Ron Jacobsohn Meets the First Openly Gay Tel-Aviv Mayoral Candidate Meretz MK Nitzan Horowitz has decided to throw the hit in ring and run for mayor of Tel-Aviv against incumbent three-term major Ron Huldai calling for a change in Israel’s most popular city. Horvitz’s announcement for his run for mayor of Tel-Aviv already made waves way beyond the boarders of …

Members of the Knesset’s Health and Welfare Committee were shocked into silence when an 83-year-old Holocaust survivor who lost patience with the proceedings blasted the government for wasting time on endless debates, while abandoning survivors to die in poverty. That woman is Tivon resident Dora Roth, who has become a national hero since her outburst at the Knesset. i got …

Ron Jacobsohn Talks to Experts About the Performance of the New Government In most countries of the world a new government gets at least 100-days of grace period before it gets criticized by the media and the opposition, but not in Israel… Netanyahu’s third coalition is a little than a months old and everyone’s got already something to complain about.  

Ron Jacobsohn Attends the 40h Anniversary Reunion of the Public Health Program at HebrewU Over a hundred graduates of the international Public Health Masters program have returned for the first to Israel to discuss current tendencies in their sector and meet fellow graduates of the program which has been running for over forty years. And of course one of the …

Ron Jacobsohn Attends the Regional Sustainability Conference The southern city of Ashdod is hosting the annual Israeli Conference for Sustainability with international guests from countries like France, Ethiopia and neighboring, Jordan as all concentrate on sustainable development from global to local.