The documentary film, Strangers No More, about a Tel Aviv elementary school, took home the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject. The film follows a group of students from 48 countries at the Bialik-Rogozin School, run by Karen Tal, which …
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OurCrowd raises over $12m. for its startups
Crowdfunding platform OurCrowd closes new round for Jeff Pulver’s startup Zula, pushing total raised by fund to over $12m. in its first seven months.
NZ accepts Israeli aid
Israel is sending sanitation, water purification equipment and temporary shelters to the earthquake-ravaged city of Christchurch. This nearly a week after Israel first offered aid to Christchurch. Last night, New Zealand Prime Minister John Key formally asked Prime Minister Binyamin …
New Azouri offices to encourage electric cars
Tel Aviv’s first “green” office tower, a $51.83 million project of Azouri Brothers Building and Development Co., officially opens in May. The latest step is implementing VIP ecological parking, according to CEO Ronen Azouri. Planned in coordination with Israel’s revolutionary …
Coen brothers win Dan David Prize
Jewish American filmmakers Ethan and Joel Coen – the team behind Fargo, The Big Lebowski, and No Country for Old Men – have been named as this year’s winners of the international Dan David Prize. They will receive a $1 …
CSR buys Israel’s Zoran for $679m
The British company CSR has agreed to buy Israeli imaging and video technology leader Zoran in a $679 million all-share deal. The sale is expected to be completed in the second quarter of 2011. CSR is a supplier of wireless connectivity …
Israel offers aid to New Zealand
Following the devastating earthquake in Christchurch today, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and the Israeli Foreign Ministry offered aid in the form of search and rescue equipment, medicine, food and emergency disaster supplies. The New Zealand government said that it would …
Anorexics draw a different self-portrait
Women suffering from anorexia or bulimia draw themselves with different characteristics than women who do not have eating disorders and who are considered of normal weight. That according to a new joint study from the University of Haifa, Soroka University …
Belgium to Israel, by bike
It took David Verlinden and Iris Baijens three months to pedal from Belgium to Jerusalem. David Verlinden, a Krav Maga enthusiast from Belgium, says he decided to visit Israel because he wanted to see the place that developed the defense …
History of pollution found in old books
A Weizmann Institute scientist says clues to the history of pollution can be found in old books – but not in the written word, rather in the paper itself.Prof. Dan Yakir of the Department of Environmental Sciences and Energy Research …
Authors Eco, McEwan in Jerusalem
British author Ian McEwan and Italian page-turner Umberto Eco are in Israel this week for the 25th Jerusalem International Book Fair . McEwan is this year’s winner of the prestigious Jerusalem Prize literary honor. Bibliophiles can delight in some 100,000 …