Ariel Sharon, the eleventh prime minster and one of the founding fathers of the state of Israel has passed away after being in a come for almost eighty years. Sharon’s son, Gilad, probably summed it up best when he said: “he passed exactly when felt it was time to pass”.  

In this very pastoral Jerusalem neighborhood houses the Jerusalem Institute for Market Studies, which got a lot of media attention recently for an in-depth survey the conducted on the probability of the legalization of cannabis in Israel. And it looks like the report is going to boost a new bipartisan initiative at the Knesset which […]

Microsoft Israel is celebrating the first year of its Start-Up accelerator program with 13 new Israeli companies launching at this festive event at the Jaffa Port, while already starting to look ahead for the second year of the program. Ron Jacobsohn, JN1 Correspondent: Microsoft Israel is celebrating the first year of its Start-Up accelerator program […]

There is a lot of negative talk about the turbid relationships between the Jewish settlers and the Palestinians in the West Bank, however we found out that there are many exceptions to the rules of collaborations and understanding between the two people who occupy the same land. Although one can’t really conclude that all is rosy […]

i24news’ Morning Edition hosted by Yael Lavie for January 7th, 2014. Ron Jacobsohn discusses the global phenomena of Disney’s new animated flick, “Frozen”.

Almost the entire African refugee population in Israel showed up for a rally at Tel-Aviv’s Rabin Square to protest the Israeli government’s unwillingness to recognize them as war crimes refugees The issue of the African infiltrators who want to now receive legal status as refugees is an extremely complex issue in the Israeli society. From one […]