Israel

American actor Dean Cain, who played Superman in the television series “Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman,” was invited to visit the Knesset as a guest of MK Hilik Bar (Zionist Union).

Israel is a country rich in tradition, but for the younger generation, the so-called millennials, visits to museums and archaeological sites hold waning interest.

Israel has already demonstrated that it’s ready to forcibly evacuate Jewish residents to meet Arab demands for a Palestinian state free of Jews.

It was Friday, just before Shabbat began. In Ramat Hasharon, the weather was so stormy that a local supermarket lost all power, leaving the clerks unable to check out any more customers.

The German pharmaceutical company Merck, together with other international companies in the same line of business, plan to launch a fund that will invest 20 million euros ($24.6 million) in Israeli biotechnology over the next five years.

Delek and Noble Energies, the companies operating the gas fields off the coast of Israel, have come to an agreement with the Egyptian company Dolphinus to deliver 64 billion cubic meters of natural gas to the Arab country over the next ten years.

The US-based stock exchange NASDAQ currently lists no fewer than 70 Israeli companies.

Ophthalmologists at the Shaare Zedek Medical Center in Jerusalem, in collaboration with the researchers at Bar Ilan University, have developed eye drops that repair the cornea.

In May 2009, Benjamin Netanyahu presented his host in Washington, Barack Obama, with the book “The Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain.