70-Year-Olds Joining Israeli “Walkathon” To Fight Water Crisis
Walkathon delegations from England, France and Australia come to Israel after enlisting sponsors to donate to Israeli environmental organization KKL-JNF.This time, a delegation from UK is visiting Israel and spending a week hiking in the Negev and the Arava, under the banner “Walk for Water”.
February 22, 2011
Israeli Desertification Experts Speak Before Argenatinean Congress
Israel has been dealing with desertification and water scarcity for the past few decades, and KKL-JNF has acquired a great amount of experience with these issues. These problems are universal and are faced by other countries around the world, including Argentina.
February 21, 2011
Can A Computer Game Teach You To Play Like Mozart?
An Israeli start up company is trying to democratize music with its new computer game, by fusing the fun of a game, with the difficult stages of learning an instrument.
February 21, 2011
Israel To Introduce Health Services In Many Languages
If you speak English, Arabic or Russian and are confounded by forms and other documents and services in the health system that appear only in Hebrew, relief will come, gradually, within two years.
February 21, 2011
New Search Engine Says It Will Do To Video What Google Did For Text
Search engines are getting smarter by the minute- after Google’s revolution in text based sites, a new kind of search engine uses patent-pending computer vision algorithms that can actually see the video’s content.
February 20, 2011
30,000 Israeli Cows Flown To Vietnam To Provide Milk
In the largest project of its kind in the world and the biggest ever undertaken by an Israeli firm, 30,000 dairy cows are being flown to Vietnam to supply 300 million liters of milk annually as part of a $500 million dairy farm project there.
February 19, 2011
Palestinian And Israeli Hippopotamus Matchmaking
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.
February 19, 2011
Israeli Universities Take In Students Forced To Flee Egypt
Seventeen displaced American college students, who were forced to leave Egypt amid the political turmoil, are now studying at Israeli universities.
February 19, 2011
Funtactix To Develop Web-Based Games For Paramount
Games developer Funtactix signed an agreement with Paramount Digital Entertainment to create Web-based virtual worlds for Paramount Pictures films.
February 16, 2011
Antioxidants Could Reduce Your Chances Of Getting Pregnant
Antioxidants might impair female fertility, a Weitzmann Institute research recently found.
February 16, 2011
Israeli Start-Up Uses iPhone To Report Dangerous Drivers
Thanks to Israeli cell phone application developer Zemingo, dangerous drivers are now getting their just desserts. Drivers who install the Traffic Observer app on their iPhones will be able to record and report offensive road behavior
February 15, 2011
Bone Marrow Campaign To Save 12-Year-Old Boy
Eighteen shopping malls around Israel will later this month ask visitors to give a saliva sample to find a compatible bone marrow donor for a 12-and-a-half-year-old boy, Or Yosipov, who suffers from leukemia.
February 15, 2011
Piracy Detection Technology Assigns DNA To Every Movie
Engineers led atTel Aviv University have developed a new way to stop movie and video pirates uising “video DNA matching,” which can create a unique fingerprint for every movie on the planet.
February 14, 2011
Israel And Germany Cooperate To Save Lake Victoria
Israel and Germany have agreed on a combined project for rehabilitating Lake Victoria in Kenya, which suffers from pollution and serious ecological problems.
February 14, 2011
Archeological Site Shows Complex Plannig In Biblical City
Reconstruction of Tel Be'er Sheva's ancient buildings, believed to be the remains of the biblical town of Be'er Sheva, enables an understanding of sophisticated urban planning during biblical times.
February 13, 2011