With a degree in general economics from the University of Hanover, Germany, Michael’s focus is on economy and technology. As an Orthodox Jew, Michael also writes about Jewish and Biblical topics.
Michael was born in Minsk, Belorus, but grew up in Germany. He speaks Russian, German, English and Hebrew. Michael came to Israel in 2007 as a tourist, but in Jerusalem he found his way back to the faith of his forefathers and decided to stay in the Promised Land. Here he met his wife, who is from Germany as well and together they moved to an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Bet Shemesh. They have four children.
Michael writes and coordinates for the German edition of Israel Today’s magazine since 2009.
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.
Time and again, archaeological discoveries are proving that there has been Jewish life in Israel for millennia.
While he was working in his garden at Kibbutz Hazorea in the Jezreel Valley, Dekel Ben-Shitrit found a curious ring.
With this curse, Adam was driven out of paradise.
