays an essential role in the activities of the Israel Defense Forces, has received some 100 autistic volunteer soldiers so far.

Israeli soldiers of the IDF Intelligence Unit. The "Unit 9900" or Ro'im Rachok, is a unit of the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate that specifically recruits teenagers on the autism spectum to analyze aerial and satellite photographs. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90

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Prenatal vitamins markedly lower autism risk, according to Israeli researchers

18.03.2018

Mothers who took folic acid, multivitamins or both prior to pregnancy were 61 percent less likely to give birth to an autistic child.

Folic acid and multivitamins taken prior to and during pregnancy are linked to a lower risk of children born with autism, an Israeli study finds. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

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