jaddingt/Shutterstock.com Ebola—the word alone is enough to strike fear in hearts. Journalists cover in detail every person in the West who has contracted the deadly virus, which kills 50% of all who are infected. The World Health Organization (WHO), leaders of nations, and the UN are all holding emergency meetings to forge a plan to
Continue Reading »A recent article in a well-known internet news magazine challenged the idea that anti-Semitism is on the rise worldwide, giving a clear glimpse into growing attempts to discredit the Jewish people. Quoting statistics from a variety of sources, the article erroneously claimed that anti-Semitic incidents are actually decreasing globally. In fact, the article asserted, the
Continue Reading »Photo by ChameleonsEye/Shutterstock Each year visitors to Israel are a significant part of the landscape. The majority arrive as part of a packaged tour, spending much of their time traveling by bus from site to site. For the first-time visitor, this is the best introduction to Israel’s biblical and historical locations. However, once you’ve floated
Continue Reading »The new Egypt under former General and now President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi is much like the famous Sphinx monument. From one angle, the Sphinx appears to be a man but from a different perspective, it looks like a lion. Likewise, the current regime in Egypt has many sides and faces—and they may appear to be
Continue Reading »Researchers at the Hebrew University and the Weizmann Institute of Science may take memory storage from the edge of impossible to the next level. The latest research from Israel closes in on the possibility of making a portable computer as small as a flash drive, as powerful as a mainframe, at a very reasonable cost,
Continue Reading »Sophisticated cities in North America and Europe are banning plastic bottles to cut down on waste. But what happens when water bottles are gone from the supermarket shelves and your reusable bottle runs dry while you are out and about? A young Israeli company has a plan to offer water refilling stations in cities everywhere.
Continue Reading »A physicist from Israel, Dr. Leon Eisen, has developed the world’s first “watch,” the Oxitone, which can give advanced notice of an impending heart attack. So promising is this technology that Oxitone was picked from 400 applicants to join 12 other companies this year as part of GE Healthcare’s three-year Start-Up Health Academy Entrepreneurship Program.
Continue Reading »Around 536 BC, a Persian government advisor with the Hebrew name, Daniel, penned a number of predictions including a somewhat confusing description of Middle East dynamics at “the end of time.” The confusion was deliberate, he said. It would not be understood until an unmistakable shift happened on a global scale, a time when “travel
Continue Reading »For decades, the propaganda machine of the Arab world has declared that Israel’s “illegal occupation of Palestine” is at the heart of all conflict in the Middle East. Unfortunately world leaders have been all too willing to dance to that tune, while ignoring the reality on the ground. But today, battles are raging, borders changing
Continue Reading »A 1,900 year old ritual bath (miqwe) was recently exposed at Ha-Ela Junction in excavations undertaken by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA). An enormous 1,700-year-old water cistern was revealed nearby in which graffiti was discovered that had been engraved on the reservoir’s ceiling during the Second World War. According to Yoav Tsur, excavation director, “We
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