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Prof. Judah Pearl, the father of the late journalist Daniel Pearl will light one of the memorial flames at the Yom Hazikaron (Israel’s Memorial Day) ceremony in Jerusalem, the day before Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day).

Nautical archaeologists have claimed to discover the "monumental" conical stone pile built of large, natural, unhewn basalt cobbles and boulders, on the floor of the Sea of Galilee.  According to the nautical archaeologists, the cone shaped structure may have been built onshore and then submerged by the sea.

An archeological discovery is always exciting in Israel. Excavation for new roads seems to frequently exhume history. This time, however they struck it rich by finding a rare mikvah (ritual bath) dating back to the late Second Temple Period.

The American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) has selected Prof. Alexander Levitzki of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the winner of their 2013 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research.

Israel has dedicated the annual Holocaust Memorial Day. Israelis across the country, including Holocaust survivors have gathered to commiserate the 6 million Jews that perished during the Holocaust, a tragedy that occurred 70 years ago. They have also marked the Warsaw ghetto uprising, a symbol of Jewish resistance against the Nazis in World War II that resonates deeply in Israel to this day.

Amid the violence in the Middle East, there is always an act of heroism that overcomes all differences. An Israeli Jew who saved two Bedouin brothers from the fate of three other brothers, who nearly drowned last Thursday, was brought to light this week.

Natural gas from the Tamar field off Israel’s Mediterranean shores has begun flowing on Saturday, according to the head of one of the partners in the field.

Israel’s Jewish population has reached its 6 million mark during Passover, a symbolic sign of peaceful vengeance for the approximately same number of Jews who were exterminated by the Nazis during the Holocaust.

Thousands of worshipers have gathered at the Western Wall plaza in the Old City of Jerusalem on Thursday to celebrate the traditional priestly blessing performed during the Passover festival.

A senior government official in the Ministry of Industry has called to fight unemployment by mandating equal employment opportunity for the handicapped and the disabled. People with physical and mental disabilities often face the problem of discrimination and have difficulties finding employment in Israel’s job sector.

Over one million Facebook users have signed up to help a 72 year-old Israeli Holocaust survivor locate his twin brother that he has not seen since the two were separated as four year-olds at Auschwitz.

Two days ago, an Israeli soldier died of a heat stroke Friday after completing a half-marathon in Tel Aviv, prompting Israel’s minister of public security to criticize organizers for allowing the race to take place during a heat wave.

Jewish residents of the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki gathered together on Saturday to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the roundup and deportation of this city’s Jews to Nazi extermination camps in World War II.

The construction of a new railway line in the north has lead to the discovery of an ancient Stone Age settlement with evidence of flint and stone tools and cultic sexual symbols.

As a small country of roughly eight million people, Israel is also known as the start-up nation with breakthrough innovations in numerous fields, including bio- tech and medical devices. Israel is the world’s number one country in medical devices patents and world leader in the research field of stem cell with over 29,000 medical trials in progress.

Around the same time that the Jewish people were enslaved in Egypt; a young donkey was sacrificed in what is now considered to be Israel and was placed under a house.  Archeologists of have discovered the remains of a 3,500 year old donkey complete with a copper bridle in its mouth and saddle bags on its back in northern Be’er Sheva.

Most of you are familiar with a famous quote: “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me”. Most people will beg to differ. In fact, hurtful words can be more painful and have a scarring impact on individuals than some physical injuries. According to a group of Israeli students at a high school outside of Tel Aviv, the teachers have crossed the line.

If you are suffering from a lower back pain, there is a cheaper and simpler solution to costly and time consuming physical therapy sessions.  Researchers from the School of Health Professions at the Sackler Faculty of Medicine at Tel Aviv University suggest walking off your back pain.

Mortality statistics from Israel’s Health Ministry that was released Sunday reported good news and bad news for Israeli residents.  Cancer has still remained the main cause of death in Israel over the past two years according to the data, with heart disease in second place.

In the third quarter, Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reports show that began construction of 7790 houses in Israel only. This comes to an annual drop of 37% compared to the same period last year. Such a low figure recorded for the last time in the second quarter of 2009. Third quarter in 2011 was the stopping rise line in construction of houses in Israel across the country, which lasted five consecutive quarters, an increase of about 4.2% per quarter. Since this quarter, a decline of 6.7% in houses in Israel starts each quarter.

It’s a mystery to some of us how people from the Mediterranean region are considerably thin especially when food is an integral part of their culture. And they are generally in better health. Here is why.  According to a recent study, Mediterranean diets that are rich in olive oil, nuts, fish, fruit, legumes and wine have reduced the risk of heart attacks, strokes and deaths from heart disease by 30 percent.

On the eve of Passover, which this year begins at sundown on March 25, Jews around the world will recall the Exodus story and the 10 plagues that befell Egypt. According to the Old Testament Book of Exodus, God sent 10 plagues to Egypt because the pharaoh refused to free the Israelites from captivity. Locusts were the eighth plague.

The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has uncovered the remains of a liquid extraction installation that were most likely used for pressing wine from grapes. It is also possible that the installation was used to produce wine or alcoholic beverage from other types of fruit that grew in the region. This ancient liquid extraction is believed to have been dated back to the Byzantine period.

Egyptian and Palestinian officials say that Egyptian forces have flooded smuggling tunnels under the border with the Palestinian-ruled Gaza Strip in a campaign to shut them down.  These tunnels are considered to be a vital lifeline for Gaza, bringing in an estimated 30 percent of all goods that reach the enclave and circumventing a blockade imposed by Israel for more than seven years.

Obesity is a medical issue that a lot of people continue to struggle with on a daily basis among other health concerns.  A new study conducted by the Health Ministry has discovered that more than one quarter of Israeli children are overweight or obese, as reported by Israel Radio.

According to Israeli officials, the government has given final approval for construction of 90 new homes in a West Bank settlement, a move in which could possibly cause tensions with the U.S. ahead of President Barack Obama’s visit to the region.

As one of the world’s leading Jewish philosophers, founder of the Shalom Hartman Institute, and a promoter of both Jewish pluralism and interfaith dialogue, Rabbi David Hartman is said to have from a long illness. He was 81.

Israel is in the process of building its first underground hospital in the northern city of Haifa that will protect patients and staffers from any missile attack, whether biological or chemical, as sited by a media report.

We’ve all heard about soothsayers with alleged clairvoyant abilities to predict one’s future which is almost laughable to some. But software that can do the same almost seems implausible. The researchers at the Technion beg to differ. Apparently, this software now exists.

An annual appraisal of Israel's real estate  has shown that in 26 of the 31 cities surveyed, homes and properties in Israel prices have faced an increase in price. As of now, the best city to sell and buy a home is Herzliya where the supply is very low compared to the demand.

We’ve all heard about “Smart Phones” and the wonderful things we can do with them but who would have ever thought that showers and baths would be revolutionized with digital “smart” technologies?  But now they can be and here is how.

We’ve all been warned about the long term medical consequences that can ensue from eating foods with high fat and cholesterol content. Our immune system depletes in age thus making us susceptible to various illnesses and slow to recover from them.

A doctor along with his research team at TAU may have found a new treatment for stroke as well as other medical solutions for restoring significant neurological functions, even years after the initial event.

Israel became the first nation to skip a U.N. review of its human rights record without giving a reason — and then won a precedent-setting deferral Tuesday.

There have been expressions of outrage over the virulently anti-Israel cartoon featured on the Sunday Times depicting a big-nosed Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu paving a wall with the blood and limbs of agonizing Palestinian Arabs.

Holocaust survivors, politicians, religious leaders and others worldwide are marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day with solemn prayers and the now oft-repeated warnings to never let such horrors happen again.

For most Israelis, planting a tree on Tu B’shvat can be a momentous occasion and an emotional experience for them. But there isn't a more poignant way to celebrate this holiday other than by planting a tree in Israel to honor the innocent victims of the Newton elementary school shooting and people are.

Despite the ongoing Israeli-Palestian conflict, senior Palestinian official Abed  Rabbo has annouced that Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas will invite Israeli politicians to Ramallah for a discussion  in a bid to make sure peacemaking is on the new government’s agenda.

Israeli chess grandmaster and champion Boris Gelfand has collaborated with the University of Haifa to scientifically prove that that chess can actually make you smarter, increase you IQ level  and make you better adjusted.

Russia has warned Israel and the West on Wednesday against any military strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities but simultaneously implied that Tehran should be quicker to cooperate over inspections of its nuclear sites.

Ron Nachman, the mayor of one of Israel’s largest settlements in the West Bank, has died. He was 70.His brother Dan said Nachman succumbed to cancer on Friday.

The IDF discovered a tunnel along the Gaza Strip border on Monday, apparently to be used to carry out an attack inside Israel. This tunnel is one of the longest uncovered in recent years and is similar to the one used for kidnapping Gilad Schalit.

Israel’s national museum in Jerusalem is preparing an exhibition on King Herod, the Jewish ruler under Roman occupation two millennia ago.

Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pledged on Sunday to move ahead with construction of a new Jewish settlement in the West Bank, just hours after Israeli forces dragged dozens of Palestinian Arab activists from the area.

The United States objected on Friday to a French court’s planned release of a Lebanese leftist terrorist, saying he may still be a threat after he was convicted of killing an American and an Israeli diplomat back in 1982.
A French appeals court on Thursday granted conditional release to George Ibrahim Abdallah, eho was imprisoned since 1984 and is currently  in custody at the moment , contingent on his being deported to Lebanon, a step in the hands of the French Foreign Ministry.

For the first time in 7 years, the  Kinneret (Sea of Galilee ) has risen by 13 centimeters, slightly more than 5 inches, since Thursday, when rain and snow stopped falling – as water from last week's precipitation continues to flow into the sea. The fresh-water lake is currently at 211.07 meters below sea level. But despite the encouraging figure, the Kinneret is still three meters short of being full.

The Egyptian court recently accepted an appeal by former president Hosni Mubarak and his former interior minister on Sunday, allowing him to be retried over the massacre of protesters during  the 2011 uprising.

An explosion went off in a car near a bus in Tel Aviv on Thursday in what police said was a criminally motivated assassination attempt. Four people were slightly injured. In a country with a long history of bus bombings by Palestinian militants, such explosions immediately cause jitters and assumptions about terrorism. And the explosion went off close to the site of a bus bombing in November.

A recent archaeological unearthing in Samaria has shed light on the incomplete story of the destruction of Shiloh, the ancient capital of Israel. An uncovered broken clay pitcher embedded in a layer of reddish ashes completes the story of the devastation of Shiloh, where the Mishkan, the Tabernacle, was placed during the period of the Judges, and essentially served as Israel’s capital during the early part of the First Israelite commonwealth.

Israelis often pray for a rainy winter season. In recent years, there hasn’t nearly been enough precipitation and the Sea of Galilee’s water levels have been dropping. But who would expect a heavy snow downfall?  Only this time, Israel is getting more snow and driving rain than it has in two decades. It’s come so fast and furious that the Israel isn’t quite prepared to deal with this circumstance. As a result, malls are being flooded. Roads are being shut down. Schools and government offices are being closed. The IDF and Navy have even been deployed repeatedly in the last few days to rescue Israelis in danger.

Reports are surfacing that Iranian Revolutionary Guard commanders are using the services of 5,000 Shiite Hizbullah soldiers to defend Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime against a growing number of anti-government rebel forces. In response, high-ranking American, NATO and Israeli generals have been quietly moving special operations personnel and equipment into the region in order to thwart possible chemical attacks against Israel, Turkey and Jordan.