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Tourism Minister Haim Katz (middle) and US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee (first on the right) at the opening ceremony of the International Mediterranean Tourism Market (IMTM) fair in Tel Aviv, Feb. 3, 2026. (Courtesy of Ronen Horesh)
February 4, 2026, 11:35 am
Israel banks on Christian pilgrims and faith-based travel to drive tourism recovery
Tourism Ministry plans a digital campaign geared to Evangelicals and pro-Israel communities; AI app for Holy Land trips launches with support of US Ambassador Mike Huckabee
By Sharon Wrobel
Leslie Gelrubin Benitah, right, with her late grandmother Bajla Gelrubin on her 100th birthday. (Courtesy)
April 26, 2025, 6:00 am
Geolocated app connects Auschwitz visitors with survivors’ testimonies on horrors in camp
Titled The Last Ones, the application utilizes short interviews with Holocaust survivors to illuminate Nazi murders and torments — at camps and throughout Europe
By Rich Tenorio
Avi Schiffman (right) with Internet Activism team members (from left): Will Depue, Anant Sinha, and Krish Shah. Team member Adrian Gri not pictured. (Courtesy of Avi Schiffman)
March 1, 2023, 3:22 am
How a young Harvard dropout and friends are set to level-up global humanitarian aid
The ‘whiz kid’ who developed the world’s first COVID-tracking site is ramping up his organization, Internet Activism, and helping victims of Turkey’s earthquake and Ukraine’s war
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The ironSource management team in March 2021. (Courtesy)
April 19, 2021, 2:11 pm
ironSource, valued at $11b, still ‘scratching surface’ of potential – co-founder
Ad-tech firm has what is said to be the highest valuation of an Israeli firm pre-US share sale, after its merger with Thoma Bravo SPAC
By Shoshanna Solomon
Sasy and Alexis Texas in the clip for "Tehran Tokyo." (Screen capture: YouTube)
March 4, 2021, 1:14 am
US porn actress appearance on Iran app music video sparks probe
Clip of Iranian pop singer Sasy — now based in the US — dancing with adult film star Alexis Texas creates outrage among Islamic Republic authorities
By AP
Alexey Chalimov
December 23, 2020, 4:58 pm
Alexey Chalimov
Top marketing mistakes to avoid when promoting an app
Over the past few years mobile applications have become a powerful tool to promote businesses, but there is no point in the app if no one uses it
Jews pray next to their house as synagogues are limited to 20 people as per the government's measures to help stop the spread of the coronavirus in Bnei Brak, Israel, July 9, 2020. (Oded Balilty/AP)
July 12, 2020, 10:51 am
UK interfaith friends develop app to help tamp virus spread in houses of worship
Jew, Muslim, Christian and Hindu are behind Prayin.io, with which congregations can keep track of who took part in prayer services and notify participants of any COVID-19 diagnoses
By ToI Staff
CoronApp, the new Health Ministry app for info on the coronavirus in Israel (Courtesy)
March 5, 2020, 3:10 am
New Health Ministry app is one-stop shop for all things coronavirus
CoronApp includes updated guidelines, latest announcements, info on locations visited by the recently diagnosed, user-submitted questions and more
By ToI Staff
An ultra-Orthodox couple at a cemetery (illustrative photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
November 4, 2019, 2:43 pm
Dead ahead: App aims to be a ‘Waze’ for cemeteries
‘Gravez’ provides detailed directions to the burial sites of loved ones, and, eventually, other services including lighting of memorial candles
By Shoshanna Solomon
A student at the female-only campus of Effat University, sits for the first time in the driver's seat, during training sponsored by Ford Motor, in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Tuesday, March 6, 2018. (AP/Amr Nabil)
February 17, 2019, 6:37 am
Saudi Arabia defends app that allows men to monitor wives, daughters
Riyadh says outcry is an attempt to politicize Absher service, after US senator joins calls for Apple and Google to remove it from stores
By AFP
Illustrative image of a sleepless man (tommaso79; iStock by Getty Images)
January 10, 2019, 12:49 pm
Trouble sleeping? You may want to try out this Israeli app
Herzliya-based startup dayzz says it can help people do better at work by teaching them how to catch more z’s
By Federico Maccioni
A group of tourists and pilgrims visit the Church of the Nativity, the place where Jesus is said to have been born, in the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem, on December 12, 2018. (THOMAS COEX / AFP)
December 20, 2018, 6:04 pm
At Jesus’s birthplace, an app is born… to ease crowds
With tourism to Bethlehem on the rise, PA ministry says advance reservation system will shorten lines at entrance to Church of the Nativity
By AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli apps alert users whenever a missile is headed into the country. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
November 15, 2018, 4:02 am
Rocket alert apps save lives — and spread anxiety
Smartphone warnings have become an important safety tool, and a small way for Israelis to show solidarity with areas under attack. But some say they’re just too stressful
By Sam Sokol
In this August 2, 2018 photo, Tamara Awaisa, 17, left, Wassan al-Sayed,17, center and Massa Halawa,16, right, pose for a photo with their mentor Yamama Shakaa in the West Bank city of Nablus. (AP Photo/Nasser Nasser)
August 5, 2018, 10:17 am
Palestinian teens reach finals of Silicon Valley app competition
Team selected out of 19,000 girls worldwide to pitch fire prevention virtual reality game; high-schoolers ‘excited to travel in a plane for the first time in our lives’
By Agencies
The brainchild of a 39-year-old Brooklyn Chabadnik, Wrapp enables users to find someone nearby who can lend them a set of Tefillin. (Tefillinwrapp.com)
July 15, 2018, 5:01 am
Need tefillin? There’s an app for that
‘Wrapp’ crowd sources the Chabad mission of helping Jews pray by offering a platform for instant lending and borrowing of phylacteries
By Cnaan Liphshiz
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