
The Hollywood puppet-master finding his voice in Israel
A-list puppeteer Len Levitt leaves Los Angeles to try his luck on the Israeli puppet stage.
The people of Israel are innovative, creative, concerned and involved. Come and meet some of the most interesting individuals in the country.

A-list puppeteer Len Levitt leaves Los Angeles to try his luck on the Israeli puppet stage.

‘We want to say, “No, you can’t build anymore.” We need to get into emergency mode,’ says AmEx ‘Young Professional’ Dana Lustig.

‘What drives me is the idea of building something people use and need and love,’ says Orit Hashay, a rising star among Israeli female CEOs.

Israeli biomed engineering researcher Sarit Sivan received the European Commission’s new prize for innovation and entrepreneurship.

Liora Rosin and Nitsan Debbi are getting international notice for works that they clearly have a ball creating in their Tel Aviv studio.

Yshai Oliel, 12, says tennis appeals to him because ‘I like that I play alone, that it’s all up to me.’

Strong, opinionated, unapologetic, confident – directors know that when they hire Inbar Lavi, star of MTV’s Underemployed, they’re getting an Israeli.

In his workshop near Haifa, a 4×4 maven and desert racer designs and manufactures Israeli vehicles for extreme conditions.

Israel may seem an unlikely home for professional winter sports, but Israel’s first-ever skeleton racer is hoping to make his debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics.

A freak accident nearly drowned her three years ago. Now Jasmine Feingold, 23, is paddling toward the 2016 Olympics.

Shortly after leaving Paris for Israel at age 18, Edouard Cukierman began building cross-continental economic bridges. He’s now chairman of the largest investment team in Israel.

‘The sun is the only solution I can see — the only one,’ says Karni, who has pioneered three separate solar technologies.

Artist Dina Merhav produces skyscraping sculptures of birds and angels, which can be seen in outdoor spaces all over the world.

Bedouin woman with a marketing degree from London goes home to the Negev desert to make natural products based on grandma’s recipes.

Technion graduate and Columbia professor Maria Chudnovsky will get $100,000 every year for the next five years to use as she pleases.