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A weekly glimpse into the Israel you won’t read about in the news.

A protester waves the pre-Islamic Revolution Iranian flag outside UN headquarters during a United Nations Security Council meeting on Iran in New York on January 15, 2026.
 Israeli soldiers look up at pictures of victims of the Holocaust at the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial centre, ahead of the Holocaust Remembrance Day starting this evening, at the Hall of Names, in Jerusalem April 27, 2022.

ISIS hack targets Yad Vashem Zoom seminar commemorating Tisha b'Av

 Artificial intelligence

Only getting better: AI technology offers a host of exciting new upgrades

How to make a good first impression in business, according to researchers


Is that a COVID-19 mask you're wearing or are you happy to see me?

Coronavirus has changed dating and presented new challenges to those looking to find love.

Virtual relationships, online dating and social networking concept - woman sending kisses with computer monitor

TAU hosts prince of Monaco in exclusive Zoom meeting on sustainability

The meeting was part of an ongoing collaboration between TAU and Monaco, whose prince has been an avid champion of environmental causes on the local and international level for years.

Tel Aviv University

Facebook, YouTube, Zoom got it right in handling Leila Khaled webinar

While there is a long way to go on social media networks, and apparently, even further to go on US campuses, the actions of YouTube, Facebook, and Zoom were morally right.

Graffiti depicting the PFPL plane hijacker Leila Khaled on the security barrier near Bethlehem

When Zoom synagogue isn't enough, going outside could help.

Just as the Beatles’ managers hired “screamers” to amplify excitement at their concerts, I have been imagining rabbis bringing in a soundtrack of “sighers” and “yasher koachers” to online service.

Three siblings in Mevaseret Zion, near Jerusalem, wave to their their grandmother in Haifa as she joins their Passover Seder via Zoom

Zoom cancels Leila Khaled webinar at San Francisco State University

Khaled was a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), which hijacked El Al Flight 219 on September 6, 1970.

PFPL plane hijacker Leila Khaled in South Africa

We're zooming in to Jewish services, but somehow tuning out

The use of virtual means to conduct religious services, even where Halacha does not permit it, is a cause for real concern.

FILE PHOTO: A student takes classes online with his companions using the Zoom app at home

One Zoom employee saved High Holy Days streaming for 300 synagogues

“The ability to give back in other ways than monetary ways just means a lot."

Mitch Tarica is the streaming platform’s director of North American sales.

Zoom prayer services for Alabama Jews interrupted by Holocaust imagery

Kramer said the group has been meeting long distance for several months and had not had any other incidents of so-called Zoom-bombing.

Antisemitic graffiti near a London Underground station. The graffiti reads “dirty f***ing Jew” beside an image of a swastika.

NY town board meeting disrupted by antisemitic, homophobic zoom-bomb

"The suspects stated multiple times 'I am going to bomb your village tonight and ISIS is coming to your village.'"

FILE PHOTO: A student takes classes online with his companions using the Zoom app at home

Teens exercising in groups are more mentally resilient amid COVID - study

Participation in group sports, even over virtual platforms such as Zoom, was found to aid in both physical and mental resilience.

Arab children play basketball on a school yard in Abu Ghosh, an Israeli Arab town near Jerusalem.