Israeli News

Tel Aviv - Have problems finding your way? Facebook may buy award winning Waze, the advanced and accurate Israeli crowd-sourcing traffic and navigation app. The cost? Around $1 billion.

Gaza - The eight day strike by Israel on Gaza not only killed 168 Palestinians, most them civilians, but has also resulted in $300 million in economic damage, the Palestinian Chamber of Commerce reports.

As the the fighting between Israel and Gaza continues, the international community is calling for diplomacy. In response, protests have taken place across the world.

Gaza - While this video was made in 2009, the content is still very relevant today. Chris Hedges makes a very moving speech about the attack on Gaza by the Israeli military and the implications of this attack.

As rockets fall on Israel, Obama quietly removes Hamas terrorist from U.S. watch-list. For the first time ever Hamas launches rockets on the Holy City of Jerusalem. And Gaza cease-fire collapses as new explosions are heard in Tel Aviv.

Gaza - A photo showing Jihad al-Masharawi, an employee of the BBC in Gaza, cradling the corpse of his baby son, gives warning of the risk of escalation of retaliative bloodshed after the killing of Hamas official, Ahmed Jabari, in an Israeli rocket attack.

Regular toilets may soon be out of fashion.The dog poo incinerator was just the beginning; now Paulee CleanTec have adapted their idea and invented a power generating device requiring no water that can turn human waste into sterile, odorless compost.

Breaking the Silence is an organization formed in 2004, made up of Israeli army veterans. On Saturday, they released a report to the international media on the abuse of Palestinian children.

Tel Aviv - A Palestinian man from East Jerusalem has filed a complaint of police misconduct after he was tasered five times at a Tel Aviv water park this week, in front of his five children.

Technology is making a bigger and bigger impact in the classroom and this summer, RoboThespian, a robotic actor, got a summer job as a guest science teacher for a group of grade 5 and 6 students in Israel.