Israel

With a record-breaking five openly gay Knesset members in the Israel’s 21st Knesset, the legislative body is amending “husband and wife” to “couple” on all its forms, and will provide more rights to partners of homosexual legislators. According to a Ynet report, the decision came after new Blue and White Party MK Eitan Ginsburg was asked to sign a form...

More than 80 Jerusalem College of Technology students from Israel and 23 countries gathered at the college’s Machon Lev campus and worked around the clock last Wednesday evening through Friday morning as part of the its third-annual “Great Minds” men’s hackathon. The winning team, consisting of Brazilians Daniel Vofchuk, David Zimberknopf and Daniel Grunberger, won a 3,000 shekel prize (nearly...

A total of 17 people have been detained and 11 questioned as criminal suspects, with four others placed under house arrest, in connection to the collapse on Sunday of a crane at a construction site in Yavne that killed four people. Two more people were injured in the incident, which occurred when part of a crane broke apart as a...

In the context of the Trump administration’s plan to roll out a Middle East peace proposal after the end of Ramadan on June 4, businessman and aspiring politician Sheikh Ashraf Al Jabari has sent a clear message: Palestinian and Israeli business leaders are ready to cooperate towards a shared economic future. As is traditional after dusk on Ramadan, a group...

A newly launched fund is uniting faculty from one of America’s most prestigious universities and seven leading Israeli academic institutions in pursuit of the next generation of groundbreaking research in the STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) fields. The MIT-Israel Zuckerman STEM Fund is calling for proposals from Massachusetts Institute of Technology faculty members and research scientists for its inaugural round of...

In honor of International Nurses Day, celebrated around the world on May 12, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin invited nurses and representatives from Israel’s Health Ministry to be honored at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem. The large contingent of nurses, lead by Nurses Union chairwoman Ilana Cohen and Health Ministry director general Moshe Bar Siman Tov, were welcomed by the president, who...

An Israeli man has apologized for spitting at Polish Ambassador to Israel Marek Magierowski. “I would like to express my apologies,” said Arik Lederman, who was arrested for spitting at the ambassador, in a statement. “My family experienced the Holocaust, and my appeal to the embassy was on the matter of restitution of property.” Lederman accused a security guard at the...

The Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic has signed a memorandum of understanding with the U.S. branch of the Israel Innovation Authority to collaborate with Israeli firms to co-create new medical technologies, announced the two groups. The MOU was signed on Tuesday at the MIXiii Biomed Conference and Exhibition in Tel Aviv. “The focus of the cooperation will be health technologies, including in medical devices,...

Dozens of pro-Israel activists held a “Nakba Day Party” at Tel Aviv University today, across from the annual “Nakba Day” ceremony held by the university’s Arab and far-left students. The party, organized by the Zionist organization Im Tirtzu, featured blaring Israeli music, flags, drums and free drinks. According to Im Tirtzu, the goal of the event was to celebrate the founding...

Following a request by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli President Reuven Rivlin has agreed to grant Netanyahu two more weeks to form a coalition. Netanyahu will now have until May 29 to form a government, or another party will be given the opportunity. In his request for an extension, Netanyahu noted the Passover, Holocaust Remembrance Day, Memorial Day and Independence...