50 years of bringing brilliant ideas from lab to market
Hebrew University’s tech-transfer company, Yissum, partners with the likes of J&J, P&G, Merck, Roche, Novartis, Microsoft, Intel, Coca-Cola and Monsanto.
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.
Hebrew University’s tech-transfer company, Yissum, partners with the likes of J&J, P&G, Merck, Roche, Novartis, Microsoft, Intel, Coca-Cola and Monsanto.
‘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.
A promising Israeli technology fits inside ‘curtain walls’ and generates solar electricity for a high-rise building while allowing light inside.
Grassroots groups jump in to offer support, assistance and companionship to the many loved ones of troops sent to Gaza.
Tel Aviv startup Wispa, a mobile app for social buying and selling, launched a platform for users to give aid to fellow citizens in war-weary southern towns.
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.’
New York-based standup comics Ari Teman and Danny Cohen are touring with Israeli comedians to make bomb shelters rock with laughter.
‘Israel is a wonderful country, and it is an unfortunate time, of course, for people living here, but for me this has been a very good week.’
How a southern residence for autistic adults is managing – barely – to keep residents calm and safe.
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.
Funds will be used to advance development of a novel therapy to treat ‘flesh-eating’ bacterial infections.
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.