Pianist Elisha Abas: “It’s my job to bring classical music to young people throughout the world.”Pianist Elisha Abas is on a mission: He is working to revive classical music and bring young people back into concert halls. The way he’s …

Miriam Amash: “I want all people to be friends, and to get along well.”Her tired eyes jumped from person to person, obviously scared and confused by the excitement that she had caused. And who could blame her? Until now, she …

Ismail Ahmad hopes to help other Darfurian refugees in Israel pick up computer training skills.”What this does is give us a feeling that we have a future,” said Ismail Ahmad, showing his freshly issued Israeli ID card. Forty-two-year-old Ahmad is …

In a bid to rehabilitate former guerrillas, the Colombian government has turned to Israel to help build a network of kibbutzim in Colombia. They have called on Israeli Juan Gomez, 49, a former Colombian, to help. Gomez is a member …

Yarden Fanta-Vagenstein, the first woman of Ethiopian descent to earn her doctoral degree in Israel.When Yarden Fanta-Vagenstein and her family of 11 landed in Israel from a northern Ethiopian village in 1985, she didn’t know how to read or write. …

Tourists who’ve been lost in Japan because they can’t read the street signs know that navigating to new places by street signs alone is reliable only when one can actually read them. Prof. Avraham Trakhtman, an Israeli mathematician from the …

“If you want to compete in the world, you have to start from the bottom,” nuclear physicist Harry Lipkin.Octogenarian Israeli nuclear physicist Harry Lipkin is not your ordinary scientist. Sure, he can easily talk about neutrino oscillations, quarks, and mesons, …

Flying high: Apco Aviation’s paragliders are sold throughout the world. For Anatoly Cohn, the founder and CEO of Israeli company Apco Aviation, one of the largest producers of recreational flying equipment in the world, flying was a childhood dream. Growing …

Issa Zananiri (left) and Prof. Yoram Shiftan, his supervisor at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.It might be a bit of a head scratcher for those who see nothing but the violent clashes on TV, but a Palestinian is now part …