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Descending from Jerusalem, these tours offer a unique opportunity to explore the Jewish State from beneath. Travelling in a special vehicle, through specially carved tunnels deep beneath the ground, the tours will whisk visitors around Israel to some of the country’s most famous sites.

You can now enjoy an on-line visit to the Israel Museum using Google Street. 520 objects have been made available as part of the museum’s partnership with the Google Art Project – an online compilation of high-resolution images of artwork.

Spiderman – alias Tobey Maguire – is coming to Israel both for business and personal reasons. A family function will coincide with his promotion of the “mobi” smartphone app.

Hapoel Ironi Kiryat Shmona won the Israeli soccer championship on Monday for the first time in the small northern city’s history. The team has caused an upset by breaking the domination of the much larger and more affluent Tel Aviv and Haifa clubs.

The “Queen of Pop” is giving Israeli fans an extra opportunity to see her, with performances at Tel Aviv’s Ramat Gan stadium now on 29th and 31st May.

Legendary rock bands Guns & Roses and Jethro Tull will be performing in Israel later this year. Guns & Roses are scheduled to perform at Yarkon Park on July 3rd, whilst Jethro Tull will be doing three gigs between Sept 6th to Sept 8th in Jerusalem, Haifa and Raanana.

Israeli computer game company Funtactix was started due to the vision of JVP founder Erel Margalit and developed a game to accompany the fourth “Mission Impossible” movie. Funtactix has now also designed and developed the official online game for the smash hit movie “The Hunger Games”.

The Jerusalem Marathon invoked several Biblical phrases in the mind of Rabbi Tuly Weisz – one of the runners. He was overjoyed to see “the streets of the city filled” (Zechariah 8:5) with 15,000 runners from all over the world and recalled more of Zechariah’s prophecies before he completed the race.

Runners who still have energy after the Jerusalem Marathon raced over to Israel’s “city that never stops” for the Tel Aviv Gillette Marathon. More than 35,000 were expected to take part.

Lee Korzits won the women's RS:X title at the ISAF Sailing World Cup in Cadiz, Spain. It is the third time Korzits has won the world championship and it secures her an automatic place in the 2012 London Olympics.