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.

A two-step image search solution

Israeli company Ginipic offers a two-step image search download that crawls 15 different web-based photo-sharing applications and displays the results on a single screen.  

Cloud Power

Ctera’s CloudPlug fits in the palm of your hand and turns a USB drive connected to your main computer into a full-fledged, Internet-connected, backup solution.

A neat trick for scheduling meetings

By combining mobile technology with a voting system, Israeli start-up Neatcall may have just the solution to all the time wasted playing telephone and e-mail

Grooving at the Sea of Galilee

Jacob’s ladder has grown from a modest folk music festival, into a world music extravaganza that appeals to young and old, Anglo and Israeli alike.From

Cheerleaders for Aliyah

One hundred and ninety one reasons to get out of bed before 5am.Last Thursday, my wife Jody and I roused ourselves out of bed at

Friends with benefits

Finding a world class gourmet meal… with a view of Jerusalem’s Old City.The expression ‘friends with benefits’ usually has less than PG-rated connotations. But this