Is this Israel’s Stonehenge?

As New York and much of the East Coast was blanketed by a massive blizzard, Perez was spending the day after Christmas in Tel Aviv, where the weather outside was anything but frightful.

Or more accurately, sisters. Sister-cities that is.

A German-Jewish architect with a passion for Japan amassed, lost and regained an art collection that spans Japanese history, and bequeathed it to the people of Israel.

The University of Haifa has created a three-year “medical clowning” degree to lift spirits in hospitals. Israeli medical clowns really aren’t just clowning around.

Photo: SouthernPixel on Flickr, used under Creative Commons License Cities around the country went dark today to celebrate Earth Hour and Earth Day. Beginning at 8 P.M., Tel Aviv landmarks cut their lights, followed by Jerusalem, Haifa, and Beer Sheva. Government officials took part in the efforts, which call attention to global warming and the [...]

The “Sail Tower” in HaifaPhoto by Almog, on Wikimedia Commons Haifa Mayor Yonah Yahav has been spending time in Boston and talking about the extensive relationship between the two cities. As the Boston Globe points out, the ties between the two have been informal but robust. Maybe because the two cities are actually somewhat similar: [...]

Photo: Wikimedia Commons With today marking the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth, we thought it would be fitting to note the impact his theory of evolution has had on research in Israel. Of course, the theory of evolution underlies much biology research today, but this is, after all, a blog exploring the latest in [...]

Natural Gas Processing PlantPhoto: Wikimedia Commons Who knew!? Israel has natural gas reserves! A few weeks ago, an Israeli-American consortium announced it had found a huge

Photo: Getty Images Ynet becomes the latest to report on a new technological breakthrough that we just couldn’t skip over. Haifa’s own Argo Medical Technologies has developed a “skeleton that can help paraplegics navigate their daily lives pretty regularly.  While the product isn’t yet available for commercial sale, you can watch the product in action [...]