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Israel's Medical Achievements

Ovarian cancer treatment breakthrough

Scientists at Israel's Weizmann Institute have paved the way for a vaccine against ovarian cancer. It utilizes "memory B cells", rather than T cells, to tag the cancer as a target and produce antib...

Israel’s largest rehabilitation hospital

Mexico's Jusidman is donating NIS 200 million toward a new $390 million rehabilitation center in Sde Dov. It will include some 540 inpatient beds, a trauma clinic, an imaging institute, a hydrother...

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Science & Technology

Translation for impaired speech

Israel's Barvox is a personalized Google Translate to help understand semi-verbal people. Founder & CEO Dror Levy was driven to build Barvox for his speech-impaired son. It could help those wit...

Making robots meaningful

Israel's Enigma AI Labs is developing artificial intelligence technology for robots alongside software and interfaces designed to make robotic systems intuitive to use.

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Israel is Inclusive &
Global

The first female Brigadier General in the Israeli Air Force

Col. G., the commander of Ovda Airbase, is to be promoted and become the first female aircrew member - a graduate of the pilot training course - to receive the rank of brigadier general in the IAF....

Israeli rescue team is in Colombia

The IDF dispatched an 80-member search and rescue delegation to Colombia following a devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake. The "Alliance of Brothers" mission immediately began work in Cali, Colombi...

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Culture, Entertainment & Sport

Bat Sheba’s Palace

Asking $210 million, Bat Sheba's Palace in Caesarea is Israel's most expensive and luxurious property. In the style of Versailles but with modern technology it has more floor area than the White Ho...

Marathon team wins European gold

Israel's men's marathon squad won team gold at the 2026 European Athletics Championships in Birmingham, UK, with a time of 6:28:37. Israel's Gashau Ayale won the individual bronze. Teammates Tadess...

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Economy & Business

Huge defense deal with Romania

The deal for the Spyder system, worth over EUR2 billion, is the second largest defense sale ever by an Israel company, after IAI's Arrow 3 deal with Germany for $3.5 billion. (See previously)

Cutting out the intermediaries

Mastercard has partnered Israel's Neema (see previously) whereby the global money transfer platform Mastercard Move will use Neema's technological infrastructure to enable businesses and individua...

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The Jewish State

Critically wounded reservist graduates with honors

Alon Kaminer lost his hands, a leg and an eye while defending Israel. Despite more than 100 surgeries he continued to study and graduated with honors from Tel Aviv University in Industrial Engineer...

100,000 Olim

Since 2002, Nefesh B'Nefesh has helped Jews from around the world make Aliyah. Six-year-old Emilia Douglas from New York, is the 100,000th immigrant from North America and was greeted by President ...

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