Thousands of Harley Davidson motorcyclists from across the United States – many of them Evangelical priests — are in Israel to take part in the Run to the Wall Israel campaign in honor of IDF soldiers.
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Ex-freedom fighters from Nigeria are being sent to an Israeli institute to learn vital skills for self-sufficiency.

Nigerians learned livelihood skills at the Galilee International Management Institute in Israel.
After fighting big oil, ex-rebels from the Niger Delta of Nigeria have chosen to put down their weapons. Read More »

Drinking more water helps obese children lose weight, according to researchers at the Edmond and Lily Safra Children’s Hospital at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer. Read More »

Israel opened the doors to its fifth medical school and its first in the Galilee region. To mark the historical event, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held the weekly Cabinet meeting at the new campus in the city of Safed (Tzfat).”I think that this is a festive day for the Galilee. Why? Because we are bringing in a major anchor here. Read More »

National Geographic readers in Russia voted for Israel as one of the three top destinations in the world in the ‘tourism and sightseeing’ category, according to a recent survey by the international magazine. Readers placed Israel in the second spot, with Italy taking the top position and Holland in third place. Read More »

Street artists use the raw surfaces of Jerusalem’s open-air marketplace to launch Tabula Rasa, an eclectic urban art project.

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Mayor Nir Barkat gets ready to paint a backgammon board. Read More »

‘Maybe this is the biggest and most important landmark of the relationship so far,’ says Cyprus-Israel Business Association president.

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President of Cyprus, Christofias Demetris meets Israeli Prime Minister Benjamine Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem. Read More »

The Israeli theater-dance production, Hide and Seek 3,4 , recently won the Best Performance Award at the International Theater Festival for Children ’100, 1000, 1,000,000 stories’ in Bucharest. Hide and Seek 3,4 – by the Dina Telem Group – takes young audiences on a journey to the world of playing and games. Read More »

American art photographer Spencer Tunick has revealed his first image from a shoot he did last month at the Dead Sea. The ‘Naked Sea’ photo is meant to promote voting for the Dead Sea as one of the New Seven Wonders of Nature. Read More »

‘You shouldn’t be able to return a baby like a t-shirt,’ says Emmy Award winner Zippi Brand Frank, whose film documents Indian surrogate mothers.

Zippi Brand Frank’s documentary focuses on a rural clinic in India where peasant women give birth to babies ordered over the Internet. Read More »

This afternoon, a first Israeli aid package including portable homes and buildings will arrive in the quake ravaged area in Eastern Turkey. Israel was the first country in the world to offer Ankara assistance in the aftermath of the October 23 natural disaster. Read More »

Scientists at the Tel Aviv University have developed sophisticated software to piece together more than 350,000 Jewish texts known as the Cairo Genizah . The collection of historical texts in the Genizah is scattered among 70 institutions worldwide making it difficult for scholars to study them. Read More »

A computer chip that mimics the cerebellum’s coordination of body movements isn’t science fiction. It’s working in a lab at Tel Aviv University.

Prof. Matti Mintz in his Tel Aviv University lab.
ABC News nicknamed it “RoboRat” – a rodent with a hybrid composition of a biological brain and a synthetic device. Read More »

A 20-year-old ‘hoop star,’ Rivkin is aiming for her second Olympics and is picking up medals at competitions across the world. Read More »

Some of the world’s leading names in the fashion industry are in Israel for the third annual Holon Fashion Week . Read More »

A delegation led by the mayor of San Antonio comes to Israel to forge partnerships in biomedical and water technology.

Photo by Oren Nashshon
From left, BioMed SA President Ann Stevens, San Antonio Mayor Julian Castro, Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Naomi Tzur and BioJerusalem’s Chen Levin at the signing of a memorandum of intent. Read More »

A new culture of chocolate has emerged in Israel, with the opening of dozens of new boutique chocolatiers. Now their fine, handcrafted creations are being sold abroad too.

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Chocolates from boutique chocolatier Sweet N’Karem in Jerusalem. Read More »

Israel is offering aid to the Turkish government after a massive magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked the southeast of the country on Sunday morning, destroying buildings and killing up to 1,000 people.
The earthquake’s epicenter was 20 kilometers from the city of Van, near the Iranian border. Read More »

Cornell University turned to the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology to help bolster its bid to construct an engineering and applied-science campus in New York City. The partnership comes in the wake of an initiative by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg. Read More »

Way underneath the salty surface of the lowest spot on earth, microorganisms and underground springs thrive.

Danny Ionescu holding a rock covered with white biofilm.
A massive algae bloom that turned the Dead Sea red in the 1980s convinced scientists that there was life in that famous inland salt lake after all. Read More »