This week from Israel

Stephen Hawking to visit Israel

The praised British astrophysicist, Stephen Hawking (71), will arrive in Israel this coming June to take part in the 5th Israeli Presidential Conference 'Facing Tomorrow.' The last time the author of A Briefer History of Time visited Israel was in 2006, when he was invited by the British embassy to tour Israel and the Palestinian territories as well as to meet with local scientists and academics.

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Ice Festival, surviving the heat

Since February 20th, the city of Jerusalem is hosting the Ice City Festival, as a part of an ongoing cultural exchange between Israel and China. The festival exhibits ice sculptures of sea creatures, dragons and dinosaurs. While this year's winter was one of the coldest ever seen in Israel, the past few weeks weren't very chilly, but surprisingly, the sculptures managed to survive the 25°C (77°F) heat outside.

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The app that can save lives

Israeli innovation in all fields of the high-tech industry is not new. Israeli inventions and start-up businesses have changed many lives worldwide, and left a mark in the fields of medicine, computers, the environment and more. A new application for smartphones, named “i-Apps,” is aimed to help Israelis deal with unsafe times, by finding each user the “Merkhav Mugan” (residential secure space) nearest to him or her.

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Swastikas in California

Less than a week prior to the national Holocaust remembrance day, Swastikas and the word “skinhead” were painted on the baseball field of Kaiser Elementary School in Costa Mesa, California.Over the weekend, a usually locked gate that is used by other campuses had been left open. In the morning, faculty members discovered the chilling graffiti.

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Israeli-Arabs win over the small screen

A winner of The Voice, a finalist on Master Chef, a performer in Living in LA LA land, actors in drama series, a new anchor and more…Is Israeli television taking a leap into the future?

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