The Jacob’s Ladder Folk Festival was founded in 1976 by Menachem and Yehudit Vinegrad and a few other folks who immigrated from the UK. Menachem & Yehudit still produce the festival which is held twice-yearly, in spring and in winter. It is listed as one to the 300 best festivals in the world. Jacob’s Ladder is a...

Members of the Kibbutz Movement established the Israel Netanya Kibbutz Orchestra, or the NKO, in 1970. Originally, the musicians, who lived in kibbutzim all over the country, would gather regularly to play chamber music together, and eventually the orchestra was established. Today the NKO is under the patronage of...

The Jewish holiday of Sukkot will be celebrated this year between October 16-24, 2016. Sukkot is one of the three Biblical traditional holidays of pilgrimage; an agricultural festival that originates from the Bible days and is considered a thank you tribute for the fruit harvest. Sukkot is the “Feast of...

Israel is a center of innovation and technological excellence Israel is a leading entrepreneurial society Israel enjoys an excellent track record in breakthrough discoveries and innovations Future results are expected to improve due to the maturity of the market 18 Foreign companies can cost-effectively conduct...

In the 1980s Professor Shlomo Navarro, formerly a principal scientist with the Volcani Center, Israel’s agricultural research organization, developed together with a kibbutz factory which produces PVC sheeting, giant storage bags, called grain cocoons, which save crops from mold and pests.   The cocoons are huge...

When it comes to data backup, storage, and transferring computer files, the technical world is constantly changing. After the floppy disk and CDs were developed, the flash drive was invented. In 1989 Dov Moran, an Israeli entrepreneur, inventor, and investor, formed the company M-Systems. The company was a pioneer in...

Wastewater Treatment Israel is an arid country, which borders on a desert region. . There are marked differences in rainfall throughout the country, with natural fresh water sources in the north and desert in the south. With few water resources, a water shortage crisis could be a threat. Israel has had to contend...

Sarona is a 140 year’s-old ex-Templer settlement in the heart of Tel-Aviv.  At the time, German Templer-settlers arrived in Tel-Aviv in aspiration of pious-missionary Christian activities. Sarona had been their third settlement in Palestine. The Templers had transformed the little hill that overlooked the Mediterranean...

The holiday of Shavuot, is one of the major festivals in Judaism. The Holiday usually takes place around seven weeks after Pessach (Passover). This year it will be celebrated on May 23-24, 2015. Shavuot’s tradition is celebrated with cheese, wine, fruit and… wearing of white clothes. Initially, Shavuot had started out...

In the 1950s Israeli water engineer Simcha Blass, and his son, Yeshayahu Blass were leaders in the area of drip irrigation design. In 1965 Kibbutz Hatzerim partnered with Blass to form a company called Netafim, Together they developed and patented the first practical surface drip irrigation emitter. Drip irrigation,...