Tag: News

Israel Cancer Fund posts record grants

In its efforts to eradicate cancer, the Israel Cancer Research Fund (ICRF) announced 69 new grants, totaling $2.48 million for the 2011/2012 funding year. “Israel

Harley Davidson salute to IDF

Thousands of Harley Davidson motorcyclists from across the United States – many of them Evangelical priests — are in Israel to take part in the

Drink water, lose weight

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.

Israel opens 5th med school

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

Israeli play triumphs in Bucharest

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’

Israel sends aid to Turkey

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

TAU pieces together ‘Cairo Genizah’

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

Cornell teams up with Technion

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

Seniors just wanna have fun

Online gaming isn’t just for the young ‘uns. According to Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researcher Dr. Galit Nimrod, seniors also “wanna have fun”