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The Man Who Taught Me to Fly

ISRAEL21c and the iCenter launch a new video and lesson plan to celebrate the unique work of Israeli scientist and ornithologist Yossi Leshem.

Chinese billionaire puts Israeli high-tech education on his Horizons, with a commitment to the Technion’s Israel campus and a new one in Shantou.

Take a look inside a long-running Jewish-Arab nursery school run by the YMCA in Jerusalem.

The volunteer program gives teens responsibility for handling essential firefighting tasks, propelling many to future careers.

Botanica, a Jerusalem social business, provides transitional employment for people with mental illness, and activities to involve the public.

Encouraging new talent to live and work in the city provides a compelling reason for young singles and families to remain in Jerusalem.

For people with physical challenges, loneliness is the biggest challenge of all. The Inbar organization exists to address this need.

Israeli scientists puzzle over how an ancient stone structure twice the diameter of Stonehenge ended up in the Sea of Galilee.

‘All my life is about trying to combine between religious and not religious, community and culture,’ says Jerusalem community council CEO.

See why the breathtaking garden jewel of Haifa gets 750,000 visitors every year.

Matash crunches a variety of data to predict how a forest fire will spread and help authorities decide how best to fight it.

A novel Israeli invention, MilkSense, non-invasively measures how much milk an infant gets from the breast. A baby scale is included in the kit.

In northern Israel, Arab and Jewish children learn to respect one another, through fighting.

‘Shanti House is unique in the world,’ says founder Mariuma Klein. ‘First, it’s a home. When you go inside, the walls hug you.’