JERUSALEM — The two Israeli television cameramen awaiting the Canadian basketball team’s arrival at the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games didn’t hint at the chaos about to envelop Amar’e

A new Israeli approach to providing sight to people with vision impairment uses a technique known as sensory substitution. Much in the way Braille allows people who are blind to

JERUSALEM – A team of Israeli archaeologists believes it has discovered the ruins of a palace belonging to the biblical King David, but other Israeli experts dispute the claim. Archaeologists

When rock legend Paul McCartney came to Israel in 2008, he was, at least to some extent, taking his life in his hands. Not because of Israel’s sometimes precarious security situation,

Maccabi Haifa’s Gal Mekel has signed a multi-year deal to play for the Dallas Mavericks next season, becoming the second Israeli basketball player ever to sign with an NBA team.

A new air transportation system named the SkyTran will be built in Tel Aviv in an effort to solve the city’s traffic problems. Some 410,000 people populate the city, with

Israel will be the first end-to-end digital nation, Cisco CEO John Chambers said on Wednesday in Jerusalem. Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and Chambers agreed earlier in the day to establish

The special ties between the United States and Israel are uniquely driven by a people-to-people, bottom-up relationship, shaped by the American public more than by the American government. U.S. ties

Enjoy this short video of some of the different things to see and do in Israel.

Eric Garcetti won the race to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles, and became the first Jewish mayor in the history of the City of Angels. City Controller Wendy

The 50 most influential Jews in the world according to the Jerusalem Post: 1. Yair Lapid 2. Jack Lew 3. Binyamin Netanyahu 4. Shimon Peres 5. Anat Hoffman 6. Sergey

1. “White Christmas” – While there are more than five  Christmas carols written by Jewish songwriters, I thought I’d just cover my  favorites, starting with not only the most famous

The field of biogerontology began in Israel, and recently world experts gathered here to compare their latest exciting findings. What genes hold the key to longevity? Why does long life

As the United Kingdom’s BBC is set to welcome former Times newspaper editor James Harding as its new director of current affairs, Jews in the UK are likely to be

The Boston Marathon bombings left at least three people dead, including an eight-year-old boy, and injured more than 170 people, but in the aftermath of the horrific attack doctors and

This short video celebrates Israel Independence Day and the miracle of Israel.

Since 1948, Israel has set itself a task of finding creative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing problems. When 22-year-old Emmannuel Buso was pulled barely-alive from the rubble

Commuters who face the daily grind of getting to work on time will be happy to hear about a new invention from Israel: an all-electric scooter called the MUV-e that

Global agencies assess Israel During 2012, the three leading global credit rating companies, and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) commended Israel’s economic performance and expressed confidence in its long-term viability.

President Obama deliver remarks to the Israeli people at the Jerusalem International Convention Center. March 21, 2013.

Latma brings you a word from proud Israeli soldiers and wishes a Happy and Kosher Passover to our wonderful soldiers, the entire Jewish people, our friends in Israel and throughout

According to a Gallup survey released Friday, 64% of Americans sympathize with Israelis, versus 12% who sympathize with the Palestinians and 23% who said they did not support either. Support

In his address to the AIPAC 2013 conference Monday, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu had some advice for his American listeners: “Don’t adopt Israel’s system of government.” Netanyahu said that he

They’re paratrooper instructors, Air Force operators, squad instructors and logistic specialists. That’s right – this year, six of 20 nominees for the Miss Israel pageant are IDF soldiers. Sgt. Gaya

Government’s debt-to-GDP ratio expected to total 73.5% in 2012 compared to 74.1% in 2011. Israel also only country in West whose credit rating has increased since 2008 Israel is the

In the last few decades the United Nations has been obsessed with one country. Is it North Korea, Zimbabwe, Iran, Syria, China or some other nation with a reprehensible human

President Shimon Peres will meet Thursday evening with FC Barcelona President Sandro Rosell at the Kfar Maccabiah Hotel in Ramat Gan. At the end of the meeting, the two officials

Genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid; if you’ve ever had the pleasure of speaking with some of the more zealous haters of Israel you’ll hear these phrases at some point, normally yelled

There are few excuses for the behavior of Jewish gangsters in the 1920s and 1930s. The best known Jewish gangsters – Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Longy Zwillman, Moe Dalitz —

Schoolchildren and students of the Holocaust will soon be able to access the testimony of survivors, even after they have passed on, in the form of interactive, three-dimensional holograms courtesy