About Rachel Neiman

A veteran media professional who has lived in Israel since 1984, Rachel has been part of the ISRAEL21c organization since 2008. Prior to that, she served as managing editor of Globes Online, the English-language edition of Israel’s leading business daily, and before that, at The Jerusalem Post, as a business reporter, feature writer, and consumer columnist. Rachel began writing about Israeli technology companies at LINK Israel’s Business and Technology Magazine and is a professional Hebrew to English translator. In her spare time, she is an active member of the Havurat Tel Aviv congregation, and the Holyland Hash House Harriers, part of an international running and drinking disorganization.
Fashion photographer aims to remodel fashion world

Fashion photographer aims to remodel fashion world

“Any agency would send her away and tell her to lose 3-4 kilos,” Adi Barkan talking about fashion model Ortal, who stands next to him. What is beauty? It’s a question Israeli fashion photographer Adi Barkan has been wrestling with …

Core Dynamics aims for the big freeze

Core Dynamics’ technology to cryopreserve cells opens up a whole new world of opportunity. Image: Freeze-dried and reconstituted leukocytes.Freeze-drying is that ubiquitous technology used in every packet we buy of instant coffee, tea, soup, even fish food. The process — …

Volunteers keep teaching Bedouin kids in time of war

Volunteer tutors from Ben Gurion University ensure that life goes on as normally as possible, even in the midst of the Gaza-Israel conflict. For over 30 years, Israeli after-school program Perach has been bringing one on one tutoring to kids …

The biggest Hebrew school in the world

You don’t have to be Jewish to want to learn biblical Hebrew, according to Israeli online learning company, eTeacher, which is opening a new course ever month to satisfy demand from the American Christian community. Learning a new language is …

Israel’s Crew 972 is animated about cartoons

Israel’s Crew 972 is animated about cartoons

Hollywood is the center of the film industry in the West, Bollywood its center in the East. But where is the capital of Toontown? If Crew 972 has anything to say about it, Tel Aviv will be the world center …

Acco Festival resumes the stage with new mind-set

Cancelled at Sukkot for the first time in its 25-year history, the Israel Fringe Theater Festival at Acco has now been rescheduled for the Hanukah holiday break. Every year at Sukkot, a wonderful event takes place in Israel that most …

Israel’s nanosatellite association thinks big [VIDEO]

Israel’s nanosatellite association thinks big [VIDEO]

Meidad Pariente and Raz Tamir of the Israel Nanosatellite Association (INSA) with the InKlajn-1 1:1 model. Photo by Sivan Farag.Israel’s close-knit space community is gearing up for something big – and it’s really small. The Israel Nanosatellite Association (INSA) is …