25,000 people showed up last week at sixty testing centers in Israel to find a match for nine year old Matthew, an American who developed acute leukemia at age 5. A courier from the Dana Farber Medical Center in Boston, …
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.
Completing the mission
Israeli President Moshe Katsav shakes hands with Matthew Husband, son of the late American astronaut Rick D. Husband, as Matthew’s mother Evelyn Husband, right, and his sister Lora, middle, look on. (AP)The astronauts aboard the Columbia space shuttle were familiar …
Genetic testing makes a difference for Israeli Arab families
Dr. Stavit Shalev: “What started out as a pilot program, has now reached the point where we are serving over 2,800 families a year.”An Israeli physician is leading the battle against debilitating genetic diseases in local Arab communities, by creating …
Replacing a border with a bridge
A model of the Bridging the Rift Center which will have its official launch this week on the desert border between Israel and Jordan.An ambitious project in which Israel and Jordan will establish a joint advanced science and technology village …
Listening to the people in search for peace
Jason Alexander makes a point at the official launch of the OneVoice peace initiative last week in Petah Tikva. (AP)One Voice, a new grassroots Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative, was launched last week with high hopes of ushering in a new era …
Seeing the forest for the trees
“The JNF is the world’s leading authority in arid land forestry.” – United States Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth during his visit to Israel. (Photo: Mark Schulman)Planting trees is practically a national past time in Israel, especially during the Jewish …
Walk in peace
Hundreds of Jewish and Arab Israelis have taken part in silent peace walks in various regions of the country.Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King would, no doubt, have approved. While politicians on both sides of the seemingly interminable bloody Middle …
Israelis and Americans remember together
The Coumbia crew poses before their launch last year. Ilan Ramon is on the far right.A year after the Columbia shuttle disaster which killed all seven crew members including Israeli Ilan Ramon, the connection between the U.S. and Israel’s space …
Bringing the university to Jaffa
Underprivileged students from Jaffa make use of the facilities at Tel Aviv University, thanks to the Price-Brodie Initiative. In a private study room on the sprawling Tel Aviv University campus, first year General Sciences student Mira Kourdie, 20, and her …
Israelis, Palestinians scale Antarctic summit
The eight-member Breaking the Ice team pose at the summit of the “Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Friendship.”Fifteen days after setting out on its historic trek, the Breaking the Ice expedition successfully climbed to the summit of an unconquered Antarctic mountain on …