A survey following the Sept. 11 attacks found that 7.5 percent of Manhattan residents were suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder.A recent study by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka Hospital in Beersheva, Israel, reported that 25 percent of the …
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Israeli herbs for the medicine chest
New EU-funded international study of Mediterranean plants finds Israel’s medicinal herbs effective in fighting bacteria, fungus and infection.
Israeli police are teaching U.S. officers life-saving counter-terror techniques
Israeli authorities are helping American police become more skilled in protecting public transportation and other potential terrorist targets.Israeli police officers are sharing the experience they’ve received in combating terrorism by training groups of officers from the United States in preventing …
Economic development center boosting Israeli Arab businesses
The Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development has been honored for being an innovator in supporting Israeli Arab small businesses.Fourteen years ago, Sarah Kreimer founded The Center for Jewish Arab Economic Development that has sponsored joint projects between Israeli Jews and …
Israelis join caravan to fight anti-semitism on U.S. campuses
Debate over Israel and Middle East policy has become increasingly strident on some college campuses.Israeli volunteers, including Jerusalem Mayor Ehud Olmert, Israel’s Minister of Transportation, Efraim Sneh, and Mark Regev, spokesman for the Israeli Embassy in Washington, will tour U.S. …
Israeli company helping to bring more U.S. products to Israel
U.S. products can be shipped to Israel and sold tax-free following a 1985 free-trade accord.An Israel-based trade agency founded by four Americans in 1991 is smoothing the way for U.S. goods to enter the highly competitive Israeli market, helping to …
Koret Foundation paves the way for free enterprise in Israel
Eran Schachri of Kibbutz Hagoshrim in Israel bought new repair equipment for his auto shop with the help of a loan from KIEDF.The San Francisco-based Koret Foundation sponsors a host of causes in its local area, but its most ambitious …
NASA fears Israeli astronaut’s shuttle launch will tempt terrorists
Col. Ilan Ramon will be Israel’s first astronaut when he launches with the Columbia space shuttle in July.American intelligence sources are concerned that the July 19 launch of the Columbia space shuttle will be a prime target for terrorists, especially …
Parents of kids killed on both sides promote ‘the pain of peace’
Parents’ Circle sponsored a display of 1050 symbolic coffins at the United Nations that represented Palestinians and Israelis killed in the current conflict.Not long after the day in 1994 when Yitzhak Frankenthal was told his 19-year-old son’s body had been …
Security conference debates rights restrictions
Lessons learned in Israel in the battle between security and the free exchange of ideas can benefit the debate in the United States.As Israel’s military wages war against Palestinian guerillas in refugee camps and West Bank towns, academics and liberal …
Israeli cultural critic takes homeless problem into his own hands
Homeless shelter founder Gilad Harish said he saw a major increase in homeless after immigrants from the former Soviet Union arrived in Israel in 1991.Ending up on the streets with nothing to eat is the last thing new immigrants imagine …