Recruiting the young and disenfranchised, those who have always felt they existed outside the mainstream, is nothing new. Inner city gangs and cult leaders have long followed the same pattern, capturing the hearts of those who were desperate for community and a sense of belonging. Today, the same concepts are being used with terrifying success
Continue Reading »The 2014 oil spill in Evrona Nature Preserve in the Arava Desert In one of the worst environmental disasters in Israel’s history, between three and five million liters [.8 to 1.3 million US gal] of raw crude oil gushed from a burst pipeline near the Evrona Nature Reserve in the Arava Desert last year. In
Continue Reading »Nanoparticles, extremely tiny particles, are increasingly everywhere, and especially in biomedical products. Now a team of Israeli scientists has, for the first time, found that nanoparticles (NPs) of silicon dioxide (SiO2) can play a major role in the development of cardiovascular diseases when the nanoparticles cross tissue and cellular barriers and also find their way
Continue Reading »Anyone who has driven at night, squinting in the glare of oncoming headlights—or who has struggled to see out the windshield during stormy weather—is familiar with the anxiety-producing and dangerous situation of poor visibility. An Israeli startup has set out to eliminate this problem. BrightWay Vision is taking existing platforms and technologies to the next
Continue Reading »First youth aliyah group walking to Ein Harod (Photo: Kluger Zoltan/wikipedia.org) Packing up all the pieces of your life and moving to a new country is not easy. Yet, this is something Jewish people have been doing on a fairly regular basis since their exile from the Promised Land more than 2,000 years ago. In
Continue Reading »Israel’s attention has turned to the north, as it must. While to the south Hamas remains a threat, it is a cobra in the sand compared to the resurrected lion of Persia and its pack of predator states pressing in on Israel’s northern fence. And egging them on, pushing them toward Israel, is the reawakened
Continue Reading »Archaeologists from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Institute of Archaeology have discovered a monumental entryway to the Herodian hilltop palace. The main feature of the entryway is an impressive corridor with a complex system of arches spanning its width on three separate levels. These arches buttressed the corridor’s massive side-walls, allowing the King and his
Continue Reading »A 2,800-year-old farm house was exposed in recent weeks by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in the central Israeli town of Rosh Ha’ayin. According to Amit Shadman, IAA excavation director, the farm is extraordinarily well-preserved and was built at the time of the Assyrian conquest in the eighth century BC. Farm houses during this period
Continue Reading »A 1,600-year-old bracelet fragment, engraved with a seven-branch menorah from the Temple in Jerusalem was discovered during excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) in the Mount Carmel National Park. Workers uncovered an industrial area and refuse pits of a large settlement dating from the Roman era and the early Byzantine period, at the end
Continue Reading »The earliest evidence for the use of olive oil in the country, and possibly the entire Middle East, was revealed at an antiquities site in the Lower Galilee. In 2011–2013, Dr. Ianir Milevski and Nimrod Getzov of the Israel Antiquities Authority directed an archaeological excavation at Ein Zippori in the Lower Galilee. This led to
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