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The sports that look unusual until the crowd arrives

Some sports feel niche until you look closely. Darts, snooker, kabaddi, and others attract huge audiences because they reward tension and ritual.

"Popularity does not belong only to the biggest fields, the richest leagues, or the most familiar rules."
The presentation of the Sunflower report in the Knesset

Israel’s annual Orphanhood Report indicates a deterioration in orphans’ mental well-being

Business discussion.

Conversation as a tool for community understanding

Learning a language.

What learning a new language can teach you about yourself


Ex-Israeli medical practitioner launches new plant nursery, social hub

The full name of the project is Mashtelat HaMifgash Leharhavat Hatoda’ah – The Plant Meeting Place for Broadening the Consciousness

 ALL AND sundry are most welcome to the new Mashtelat HaMifgash social and communal hub. Pictured: Yael Stein.

TAU Launches Pioneering Graduate Program in Climate Change

The program, offered in one of the most critical climate change regions in the world, addresses the societal, cultural and political aspects of the climate crisis.

 Tel Aviv University

More than 8,000 Israeli minors were attacked online in 2022

The two platforms where minors were harassed most were Instagram and WhatsApp.

 Illustrative image of a teen with a phone.

Maaleh Film School: Reflecting on 75 years of Israel through film

Maaleh recently promulgated the idea that facilities throughout Israel could benefit from screening its student films to locals.

 MAALEH ALUMNUS Shulamit Lifshitz and animator Oriel Berkovitch won a BAFTA for ‘Girl No. 60427.’

BaBayit Jerusalem: A ‘third place’ for young olim in Israel’s capital

The strong framework that the BaBayit community has created for volunteers to start their own clubs, events and initiatives gives me hope that it can overcome whatever hiccups come its way.

 YOUNG JERUSALEMITES attend BaBayit events.

The cry of the dispossessed Cossack - Opinion

When the citizens demand their rights, the elites take to the streets to demonstrate.

Dr. Esther Luzzatto

The cry of the dispossessed Cossack - Opinion

When the citizens demand their rights, the elites take to the streets  to demonstrate.

Dr. Esther Luzzatto

These are the 10 traits that will get you far in life

The following 10 traits will make you seem likable to people and will help you in social and professional situations.

 Illustrative image of people interacting.

How can you learn to be yourself?

For many psychotherapy clients, issues of being oneself are at the core of their emotional difficulties. Below, I outline some strategies that can help people to be themselves. 

 The real question that needs to be asked is whether the beliefs we have formed are in fact really true (Illustrative).

Chimpanzees can flex, show off things for attention like humans - study

It isn't just humans who engage in the social behavior of flexing, meaning to show off an object or an achievement for the sake of attention and clout. Chimpanzees can do it too.

 Wild chimpanzee Fiona shows a leaf to her mother.