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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

2024, for all of its challenges, has seen a remarkable amount of scientific discoveries by Israeli researchers across various disciplines. From novel approaches to treating cancer to unraveling the ...

This summer’s sweltering heatwave across Europe is sparking wildfires, damaging infrastructure, polluting the air and making life miserable for millions. There are health problems and even deaths ...

With everything going on in Israel these days, it is hard to escape reality, even in an immersive experience such as SXSW — South by Southwest, the annual fusion of innovation, culture and ...

Nadav Israeli smiles as he peers through binoculars at a flock of Eurasian jackdaws soaring over Kibbutz Kfar Ruppin in the Jordan Valley. It’s mid-September, the beginning of a migration season when ...

Around the world there are quite a few mysterious sites that raise questions about how they were formed and for what purpose they were used. Although Israel is small, and most of its corners are well ...

Ziv Elul was 48 when he was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). It didn’t come as a big surprise, he says. As a child he’d always been easily distracted and found it hard ...

A new treatment developed by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the IDF Medical Corps could significantly improve survival in cases of severe blood loss — a leading cause of ...