Information wants to be free! Those words were the virtual banner carried aloft by users of the worldwide web, before the advent of Web 2.0 and the Internet’s commercialization. Occasionally, that spirit still breaks through as it did last week when Wikimedia Israel — the local chapter of the worldwide Wikimedia movement...

A new treatment for aggressive brain tumors (glioblastoma) shows great promise, according to a report by Israeli scientists that was published  recently in the journal Nucleic Acids Research. Glioblastoma is a serious and incurable brain cancer. Patients receiving this diagnosis typically have 11 to 20 months to live. One of the main...

Dutch author Jigal Krant won the Dutch Booksellers Federation’s 2018 Golden Cookbook Award (Het Gouden Kookboek) for his TLV: Recipes and Stories from Tel Aviv, a paean to Israeli cuisine. At the Amsterdam ceremony earlier this month, jury chairwoman Janny van der Heijden said Krant’s book “teaches, pleases and entertains. It’s...

Lior Weintraub, Vice President and Director of the Israel Office of The Israel Project, hosted journalists Tal Shalev and Neri Zilber to review an intense week in Israel on the latest Tipping Point podcast. The three discussed how early elections in Israel were avoided last minute and how long the government...

A rare weight, bearing an inscription mentioned in the bible, was discovered in an excavation near the Western Wall in Jerusalem, The Times of Israel reported Wednesday. The tiny stone has the word beka, a weight mentioned in the bible — both in Genesis in describing the jewelry given to...

Airbnb, the home rental site, announced on Monday that it would change its policy regarding home listings in what it calls occupied territories, singling out the West Bank, The Jerusalem Post reported. In response, Israeli officials said they were looking at restricting Airbnb services in the Jewish State and urged...