
Ido Cohen’s off-road empire
In his workshop near Haifa, a 4×4 maven and desert racer designs and manufactures Israeli vehicles for extreme conditions.
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 his workshop near Haifa, a 4×4 maven and desert racer designs and manufactures Israeli vehicles for extreme conditions.

From hummus ice cream to cardboard bikes and Olympians, we bring you the 10 most-watched 2012 videos we’ve produced showing the ‘real’ Israel.

Hard hit during the recent conflict with Gaza, Beersheva is nonetheless developing into one of Israel’s newest tourist destinations.

Two Israel Air Force vets are behind the Selman Surgical Rehearsal Platform that lets neurosurgeons practice for difficult cases.

The World Bank asked the Galilee International Management Institute to work with students from the Kenya School of Monetary Studies.

ISRAEL21c takes you on a tour of MadaTech, Israel’s National Museum of Science, Technology and Space in Haifa.

A freak accident nearly drowned her three years ago. Now Jasmine Feingold, 23, is paddling toward the 2016 Olympics.

Six weeks later, there’s still much to do.

A new graduate of Ben-Gurion University’s Medical School for International Health founds a program to streamline healthcare for African migrants.

Israeli scientists find a way to generate millimeter rays and use them to render cancer cells incapable of reproducing.

Ever want to know what goes on behind the scenes at some of Israel’s biggest manufacturers? Now you can with ISRAEL21c’s pick of the best factory tours in the country.

‘Pixplit is the first app that uses the concept of connecting with people in the third degree of separation,’ says Israeli co-founder Jay Meydad.

Shortly after leaving Paris for Israel at age 18, Edouard Cukierman began building cross-continental economic bridges. He’s now chairman of the largest investment team in Israel.

An Israeli software technologist introduces an independent learning and computer literacy tool she’s been developing since her teen was a tot.

Using the new complex science of DNA origami, an Israeli biologist folds genetic material into a unique targeted delivery system for drugs.