Culture

Ari Fruchter, the Israeli behind Spencer Tunick's 2011 mass nude Dead Sea photograph, is onto his next ambitious endeavor: A gourmet salt harvested from the Dead Sea, that will not only be healthy, but also promote peace.

Despite progress being made towards gender equality, men still have the upper hand when it comes to executive positions and salary. However, the revolution may come from the Israeli Academia, as more women received doctorates this year.

Israeli high-tech charity Tmura and crowdfunding platform OurCrowd have come up with a plan to encourage startups to donate to charity. Startups raising money using OurCrowd will be forced to donate stock through Tmura.

The city of Tel Aviv is known for its beaches, offering an array of hangouts and activities to both locals and tourists. Now, the city offers its beach-goers another service – a free public library with books in five languages.

What causes a member of a group to be more dominant and how are social structures formed? A new study uses mice to shed light on these questions and also offers insight into autism.

MEET, a program founded by five Israeli and Palestinian Ivy League Students and backed by MIT and Google, is breeding the next generation of tech leaders on both sides.

It's no secret that kids are picky eaters. Rare are the occasions in which a child loves everything on their plate. Israeli blog Meals With Kids tries to get kids to eat their broccoli by making each plate a fun creation.

Only three countries in the world offer academic degrees in emergency medical response – and Israel is one of them. For that reason, Jordanians wishing to attain the degree joined their Israeli counterparts at Ben Gurion University.

If there's a field where objective considerations outweigh political ones – it's medicine. Now, a multinational, multi-faith project aims to bring better medicine to Palestinian kids.

An Israeli couple is hoping to address water scarcity in the world by sell their high pH water, and for every bottle sold, one will be donated to someone in need, packaged in a pouch that is itself edible and biodegeradable.

Taking apart delicate computer parts is a necessary task that has not been automated. A new recycling plant gives people from the special needs population in Israel a job in taking these components apart – helping both them and the environment.

With 380 million native speakers, Arabic is the sixth most common language in the world. Yet relatively, it is the language with the least content on the Internet today. Palestinian startup MobiStine has come out with one of the first interactive applications in Arabic for new parents. So far, the app has over one million downloads from Arabic-speaking countries worldwide.

As part of international initiative Coursera, the Hebrew University will offer an online course in brain research. Students from around the world signed up, including scholars from Iran, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

Despite comprising 20 percent of the Israeli population, only 1.4 percent of high-tech workers in Israel are Arabs. A government-aided Israeli organization is trying to change that statistic for good.

In 2003, a suicide bomber in Haifa detonated his vest, killing 17 people with him, including high school student Tal Kerman. When Tal's family went through her diary, they found a drawing of a camel that had not yet been colored. Her family now created an app that allows users to complete the drawing.