In the Galilee, a Muslim and a kibbutznik open a swanky ice cream parlor where the common language is the sound of a lick.
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Jerusalem program pioneers video as therapy
Jerusalem’s Ma’aleh film school has developed a unique course that trains therapists how to use video to rebuild lives.
The digital music app that turns your page
Israel’s Tonara flips sheet-music pages automatically, and offers many other features to make learning an instrument easier.
Parkinson’s treatment may boost creativity
An Israeli neurologist compiled studies on patients who suddenly started drawing, sculpting or writing while on dopamine-stimulating drugs.
The designer who specializes in not specializing
Paris-based Arik Levy has long believed that his Israeli Jewish identity contributes to his artistic versatility.
Unapologetically Inbar
Strong, opinionated, unapologetic, confident – directors know that when they hire Inbar Lavi, star of MTV’s Underemployed, they’re getting an Israeli.
Turning Israeli roofs into green habitats
The new Green Roofs Ecology Center in Haifa is the first of its kind in the Middle East and one of the first globally to focus on biodiversity.
Total Boox totally rethinks e-reading
Need books for a desert island? Take them all, and pay only for what you read with this new Israeli app.
ISRAEL21c’s top 10 stories of 2012
2012 was a year of innovation and progress. To celebrate the New Year, ISRAEL21c looks back at the top stories of the year.
African refugee boys get a new start in Israel
‘A stable, loving environment, food in their stomachs every day and a place they can go to sleep every night knowing they will be safe in the morning.’
Putting cement boots on sperm
Not yet out of the lab, Hervana’s non-hormonal, long-acting and non-invasive birth control solution could be a game-changer for women in developing countries.