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Israeli actress breaks world record

The Guinness Book of World Records committee recently declared veteran Israeli actress Hanna Meron as the thespian with the world’s longest career in theater. Photo

Jerusalem market has an art attack

The piles of green avocados and yellow bananas now on display at Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market will be sidelined tomorrow (September 21) by a different

Baring it all at Dead Sea photo shoot

Some 1,000 Israelis took part in American photographer Spencer Tunick’s mass nude photo shoot at the Dead Sea over the weekend. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90

Study links LED light and cancer

Exposure to the light of white LED bulbs suppresses melatonin five times more than exposure to the light of high-pressure sodium bulbs that emit an

Israel #4 in clean-tech investments

Israel ranked fourth in clean-tech investments in the recently published 2011 Global Green Economy Index (GGEI). The report reviewed vitality and investment opportunity in 27

eBay buys The Gifts Project

Online retail giant eBay splurged on a special present for itself: Israeli start-up The Gifts Project. Though financial details of the transaction were not specified,

Israel’s Navajo sells for $30m

US software giant Salesforce recently acquired Navajo Systems, an Israeli cloud security encryption vendor, for $30 million. Salesforce issued an official statement of the acquisition

Anlit gives probiotic boost for kids

Israel’s Anlit Advanced Nutrition and Frutarom have developed a child-friendly probiotics supplement for immune health. The new product is based on BLIS K12 – the

An Israeli-Palestinian Spring

A new Israeli-Palestinian project called ‘YaLa – Young Leaders’ has launched, seeking to give the young generation in the Middle East a leading voice in