A meeting between Jordanian and Israeli environmentalists in Aqaba recently has the green sector in both countries cautiously optimistic. It was the first time in 10 years that Israeli and Jordanian groups working to improve and conserve the coastal and marine environment in the Gulf of Aqaba came to the...

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Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni, leaders of Israel’s main opposition party, the Zionist Union, released a position paper calling the understandings reached earlier this month with Iran over its nuclear program “problematic,” and said that they present “real potential dangers for the long term,” The Jerusalem Post reported Sunday. In addition, the...

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Palestinian police will expand their patrols to three towns near Jerusalem for the first time after an agreement was reached with Israel, Reuters reported Wednesday. Louy Izriqat, spokesman for Palestinian police, said 90 officers had deployed in Abu Dis, A-Ram and Biddu, towns that had been largely under Israeli security control since a 1993 interim...

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Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak said that the United States has the capability to destroy Iran’s nuclear program “over a fraction of one night” in an interview Wednesday on CNBC. The interview is embedded below. The U.S. needs to give Iranian leaders a clear choice: Get rid of your...

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Aziz Kaddan, one of the co-founders of Myndlift, didn’t flinch when asked in front of an audience at the recent BrainTech conference in Tel Aviv how he plans to go up against the better-funded American companies with his alternative non-drug treatment for attention deficit disorder (ADD) and attention deficit hyperactivity...

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Pushing back against claims that the alternative to the current nuclear negotiation framework with Iran is war, Israeli Defense Minister Moshe Ya’alon argued in an op-ed published Wednesday in The Washington Post that the protocols announced last week actually make war more likely. As Israel’s minister of defense, as a former Israel...

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Braving a biting late spring wind, hundreds of people turned out for the March 30 grand opening of the city’s new urban nature park at Gazelle Valley – the only one of its kind in Israel. Bordered on all sides by major traffic thoroughfares and dense residential housing, Gazelle Valley...

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Since 1987, Israeli adults with visual disabilities have been enjoying lawn bowls – an outdoor sport played with a one-kilo ball aimed toward a target – as part of the all-volunteer Israel Lawn Bowls Association for the Blind. “Among sports for the blind, lawn bowls has the largest number of...

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Tourists in North America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand often travel around towing campers (also called “caravans”) that serve as a secure overnight “motel” hitched to a rented vehicle. International-standard campers only became available for hire in Israel a couple of years ago. Tourists are starting to discover that they...

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A pot of pretty petunias will practically sell itself, but petunias don’t retain their beauty for long. A joint Israeli-American “precise breeding” project is now working toward extending the shelf-life of these popular flowers. The three-year collaboration brings together a patented plant-breeding technology called MemoGene, developed by Israel’s Danziger Innovations...

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