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Talented musicians Ori Wissner-Levy (violin), Tal Yahalom (guitar) and Amir Dubester (saxaphone) combine army duties with instrument practice and entertaining the elderly and children.

But only if he was playing UK bingo. He celebrated his 88th birthday.

Glenn Beck’s Aug 24th Jerusalem “Restoring Courage” rally has received the blessing of Israel’s Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Yona Metzger.

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.