Israel opened the doors to its fifth medical school and its first in the Galilee region. To mark the historical event, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu held the weekly Cabinet meeting at the new campus in the city of Safed (Tzfat).“I …

National Geographic readers in Russia voted for Israel as one of the three top destinations in the world in the ‘tourism and sightseeing’ category, according to a recent survey by the international magazine. Readers placed Israel in the second spot, …

The Israeli theater-dance production, Hide and Seek 3,4, recently won the Best Performance Award at the International Theater Festival for Children ’100, 1000, 1,000,000 stories’ in Bucharest. ‘Hide and Seek 3,4′ by the Dina Telem Group. Hide and Seek 3,4 …

American art photographer Spencer Tunick has revealed his first image from a shoot he did last month at the Dead Sea. The ‘Naked Sea’ photo is meant to promote voting for the Dead Sea as one of the New Seven …

This afternoon, a first Israeli aid package including portable homes and buildings will arrive in the quake ravaged area in Eastern Turkey. Israel was the first country in the world to offer Ankara assistance in the aftermath of the October …

Scientists at the Tel Aviv University have developed sophisticated software to piece together more than 350,000 Jewish texts known as the Cairo Genizah. The collection of historical texts in the Genizah is scattered among 70 institutions worldwide making it difficult …

Some of the world’s leading names in the fashion industry are in Israel for the third annual Holon Fashion Week. Conference participants include American super-designer Zac Posen, fashion writer Stephanie LaCava, Business of Fashion editor Imran Amed, Israeli designer and …

Israel is offering aid to the Turkish government after a massive magnitude 7.2 earthquake rocked the southeast of the country on Sunday morning, destroying buildings and killing up to 1,000 people. The earthquake’s epicenter was 20 kilometers from the city …

Cornell University turned to the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology to help bolster its bid to construct an engineering and applied-science campus in New York City. The partnership comes in the wake of an initiative by New York City …

A new study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev researchers shows that targeting Israelis’ vanity is the key to combating melanoma. The researchers showed that Israelis reacted better to warnings that sun exposure causes premature aging of the skin than …