Writer: Abigail Klein Leichman

Abigail Klein Leichman, a writer and associate editor at ISRAEL21c from August 2010 until her retirement in March 2024, moved to Israel in 2007. She has freelanced for a variety of newspapers and periodicals since 1984.

12 hot apps from Israel

Want to be better organized, make music with distant friends, avoid your ex, socialize your shopping experience? Israelis have made an app for that.

From Tel Aviv to the White House

SanDisk founder Eli Harari, 2014 winner of the US National Medal of Technology and Innovation, reflects on the flash-drive revolution that changed our world.

Wix tackles the Super Bowl

The Israeli ‘make-your-own-website’ sensation is buying a $4m Super Bowl ad as part of a big cross-platform branding campaign.

Microsoft buys Israeli startup Aorato

‘We are making this acquisition to give customers a new level of protection against threats through better visibility into their identity infrastructure.’