Photo: RahelSharon on flickr, used under Creative Commons License As we commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day today, we thought to share further thoughts on our recent story about the Palestinian youth orchestra that played for a group of Holocaust survivors. Apparently, that performance set off a firestorm of controversy for promoting cross-cultural understanding between Israelis and [...]

Photo: Getty Images What’s the deal with hypnosis? Do we have any scientific idea how it works? And what does it do to the human mind? Those are just some of the questions McGill University professor and former magician Amir Raz has been trying to understand. This Sunday, as part of the Brainwaves series at [...]

Photo: Clara Amit, Israel Antiquities Authority The ongoing excavations in the City of David continue to provide a wealth of treasures. We told you last month about a cache of gold coins found in Jerusalem. Now the same site has brought forth another find: A marble bust of a bearded man, believed the be the [...]

Shai Agassi addresses a crowd at the Boston Museum of SciencePhoto: Consulate General of Israel in New England It’s been some time since Israel announced its plans for cars to go electric in the next few years (see what we had to say). Since then, Better Place has gained interest from governments around the world, [...]

Sculpture in Plaza of Tel Aviv Museum of ArtPhoto: Israel Ministry of Tourism Last weekend’s New York Times travel section highlighted Tel Aviv’s art festival Art TLV (which we covered here) and profiled some of the up-and-coming art professionals in Israel.  Who knew that there were so many places to get the best in contemporary [...]

Photo: Israel Ministry of Tourism The city of Jerusalem has a long and rich history, with many world-famous landmarks representing different eras and cultures from around the world. The Washington Post reports on a fascinating hi-tech exhibit at the Tower of David Museum in the Old City that movingly chronicles much of the story of [...]

Photo: Getty Images The title says it all. There’s so much Israeli art coming to New York, we just can’t contain ourselves. Yael Bartana’s debut solo exhibition in New York opens on Sunday (19 October) at P.S. 1 in Long Island City (see this week’s Time Out for full details). The exhibit, featuring five videos [...]

Courtesy NASA/JPL-Caltech Five years after the tragic loss of the Space Shuttle Columbia and the seven astronauts aboard, pages from a diary belonging to Ilan Ramon, Israel’s first astronaut, will go on display at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. It is amazing that the diary has made it this far. According to the Associated Press [...]

Photo: Israel Ministry of Tourism The Dead Sea Scrolls are one of the greatest treasures in Israel and, indeed, in the whole world. Once the closely-held province of scholars, researchers are now in the process of using new technologies to scan the Scrolls and to make them available online to the general public. While the [...]