Ministry of Environment awards Israeli Captain Planet and the Planeteers.

In light of Michael Jackson’s upcoming funeral Tuesday morning, we want you to share your stories with us. Where were you when the King of Pop died?

A report today from Ynet indicates that Ohad Naharin, the choreographer of the famed Batsheva Dance Company, will be this year’s recipient of the Award for Lifetime Achievement at the American Dance Festival. In this respect, he’ll be joining such luminaries as Martha Graham and Alvin Ailey, who have received the award in the past. [...]

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: Getty Images A group of Israeli teenagers from Afula took part in the Skills@Work championship held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 11-13 March. This competition takes place on a national and international level and encourage students to think creatively, like an entrepreneur. Though they had competed together in the preliminary rounds, the teams during the [...]

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, [...]

Gal Gadot at the Maxim launchPhoto: Shahar Azran Israeli model Gal Gadot will be joining the cast of HBO’s hit series “Entourage”, according to a Ynet report. The article suggests that Gadot will play a girlfriend to main character Vince Chase for at least four episodes during the show’s upcoming sixth season. This role, and [...]

According to a Ynet report, “In the Heat of Tel Aviv,” a popular song by Sarit Hadad (see Hebrew version in video above), has been extremely popular with audiences in China, thanks to a new adaptation into Chinese. Israel already has a number of ties to China, maybe now music will become one of the [...]

Photo:Almond Tree in BloomBy: Lourdes Cardenal on Wikimedia Commons, used under GNU license. Israelis noted the minor holiday of TuBiShvat today in a number of interesting ways. For years, thousands of people would turn out to plant trees on this quasi Arbor Day, helping Israel end the 20th Century as the only country with a [...]

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 [...]