Check out this article in the NY Times (Batteries Not Included) about Project Better Place, an Israeli company that is seeking to introduce battery-powered cars into the mainstream market in Israel. Their innovation is that they will introduce kiosks all over the country (Israel, Denmark and Hawaii are the pilot markets) that will feature automated [...]

Go and read the Shuk Machane Yehuda Kashrut Report on The Yeshiva World website.
Short Version:

If a store does not have a valid teudah (kashrut certificate), don’t assume that it is kosher.
If a store says that they are Mehadrin but they can’t prove it with a valid teudah, then they probably are not Mehadrin.
If a salesperson [...]

I just received this picture via email (I don’t know who came up with it).

I don’t think that it needs much explanation, but it does represent Hamas’s own admitted ideology pretty well:

The 4th Geneva Convention (relative to the Protection of Civilian Persons in Time of War) states in Part II, Article 14: “Civilian hospitals organized to give care to the wounded and sick, the infirm and maternity cases, may in no circumstances be the object of attack but shall at all times be respected and protected [...]

Check out this excerpt hidden most of the way down the New York Times’ article today on the Hanukkah War (as it is being referred to in Israel):
At Shifa Hospital in Gaza, the director, Dr. Hussein Ashour, said that keeping his patients alive from their wounds was an enormous challenge. He said there were some [...]

Yes, the new season is about to begin.
No, silly, I am not talking about the NFL. Nope, in Israel there is a different type of Fall tradition (timed to coincide with the reopening of schools and count down to the chagim):
I am talking about the official opening of strike season. Unions May Shut Down Country [...]

Well, it looks like my recent blog post on How Israel Can Become a Better Democracy is really making some waves. (Just kidding, but the coincidence is a bit strange). I just read that the selection process for Supreme Court judges was just changed to make it less subject to poltics. The selection committee is [...]

Here’s a new piece of Israel-born ingenuity. From the creator of the Arrow defense missile, we now have…Arrow garbage recycling:
The idea sounded simple enough: to treat solid waste using water. But their point of origin, says Zadik, was revolutionary. “Europe was still considering how to treat segregated trash, and assumed they could teach the public [...]

We are moving to Yad Binyamin.
We first heard about Yad Binyamin from some friends a few years ago. We had been talking about potential communities to live in, Yad Binyamin came up in conversation as one of the new "in", up-and-coming communities in Israel that Americans (including young families) were beginning to flock to. As [...]

This Shabbat we ate a meal with a couple visiting from the US. Part of the conversation (as usual this year) was about shemittah, how difficult it is to observe, what to buy and what not to buy, etc. Then, as another example of something else that they might find interesting about buying food in [...]