
Maya Sickle, 8½, talks about growing up Israeli
In the last of our Independence Day video series, Maya describes how this Independence Day she’ll be making blue-and-white cupcakes.
As part of ISRAEL21c's 70th anniversary celebrations, we have created a series of intimate videos with notable Israelis.

In the last of our Independence Day video series, Maya describes how this Independence Day she’ll be making blue-and-white cupcakes.

Singing since age two, soprano Claire Meghnagi looks back on her childhood as the daughter of an Italian-Israeli cantor.

In another in our intimate video series for Independence Day, Alon Day, Israel’s first NASCAR driver, recollects growing up by the beach and getting inspired by watching auto racing on TV with his brothers.

Growing up to the sounds of church bells in his Jerusalem neighborhood, Zaki Djemal became committed to coexistence activism.

Israel’s first Olympic medalist, judoka Yael Arad, was born one month before the Six-Day War and started learning judo at age 8.

Dov Moran, inventor of the USB flash drive, recalls his early years where he grew up living in a tiny apartment sharing a room with his grandfather.

Be inspired and be amazed – join us on an incredible visual journey through 70 years of Israeli history.

In the first of our intimate series of videos for Israel’s 70th anniversary, Nobel Laureate Dan Shechtman shares his memories of the early days of the new state of Israel.