Pollution monitoring app BreezoMeter recently won the Startup Open contest in Israel and joined the list of the World’s Top 50 Most Promising Startups, also known as the GEW50. The BreezoMeter app was invented to make air pollution visible and get people to demand cleaner air. Using real time big data analysis, the...

After a controversial career in politics, Shimon Peres reinvented himself as Israel’s president–and redefined the presidency. Now he has done the same with being an ex-president–and you have to admire the way he has begun his latest phase with a video launched this week showing a rather different face of the...

Dr. Kamal Al-Labwani, considered one of the most prominent members of the Syrian opposition movement, was in Israel recently to visit the Syrian casualties hospitalized in the Ziv Medical Center near Safed (Tsfat). A Syrian doctor and artist, sometimes called “the Syrian Nelson Mandela,” Al-Labwani came to Israel to thank...

Israel successfully shot down a Syrian jet fighter after it flew into Israeli territory early on September 23. Israel has repeatedly made clear it will only intervene in the Syrian civil war if Israeli sovereignty is challenged. The Israel Defense Forces initial report of the incident was posted to its...

Kitty might be the purrfect pet but according to a new Technion-Israel Institute of Technology study, she could also hold the clue to new anti-HIV drugs. The feline virus FIV that causes the disease in cats looks a lot like HIV. Both FIV and HIV rely on a protein called...

The Senate late Thursday unanimously passed bipartisan legislation establishing Israel as a “major strategic partner” of the United States, putting into motion expanded cooperation across areas as diverse as security, energy, and trade. The bill had been authored by Sens. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif) and Roy Blunt (R-Mo) and had gained 81...