Peace from the grassroots
USAID awards a three-year grant to a Bedouin professor’s peace-building project between Israeli and Palestinian human-services providers.
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.
USAID awards a three-year grant to a Bedouin professor’s peace-building project between Israeli and Palestinian human-services providers.
The Israeli artist Amnon Ben Ami won the inaugural Ilana Elovic Bezalel Prize for Painting. The $20,000 award pays tribute to Ilana Elovic, a self-taught Israeli-American artist who died in 2006 of ovarian cancer after exploring her disease through her art.
Israel is the home of such iconic swimwear labels as Gottex and Diva. ISRAEL21c takes a look at the top 10 swimsuits to wear this summer.
The Tel Aviv municipality recently opened a co-working space for high-tech entrepreneurship and innovation in the heart of Tel Aviv’s business district, inside the public library in the Shalom Tower.
There’s nothing else quite like Jerusalem’s Yad Hamoreh, where children with severe to moderate autism are integrated into a mainstream public school.
Elvis fans are signing up for a special tour of Israel to be accompanied by three gospel singers who toured with the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll.
Minnesota university students are coming to Israel to investigate what makes its startup and high-tech communities tick.
Positive psychology expert Tal Ben-Shahar taught the most popular course at Harvard, but decided he’d be happiest back home.
New Hebrew University portrait exhibition spotlights the researchers whose bright ideas led to global products to improve quality of life.
It’s weird, but it works: Award-winning Israeli research uses blood, milk and mucus proteins to build next-generation technology.
A desert oasis in Israel’s Judean Desert boasts a rare combination of natural beauty, biblical history and fun in the sun.
She survived a tough journey to Israel as a toddler. Now Pnina Gaday Agenyahu is an eloquent world spokeswoman on behalf of Ethiopian Jews.
A medical device from Israel will allow for less invasive, cheaper and more effective correction of severe spinal curvature.
DogTV, a new Israeli production, is being test-marketed on pets in San Diego ahead of a US rollout by Time Warner and Cox Communications.
Filmmaker Amit Shalev is taking his family on a six-month trip to find the heart of Israel. The adventure will be shared via Facebook.