The vast majority of Israel’s creative, trailblazing new fashionistas have only been in the business for a decade or less. ISRAEL21c examines the top 10 designers in the business. Israel’s fashion designers, like most of the country’s entrepreneurs, have …
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Naim K. Qasim adds new layer to Israeli fashion
The 37-year-old designer is stitching a new culture of style that will get people talking.
What does the future hold in store?
Another term for Obama, 10 more years of recession… these are just a few of the predictions by Israeli futurist Prof. David Passig, whose clients range from Fortune 500 companies to unnamed government bodies. Futurist Prof. David Passig, who …
A new spin on the battery span of mobile devices
An Israeli researcher is working in the spintronics field of nanotech to make existing batteries last 10 times longer and existing processers work 10 times faster. Photo courtesy of Nati Shohat/Flash90. Today, laptop users are normally tethered to an …
Running to beat the clock on the Appalachian Trail
By his own definition, 56-year-old Israeli Carlos Goldberg is one of “the crazier ones” choosing to run the Appalachian Trail against the clock. Aiming to break the record: Carlos Goldberg taking a breather on one of his runs. Carlos Goldberg …
Science burns in her bones
Despite invitations from academic institutions in the US and the UK, award-winning tissue-science innovator Professor Smadar Cohen would rather live and work in Israel. Photo courtesy of Dani Machlis. Groundbreaking inventions: Prof. Smadar Cohen in her lab at Ben …
The “Israeli Obama” takes on the Y
A young Muslim Israeli is set to make the Jerusalem YMCA financially sustainable and to transform the established meeting place for three faiths into a dynamic peace center. “The more you give, the more you get, especially in being …
A photographic assault on the senses
He may have no formal training, but the daring work of Israeli artist Drew Tal, which mixes photography with other mediums, is catching the attention of critics across the US. His work falls somewhere between a painting and a …
Merging science and Jewish thought
He may be an impressive innovator in solar energy, and a captain of industry, but Arnold Goldman is also a thinker whose unusual goal is to bring science together with philosophy. Builder of Jerusalem – solar energy leader Arnold Goldman. …
Israel is my country, good or bad
Prof. Gavriel Salomon has been volunteering, working, writing, researching and educating for peace since he was a young boy. Hanging on the wall of Prof. Gavriel Salomon’s office at the University of Haifa is an original poster announcing an April …
At the forefront of drug revolutions
For businessman, top consultant and educator Martin Gerstel, “retirement” means holding down a few full-time jobs. Picture by Abigail Klein Leichman. Martin Gerstel at his Jerusalem home. Martin Gerstel jokes that the highlight of his business career occurred before it …