Israel's Hearing Day is gaining prominence across the country and this year the vice-mayor of one of Israel's cities announced all his city schools would start teaching sign language.

Nano Retina, an Israeli startup founded by inventor Yossi Gross, is participating in the race for more than 45 million blind people worldwide waiting at the finish line: the race of technological development that will allow them to see. It seems Nano Retina might well be the first to truly get there.

For Tel Aviv-Jaffa residents and workers sick of skyrocketing gasoline prices and incessant traffic jams, the introduction of a new city-wide pilot bike-rental project this month couldn't have come at a better time.

Verishow, a new "video chat on steroids," aims to enhance customer service by allowing people to video-chat with a far-off product representative, while simultaneously looking at various independent applications, such as charts and paypal, that assist the consumers in the chat.

For most of us who grew up in developed countries, clean water is a given, not something we've ever given much thought. Yet in the United States alone, an estimate of 7 million tons of chemicals are being used in order to clean water every year. What effect do these chemicals have on us and on the environment?

A new study in Israel shows that when women are depressed and their sensitivities are dulled, their partners also become less empathic. When women are depressed, the relationship suffers more.

A new mobile application, developed by Israeli company Rewardy and available for iPhone, Android and Blackberry, frees you from that old-fashioned, but essential coffee stamp card by turning your phone into a digital card!

Four years after Israeli entrepreneur Shai Agassi founded Better Place with the aim of reducing global dependency on oil, Israel will become, along with Denmark, the first country in which the rechargeable, zero emission vehicles will be sold commercially.

Israel's Ben-Gurion University gets $1.3 million grant to help develop ‘Clever Robots for Crops' that will harvest only the ripest fruits and vegetables.

An Israeli couple created Jumboard, a four-buttoned keyboard that “sits” on your existing laptop keyboard and allows toddlers and the disabled to play games that helps their development while keeping them entertained.

An Israeli psychologist, Gil Winch, has founded a call-center staffed mostly with disabled Israeli and Arab adults. Winch says the business-model has attracted interest from people all around the world.

An Israeli startup that launched a popular mobile application telling users how much radiation their brain is absorbing during every mobile phone conversation is now shifting its attention to children, due to increasing exposure.

While eating fish is considered healthy, the effects of mercury - a metal which accumulates in the body - are not and can include damage to the nervous system and liver functions. A new Israeli study shows where all this mercury comes from.

According to a new study by Ben-Gurion University and Columbia University, fatigue negatively influences the rulings of judges sitting on parole hearings.

Israel's top golf club is always thinking of new ways to save water. The club even imported a type of grass from beaches on South Africa's and Australia's borders, with grass roots that can grow strong even when sprinkled with salt water.