
Acclaimed US designer heeds humble Holon roots
Gadi Amit won a National Design Award for ‘objects that are beautiful and have a lot of design value, yet are functional for Joe Public.’
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.

Gadi Amit won a National Design Award for ‘objects that are beautiful and have a lot of design value, yet are functional for Joe Public.’

MeDusa’s handmade plastic bag wins top handmade product in the annual international competition among independent handbag designers.

How one man’s determination to make a safe social network for his daughter led to Nipagesh/NetoKids, a product adopted by schools in Israel and abroad.

Order a skyTran two-person transport pod, punch in your destination and soar above traffic on a magnetized guideway. A demo system is going up at Israel Aircraft Industries, and soon in Tel Aviv and beyond.

People seeking relief from chronic skin, respiratory and joint conditions benefit from the unique solar and mineral properties found only at the Dead Sea.

Novelist David Ehrlich shares banana bread and personal reflections with ISRAEL21c at Tmol-Shilshom, the business he started in 1994.

One of Japan’s largest medical device manufacturers will distribute the EndoPAT as its leading product for assessing the risk of cardiovascular events.

Real Imaging’s no-radiation, no-contact screening device could offer a lifesaving alternative to mammography for millions of women with dense breast tissue.

Beit Issie Shapiro shares International Play Association’s 2014 Right to Play Award with a community play project in Iraq and a play garden in Czechoslovakia.

CuBox, the smallest computer ever, is made in Israel by an Arab-Israeli company aiming to power the Internet of Things.

First she broke a glass ceiling and then she invented a nano-coating that makes glass repel dust and keeps ice from adhering to airplanes.

The physician who founded the initiative wants to cure societal ills by getting people to work on their character traits and dialogue with ‘the other.’

‘There are a lot of startup programs that are helping cultures within Israel, such as amazing community garden projects used as tools for economic empowerment.’

United Utilities chooses Mapal Green Energy’s unique floating aeration system for wastewater treatment and energy savings.

Yossi Kabessa’s proposed biosensors made of engineered bacteria are getting worldwide attention for their potential to detect pollutants in city waterworks.