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Israel Independence | Going 'Green'
North Tel Aviv is synonymous with affluence, while South Tel Aviv and Jaffa have some of Israel's worst poverty and deprivation. It was therefore not surprising that a report published in February by Green Forum revealed that air pollution levels are three times higher in the south of the city than the north, that noise levels are 50 percent higher in southern neighborhoods and that for every three parks in North Tel Aviv there is only one in Jaffa and the south. full story >
Israel Independence | Jews, Arabs coexist
A Hollywood director couldn't have found a better location for Abu Ghosh if he'd tried. The picturesque Israeli Arab village of 6,000 residents nestles neatly, geopolitically and socio-economically in the Jerusalem hills between Kibbutz Kiryat Anavim to the east and the ultra-orthodox Jewish community of Telz-Stone just to the west. In the complex political, cultural and social mosaic of the Middle East, Abu Ghosh is a truly unique phenomenon. full story >
Israel Independence | Billion dollars in profits
With annual sales of $5.3 billion last year, TEVA Pharmaceuticals is Israel's largest company. With profits of $1.07 billion in 2005, TEVA became the nation's first ever corporation to make more than a billion dollars in profits in one year — largely helped by fast growing sales of Copaxone®, the company's first patented drug for the treatment of multiple sclerosis — which recorded sales of $1.2 billion in 2005. full story >
Israel Independence | Fighting poverty
For a city like Jerusalem, where some 40 percent of children live in families with per capita incomes below the poverty level, it is imperative to find ways of offering opportunities to teens from low socio-economic strata to succeed in Israeli society. full story >
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