Writer: Abigail Klein Leichman

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.

Science burns in her bones

Despite invitations from academic institutions in the US and the UK, award-winning tissue-science innovator Professor Smadar Cohen would rather live and work in Israel.  

Israel is my country, good or bad

Prof. Gavriel Salomon has been volunteering, working, writing, researching and educating for peace since he was a young boy. Hanging on the wall of Prof.

Israel’s angel of mercy

For terminally ill Bedouins living in Israel’s Negev desert, there’s one man they know they can count on to help them through their last difficult days.

A Samson with strength in his smarts

Meet an Israeli physicist who invents gadgets ranging from breast pumps and bread slicers to a calculator that won’t reveal the solution until you use

Shed weight with a ‘filling’ pill

With its super-absorbent polymers, Exotech may help you shed weight without surgery, grow crops with less water and heal wounds more quickly.   The natural

Safe and simple messaging for the very young

Two Israeli high-tech executives create a no-reading-required, child-safe video messaging service to benefit millions of children living far from their relatives.   Vikido’s video messaging

Struck by lightning

Israeli professor Colin Price has transformed a fascination with severe weather patterns into research that could lead to practical products to protect individuals and industries

Alight from within

As down to earth as the natural materials she favors, world-renowned Israeli lighting designer Ayala Serfaty’s creations are a merger of art, design, function and

Sorting through garbage for gold

An Israeli trash sorting system separates organic and inorganic garbage and in one city alone saves gas emissions equivalent to taking 8,000 cars off the road.

Closing in on cancer

An Israeli researcher has stumbled on a drug that kills cancer cells without harming normal cells, paving the way for a more effective treatment against