With the shopping days to Christmas and Hanukah counting down, consumers can turn to a new Israeli web service to find the best buys and the biggest bargains.

Essential oils aren’t just helpful for therapy, they are also now being developed into an environmentally friendly toxic-free pesticide by an Israeli company, and could be sprayed on US crops by as early as next year.

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A group of British Muslims came to Israel on a six-day multi faith tour of the Holy Land. They discovered that the country wasn’t at all what they expected.

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A television crew from Canada was in Israel recently to film a new series on sports fishing for Canada’s Sports Network, and the World Fishing Network. They discovered a whole host of fishing experiences.

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Yohannes Bayu, a former Ethiopian refugee, has set up a development center in Tel Aviv to help the many African refugees fleeing persecution in their native countries find a new home in Israel.

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