One would think an article on the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) would be more solemn or historical in nature.

Bridgitte Gabriel was an anti-Semitic, anti-Israel Lebanese Christian until she and her mother crossed over into Israel to go to an Israeli hospital because of her mother’s health needs.

CardioScale, a medical monitoring startup company based in Ganei Tikva, Israel, won prizes and accolates at a counter-terrorism conference for its innovative portable arm cuff which can aid first responders assisting in accidents, terrorism events, or other mass casuality incidents to triage patients and more effectively determine who is in the greatest need of medical care based on analyzing a patient’s cardiovascular status and other pertinent medical information expediently. 

As covered previously by Shalom Adventure, Israel’s tourism numbers crossing the 4 million threshold last year are breathtaking and historical for such a small country. This awesome trend is expected to continue in 2019.

Beresheet, an unmanned Israeli spacecraft and the world’s first privately funded mission to the moon, survived seven weeks in space and was successfully encapsulated into lunar orbit making to within 9 miles of the moon’s surface, but then lost connection with mission controls and crashed into the dirt at 300mph due to engine failure.

The Knesset, a shortened form of the Great Knesset, is a Hebrew word for “assembly,” and is roughly equivalent to the concept of the House of Representatives in the United States.