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The Dizengoff Center, Tel Aviv’s oldest shopping mall, sits in the heart of the bustling central business district. Surrounded by skyscrapers, it’s the last place you’d...
By 2050, the world’s population is expected to be close to 10 billion people. Innovative technology must be harnessed to feed them all, and tiny Israel...
If cybercrime were a country, it would have the third largest GDP (gross domestic product) in the world after the United States and China, said Andre...
Losing a child to violence devastates the parents left behind. It creates an unspeakable emptiness, a void of loss, pain, and anger. Two bereaved Israeli and...
“Living on the Gaza border is 95% heaven, and 5% hell,” said Adele Raemer. She’s made it her mission to tell the world what life is...
Everyone is relieved that the guns have fallen silent – for now – in the worst Palestinian-Israeli clashes since 2014. The South African government hasn’t minced...
Toxic politics doesn’t always torpedo good ideas. In spite of the well-known tension between the South African and Israeli governments over the Palestinian conflict, Israel’s world-leading...
“We are becoming George Orwell’s Animal Farm in South Africa, where some animals are more equal than others. People think they are above the law. We...
Albert Einstein said, “If you don’t believe in miracles, you are simply unrealistic.” This was a motto of late Israeli President Shimon Peres and is a...
Stretching from Libya in the north to Mozambique in the south, from Mali in the west to Somalia in the east, over the past two decades,...
Pesach is a time of miracles, matzah, and memories. It’s also a time for families to come together, and the seder is one of the most-observed...
“Don’t be scared of the virtual. When our ancestors tried to recreate the exodus every Pesach, they struggled with how to make the virtual real,” said...
“Who would have thought this webinar would be possible a year ago?” asked Amit Deri, the co-founder and director of Sharaka (“partnership” in Arabic). This organisation...
Like a partially-digested falafel ball, elections are repeating on the Israeli public, which, on 23 March, heads to the polls for the fourth time in two...
For 17 years, Rabbi Craig Kacev deftly steered the South African Board of Jewish Education (SABJE) to financial sustainability, talent development, and academic excellence. And then...
It’s that time of the year when we gaze into crystal balls to see what 2021 has in store for us. The United Nations (UN) has...
In an age when Israeli tertiary institutions are frequently targets for boycotts, the universities of Haifa and the Free State have bucked the trend and cemented...
Will Israel’s normalisation of relations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain and warming ties with African states counter extremist Muslim ideology in the Middle...
Bahrain, Kuwait, Mauretania, Morocco, Oman, Saudi Arabia… will these be the next Arab or Muslim states to establish full diplomatic and economic ties with Israel? They...
Historians use the term BCE (Before the Common Era) for events preceding the birth of Jesus, and CE (the Common Era) for the last 2020 years....
“In a big crisis, the world turns to social science,” said Dan Ariely, the renowned Israeli-American professor of psychology and behavioural economics at Duke University. “We...
Sylvia Raphael’s story isn’t well known in South Africa. This remarkable, vivacious woman, born in Graaff-Reinet in the Karoo in 1937, became a Mossad superspy. Raphael’s...
The Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement, founded to protest police discrimination against black people in the United States (US) in 2012, hit the headlines this year...
Israel’s newest ambassador used to tend sheep in the green hills of the Galil. The ambassador-designate to Eritrea in the Horn of Africa is a Bedouin...
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