A new Israeli study shows that scorpions are master architects when designing and building their burrows, even including a platform on which to warm up before the evening hunt. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev scientists Dr. Amanda Adams, a post-doc in the Marco and Louise Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology...
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A report that a Jewish family has been smuggled out of Syria and brought to Israel was cleared for publication on Thursday. Ynet reports: This was the first time in over three years of the Syrian civil war that a Jewish family has left the war-torn country for Israel. They...
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The Times of Israel reported Thursday that Israel’s Homefront Command has chosen a new system to power its app for its emergency notification system. David Shamah, the technology reporter for the Times, writes: After a year-long pilot program, Israel’s Homefront Command selected Israeli firm eVigilo’s SMART Internet to power its new...
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Some half a million Israelis spent much of their weekend running to bomb shelters, with school camps remaining closed in one city July 6 because of rocket fire from Gaza. “The Ashdod municipality had said on Saturday night that no classes or other planned activities would be allowed to open,...
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Earlier this week, Reuters reported on a surprising consequence of Syria’s civil war: trade between Europe and the Arab world is increasingly passing through Israel. A Romanian truck driver, Ismail Hamad, explained that after 30 years of driving through Syria, he no longer does so because of “[t]oo much problems,...
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The World Wildlife Foundation and The Cleantech Group (CTG), described as helping “clients accelerate sustainable innovation,” named Israel the top cleantech innovator in a press release Tuesday. A press release by CTG reads: Israel secured the top spot for its ‘high-impact cleantech start-ups’, strong venture capital activity and government support. The...
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Rocket fire from Gaza into southern Israel continued Thursday. Israel Hayom reports: At around 8:30 in the morning, the early warning alarm sounded in Sderot followed by a salvo of three rockets. One of the rockets penetrated the wall of the second story of a building. On the first floor...
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The global fish crisis that is meant to take trout, salmon and cod off the menu by 2050, may have been wrongly diagnosed. While a 2010 report by the United Nations Environment Program states that over-fishing and pollution have nearly emptied the world’s fish stocks, a new Israeli study says...
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The Daily Beast on Tuesday conveyed assessments from a range of Israeli officials and U.S.-based experts linking the recent kidnapping and murder of three Israeli teenagers to Saleh al-Arouri – a top Hamas official who sits atop the group’s terror infrastructure in the West Bank – who has reportedly been allowed to operate...
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu denounced the murder of 16-year-old Muhammed Abu Khdeir yesterday, calling for an investigation. A statement released by the Prime Minister’s office said: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, today spoke with Public Security Minister Yitzhak Aharonovitch and asked that law-enforcement elements work as quickly as possible in order...
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