Coby Ben-Simhon

The village of Netiv Ha'asara, next to the Gaza Strip, has turned the security situation to its advantage and launched a campaign to attract tourists. Just don't say it's to die for.

The historian, best known for exposing IDF atrocities from 1948, now says it's the Palestinians who are not interested in a two-state solution.

Alongside a rise in the number of Jewish Israelis who say they believe in God, the country also has a well-established atheist community.

Seven sons of Moshav Nahalal were killed within 10 days during the Yom Kippur War. But in Israel's first cooperative settlement, an ethos of self-sacrifice prevented the bereaved from expressing their grief. A new documentary film by Zippi Baider probes the psychological price of this tightly regulated culture of mourning.

Prof. Raphi Walden, the personal physician ‏(and son-in-law‏) of President Shimon Peres, is a devoted activist who works with African refugees in Israel. Under the proposed Infiltration Prevention Bill, doctors like him would be subject to prison terms. Has Israeli society become indifferent to suffering?

A new study claims that mourning parents often seek out the media as a coping mechanism, but the method is not always therapeutic.

In its annual end-of-the-year ideas issue, publication cites Petah Tikva plan to combat dog feces.

Page shows Israeli viewers' favorite clips, Israeli-made clips that are popular among viewers worldwide.

Pelephone service comes on the heels of the cellular version of the Bible, launched 6 months ago.

They rise before dawn, travel to the far corners of the country in all weather, and stand motionless for hours. Cameras and binoculars poised, they wait with bated breath and rejoice when sighting a rare breed. A day with a bunch of birders.

The owner of Israel's first graffiti-supplies store is passionate about painting walls.

Rina Castelnuovo Hollander has been photographing Israel's wars for major interna tional media outlets for 25 years, but has always remained out of the public eye. Now, with her photos on show in Tel Aviv, she talks about her risky profession for the first time.

'Until Sfatayim, North African music wasn't played on the radio in Israel. I feel we managed to save the culture of our parents and bring it from the margins into the mainstream.'

Poverty, unemployment, drugs and a gang culture were the background to the murder of three teenagers by other teens in an Ethiopian neighborhood of Rehovot. Without radical changes, frightened residents fear that the next killing is just a matter of time.

This year Knesiat Hasechel, the band from Sderot, the only rock group from the '90s that remains standing, has come into its own. And it's celebrating with a best-selling retrospective album, and what guitarist Yoram Hazzan calls 'larger than life' performances.

After a life and a career of many ups and downs, singer Shmulik Krauss looks back on the movie 'Rocking Horse,' in which he starred, and which premiered 30 years ago this month. Today, confined to a wheelchair, it seems he wants to be remembered as his character appeared at the end of the film: not speaking, just laughing, crying and smiling.

After a life and a career of many ups and downs, singer Shmulik Krauss looks back on theb movie 'Rocking Horse,' in which he starred, and which premiered 30 years ago this month.

Babies are abandoned in local hospitals almost every day. Until a home is found for them, which may take months, they suffer greatly. Into the breach has stepped First Hug, an organization of volunteers who provide vital caring and love to the infants. Now funding problems threaten its activities.

Makhteshim Chemical Works, the firm that was founded to make the Negev bloom, is facing a reform plan that workers fear will lead to hundreds of firings - and a brain drain from the country's south. Leaders of the fight against the plan say it can be stopped - but only if political leaders intervene.