‘People are waiting to have their own station that talks to them and about them,’ says the Israeli-Arab executive director of the channel. Jozef Atrash, executive director of Hala-TV. Israel’s Communications Ministry has just granted a license to the state’s …
Social Action
Israeli college students fortify troubled towns by moving in
In return for free tuition and low rent, members of Ayalim student villages volunteer their time to transform Negev and Galilee communities.
Turning up the volume for deaf Palestinians
Israel's Sheba Medical Center pairs with an American foundation to provide hearing aids to a West Bank population affected by genetic deafness.
World experts gather at Israeli Presidential Conference
Nearly 200 top names in world politics, media, medicine and other fields will share their innovative ideas for a better tomorrow, at Jerusalem confab. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90 President Shimon Peres speaks at the closing ceremony of the 2009 Presidential …
Audacious Israelis race to the Moon
If a team of three young Israeli engineers gets its robot to the Moon first, it would win a $30 million jackpot – to be donated to science students. Could Israel be the third country to reach the Moon? Their …
Haitian girl has ‘rare and complicated’ heart surgery in Israel
Doctors at a Tel Aviv hospital arranged to have the child airlifted from Haiti for one of the rarest and most sophisticated heart operations in the world. Amy Mariolata had just two years to live when doctors from Sheba Medical …
Saving Chernobyl’s children
Israel is the only country that permanently opens its arms to children sick from radiation caused by the Ukrainian nuclear disaster 25 years ago. Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com On its 93rd rescue mission, the New York-based charity Chabad’s …
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Call Yachol – where the disabled are able to succeed [video]
It’s a world’s first. A business in Israel is almost entirely staffed by mentally and physically disabled people in a unique for-profit enterprise. There’s no other business like it in the world. Israeli psychologist Gil Winch has founded a for-profit …
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Liliyot’s gourmet menu for a better society [video]
A social business in downtown Tel Aviv teaches high school dropouts everything from sautéing to dressing properly on the job. Tel Aviv’s gourmet Liliyot restaurant and bakery café may look like any other upscale downtown eatery, but a peek in …
Better reading for dyslexics with AgileEye
An Israeli company’s Internet-based training program offers hope to those with dyslexia and other learning disabilities that affect reading skills. AgileEye software helps people with dyslexia and other learning disabilities improve reading skills. “Humans haven’t been reading as long as …
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Four chefs offer up a different taste of peace [video]
Four master chefs, four religious traditions: A multiethnic culinary team believes that peace begins in the stomach. “If you eat together, from there the peace will come,” says Charlie Fadida, the Jewish executive chef at the Sheraton Tel Aviv and …