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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.