
Israeli finalist to vie for $1m at Startup World Cup
Regenerative medicine company Matricelf will compete in San Francisco as part of a global competition sponsored by Pegasus Tech Ventures.
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.

Regenerative medicine company Matricelf will compete in San Francisco as part of a global competition sponsored by Pegasus Tech Ventures.

Israel’s extraordinary vaccination program has provided a wealth of information about the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and its impact.

Tadiran’s ‘patent of the millennium’ uses hydrogen peroxide to kill 99.999% of viruses, germs and bacteria in enclosed spaces.

Alumni of Desert Stars sprang into action after seeing a social-media post from the two Bedouin youth who caused the damage.

Engraved in stone, the Greek inscription is part of a lintel originally set in the frame of a church entrance in Israel’s Jezreel Valley.

To launch the new season, cycling legend Chris Froome gives both Hebrew and hummus a go in Team Israel Start-Up Nation video.

Chef Assaf Granit’s co-owned MachneYuda Group runs six renowned restaurants in Jerusalem, one in Tel Aviv, three in London and two in Paris.

First-in-human implantation of the CorNeat KPro restores vision of 78-year-old grandfather from Haifa.

From streetlights with built-in Wi-Fi to overhead lights that neutralize all the germs in a room, this sci-fi invention is already on the market.

Thousands of Bnei Menashe in northeast India began coming back to their ancestors’ homeland in the 1980s. About 6,000 more are waiting to join them.

Photographers explore how three elements – nature, man and steel – are bonded together on a scenic hilltop where a key Six-Day War battle was fought.

Technion team wins prize for using a virus to prevent the expensive problem of juice spoilage, while another team finds a use for potato peels.

Study of 800,000 Covid test takers, half inoculated with the first dose and half not, shows no difference in infection rate until two weeks later.

Threatened creatures in the soon-to-be-protected areas are the Clarke’s weaver, northern brown howler monkey and other rare animal and plant species.

Montfort’s FDA-cleared neurological monitoring is used by healthcare facilities on four continents and is tracking post-Covid symptoms in Brazil.