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Shimon Peres awards Bill Clinton with Israel’s highest medal of distinction
Star-studded guest list including Tony Blair, Barbra Streisand, Sharon Stone, Robert DeNiro, celebrate Israeli president’s 90th birthday in Jerusalem.
Spider-Man Tobey Maguire in Israel
Actor Tobey Maguire is in Israel on a mixed business and pleasure trip. Maguire is in town with his wife and two children. The star of Spider-Man was even spotted by paparazzi surfing in Tel Aviv over the weekend.Their visit …
Israeli children celebrate Autism Day
Israeli children marked the fifth annual World Autism Awareness Day today (April 2) with a colorful message. Israeli children celebrate Autism Day. Under the banner, ‘Every Child Can’, children from the scout movement together with autistic elementary school kids held …
Israeli wind surfer takes the gold
Israeli windsurfer Lee Korzits secured a 2012 Olympic spot for herself by taking first place in the women’s RS:X race at the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Cadiz, Spain, earlier this week.
Titanic tourists to flood Eilat?
One of the potential buyers of a collection of 5,500 artifacts from the doomed Titanic would install them permanently in an Eilat museum, according to a recent news article in the Israeli newspaper Haaretz. The RMS Titanic, a British luxury …
Israel Museum gets 200 Paris photos
For the first time in Israel, images by pioneering documentary photographer Eugène Atget are going on display. “Eugène Atget: As Paris Was,” an exhibition at Ticho House, the Israel Museum’s historic venue in downtown Jerusalem, is featuring 70 of Atget’s …
Get set for the Tel Aviv Marathon
More than 25,000 runners — cheered on by 100,000 spectators — are expected to take part in Israel’s largest race, the 2012 Tel Aviv Gillette Marathon, on Friday, March 30. A whole roster of Marathon Festival activities is planned, including …
Israeli gamers make ‘Hunger Games’ fun
The Jerusalem development studio crew at Funtactix is responsible for the design and development of the official online game accompanying The Hunger Games. It was premiered on Facebook on March 23, the day the movie opened in the United States …
Israel says yes to curves
In what is being hailed as a precedent around the world, the Knesset has passed a law banning the use of underweight models in advertising. The fashion industry’s use of underweight models has been a controversy for years. Some countries …
Religious leaders work to save planet
Moslem, Jewish and Christian leaders met in Jerusalem this week for a series of workshops on interfaith cooperation in combating environmental troubles. “This world is not only a beautiful and positive entity, it is also fragile and exposed to problems …