Comedian Jerry Seinfeld kicked off the first of four sold-out performances in Tel Aviv in front of more than 11,000 fans at a packed basketball stadium, and Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has launched a new, multi-sensory installation at the Tel Aviv Port.

British-American hard rock band Foreigner will perform at the Caesarea Amphitheater on June 14, and fallow deer have just been released into the wild of the Carmel Forest in an encouraging sign that the nature reserve is recuperating from a devastating fire in 2010.

Helen Mirren says her time working at an Israeli kibbutz shortly after the 1967 Six Day War helped make her the actress she is, and Israel’s Adi Deutch lost his leg from a Lebanon landmine blast, but ran the NYC marathon.

Ben-Gurion University’s student Formula One racing team is the first ever Israeli team to place in the top 10 at the Formula SAE, and a new documentary in the US will tell the remarkable story of the medical device industry in Israel and will list life-saving tools Israel has invented.