Writer: Brian Blum

Brian has been a journalist and high-tech entrepreneur for over 25 years. He combines this expertise for ISRAEL21c as he writes about hot new local startups, pharmaceutical advances, scientific discoveries, culture, the arts and daily life in Israel. He loves hiking the country with his family (and blogging about it). Originally from California, he lives in Jerusalem with his wife and three children.

Is there a doctor in the House?

House himself couldn’t make it, but members of the cast of the popular TV medical drama “House,” along with its creator and executive producer, were

A post-Independence Day chuckle

Every year, local comedian Benji Lovitt publishes a list of the top things he loves about Israel. This year, in honor of Israel’s birthday, he’s

At my most Zionist

In our daughter’s 12th grade class yesterday, on the cusp between Memorial and Independence Days, her teacher asked something along the lines of “what was

Don’t worry, roam happy

Congratulations go to Onavo, an Israeli startup that just received two awards at the Next Web Startup Rally in Amsterdam last week: the “public’s choice”

Spotting the wild Israeli

With all the Israelis who head off for the Far East on extended post-army trips, we were pretty sure we’d meet tens, if not hundreds,

Sniffing for chametz in India

It’s been a few weeks since I last posted – that’s because we just got back from our long-planned family trek to Nepal and India.

Will Snaptu survive Facebook?

Israeli feature phone app provider Snaptu was snapped up by the social media giant for millions. But some pundits fear it could face oblivion. Snaptu

Top 10 iPhone apps from Israel

Want to find the best fettuccine in town? Make free calls? Translate your tweets? There’s a blue-and-white app for all that, and more. We give you the best of Israel’s iPhone apps.