Israel’s maverick academic
Not content to rest on the academic laurels he earned at an unusually young age, Ely Porat also uses his smarts to improve education in
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.
Not content to rest on the academic laurels he earned at an unusually young age, Ely Porat also uses his smarts to improve education in
Whether your goal is to win a war or to persuade bees to pollinate, the bottom line is incentives, say the experts at Israel’s Center
Even the CEO was initially skeptical about BioPetroClean’s simple and effective solution for cleaning up industrial wastewater, but it works; and now Dow Chemicals is
A veteran and an immigrant Israeli combine their talents to help save victims of conflict with LifeBond – a sticky new sealant that closes wounds and stops bleeding.
Israeli entrepreneur Yossi Gross holds 567 patents, founded 27 companies and is now CTO of a VC that’s seeding 15 portfolio startups.
Many talented individuals contributed to Israel’s emergence as a high-tech hub second only to Silicon Valley. But if you had to name names, Ed Mlavsky’s
It’s not always easy, but Israeli Chagit Rubinstein is determined to help Bedouin women living in the Negev raise their standards of living with a
Israeli singer Hadar Manor has gone from busking in London Tube stations, earning her the title Queen of the Underground, to gigs across Europe. A
In less than a minute, you can watch 24 hours’ worth of recorded activity in a hanger at the Stuttgart Airport. Another 20 seconds later,
‘Lots of technologies being studied at universities could be applied and commercialized for the benefit of humans,’ biotech entrepreneur Silvia Lupa Noiman. Maybe other little
An Israeli company has developed a mobile lab to help agronomists in Africa and Asia analyze and diagnose plants and soil to prevent over-fertilization of
Israeli physicist Harry Zvi Tabor has devoted his life to researching solar energy. His achievements have already transformed the industry, but at 92, he’s still
Up on the roof: Israeli company Sovna has found a whole new use for city rooftops. Israeli start up Sovna has developed a novel way
An Israeli start up has developed a new way to harvest clean electricity from the urban wind, by putting turbines on the top of skyscrapers.
Today, you can store pictures, video clips, and documents in your cellular phone, but you can’t make full use of them without a companion handheld