Category Israel

Boy makes historical find

photo - The 3,500-year-old tablet found by Imri Elya

The tablet found by Imri Elya. (photo by IAA via Ashernet) Imri Elya was on an outing with his parents at Tel Jemmeh archeological site near Kibbutz Re’im when he picked up the square clay object. His parents contacted the…

Culture & accessibility

photo - Visitors to Masada learn more about the site through Gadi Mathov’s miniature model of the landmark

Visitors to Masada learn more about the site through Gadi Mathov’s miniature model of the landmark. (photo from Mathov Design) What would it take to make museums, cultural sites and tourist attractions more accessible to people with visual, intellectual or…

Israeli start-up’s Beehome

photo - Beewise wants to replace traditional, wooden hives with high-tech, autonomous ones

Beewise wants to replace traditional, wooden hives with high-tech, autonomous ones. (photo from Beewise) What do cucumbers, avocados and coffee all have in common? Aside from being absolute necessities (yes, avocados, too), they’re all crops pollinated by bees. And, if…

Take time to see Maskit

photo - Maskit is located at 4 Auerbach St., in Jaffa

Maskit is located at 4 Auerbach St., in Jaffa. (photo from Maskit) When next in Israel, in addition to walking the beaches of Tel Aviv, being spiritually uplifted at the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and enjoying the food across the…

Beauty of spring in Israel

Spring. Every year, it returns like a miracle and Israel is carpeted with wildflowers. There are nearly 3,000 types of wild plants in this tiny land, a wonderful profusion, among the most abundant on earth. Israel boasts a variety of…

Predicting diabetes risk

photo - A new computer algorithm can predict in the early stages of pregnancy, or even before pregnancy has occurred, which women are at a high risk of gestational diabetes

A new computer algorithm can predict in the early stages of pregnancy, or even before pregnancy has occurred, which women are at a high risk of gestational diabetes. (photo from Weizmann Institute) A new computer algorithm can predict in the…

Worst traffic in the OECD

photo - In central Tel Aviv, a driver slotted their car in between two properly parked vehicles

In central Tel Aviv, a driver slotted their car in between two properly parked vehicles. (photo from Ashernet) Traffic density on Israel’s roads averages about 2,800 vehicles per kilometre, worst of all the OECD countries, for which the average is…

Promoting fair trade in Israel

photo - Raz Frogel

Raz Frogel (photo from Fair Trade Israel) Raz Frogel, 23, has taken it upon himself to increase the number of fair trade items on Israeli store shelves. Frogel, who lives in Dror Israel commune in Haifa, first read about child…

Making hydrogen from sunlight

photo - Avigail Landman, right, and Rawan Halabi with an experimental prototype device

Avigail Landman, right, and Rawan Halabi with an experimental prototype device. (photo from Ashernet) Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a prototype system for efficient and safe production of hydrogen using only solar energy. Published in the…

Constructing age-tech maps

photo - Keren Etkin

Keren Etkin (photo by Pazit Oz) Keren Etkin, a 32-year-old Israeli master’s student, has been working on what she calls the Age Tech Market Map. This small but full link library is a place for older adults to find the…