Alternative health

From ice baths to yoga classes: Everything to expect at Israel's largest wellness festival

Three movement areas, 50 health booths, and a free alternative therapy zone: Wellfest returns for its fifth year at Kfar Maccabiah. The event will take place on May 29-30.

 Wellfest
 ce water bath: unclear benefits

Do ice baths really improve health? New medical review reveals surprising findings

 ce water bath: unclear benefits

Do ice baths improve health? New medical review reveals surprising findings

Red 'traffic light' nutrition labels are seen on cream cheese products on Israeli supermarket shelves.

Red labels on salty, sweet and fatty food not required during emergency


Waste, recycling system for Beduin communities to be inaugurated this week

Up until recently, about 40,000 Beduin community members in the region – which spreads from Beersheba to Arad –have lived without trash cans and proper waste disposal systems.

A beduin Umm Batin resident uses the HomeBioGas system.

After dying of brain tumor, IDF soldier's organs save 6 lives

19-year-old Lee Hasin had a benign brain tumor and was unable to be saved by surgery.

Lee Hasin

Transmission lines for gas export to be financed by companies, not Israeli government

The companies will bear the cost of segments in the transmission system used only for export.

 IEI's exploratory oil shale drilling site at Zoharim

The light at the end of the tunnel

Israel is acting correctly by speaking moderately and acting forcefully. In this fashion, we will get the most out of Operation Protective Edge.

Tunnel uncovered by IDF in Gaza , July 23

*Rx for Readers: Exercise for the eyes*

Is there a yoga regimen to strengthen our oculars?

While the eyes are a muscle, it has not been proven that so-called ‘exercises’ are beneficial.

With all due respect

A NIS 23 million Beit Melabev facility for dementia victims opens in Givat Masua.

Melabev organisation, Jerusalem

It’s not what you eat, it’s what’s eating you

The question of cannabis use by people under the age of 21 and its effect on the brain is still controversial, because the younger brain is not fully formed.

Black Snow playing at the Sobar

Supportive Communities offer respectable alternative for the elderly

The program aims to reduce the need for the elderly to move to special housing and to instead receive services directly at their homes.

Elderly ping pong_311

Peres’s Washington performance

One old reality that the parents of Naftali, Gilad and Eyal are not permitted to forget is that whenever Peres and his ilk express their dreams of peace, the rest of us in Israel should grab our children and run for cover.

PRESIDENT SHIMON PERES embraces US Vice President Joe Biden after  receiving the Congressional Gold Medal in Washington yesterday.

Washington watch: It’s more than a kidnapping

Netanyahu will be a victor if the unity agreement is scrapped, Hamas is weakened, and – it’s a big if – if he can be gracious in his victory and resist the temptation to gloat and overplay his hand.

IDF soldiers from the Paratroopers Brigade search for the missing teens near Hebron.