Dr. Nili Avni-Magen sits at a computer as if in a regular office but you can tell there’s something else going on here. On the wall is a picture of herself and others intubating a huge brown bear before a …
Author Archives: Sara Eisen
Israel’s Matrix reinvents the high tech workplace – for religious women
An employee at Talpiot in Beit Shemesh – the first Israeli high tech company to recognize the skills haredi women brought to the marketplace and to create an environment especially suited to their needs.Chavi Josovicz, a polished, well-dressed woman in …
Proving something to myself
A society with a healthy dose of fear gives me faith. And a home. A well-known editor of a widely read Jewish American weekly wrote recently of his deep fear that Israel, with its many hostile and tacit enemies, may …
Israeli expertise mines the new water frontier
MagSens has developed a fully automated sensor, to be installed at several points in the water-flow process, which can detect even the minutest concentration of contaminating materials in the conducted water.In Israel, clean water is the color of money. Water …
Business is blooming for Israeli flowers
Israel’s average of 300 sunny days a year and relatively warm winter temperatures, especially in the Negev Desert, are excellent for growing summer flowers.High-technology know-how is fueling Israel’s ascendancy in the cut-flower industry, where export accounts for 90 percent of …