After six years of construction, the new home of the National Library of Israel, in Jerusalem, has been finished. The library covers 80,000 square feet, with six above-ground floors and four below, including an auditorium, a visitors center, and an outdoor amphitheater to host all kinds of cultural events. The library owns the world’s largest…
The tunnel connects the path between Nahal Refaim and Emek Motza. Its southern entrance is in Refaim Park…
Israeli Agriculture Minister Oded Forer is promoting a multi-year program for…
Israel’s National Infrastructure Planning Council has announced it is moving forward with a plan to expand the rail infrastructure between Haifa and Tel Aviv, adding two additional rails and thereby doubling the current capacity for travel between the two cities. In addition, a trip with the proposed lines from the Carmel Coast station in Haifa…
Central to the city’s development plan is construction of additional light rail lines, a major high-rise project at the entrance to the city…
Many newer and renovated older apartment buildings in Tel Aviv-Yafo are quite attractive, but others…
The idea of burying the deceased deep below ground level is nothing new. On the contrary, there are many examples of catacombs constructed for that purpose in ancient times. However, the first new such structure has been built in Jerusalem, simply because the city is running out of space to bury the dead directly below…
The Jerusalem Gateway Project — also known as the Jerusalem City Entrance Project — is a massive development plan for the main entrance to the Israeli capital. The project includes 13 high-rise buildings, a business center, a major expansion of the city’s convention center, a large number of hotel rooms, and much more. Municipal authorities…
Although building the Tel Aviv–Jerusalem “fast train” took seven years longer than planned, and while it cost four times the original estimate, the full line finally came into service in 2019. The train is fast only by Israeli standards: It travels at about 100 miles per hour. Still, it reduces the travel time between Israel’s…
WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed