The gay painter of Tel Aviv
The vibrant canvases of Rafi Perez project Israel’s second largest city as a happy home for gay families and a mecca for GLBT tourists.
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.
The vibrant canvases of Rafi Perez project Israel’s second largest city as a happy home for gay families and a mecca for GLBT tourists.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev launches special program preparing Bedouins to fill a dire need in their community’s schools.
Ben-Gurion University and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center are developing medical devices for pediatric patients.
CNN highlights Israeli solar energy pioneer Yosef Abramowitz as an international Green Pioneer with ‘big ideas to change the world.’
Israelis are first to test whether a greener, cheaper fuel from natural gas can be used in existing cars without ill effects on the engine.
People with disabilities can tour Israel in comfort thanks to overnight accommodations that are increasingly attuned to their needs.
New father Amit Elisha, VP of Products at Outbrain, recently blogged about how the Israel-founded company – which provides the content discovery platform underneath the covers of leading news websites – donated a few lines of code that could ultimately save little lives.
Earmarked for homes in developing nations, the device needs no water and generates its own power to turn waste into sterile, odorless compost.
A computer-based therapy relieves anxiety disorders in young patients without the need for drugs, according to an Israeli university study.
Super-expensive Karat caviar, coveted by restaurateurs in several countries, starts out in river-fed ponds in the Galilee.
For the seventh straight year, a team of Israeli schoolchildren bests peers from several countries in games of strategy.
Three Muslim students from Azerbaijan, a handful from India, one from Turkey, and a hodgepodge of other budding young entrepreneurs from universities such as Oxford, Princeton and Cornell have registered for the Israeli student-led “Learn. Innovate. Lead” (LIL) Conference, scheduled for August 13-16 in Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem.
A new drug delivery system puts thousands of toxic pharmaceutical molecules inside a targeted missile which goes off only when it reaches cancerous tissue.
What good are a million ‘Likes’ if they don’t translate to sales? New Israeli startup’s ‘engagement triggers’ individualize offers to each fan or follower.
Israeli director, Daphna Attias has made a name for herself on the London theater scene with a series of productions that cross the line between dance, performance and music.