Writer: Viva Sarah Press

Hebrew language exhibit is hot ticket

Photo by Yaakov Bril The ‘A-B-See-Do’ exhibition at Beit Hatfutsot museum is this summer’s hottest ticket. Eliezer Ben Yehuda, the father of Modern Hebrew, would

IncrediMail acquires Smilebox for $25m.

Israel’s IncrediMail, which develops and markets email and other high-end personal desktop software, paid $25 million up front for Smilebox, a US company that develops

Israeli Midas touch: Dotomi gets $295m.

Online marketing services company ValueClick has agreed to acquire Dotomi, a display advertising company founded by Yair Goldfinger, for roughly $295 million in cash and

Novel markers for brain cancer survival

Hebrew University researchers have come up with novel biomarkers for predicting survival of patients with glioblastoma, the most common and deadliest of brain cancers, as

Facebook enlists Israel’s face.com

Facebook recently turned to Israeli start-up face.com to endorse its status in the battle for Internet supremacy with Google. The mega social network integrated the

Wonderland in Tel Aviv

Make way for the Mad Hatter, the Cheshire Cat, Caterpillar, Queen of Hearts and the White Rabbit . . . they’re all headed for the

Octopus-robot to the rescue

A new life-saving device that could change how search-and-rescue missions work today is making waves in the global scientific community. An international group of scientists

1+4 = 5 Israeli medals

Israeli high school students won five medals — one gold and four bronze — at this year’s International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) in Amsterdam. The medal

Israel’s Waze signs ABC deal

Israeli mobile satellite navigation start-up Waze has signed a deal with ABC’s local channel in Los Angeles that will help motorists avoid traffic congestion. Waze

BGU mathematician wins EU grant

Dr. Barak Weiss, a Ben-Gurion University of the Negev mathematician, has been selected to receive a Starting Grant from the European Research Council (ERC) in