Ahead of a recent entrepreneurial conference, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified three global industries in which Israel already has or could soon take a leading role.
Tevet is the fourth month in the Jewish civil calendar, but the 10th month according to the religious calendar, if one begins counting from the month of Nisan, when the people of Israel came out of Egypt.
We are all looking for answers in our lives, particularly when things go wrong.
Maybe it’s more than just a gadget for party animals who can’t remember the people they met the night before, because OrCam Technologies Ltd., the company behind MyMe, scored an impressive $130 million in investments last year.
Israeli firm Aleph Farms has unveiled a new kind of steak that does not come from a slaughtered animal, but is grown in the lab.
Leaving behind a legacy of 40 books and hundreds of articles, some of which appeared in 45 different languages, Amos Oz (b. 1939) passed away on December 28 at the age of 79.
Then the Lord rained down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah—from the Lord out of the heavens.
There are at any given time around 6,000 so-called “lone soldiers” in the Israel Defense Forces.
Mirroring Christian movements, there are deep divisions within the Messianic Jewish movement, and recent debates over theological issues threaten to create major rifts between factions.
While on the surface Israel still ‘enjoys’ the reputation of evildoer in the Arab world, behind the scenes it is the Jewish state that helps keep many of the current Arab governments in power.
The Jewish people are, of course, descendants of the 12 Tribes that entered and divided the Promised Land under divine command.
Siegmund Loewe was a pioneer of radio technology and co-founder of Loewe Technologies, still a leader in consumer and communication technology.
Swiss military police two years ago arrested three citizens who are non-Jewish supporters of Israel and charged them with treason.
Very few seem to have the time, resources or desire to invest in the desert, which accounts for 60 percent of Israel’s territory.
The term Ocher Israel (עוכר ישראל) is a derogatory expression for an enemy of Israel who does nothing but evil against the nation.
“Even billions of dollars cannot persuade us to give up on Jerusalem,” Mahmoud Abbas declared recently.
A shopping mall planned for the northern district of Jerusalem is annoying Palestinian activists who don’t tolerate any form of coexistence with Jews.
The mainstream media has long been criticized for publishing only what Arab leaders say in English, while all but ignoring their remarks in Arabic, which are often of a much different nature.
In what is now a Palestinian Christmas tradition, local officials and media outlets spent the holiday season insisting that Jesus was a “Palestinian refugee” and the first “Palestinian martyr.”
The Palestinian Authority launched a new school curriculum in 2018.
Israel is often portrayed as one of the places on earth most plagued by terrorist violence.
Does Israel’s upcoming national election mark the beginning of the end for Benjamin Netanyahu’s long premiership?
Weird as it may sound, Israel discriminates against Jews living in Judea and Samaria (the so-called “West Bank”).
In what is becoming an annual tradition, Anat and I visited Haifa and Nazareth during the Christmas season, along with several friends.
The train to Tel Aviv passed right by. I had missed it by 18 seconds.
What would hiking almost 100 miles across the desert have to do with me? Nothing, right?
“As a rabbi, I do a lot of talking about love, doing things for others and altruism.
Last year, 4,120,800 tourists came to Israel, 14 percent more than the year before, which was also a record year, and 42 percent more than in 2016.
Following a turbulent hearing, the judge announced his verdict: “Cain is acquitted of the accusation of murder owing to lack of evidence, and instead convicted of manslaughter in the death of his brother Abel.”
An online troll is someone who mocks, scolds or simply annoys other people on the Internet, mostly to elicit an emotional response.
After a Palestinian blogger launched his “Captain Palestine” superhero to “liberate the Palestinian people from Israeli occupation,” Srulik, a famous cartoon character created in 1956 by artist Kariel Gardosh, was transformed recently into “Zionman.”
At the end of 2018, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics published figures revealing that the Jewish state’s population had increased by 2 percent over the past year to 8,972,000 inhabitants.
The salary gap between the sexes is particularly high in Israel, where a woman earns only 69 percent of what a man earns.
The Azrieli Group, which has already built three skyscrapers that dominate the Tel Aviv skyline, has now begun construction on a fourth.
Ofra Haza was an internationally-recognized singer who was nominated for the Grammy Award, among many other prizes.
Violence is inserted into science and math exercises: Calculus for fourth grade students is taught by counting the number of Palestinian “martyrs.”