All 13 beaches in Tel Aviv were recently honored with the annual Blue Flag Award, allowing the city’s beaches to maintain the status for the 13th year in a row. The Blue Flag is an internationally ...

I’m not even going to bother starting this article with a list of all the problems Israel faced this year. We all know how bad it’s been and how many difficulties we’ve all experienced and there will ...

One of Israel’s sources of pride is the enormous number of inventions and innovations that have taken root on its soil over 63 years — despite challenges of geography, size and diplomacy. The ...

Israel has the highest number of altruistic kidney donations per capita in the world: 1,775 in the past 15 years, and counting. The oldest tree in Israel is an 11-meter jujube tree in Ein Hatzeva on ...

A unique “coworking space” for farmers in drought-stricken Rwanda will soon offer local growers a sustainable way to produce crops. Agriculture accounts for a third of landlocked Rwanda’s GDP but ...

Sitting at the crossroads of the ancient world, Israel is an archeologist’s dream. Peeling back the layers of history here is a never-ending pursuit. Excavations by the Israel Antiquities Authority ...

In biblical times, the land of Israel was blanketed with abundant fruit and forest trees that helped keep the air and soil healthy. Over the centuries, a succession of Roman, Mamluk and Ottoman ...

In 2019, Israel’s SpaceIL successfully launched its robotic lunar lander, Beresheet, into space. Although the vehicle crashed on landing, the mission made the Jewish state the seventh country to make ...

Here’s a win-win opportunity if you grow grapes for a living. A startup in Israel is integrating solar panels into vineyards. They generate electricity (and revenue). And they give the farmer precise ...

How did Israel, a country that is more than half desert, frequently hit with drought, and historically cursed by chronic water shortages, become a nation that now produces 20 percent more water than ...

Fruit rotting on trees or on the ground costs farmers some $30 billion in sales a year. Fruit picked even two weeks late loses 80 percent of its value. A major reason for wasted produce: A global ...

A young man was brought to the emergency room of Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem in traumatic cardiac arrest after shrapnel tore his inferior vena cava, the big vein in the middle of ...