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The 15th of Av is the traditional Jewish date for finding a partner. Some sixty singles gathered at Zedekiah's Cave in Jerusalem for a special speed-dating marathon.

Gesher (Hebrew for ‘bridge’) has been working for a decade to bring Jewish and Zionist identity and unity to trainee IDF officers. Here Exec director Ilan Galdor describes Gesher’s program.

So kids are finding at the A-Ba-Ga-Da exhibit in the Diaspora museum in Tel Aviv. Climbing walls, slides, slot machines, computers and a dog that says words when you put letters its mouth.

Transportation minister Israel Katz announced major extensions to railway lines to connect outlying towns and provide citizens with a fast commuter service to the centre of Israel.

This week’s archaeological discovery was a Roman marble statue of the Hercules, from the shoulders down. It was unearthed in the Jezreel valley, during the building of a new rail line.

Shalom Kadosh is the first Israeli to join the prestigious “Club des Chefs des Chefs” – which comprises 30 top chefs including those cooking for the heads of state of France, England and the USA.

We may be basking in temperatures above 30 degrees centigrade, but thousands of our feathered friends have already begun their autumn migration through Israel.

About 20 percent of the US House of Representatives will visit Israel over the next three weeks during Congress’s summer recess. So who’s minding the store?

A Roman sword and a menorah scratched on a stone were discovered in an ancient drainage tunnel under Jerusalem. The artefacts were from the period of 2nd Temple destruction 2,000 years ago.

This is the sound of the recently discovered 2000 year-old garment bell.