Tag: Blog

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Outbrain’s baby step is giant leap for preemies

New father Amit Elisha, VP of Products at Outbrain, recently blogged about how the Israel-founded company – which provides the content discovery platform underneath the covers of leading news websites – donated a few lines of code that could ultimately save little lives.

SWU Haifa team

Learn. Lead. Innovate.

Three Muslim students from Azerbaijan, a handful from India, one from Turkey, and a hodgepodge of other budding young entrepreneurs from universities such as Oxford, Princeton and Cornell have registered for the Israeli student-led “Learn. Innovate. Lead” (LIL) Conference, scheduled for August 13-16 in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.

The Cupola. Photo by Mel Brickman

Lights in Jerusalem

My friend Barbara and I were standing at Jaffa Gate facing the Cupola – an 82-foot-high domed structure by Italy’s Luminarie De Cagna – at

Ori at the Beach

I just came across Ori at the Beach, a picture book available in Hebrew/English and Hebrew/French. The simple and colorful board book written by Delphine

Tel Aviv in ’60 Minutes’

Tel Aviv is the talk of the blogosphere this week, following CBS reporter Bob Simon’s declaration that the White City is “the” place to be.

Shop-A-Fada logo

Shop-A-Fada

In the face of increasing calls to boycott Israeli-made products, a group of Israeli businesspeople is launching “Shop-A-Fada,” and its spokesman is none other than the legendary Israeli basketball-star-turned-goodwill-ambassador Tal Brody.

(Don’t) Push the red button

It’s 1997, and Men In Black‘s Tommy Lee Jones tells Will Smith: “Don’t touch the red button.” Which, of course he does, because who can

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ISRAEL21c gets results for Israeli inventor

Two years ago, ISRAEL21c reported on an all-natural superabsorbent polymer (SAP) invented in Israel that can help people lose weight safely, grow crops with less water and dispose of diapers without harming the earth.

NJ fourth-graders’ Invention Convention enriched by ISRAEL21c

Nancy Miller, a technology teacher at The Moriah School in Englewood, New Jersey, recently wrote to report that her pupils used information from our article “Israel’s top 45 greatest inventions of all time” to prepare for the school’s annual fourth-grade Invention Convention.

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Giving trash the boot

Israel’s inaugural Clean the Land Day will take place across the country on Friday, May 18. This welcome initiative comes from four Masa Israel Government Fellows