Tag: People

The people of Israel are innovative, creative, concerned and involved. Come and meet some of the most interesting individuals in the country.

From world champion boxer to rabbi

He’s just won the World Boxing Association’s Super Welterweight Boxing Title, so what does Israeli Yuri Foreman do in his spare time? Study to be

Struck by lightning

Israeli professor Colin Price has transformed a fascination with severe weather patterns into research that could lead to practical products to protect individuals and industries

Connecting the dots

An Israeli MIT graduate and former Google employee with both business smarts and social vision has set up a new Internet site connecting consumers to

Alight from within

As down to earth as the natural materials she favors, world-renowned Israeli lighting designer Ayala Serfaty’s creations are a merger of art, design, function and

Israel’s energizer

He developed the first rechargeable lithium battery, and now Prof. Doron Aurbach and his team of 35 may develop the first rechargeable magnesium battery.  

Just don’t call him the Zohan

Despite remarkable similarities to Adam Sandler’s the Zohan, for Piny Benzaken, Israeli sportsman turned hairdresser to the stars, it’s all about the work.   Hair

The engineer who makes wine

By day, he’s a civil engineer. By night, Israeli Doron Yitzhaki is a winemaker, with a new label of blended global wines made from the

Israel’s maverick academic

Not content to rest on the academic laurels he earned at an unusually young age, Ely Porat also uses his smarts to improve education in

Dialysis for our city aquifers

An Israeli engineer has developed a water harvesting and treatment system to collect and clean urban rainwater that he says could work in cities from

On the wings of an albatross

Former army helicopter pilot Duby Tal so identifies with the albatross that he named his aerial photography company after the rare bird and soared to

The Green Bedouin

It’s not an easy task, but one young Israeli Bedouin has taken on the daunting challenge of bringing environmental awareness to his people. The first