By Paul Shindman
Not only will there be an Israeli team in Vancouver for the Olympics this coming February, but I’ll bet most of you didn’t know that Israel has been in the winter Olympics since 1994. Yes, this will be the fifth time that an Israeli team will march into the Olympic stadium for the [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
Renowned Israeli musician Kobi Oz will be taking his groundbreaking Psalms for the Perplexed show beyond Israel’s borders for the first time ever during an upcoming concert in Toronto.

The former lead singer of the hit group Teapacks will be on stage at the Mod Theatre on November 8, accompanied by fellow Israeli [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Cyclists from around the world, Canada included are headed to Israel for the 10th annual Wheels of Love International Bike Ride on November 1. The ride is a charity fundraiser for the Alyn Hospital in Jerusalem, a rehabilitation centre for children and adults with orthopaedic disabilities.
Marcel Zielinski, a Cote St. Luc resident, [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Smart Hand, a pan-European program to develop a life-like artificial hand, has just released its prototype now functioning on a man in Sweden. Interfacing nerve endings with the mechanical device is Prof. Yosi Shacham from Tel Aviv University.
It is one of the world’s first thought-controlled prosthetic devices –– an artificial life-like hand, and it [...]

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By Paul Shindman
Of course there’s pizza in Israel! Every city and just about every town has pizza: eat-in, delivered or take-out (called “take away” in Israel, so your Hebrew lesson for today is how you say “take away” in Hebrew. Ready? It’s “tek eh-way”. Great! You’re ready to order!).
But with Israel being predominantly Jewish, dietary [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
While Canada’s Israel blog is not at all about politics, we sometimes report on politicians from these two countries who are laying the foundations for peace and economic collaboration.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Israel just sent Canada’s Israel this update that Canada’s Deputy Foreign Minister Leonard Edwards and his entourage are meeting [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman

Think of the volume of traffic on the 401 or the 404, or all the energy of taxi cabs and cars on the streets of Toronto. It’s just going to waste. But hopefully not for long: an Israeli company Innowattech has found a way to take the mechanical energy created by cars to [...]

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By Staff
The Israeli Film Festival is back in Toronto for a second time for what hopefully will become an annual event.  Films will be screened at the Sheppard Grande Cinema from October 18 to 22, and the festival is supported by Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Israeli Ministry of Tourism, United King Films (Israel’s largest [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
It’s estimated there are some 45,000 Israelis in Canada, a number that piqued the interest of Brent Harris a few years ago, when he first heard the number. “Although I had grown up in the Canadian Jewish community, I had never encountered too many Israelis, and this led me to wonder how much [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
The world’s largest door manufacturer, Masonite International from Canada has just bought the Israeli company Seventech Ltd. for a breezy $5.3 million USD, reports the Israel business newspaper Globes.
I won’t link to the story, because Globes (annoyingly) requires payment for articles after one week, but here is the gist:
Masonite will rename their new [...]

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