Trapped in flagrante bottelo – one Jerusalem doctor’s attempt to clean up the environment. I realized that I enjoy a personality trait which had begun to slide toward becoming a frank disorder when one of my neighbors caught me rummaging …

Opening up a new world for disease treatment: Anat Eitan, founder and CEO of AllergyFight and VacciGuard. Unlike the world of high-tech, Israel’s biotech community is populated with women leading life-changing companies into the new millennium. They are CEOs and …

Israel learns that going green isn’t just for the birds. As the sun dips behind the Ramat Naftali Mountain range, beginning to draw with it what’s left of the light in the Upper Galilee, we set off to see the …

Gonen Fink, CEO and co-founder of Pythagoras Solar aims to combine existing solar technologies with innovations in optics, semiconductor and mass manufacturing processes. Global warming, and rapid industrialization coupled with dwindling finite reservoirs of fossil fuel, are behind a worldwide …

Energy investment and consulting firm Eco Energy is scouring Israel to find ways to help local and international energy suppliers go green by investing in alternative fuel sources. The company’s latest target is algae. With scientists all over Israel and …

The world may just be waking up to the need for clean technologies now, but Israel, with its scarce resources and need for independence, has been developing them for years.   From communications to software, to semiconductors, to medical devices …

Hydrogen to go. C.En’s technology could help automobile manufacturers introduce hydrogen-powered cars. Everyone’s heard that old story about the scientist who invents a “magic pill” that turns water into gasoline – with the invention eventually getting into the hands of …

Phoebus takes all the factors it is programmed to check and evaluates them in real time 24/7, providing constant adjustments to the way energy is used. Since the oil crisis of the 1970s, Western nations have proclaimed their commitment to …

Israel plans to use wind power to supply five percent of its national energy needs by 2012. One wind farm is already operating in the Golan Heights, and two more are in the pipeline. Long and elegant, wind turbines are …

Some people think of old tires as rubbish. Not Israeli designer Elanit Neutra. She is giving them a new lease of life by transforming them into wallets, purses, notebooks and bags. Now her work is turning heads across the US. …