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Star Wars Escalator Finds Your Lack Of Faith In Stairs Disturbing

I’m not expert in Middle East policy, but it seems to me that if the whole world knew about Tel Aviv’s Star Wars crawl escalator, Israel and its neighbours would live together in eternal peace — because it is amazing.

December 8, 2011
Science

Experts Baffled By Mysterious Ancient Markings

An excavation in a part of Jerusalem known as the City of David has uncovered stone markings that date back thousands of years. Nobody has any idea what they are or what they mean.

November 9, 2011
News

Mankind Has Created 128,000 Nukes, But 2% Are A Mystery

A new report on nuclear proliferation is — surprise! — kind of terrifying, revealing some disconcerting facts about nuclear warheads, who has them, and what we don’t know. The bottom line: holy hell, we’ve built a lot of these things.

August 9, 2011
Science

Creepy In-Vitro Fertilisation Using Eggs From A Dead Teenager

A desperate Israeli family won a court decision that lets them extract and freeze the eggs from their dead daughter. The teenage girl died unexpectedly last week after a car crash.

August 2, 2011
Science

Declassified Missile Looks You In The Eye Before It Blows You Apart

The Tamuz uses an advanced electro-optic camera that transmits the image of its target back to operators inside the APC, who then manually drive it toward the target. Tamuz teams work closely with an artillery unit, which operates Hermes 450 reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles that provide the intelligence on the targets that are then attacked by the Tamuz missile.

July 1, 2011
Online

Facebook Revolt Scores Lower Cottage Cheese Prices For Israelis

Israelis are particularly partial to a scoop of cottage cheese, but not when it’s as overpriced as it’s been recently. Taking to Facebook, over 100,000 people pledged to boycott buying the cheese until the prices were reduced.

June 22, 2011
Software

Israel Calls On Apple To Take Down Pro-Palestinian App

Israeli Minister of Information and Diaspora Yuli Edelstein, in an email sent to Steve Jobs today, pushed for the removal of an iPad app titled “Third Intifada”, stating it encourages Palestinians to incite violence against Israel.

June 15, 2011
Online

Should Google Maps Show You Parts Of The World The US Government Blocks?

When I look up my childhood apartment on Google Maps, I see the fences in the park across the street. But if I look up Israel, I get a muddy brown mess – because Congress said so, by law.

June 14, 2011
News

Ballsy Thieves Steal Gigantic Jet Engines From Israeli Air Force Base

Now this is a heist that takes some serious daring. Or complete ineptitude on the part of the robbed. Either way, scrap-wranglers boosted eight F-15 and F-18 jet engines from Tel Nof air base in Israeli. How? Good question.

April 3, 2011
Online

NPR Reporter Has Twitter Followers Debunk Libyan-Israeli Missile Rumours

Some reports stating that Muammar Ghaddafi was using missiles made in Israel against his people turned out to be very wrong, thanks to some crowdsourcing done by NPR reporter Andy Carvin.

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