
A blue-and-white sendoff for Israel’s athletes
Two days of ceremonies pumped up Israel’s Olympic and Paralympic teams as they start heading to London.
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.

Two days of ceremonies pumped up Israel’s Olympic and Paralympic teams as they start heading to London.

How an overweight high-tech exec got to be an athletic powerhouse despite two devastating accidents.

The world craves pretty ornamental fish, and Israeli growers are meeting the demand with revolutionary Arava Desert hatcheries.

Sepsis, a blood infection, causes more than 200,000 deaths in US hospitals every year. A non-invasive monitoring device from Israel is changing that.

An app developed at IBM Research in Haifa will bring all the personalized advantages of online shopping to the in-store experience.

US doctors are already using IceSense3 to freeze out benign growths quickly and painlessly. Next it could target small malignant tumors.

Israel’s first-ever Patents Exhibition in August will bring together international inventors with investors, patent attorneys and engineers.

‘There’s nothing quite like Israel in the world and nothing quite like the women of Israel,’ says the founder of the Museum of Israeli Women.

ACE Intelligym took a concept from the airfield to the playing field, showing how sports players benefit from brain training just as pilots do.

An Israeli college student is kicking off a cross-country US bike tour to raise money for Israeli cancer research.

Cool off this summer in some of Israel’s thousands of caves. We’ve picked a few of the ones most accessible to the public.

Israel’s Panoramic Power offers an award-winning system for property managers to monitor and control energy use to the last amp.

Customers and workers in an Israeli college dorm’s coffee shop include 40 community members with psychiatric disabilities.

Founded six years ago by two expatriates from the US, the Artists’ Colony Inn has just been named the best B&B in the Middle East by travel website Trip Advisor.

They’re young, they’re talented, and they’ve already got their own businesses – meet Israel’s teenage entrepreneurs.