The tattered pages of the diary of astronaut Ilan Ramon survived the shuttle crash and helped reconstruct the last days of his life aboard the ColumbiaSharon Brown was one of the many thousands of Israelis who gathered around their television …

Dr. Uri Zilberman explaining dental care to second grade students from Ashkelon at Barzilai Medical Center.Dr. Uri Zilberman isn’t your average dentist.True, he heads the pediatric dentistry clinic at Israel’s Barzilai Hospital in Ashkelon, and teaches dentistry at the Hadassah …

A portrait of Moby by Rahav Segev: Having been born [in Israel] and spending all those years there – that aspect of my personality, I wouldn’t trade for anything.It’s an unusually balmy evening for early April in Midtown Manhattan. Under …

Ron Dermer, right, with Israeli Knesset member Natan Sharansky. The two co-wrote the bestseller ‘The Case For Democracy: The Power of Freedom To Overcome Tyranny and Terror.It’s not really that surprising that Ron Dermer wasnamed the new Israeli minister for …

Most people have never witnessed a terror attack. But the graphic depiction of a suicide bus bombing on the computer screen that Prof. Patrice (Tamar) Weiss is displaying seems vividly real. Watching it – in three dimensions and full sound …

Dr. Michael Alkan examines a patient in Botswana – In Israel, we have 25 antibiotics to work with and in Botswana they have five.When Dr. Michael Alkan received the invitation to join the front lines of the war on AIDS …

Galit Cohen in Orange Farm: To leave now would be like not doing anything at all.Imagine a 9-year-old who has watched his parents die, and is now responsible for raising his younger brothers and sisters. Now imagine some 200 households …

Yves Bitton always knew he wanted to be a doctor. But the energetic Israeli couldn’t repress his entrepreneurial spirit. The result: Bitton has founded a series of companies – including the world renown Second Opinion International – that harness high-tech …

Dov Hammer (left) with CG Shorer: I think that it’s good to show people that Israel is a normal place with normal people. Mention Israeli music and the average American might think of Naomi Shemer, the wedding favorite ‘Hava Nagila’, …

According to Professor Richard Ebstein, volunteers in a soup kitchen might might possess a gene variant that gives them a good feeling from doing good.Why are some people more prone to give charity or put themselves in danger in order …