IsraAID grooms youth leadership in Japan’s earthquake region

The Israeli humanitarian group is now operating projects in Japan, Haiti, Kenya and South Sudan.

Stanley Fischer gets an ‘A’ on Central Bank Report Card

Bank of Israel Governor is named one of the world’s six top central bankers.

Team Israel goes for gold in Glasgow

Israeli Scrabble delegation makes its debut at the International Team Tournament 2012.

Better Place sets electric car record

Israel’s battery change system accelerates electric car 1172 miles in 24 hours.

Israeli crowned world’s best short storyteller

Tel Aviv’s Shachar Levy wows judges at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with the true story of a traumatic event on his bar mitzvah day.

Israeli app rats out dangerous drivers

Smartphone app lets law-abiding drivers take revenge on those breaking the rules.

3 Israeli universities make world’s Top 100 list

For the first time, Hebrew University, Technion Institute of Technology and Weizmann Institute are all included on Academic Ranking of World Universities – 2012.

Israel 6th healthiest country in the world

Bloomberg created health scores for countries with populations of at least one million.

Netanyahu salutes Paralympians

Prime Minister calls Paralympic athletes ‘champions’ as they get ready for London.

After Tel Aviv, where is it best to live?

New global study ranks 140 cities according to most desirable place to live. Melbourne comes out on top, Dhaka on bottom.