Tanzania

Israeli agricultural non-profit CultivAid helps support Tanzania’s growing wine industry

Tanzania's commercial wine industry is relatively young by global standards, dating back to the early 1960s when Catholic missionaries introduced modern viticulture around Dodoma.

|ByKEREN SETTON/THE MEDIA LINE
Israeli nonprofit CultivAid is working with Tanzanian grape growers and young agricultural professionals.
CHIEF OF State Protocol Gil Haskel with Tanzanian Ambassador Alex Gabriel Kallua.

Grapevine, July 10, 2026: Mixed Irish feelings

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Illustration: The skull of an asian elephant.

Early humans may have begun eating elephants, large animals 1.8 million years ago - study

The fat stored in Elephant bones, which is rich in essential nutrients, is thought to have played a role in supporting the growth of larger brains in the Homo erectus lineage.

|ByMIRIAM SELA-EITAM
Tanzanian ambassador to Israel, Alex Gabriel Kalua attends a farewell ceremony for Joshua Loitu Mollel. November 18, 2025.

Officials, friends bid final farewell to former hostage Joshua Loitu Mollel at airport ceremony

The ceremony, which was live-streamed for Mollel’s family and friends in his home country, was widely attended by his colleagues in the Agrostudies program.

|ByJOANIE MARGULIES

Tanzania's COVID skeptic leader Magufuli dies of heart disease

Magufuli's death, the first of a Tanzanian leader while in office, opens the prospect that the country will gain its first female president.

MARCH 18, 2021ByREUTERS
Tanzania's President elect John Pombe Magufuli salutes members of the ruling Chama Cha Mapinduzi Party (CCM) at the party's sub-head office on Lumumba road in Dar es Salaam, October 30, 2015.

Access Israel climbs Kilimanjaro

“Climbing a mountain is more about the mind. If you take it easy and relax, all goes easy,” said Sabino (“Sabi”) Kweka.

FEBRUARY 27, 2020ByHOWARD BLAS
TO THE summit: (front from left) Paratrek CEO Omer Zur and co-worker Rowee Benbenishty; cliimbers with disabilities (back row, left to right) in Paratreks: Arnold John, Marcela Maranon, Starla Hiliard-Barnes and Arnon Amit