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(Thanks to Uri) Try out this exciting interactive video tour of the Jewish State.

Short video featuring increasingly up-market Jaffa. A special project including Designers of the Castro Fashion chain with 11 international leading street artists, who came together to bring street art into fashion.

Israeli non-profit organisation Kinetis has brought five of the world’s top followers of fashion to explore Israel's fashionable side, and share it with world. Kinetis’ founder, Joanna Landau, organized the tour to demonstrate Tel Aviv’s wealth of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship.

The Keshet Media Group, the production house behind most of the TV exports to the US, is hosting the INTV Conference where it’s showcasing some of the Israeli startups innovating Web-TV.

Our local soccer team has moved into its brand new NIS 240 million state-of-the-art stadium. The first game ended in a 2-1 victory for the home team over Hapoel Tel Aviv and was Netanya’s first victory in the new season.

The top American tennis player and World number three decided to vacation in the southern Israeli resort town of Eilat. Having just beaten Maria Sharapova in the Masters Tournament finals in Istanbul, she had some free time on her hands before training for the next season.

''The Pixel's Habitat: From Code to Line'' is a new interactive art exhibition at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Visitors to the exhibit participate in using computer animation to make new virtual creations that are projected on the gallery’s walls and floors.

The American network ABC has bought Israeli TV show Sabri Maranan. It tells the story of a typical Jewish family who meet every week for a traditional Shabbat dinner. The title of the programme refers to a blessing over wine. The US production will be called “Tribes”.

The hosts of popular US Public Broadcasting System TV program “Grannies on Safari” have filmed two episodes in Israel. The globetrotting pair had been in Egypt last year, just in time for the “Arab Spring” protests, emerging unscathed if a little scared. Their Israel trip was quite tame by comparison.

For first time since youth song contest was founded 10 years ago, the Israeli Broadcasting Authority is to send its own delegation to the event, taking place in Amsterdam.