Today was the first day of the 140 Characters Conference in New York, and we were proud to see in the crowd so many Israelis who are passionate about the evolving use of Twitter.

In honor of Pope Benedict XVI upcoming visit to Israel this week, we at the Consulate General of Israel in New York have released a Facebook Application titled “Holy Land Trivia”. You can test your knowledge about the Holy Land’s landmarks, geography and modern times, and compare the results with your friends.

Google Israel, Haifa.Photo by David55King on Flickr. Used under Creative Commons License. During the past few weeks, Google has rolled out a few tweaks to their search engine system designed to improve your search experience. Even better: Several of these newly implemented tools are Israeli products. For instance: Ynet reported last week on the addition [...]

Photo: Israel Ministry of Tourism Israel, like any other country, has a few sites that get most of the attention from tourists–and deservedly so. Who could picture Israel without Tel Aviv and Jerusalem?? But there are other, more out-of-the-way places which are equally important to making the country what it is. Now, according to Ynet, [...]

@israelconsulate Hello Twitter friends, We have been very happy to see the number of people interested in communicating with us on Twitter. We would like to do something for you and help all of us get to know each another on a more personal level. Computers are great, but there’s nothing like a face-to-face meeting. [...]

Clearly, this week has been an opportunity to learn about Israeli music, which now encompasses many genres and tastes. We found out today about Israeli salsa music, thanks to a bunch of students at the IDC Herzliya, who have now started blogging interesting stories about Israel through CoolIsrael (from which this video was taken) and [...]

We hadn’t heard much of Oren Lavie either until watching the YouTube video above (of his song “Her Morning Elegance,” which has apparently been used in a Chevy commercial), which we think is just really pretty cool. And so is the music. In the spirit of edification, we decided to do some research for you. [...]

We’ve blogged a bit about the dance scene in Israel (click here for a list of our previous posts) and we think it’s one of Israel’s great exports to the world of the arts.  Now, we’ve been made aware of a dance insider who’s blogging about the scene herself on the Dance in Israel blog. [...]

Photo: Wikimedia Commons The ideas of Web 2.0 and social networking continue to take the world by storm–and Israeli companies are helping you take full advantage. We came across this great post on the Go2Web20 blog and decided we needed to share the good news. First of all, we had no clue about all these [...]

Here is the interview, as promised, between David Shankbone of Wikipedia News and Israeli President Shimon Peres: David Shankbone: One of your big initiatives in technology has been nanotechnology. President Shimon Peres: Yes. DS: What made you focus on nanotechnology as a sector for Israeli investment? SP: Well, nanotechnology is not a vocation but a [...]