
Good news for knees
In a groundbreaking advance, a novel Israeli implant provides a scaffold for the body to regenerate true joint-protecting cartilage.
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.

In a groundbreaking advance, a novel Israeli implant provides a scaffold for the body to regenerate true joint-protecting cartilage.

Primus Green Energy, soon to make alternative jet and auto fuels, is backed by the renewable energy arm of the Israel Corporation.

ISRAEL21c takes you into the showroom of Israel’s largest online seller of colored diamonds, a hot commodity for wearing and investing.

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

Not just a dusty desert, the Negev offers something for nature-lovers, eco-tourists, archeology buffs, spa vacationers and even wine connoisseurs.

A line of products trusted by neurosurgeons and neuroscience researchers on six continents was developed by a Christian-Arab couple in Nazareth, Israel.

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

A small crew of young Israeli ‘geeks’ is charting the course of eBay’s social ecommerce future from an office in downtown Tel Aviv.

A serendipitous lab discovery led to a breakthrough vaccine for a fatal tick-borne disease. Now investors are sought to take it commercial.

An Israeli neurologist compiled studies on patients who suddenly started drawing, sculpting or writing while on dopamine-stimulating drugs.

Paris-based Arik Levy has long believed that his Israeli Jewish identity contributes to his artistic versatility.

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

The new Green Roofs Ecology Center in Haifa is the first of its kind in the Middle East and one of the first globally to focus on biodiversity.

‘A stable, loving environment, food in their stomachs every day and a place they can go to sleep every night knowing they will be safe in the morning.’

Not yet out of the lab, Hervana’s non-hormonal, long-acting and non-invasive birth control solution could be a game-changer for women in developing countries.