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A rather unusual e-mail arrived Sunday morning in the inbox of Yerushalmit, the recently established pre-army academy in Kiryat Hayovel. The academy…

Rebbetzins are right Sir, – Regarding “Barak slams ‘wave of racism’ in rabbi, rebbetzin letters” (December 30,) not only should Jewish women not date…

Psagot: We have a real-estate bubble By Yossi Nissan“In Israel, the figures show that there is a [realestate] bubble: the mother of all bubbles,”…

Forty scientists from six countries have converged on hotels at Israel’s Dead Sea – the lowest point on earth – but not for a spa vacation. They’re…

When members of F.I.R.S.T, a volunteer search and rescue team, heard news on Thursday that brushfires were spreading rapidly throughout the forests…

After the candles have been lit and “Maoz Tzur” has been sung, there are many more activities for the whole family than sitting around eating…

For the Israeli Dead Sea researchers, the 40 days of drilling that began late last week is the culmination of 10 years of effort. It is also the raw…

An international research team will begin drilling beneath the Dead Sea for 500,000 years of climate history on Friday morning. The International…

Six months after the international community was aghast to learn that coriander was on a list of items not allowed into the Gaza Strip, the shops…

A group of 1,400 Evangelical Christian from South Africa gathered in Israel this week for three evenings of worship and devotion in Jerusalem’s Old…

Two hundred and thirty thousand Israelis hit the parks and trails on the first day of Sukkot, the National Parks Authority (NPA) and JNF-KKL said…

Coral reefs have been discovered deep off Israel’s Mediterranean coast by a team of Haifa University researchers who spent the last two-and-a-half…

If the excitement of the holidays is not enough, the Chol Hamoed Succot festivals around the country offer yet another chance for a family gathering…

Almost 10,000 olim have made aliya so far in 2010, of whom 2,426 came from English-speaking countries, according to data released by the Jewish…

It had been the longest journey. Through desert sands, visa lines, bus rides and the pressing patience of waiting, Natty Mitali arrived at the gates…

At a recent International Geography Conference in Tel Aviv, Deborah Cvikel of the University of Haifa’s Recanti Institute of Maritime Studies…

The missing 61-year-old desert survival expert, Nir Gur was found on Wednesday night near Kibbutz Yagur after a massive police search which included…

When my mother visited in December 2006, nobody had any idea that something was wrong. She and my father stayed at the Dan Panorama Hotel in…

Prof. Hanan Eshel, a world famous researcher of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bar Kochba Revolt, passed away after a long battle with cancer early…

200,000 visitors crowded Israel's national parks and nature reserves on Sunday after a week of booming internal tourism during the Pessah…