
The maverick thinker behind Iron Dome
‘My incentive was saving human lives,’ says Brig. Gen. Daniel Gold, who defied the defense establishment to forge ahead with Iron Dome in 2005.
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‘My incentive was saving human lives,’ says Brig. Gen. Daniel Gold, who defied the defense establishment to forge ahead with Iron Dome in 2005.

As international airports go on alert after a deadly Ebola outbreak in Africa, ISRAEL21c talks to the Israeli who may be on the way to a cure.

Research offers the potential for restoring memory and protecting the brain of patients with this debilitating disease.

Chutzpah, resilience and out of the box thinking led this former Check Point architect into energy-generating windows and disruptive cyber solutions.

‘This is a pattern that’s repeated itself in the last three wars,’ says OurCrowd’s Jon Medved. ‘Israelis are pretty resilient.’

They’re not just working parents; they’re entrepreneurs whose startups are centered around their parenthood. Listen in to find out more.

TopClosure, invented by an Israeli plastic surgeon, allows for quickly and temporarily closing skin over an open wound in an emergency setting.

Keeping fragile newborns in Ashkelon safe under bombardment from Gaza is no easy matter.

Study highlights mental health consequences of long-term political violence on Israeli adolescents.

Despite tension and worry, Israelis use their creativity and out-of-the-box thinking not only to endure the trauma but to rise above it.

Whatever you’re into, this Israeli product anticipates your needs based on the time, where you are and what you’re doing.

Mistakes in prescribing drugs cause hundreds of thousands of deaths and injuries. Israel’s MedAware has devised a system to identify errors in real time.

If you think animation studios are exclusive to Hollywood and Japan, think again. Israelis are in high demand for global collaborations.

A Belgian-Israeli Jew and a Dutch Muslim developed Israel Under Attack, a new computer tool for mapping rocket trajectories from Gaza.

Israeli-made Moodies, named best iPhone app of 2014, extracts a person’s full set of emotions and character traits as they speak.