If the high tech and biotech industries are the engines that have been driving the Israeli economy over the past five years, it is the nation’s universities that have provided the fuel: brainpower. Behind nearly every Israeli business success story …
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Israelis persevere at home and at work
Jewish Agency chairman, Zeev Bielski (left)at the Noar Ha’oved Ve’halomed summer camp at the Afek Park near Rosh Ha’ayin in the center of Israel where 700 Jewish, Druze and Arab kids from the north are participating. (Photo: Meir Partush/Jewish Agency)It …
Staying alert in Israel
Stay alert? What did that mean? I followed orders and made myself a strong cup of coffee. If I lived in northern Israel, life would be dramatic and traumatic right now. But since I live in Ra’anana, a suburb just …
Just call her ‘President Carmi’
As Rivka Carmi, the new president at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, takes on the challenge of attracting and retaining top talent to her institution, she is able to draw on her own personal experience. Thirty years ago, Rivka Carmi …
Azilect – the one-a-day Parkinson’s pill
Professor Moussa Youdim: I really believed in [Azilect], I was like Moses in the desert – everyone had given up on these type of drugs, I kept at it and we did a lot of work on it.Dr. Paul Knopf, …
Israel’s ‘electric’ fashion springs to life
Designs from Helena Blaunstein’s boutique Frau Blau.Walk into Idit Barak’s stylish Tel Aviv boutique Delicatessen, and you can easily imagine that you are in a downtown fashion district in a city like New York, London, or Berlin.The store design, sleek …
Giving heart to cardiac patients
Anecdotal evidence shows that some of the patients participating in the study are experiencing improvement in their condition and their ability to function.A revolutionary Israeli genetic treatment could bring new hope to patients suffering with severe coronary heart disease.The procedure, …
Seeing stars in Jerusalem
Celebrities like Will Smith send the message that visiting Israel is safe – and cool.Atir Cohen got quite a surprise on his Bar Mitzvah day in Jerusalem – a visit from a Hollywood movie star.There was the young Israeli 13-year-old, …
Fresh lemon grass fields in Israel become mecca for cancer patients
A drink with as little as one gram of lemon grass contains enough citral to prompt cancer cells to commit suicide in the test tube according to new Israeli research. At first, Benny Zabidov, an Israeli agriculturalist who grows greenhouses …
A new Israeli solution for a weighty problem
Millions of frustrated dieters around the world have been waiting anxiously for the wonder drug against obesity that will help them win the battle of the bulge. OBEcure, a new Israeli start-up, believes that it may have found the key. …