Sherut haBitachon haKlali, better known by the acronym Shabak, in English as the Israel Security Agency (ISA) or the Shin Bet (a two-letter Hebrew abbreviation of the name), is Israel’s

Nine years ago the United Nations made history when it declared that it would mark January 27 as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. The fact that this day is marked has

Israel, the tiny nation that defied history in coming back to life after 2,000 years of exile, is among the top 10 most powerful nations in the world according to

An American pro-Israel group has weighed-in on the brouhaha over Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon’s recent controversial comments about US Secretary of State John Kerry, in which Ya’alon branded America’s top

After eight years in a vegetative state following a severe stroke, former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel “Arik” Sharon has passed away at the age of 85. Although his condition had

Israel experienced a record breaking year in terms of tourism in 2013 according to the Central Bureau of Statistics. International tourist entries reached a record high, marking a 3% increase

Population grows by 147,000 in 2013, including 19,200 immigrants from around the world • Jewish immigration from France soars by 63% • Immigrant Absorption Minister Sofa Landver: I’m hopeful the

Soundgarden   The Pixies will perform at Tel Aviv’s Bloomfield Stadium in June   The Pixies and Soundgarden will both appear at an international music festival to be held at

Here is a list of the most exciting Israeli medical-device and pharmaceutical developments just around the corner. This list was  very difficult to narrow down, because Israeli breakthroughs in this

The Paris office of the Jewish Agency for Israel has reported a 57% jump in the number of French Jews moving to Israel over the last year and a surge

Modern Mikvah   Ancient Mikvah   Mikvah (Hebrew, מִקְוֶה), literally translated as a “collection” or “gathering”, is a pool or bath of clear water in which immersion renders ritually clean

Israeli researchers have found a revolutionary way to treat brain damage, Business Standard reports.  Tel Aviv University (TAU) researchers and staff at the Assaf HaRofeh Medical Center in Tzrifin have found that

In 2003, 27 trunks worth of molding and damaged ancient texts were discovered in Baghdad – in the basement of Saddam Hussein’s Intelligence Headquarters. They were relics of Iraq’s once

In August Given Imaging, an Israeli medical technology company, received FDA approval for their Pill Cam SB3 which will potentially replace colonoscopies in screening for colorectal cancer. Furthermore, the company

New device developed by Tyto company can perform almost complete checkup of body and send results to physician, who will be able to make prognosis without meeting patient. Marketing of

The American Friends of the IDF organization (FIDF) branch in Los Angeles held its annual fundraiser in the Beverly Hilton hotel and raised a record number of $20 million for

Weizmann discovery makes moral and legal questions surrounding embryonic stem cells moot, because they won’t be needed anymore. By now, the fact that Israel is the world’s innovation hub is

The scoop on Woody Allen? He doesn’t think it’s tough to be Jewish in America, but he does believe “many people” disguise their dislike of Jews by criticizing Israel. Allen,

Israeli ingenuity is responsible for some of the world’s most amazing medical advances. Whether they’re futuristic, such as Given Imaging’s PillCam capsule endoscopy or Itamar Medical’s fingertip monitors for sleep disorders

News of the prestigious Nobel Prize typically begins with a phone call from Stockholm. And this week five Jewish American scientists received such a call informing them they had won

In 1948, U.S.-Israel relations were a classic case of a one-way-street: the U.S. gave and Israel received, economically and militarily. In 1952, the U.S. administration rejected a proposal by General

This year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry will be awarded to an Israeli professor, Arieh Warshel, who teaches in the United States. Professor Warshel was announced Wednesday as a joint winner

October 10 is World Sight Day – a perfect opportunity to present some of the amazing advances coming out of Israel for treating medical conditions of the eye and making

Israel wants to make peace with the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Arab world, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu told the United Nations during his address Tuesday. “Israel continues to seek

Regina Golan-Gerstl, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow at the Hebrew University Hadassah Medical School, has successfully identified a genetic protein which is involved in the development of the most common and

Is the charge that Israel is an apartheid state valid or a slander? Who better to answer this question than someone who lived in a real apartheid state?

United States experts have estimated the size of Israel’s nuclear arsenal at 80 nuclear warheads. The experts’ assessment was included in the September/October issue of the Bulletin of the Atomic