Writer: ISRAEL21c Staff

Overweight? Call the fat-busters

A new Israeli method to analyze fat may facilitate the breakdown of the cells that produce fat in our bodies, targeting rising rates of obesity and diabetes.

Talk to the animals

During the second Lebanon War, many Israelis in the rocket-battered north and south refused to evacuate their homes. For many of these householders, it wasn’t

Israel’s first eco-friendly road

The Israel National Roads Company has paved Israel’s first eco-friendly road. Just over half a mile of road was paved with an experimental blend of

Israeli soccer giant dies of injuries

Avi Cohen, Israel’s first international soccer star to play in England’s top flight league, passed away in a Tel Aviv hospital yesterday, after succumbing to

Full strawberry genome produced

In a collaborative effort involving 74 researchers from 38 research institutes, scientists from Israel’s Weizmann Institute have produced the full genome of a wild strawberry

Israeli tech is new Hollywood hero

Mimicking techniques used to map human DNA, researchers in Israel have developed a method that detects pirated clips. The discovery could help to stem the

Leviev leases space in Times Square

AFI USA, a unit of Israeli billionaire Lev Leviev’s-controlled Africa-Israel Investments last week leased 28,000 square feet in the old New York Times Building to

Bar Refaeli buried in coal

Israeli supermodel Bar Refaeli as well as singers, athletes and former government ministers covered themselves in coal to promote alternative energy sources with Greenpeace. Greenpeace

Denzel Washington visits Israel

Critically-acclaimed American actor Denzel Washington arrived in Israel last Tuesday for a private visit with his actress wife Pauletta. The two toured Jerusalem, where Pauletta

1,200 new sea creatures revealed

Some 1,200 species and varieties of sea creatures newly discovered during the just-concluded first world “census” of marine life will be presented today in Jerusalem.