Category Israel

Videos teach sign language

photo - Israeli politicians learn to sign on the day that the Institute for the Advancement of Deaf Persons in Israel inaugurated a new online dictionary at the Knesset on Oct. 21

Israeli politicians learn to sign on the day that the Institute for the Advancement of Deaf Persons in Israel inaugurated a new online dictionary at the Knesset on Oct. 21. (photo from Institute for the Advancement of Deaf Persons in…

A laptop for every teacher

photo - Teachers at WIZO Hadassim with the new computers

Teachers at CHW Hadassim with the new computers. (photo by Amir Alon) Last month, the Athena Fund announced that three Israeli youth villages – CHW Hadassim Children and Youth Village, Mosenson Youth Village and Ayelet Hashachar Youth Village for Girls…

Health benefits from wine

photo - Ben-Gurion University Prof. Iris Shai, principal investigator of the CArdiovaSCulAr Diabetes and Ethanol (CASCADE) trial

Ben-Gurion University Prof. Iris Shai, principal investigator of the CArdiovaSCulAr Diabetes and Ethanol (CASCADE) trial. (photo by Dani Machlis/BGU)   A glass of red wine every night may help people with type 2 diabetes manage their cholesterol and cardiac health,…

Sperm can “see” heat

Locations of different opsins on the human sperm, viewed under a microscope, are revealed by labeling with a fluorescent antibody (bright yellow). (photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) In their journey to the egg, sperm “feel” the heat of the fallopian tube and…

Sacred for three faiths

photo - The Hellenistic/Hasmonean excavation at Nebi Samwil

The Hellenistic/Hasmonean excavation at Nebi Samwil. (photo by Anthony Bale) Just over 10 kilometres north of the Temple Mount, the Old City and east Jerusalem, where terrorist attacks continue, Muslims and Jews both go up to Nebi Samwil, to what…

Canadian machalnikim

photo - The Machal memorial, in Jewish National Fund’s Yitzhak Rabin Park

The Machal memorial, in Jewish National Fund’s Yitzhak Rabin Park. (photo from machal.org.il) You would think that, after serving in the Second World War, you would just want to pick up where you had left your civilian life. Indeed, the…

Winning equal rights

photo - Anat Hoffman and another member of Women of the Wall, standing at the entrance to the Kotel in January 2013, as Charedi men look away

Anat Hoffman, right, and another member of Women of the Wall, standing at the entrance to the Kotel in January 2013, as Charedi men look away. (photo by Michal Patelle (Women of the Wall) via Wikimedia Commons) For more than…

First-ever official visit

photo - Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, left, welcomes President Pranab Mukherjee to the Knesset

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, left, welcomes President Pranab Mukherjee to the Knesset. (photo from Israeli Prime Minister’s Office via jns.org) In the first-ever official visit by an Indian head of state to Israel, President Pranab Mukherjee arrived in Jerusalem last…

Eatery’s unique offer

photo - Recent visitors to the Hummus Bar at the M Mall in Kfar Vitkin, near Netanya. The eatery is offering a 50% deal on its hummus for Jews and Arabs who share a table and eat together

Recent visitors to the Hummus Bar at the M Mall in Kfar Vitkin, near Netanya. The eatery is offering a 50% deal on its hummus for Jews and Arabs who share a table and eat together. (photo from facebook.com/Mhumusbar) An…

More than just a foodie film

photo - Roger Sherman’s Florentine Films crew chows down at El Babor restaurant in the Haifa area

Roger Sherman’s Florentine Films crew chows down at El Babor restaurant in the Haifa area. (photo from Florentine Films) It might seem absurd that an American filmmaker, who, until five years ago, thought that falafel and hummus were the only…