An Israeli media agency has launched an eye-catching campaign for the Israel Anti-Drug Authority, imagining the Facebook history of a drug user compared with what would have happened if he had stayed clean.

McCann Digital Israel has used Facebook's latest redesign, the Timeline format, to show a year in pictures of the life of "Adam Barak".

Virgin founder Richard Branson has met a group of Jewish and Arab teenagers in Israel.

Sir Richard spent ten hours in the country, to attend a communications conference in Tel Aviv.

The billionaire entrepreneur, whose Virgin Group has more than 400 arms including in the airline, media and music industries, was the guest of honour at the 2011 Bezeq expo.

Here's one for gadget geeks: a service that enables users to receive customised information about their favourite gadgets. Drippler, founded by Israelis Matan Talmi and Dotan Galron, is a free mobile application and website.

Israeli entrepreneurs have invented an iPhone app that keeps drivers awake by bombarding them with trivia questions.

Last year, Assaf Mayer was visiting Australia and found himself on a boring nine-hour bus ride.

Pro-Palestinian cyber attackers were not behind the collapse of the websites of several Israeli security agencies yesterday, a government spokesman said.

On Friday, the international hacker group Anonymous posted a video on YouTube stating that Israel's decision to intercept the boats of activists attempting to reach Gaza would "not go unnoticed by us or the people of the world".

The Chancellor has called for an increase to the "export of expertise and capital" from Israel into Britain.

George Osborne, speaking before he boarded a flight to Israel, made the comments to mark the launch of the British Embassy's newly-established UK-Israel High-Tech Hub.

Britain's Minister of State for Universities and Science, David Willetts, lands in Israel this weekend leading a high-level delegation of more than a dozen business leaders from the UK's digital sector.