Beit Berl

IF THE NEW ENERGY AND GIDDY elation among the rank and file is anything to go by, the news of the once allpowerful Labor party’s demise may have been…

For Asaf Banner, helping other people is simply in his genes. Growing up with a mother in social work and school counseling, he just couldn’t help…

ISRAEL HAS BECOME A HUB FOR business innovation, especially in the high-tech and biotech fields. But the country’s most original business incubator…

Pam Peled, whose first novel For the Love of God and Virgins is just about to be published, is passionate about Israel. Born in South Africa, she…

Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu returned from Sharm e-Sheikh on Tuesday to threats from both the Right and Left to break up his…

Among my more esoteric possessions is an English-language translation of a forgotten volume, People and Portraits: A Tragic Cycle, published in 1966.…

Looking back at the last decade of art, many artistsand curators speak of the unprecedented international success ofIsraeli artists. Less spoken of…

Israel Police commandos are holding their yearly operational readiness drills this week, which includes daily exercises and simulations culminating…

Everybody complains about the heat, but only a handful of green architects are doing something about it. Most designers disregard climate and energy…

WHEN FORMER president of Poland Lech Walesa paid a visit in January 2008, his entourage included Rabbi Shalom DovBer Stambler, the director of…

The Labor Party ended a decade-long, failed attempt to reach out to the underclass when it closed its headquarters in Tel Aviv's downtrodden Hatikva…

ASIDE FROM all the hype and speculation surrounding the content of the response to the Obama address last Sunday by Prime Minister Binyamin…

Opposition leader Tzipi Livni said Wednesday that Israel was going through a "tough process" of the public losing trust in its leaders, calling it a…

'There is nothing more alive than a dead father'- Meir Ahronson,Exhibition Curator, 'My Father Is a Soldier'Israel is home to an estimated 104,000…

Regardless of whether he is making a work of art, curating an exhibit, writing a text or teaching a course, Doron Rabina is constantly trying to…

More than 5,000 Israeli Arabs are studying at Jordanian colleges and universities - a massive increase from just 100 in 1998, a new study has…

If recent opinion polls hold true, Israel Beiteinu - a party dismissed as outwardly anti-Arab by some of its critics - will obtain a Knesset seat for…

Using the expression "Back to Work" - which in Hebrew draws on the party's name, "Avoda" - the Labor Party on Thursday night officially relaunched…

The Beit Berl teachers' college in Kfar Saba has recently opened a fully equipped emergency medical clinic for animals, only the second "pet…

The latest cinematheque to open in Israel is the Herzliya Cinematheque. "We want to bring people back to a neighborhood cinema," says Noa Ron,…