If all goes according to plan, by December 2012 a team of three young Israeli scientists will have landed a tiny spacecraft on the moon, explored the lunar surface, and transmitted live video back to earth, thereby scooping up a $20 million prize.

Although Jordan and Israel have long had their differences, the possibility of earthquakes in the Syrian-African Rift inspired a cooperation between the Arab and Jewish country.

The world's first agricultural "cloud" system will help farmers around the world with pest control; pricing; international regulations, all according to their individual needs.

The implications for Israel of the West’s growing dependence on Middle Eastern oil are troubling for the country. Yet there are two new developments in Israel's energy sector that could well offset these trends and eventually alter its standing.

Various Israeli communes have decided that living an urban life does not preclude them from applying pure socialist beliefs and created what they call "urban kibbutzim" – families in large Israeli cities living under one roof and sharing all their earnings.

"Yes To Birds" brings Jewish and Arab students together to learn about nature, biodiversity and birds in a unique, outdoor way.

Eilat-Eilot conference is a yearly conference of renewable energy which discusses the newest innovations in renewable energy and cleach tech. The 2011 coference, which will be the 4th one, will be held in Eilat - the biggest beach resort city in Israel.

For ten days, Israel’s leading academy of art and design, Bezalel, is turning the country into one giant art gallery.

A safari in Israel and a Palestinian Zoo in the West Bank are cooperating to get a hippopotamus out of his depression and loneliness, by fixing him up with a female companion.

Israel and Germany have agreed on a combined project for rehabilitating Lake Victoria in Kenya, which suffers from pollution and serious ecological problems.

Omanoot - art in Hebrew - is a website dedicated to highlighting and teaching Israeli art to a wider audience. Cohen came up with the idea around the time of the second intifada, when he felt not only an increasingly hostile attitude towards Israel, but also a distancing from Israel’s bustling art scene.

Earlier this month the Israeli Ministerial Committee for Legislation gave its support for a proposed law designed to clean up polluted land and prevent future ground pollution. This bill may lead to a framework that would be the first of its kind providing financial incentives to expedite the clean-up of polluted sites.

Only 0.74 percent of the world's water is considered safe for drinking, and some two billion people either lack access to sufficient quantities of water or are supplied with unsafe water. An Israeli company is working towards making a change, by providing safe and innovative water products.

Children don't often associate the words "school" and "playground", but that's just what an Israeli principal has succeeded to do: Reviving his school by ditching conventional teaching methods in favor of a more "entertaining" one.

In just three weeks, a team of Israeli aid workers completed construction of a hospital emergency room - the only facility of its kind - in Kisumu, Kenya.