The editors and writers at Canada’s Israel would like to wish you a happy, healthy and sweet new year.  To help you celebrate, here are some Israeli muppets:

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By Karin Kloosterman

(A wheat farm in Midnapore, Alberta, circa 1920s)
Following a global worldwide trend to return to healthy and locally produced food, both Canada and Israel are going back to their roots, and reclaiming old wheat cultivars which have been replaced by blander fast-growing industrial ones.
When we go to the supermarket, we might find many [...]

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An estimated 50,000 fans enjoyed Paul McCartney’s historic concert at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park, Sept. 25. After greeting the crowd with “Shalom” and “Shana Tova” he kept them singing along for almost two hours, with hit after hit, including a rousing rendition of “Give Peace a Chance.”
The video below from the UK’s Daily Telegraph gives you a [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal

Israel’s most famous archaeological marvel - the Dead Sea Scrolls - are Toronto-bound.
The unique antiquity is scheduled to be on display at the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) this coming June, for a six-month stint.
Visitors are expected to flock to the museum to see the famous, though tattered fragments, which date back 2000 years.
I personally can’t wait [...]

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By Lauren Kramer

When Israeli cartoonist Rutu Modan co-founded Actus Tragicus, an Israeli comic book collective in the mid 1990s, her goal was to give herself and the five other cartoonists exposure outside of Israel by publishing a book each year. But she couldn’t have imagined where that exposure would eventually lead her.
People started paying attention [...]

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Prostate cancer is a common cancer among Canadian men, killing over 4,000 people each year. Traditional treatments have always involved surgery or radiation, both with dangerous side effects.
 Researchers at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel developed a non-invasive drug called “Tookad” to treat prostate cancer. This Hebrew word means “warmth of light.”
Clinical trials have [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
Now that the Olympics have wrapped up, it’s time to reflect.
Just how well did Canada and Israel represent themselves and what’s in store for these countries at the next major international sporting event?
Canada chalked up an impressive 18 medals in Beijing, shining brightly in wrestling, equestrian and rowing with three glittering gold [...]

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by Paul Shindman
Are Canada and Israel closer together these days, or as far apart as ever? Well, it’s 7,280 km as the crow flies from St. John’s to Tel Aviv, and about 9300 km from Toronto, where the direct flights come from (but if you start in St. John’s you have to fly 2115 km [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
Rosh Hashanah is fast approaching and that means many people like me are in a bind to find a place to pray.
What is particularly tricky about this great shul hunt for me, my wife and I gather many others, is that we are a “mixed Jewish marriage,” so to speak.  I am [...]

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