Israel Active

What other name would you give to the globe-trotting jazz family of Yuval (saxaphone), Anat (clarinet) and Avishai Cohen (trumpet)? They are also excellent representatives for the Jewish State.

In episode 1 of the new docu series IS.REAL Savannah revisits Kibbutz Maagan Michael where she studied and worked at the same time.

Israel’s Young Cadets National Baseball Team took the gold at the recent Tuscany Series Tournament in Italy. This was the first time an Israeli cadet team won the tournament.

There’s no action in the US national basketball league at present due to a dispute. So top Israeli NBA star Omri Casspi will do what any overseas unemployed Israeli worker can do – get a job in Israel.

An IDF soldier has broken the Israeli 200 meter backstroke swimming record and qualified for the 2012 London Olympics.

Detroit Pistons star Will “the thrill” Bynum has returned to Israel to host a basketball summer camp and repay a favour. Bynum’s NBA career was jump-started at Maccabi Tel Aviv.

Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum is marking its 20th anniversary with an exhibition of ancient gold never before seen in public. Many of the items are well over 2600 years old and include artefacts from ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, Rome, Greece, Etruscan Italy and Persia.

Hassidic singer Avraham Fried is celebrating 30 years of his musical career by releasing an album that contains only original Jewish sources.

The first Dragon Boat Festival on Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee) is to take place on May 17-18 next year.

The Monkey Park at Ben Shemen Forest had an exciting day, when it opened an open area for two of its mangabey monkeys.