Photo of the Week – Flowers and tanks
Flower beds at Nir Yitzhak replace the tanks and soldiers stationed there during last summer’s conflict with Gaza.
Flower beds at Nir Yitzhak replace the tanks and soldiers stationed there during last summer’s conflict with Gaza.
A new culinary shipping service brings the best tastes of Israel to US mailboxes.
‘Our two goals are to further the study of science and technology in Israel, while helping to cure societal ills and inequalities,’ says Technoda CEO.
Sales of high-end wooden bicycle grips go toward community-empowerment program for Arab-Israeli teens in Wadi Nisnas.
Residents of the badly hit southern city tell ISRAEL21c how they managed to keep fear at bay through this long summer of sirens and missiles.
Since the start of Operation Protective Edge, Soroka Medical Center in Beersheva has treated 1,116 casualties — 740 soldiers, 376 civilians.
Yedid-The Association for Community Empowerment will canvass seniors in southern cities about war-related hardships and inform them of services.
Tzvika Bitan is traveling around the Gaza border offering hot showers to soldiers covered in weeks’ worth of sand, dust and sweat.
Israeli farmer living near Gaza prepares 35,000 free pita sandwiches each day for soldiers on the frontlines. A Haifa butcher supplies the meat.
‘This community of people is part of the healing,’ says coordinator of a drive to find foster families for lone soldiers in recuperation after combat injuries.
Ofer Biton saw his pet dog helped troubled teens learn to trust again, so he started a certificate program in canine therapy, now based at Tel Aviv University.
Operation Protective Edge has brought an expected dip in tourism, but not everyone is staying away. ISRAEL21c finds out why.
Eye From Zion medical team left Israel on cusp of war to provide 102 sight-saving surgeries in Kinshasa, one of the most dangerous cities in central Africa.
‘My incentive was saving human lives,’ says Brig. Gen. Daniel Gold, who defied the defense establishment to forge ahead with Iron Dome in 2005.
Grassroots groups jump in to offer support, assistance and companionship to the many loved ones of troops sent to Gaza.