Maccabi Tel Aviv is a basketball team from Israel. It was established in 1932, as a part of the Maccabi Tel Aviv Sport Club.
On January 12 2010, around 5 PM, there was a strong earthquake in Haiti. It lasted only 1 minute but killed over 230,000 people and injured 250,000 people.
Music is the main way we express our emotions, feelings and what we are going through in our everyday lives. It’s a beautiful thing to express ourselves through music.
A few months ago, the New7Wonders organization presented the 7 wonders of the world. Even though Israel’s representative – The Dead Sea – did not end up being one of the seven winners, it made our country proud, since it reached a very high ranking.
The MinDesktop is a new tool developed in Israel for disabled people. It lets them send emails by thoughts alone, while doing something else at the same time.
The Eurovision song contest is a competition between the countries that are members of the EBU (European Broadcasting Union). This year Israel is going to send a band called Izabo to represent it in the contest.
Israeli tennis player Shahar Peer got a ticket to the Dubai Tennis tournament. In 2009 Peer did not get a visa to Dubai because of the war in Gaza, but this year Peer got a ticket despite her deterioration in the world ranking.
Israeli Idol is very similar to American Idol – a singing competition in the same format.
While the Middle East is changing faster than ever and many regimes are falling, our government maintains its stability and strength. The current government – which was elected in a democratic, just and free process – is starting its fourth and last year of term. This month (April 2012), the current government is celebrating three years in office.
Madonna is a famous pop singer that was published in the early eighties. She was born in Michigan on August 16, 1958. Her first album was named after her – “Madonna” and it sold over 10,000,000 copies.
Madonna is coming to Israel on May 25, 2012 and she will perform at the Ramat Gan Stadium.
Adolf Eichmann was a Nazi SS officer. He was responsible for the murder of hundreds of thousands of Jews during the Holocaust.
