Said El Afinish is one of dozens of Israeli Bedouins who work and volunteer for Magen David Adom, and now treat people wounded in rocket attacks in Israel’s south. The grim news in America shows two sides of the Middle …

Can one man’s voice start a revolution? In the Middle East, not one, but two men’s voices have united in the hopes of creating peace in the region. Under the aliases of “Hope Man” and “Peace Man,” the two men …

The team of Palestinian, Israeli and American scientists at the BSF-funded workshop on water, which took place recently at Haifa University.Israelis and Americans have been longtime friends and partners in scientific research. It’s pretty much a given, that a newly …

In the midst of last week’s brutal fighting in Gaza and Israel’s south, doctors from the Israeli charity, Save a Child’s Heart, operated on a tiny baby boy from Gaza, giving him life-saving heart surgery. Now recovering in intensive care …

There may be a war going on between Israel and Gaza, but that doesn’t stop Israelis from carrying out a number of significant humanitarian efforts to help Gaza’s citizens. While the international press focuses almost exclusively on the bloody images …

As 2009 opens with a full-scale Israeli ground operation in Gaza and bombing throughout Israel’s south, images of bloodshed and war dominate the news. In these difficult times, it can sometimes be hard to remember that there’s more to Israel …

Despite the ongoing conflict, Palestinian and Israeli scientists are collaborating with colleagues from Hungary in a trilateral research project that uses nanotechnology to investigate diseases such as HIV. The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a vivid one that people see on TV …

Olivebar uses the waste left after olives are pressed to create rolls of fuel, which offer two and a half times more heat than traditional wood fires. The olive branch, a symbol of peace since the time of Noah, is …

Aviv Wasserman has founded the Lod Community Foundation in an effort to improve life in the city.Thirty-five year old Aviv Wasserman is a man with a mission. He has committed himself to the Israeli city of Lod. Just 15 minutes …

Volunteers building adobe houses on Kibbutz Lotan, an organic kibbutz.Want to learn about organic agriculture and how it’s done in the Middle East? Maybe you’re interested in making cheese from goat’s milk? Or perhaps letting come what may — being …