Israeli-US research: Pregnant women may suffer from sleep apnea

Israeli-US research: Pregnant women may suffer from sleep apnea The researchers argue that establishing and coding for a specific diagnosi...

Health Council endorses Litzman’s reform plan for geriatric nursing

Health Council endorses Litzman’s reform plan for geriatric nursing Worries remain about Treasury opposition and expected delays. Read o...

Green groups hopeful over Elkin appointment to Environmental Protection Minister

Green groups hopeful over Elkin appointment to Environmental Protection Minister In statements welcoming Elkin's selection, environmen...

Prime Minister aims to boost high-tech with foreign workers

Prime Minister aims to boost high-tech with foreign workers Salaries increases in the high-tech industry have outpaced those in the broade...

Tech Talk: Video games are the future

Tech Talk: Video games are the future An Israeli startup called TROPHiT has created a value-driven marketing platform for video games aime...

Chinese group buys Israeli gaming company Playtika for $4.4 billion

Chinese group buys Israeli gaming company Playtika for $4.4 billion The Chinese consortium says Playtika will remain an independent unit m...

As temperatures rise, flowers emit less scent

As temperatures rise, flowers emit less scent Being confined inside the nanoflasks greatly increased the concentration of the molecules an...

The sickly School Health Service

The sickly School Health Service The failed privatization of pupils’ health care was carried out by the Treasury with Health Ministry acqu...

Revolutionary artificial material fits body like a glove

Revolutionary artificial material fits body like a glove In the future, the innovative material could be used to build custom-made prosthe...

Attempt to stop beachside development plan heads to High Court

Attempt to stop beachside development plan heads to High Court NGO's attempt to stop beach side construction. Read on the original s...

Ebay, Israel Post join forces to boost online selling

Ebay, Israel Post join forces to boost online selling On Wednesday, the national mail delivery service and ebay announced a cooperation ag...

Not just fun and games: Seeking tech behind video games

Not just fun and games: Seeking tech behind video games Three of the Top 10 games requiring Facebook logins are Israeli. Read on the ori...

Health Ministry launches plan to eradicate hepatitis C

Health Ministry launches plan to eradicate hepatitis C The disease becomes chronic and potentially fatal in 20% to 30% of all carriers. ...

Delek makes bid for exploration license south of Cyprus

Delek makes bid for exploration license south of Cyprus If the consortium were to win the tender, Capricorn would own a 50 percent stake i...

Israeli researchers find way to detect cancer cells before becoming brain tumors

Israeli researchers find way to detect cancer cells before becoming brain tumors Tel Aviv University research opens the "black box&qu...

Arab-Israeli children much more likely to die in accidents

Arab-Israeli children much more likely to die in accidents Beduin especially at higher risk than all others. Read on the original site

The Lounge

The Lounge Paraguay President Horacio Cartes of Paraguay had a busy day on his recent visit to Israel. Read on the original site

Health ministry to take lead in combating child hot car deaths

Health ministry to take lead in combating child hot car deaths The past two months have seen five children die after being forgotten in th...

Economic committee chairman calls for guidelines to protect animals during live shipments

Economic committee chairman calls for guidelines to protect animals during live shipments Critics called the policy of shipping live cows ...

Healthcare hackathon organizers seek to be ‘light unto others’

Healthcare hackathon organizers seek to be ‘light unto others’ Indian, Israeli techies come up with solutions to provide health services t...

Sports tech coming to Rio 2016, courtesy of Israel

Sports tech coming to Rio 2016, courtesy of Israel Gili Lustig, chairman of the Olympic Committee of Israel, said the start-up nation is a...

Technion takes a selfie from space

Technion takes a selfie from space Taken from a height of 520 kilometers, the photo shows students lying on the campus lawn forming the le...

Scientists find new roles for old RNAs

Scientists find new roles for old RNAs The loss of small nucleolar RNAs is associated with a number of diseases, including Prader-Willi sy...

Not a death sentence

Not a death sentence Prostate cancer is complex and confusing, but men diagnosed with it can be hopeful, as the vast majority have a slow-...

Nation’s cleanest beaches named

Nation’s cleanest beaches named Read on the original site

Kahlon says Israel has a real estate bubble, and it will burst

Kahlon says Israel has a real estate bubble, and it will burst Analysts say term may be scare tactic to help reduce prices. Read on the ...

Israel Chemicals denies reports it plans to de-list from TASE

Israel Chemicals denies reports it plans to de-list from TASE The mismanagement of recent years is having an effect on the liquidity premi...

Israeli doctors save young boy from flesh-eating bacteria

Israeli doctors save young boy from flesh-eating bacteria The child arrived with a high fever and other symptoms that raised the doctors’ ...

WATCH LIVE: Peres, Rivlin and Netanyahu launch Israeli Innovation Center

WATCH LIVE: Peres, Rivlin and Netanyahu launch Israeli Innovation Center The launch will premier video simulations and a first look into t...

For the love of crows

For the love of crows New NGO Ohev Orev seeks to defend, protect a much-maligned bird seen just about everywhere Read on the original si...

School nurses announce intention to strike

School nurses announce intention to strike Move comes in reaction to state’s failure to reverse privatization initiated by Treasury. Rea...

Israeli startups are used around the globe

Israeli startups are used around the globe The latest news on Israeli tech. Read on the original site

Two Knesset panels push to boost women’s roles in academia

Two Knesset panels push to boost women’s roles in academia Over the next five years, the Treasury will allocate NIS 10 million to implemen...

Health groups blast gov’t plan to boost public medicine

Health groups blast gov’t plan to boost public medicine The basket of health services has been expanded by only NIS 300 million annually, ...

Finally good news on cutting bureaucracy? FICC says so

Finally good news on cutting bureaucracy? FICC says so The World Bank’s 2016 ease of doing business index saw Israel fall three spots, to ...

Cab sharing --sort of-- coming to Israel for the first time

Cab sharing --sort of-- coming to Israel for the first time Though tough regulations may not bring UberX to Israel fully anytime soon, som...

Start up nation? New report tells tale of two Israels

Start up nation? New report tells tale of two Israels Report finds "basic cognitive skills" in Israel below OECD average. Read...

Tender for cheap hotel chain in Israel fails

Tender for cheap hotel chain in Israel fails In February, the Knesset gave initial approval to Levin's proposal to add 15,000 new hote...

Israelis part of gene sequencers of 6,000-year-old barley grains

Israelis part of gene sequencers of 6,000-year-old barley grains The cave, which was very difficult to reach and was used by humans about ...

Delek in talks to buy 20% stake in Kraken oil field near Scotland

Delek in talks to buy 20% stake in Kraken oil field near Scotland EnQuest currently owns 70.5% of the field while Cairn Energy Plc owns th...

Arab Israeli startup developing stroke treatment raises $7m

Arab Israeli startup developing stroke treatment raises $7m While that’s usually good news, it can prevent the body from healing bleeding ...

Samsung president poised to ramp up investing in Israel

Samsung president poised to ramp up investing in Israel “We invest in Israel if we find in Israel, the best entrepreneurs, the best ventur...

Cabinet approves 2-year budgets, insulating government but risking economic damage

Cabinet approves 2-year budgets, insulating government but risking economic damage Many of the assumptions for the second year of a two-ye...

NYX brings hipster vibe to offbeat Tel Aviv location

NYX brings hipster vibe to offbeat Tel Aviv location The hipster pièce de résistance, however, is the stairwells – each floor is filled wi...

The home of the heart

The home of the heart A few choice spots walking down New York’s Lexington Ave. Read on the original site

New species of extinct rodent offers insight into ancient animal migration

New species of extinct rodent offers insight into ancient animal migration The research described a distant forerunner of the present-day ...

Lithuania signs scientific cooperation agreement with Israel

Lithuania signs scientific cooperation agreement with Israel The agreement stresses the countries’ desire to initiate and encourage cooper...

El Al ranked as world’s least on-time airline, pilots blamed

El Al ranked as world’s least on-time airline, pilots blamed Just under 36% of El Al’s flights arrived on time last month. Roughly 64% of ...

To boldly go where no man has gone before – in Haifa

To boldly go where no man has gone before – in Haifa The courses include space engineering, space medicine, space sciences, space law and ...

Litzman: I’ll cut red tape on imported medical equipment

Litzman: I’ll cut red tape on imported medical equipment Litzman promised to hold another meeting with the Chambers of Commerce in a month...