Israeli biomed engineering researcher Sarit Sivan received the European Commission’s new prize for innovation and entrepreneurship.
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ISRAEL21c chats with Girls in Tech darling Moran Bar
Female geeks are a rare breed, and Bar has made a splash with Geekmedia, VentureGeeks and Geektime blog, now debuting in English.
Industrial design is work and play for young duo
Liora Rosin and Nitsan Debbi are getting international notice for works that they clearly have a ball creating in their Tel Aviv studio.
Israel’s first male Junior Orange Bowl champ
Yshai Oliel, 12, says tennis appeals to him because ‘I like that I play alone, that it’s all up to me.’
Unapologetically Inbar
Strong, opinionated, unapologetic, confident – directors know that when they hire Inbar Lavi, star of MTV’s Underemployed, they’re getting an Israeli.
Ido Cohen’s off-road empire
In his workshop near Haifa, a 4×4 maven and desert racer designs and manufactures Israeli vehicles for extreme conditions.
Going head first at speed for the Winter Olympics
Israel may seem an unlikely home for professional winter sports, but Israel’s first-ever skeleton racer is hoping to make his debut at the 2014 Winter Olympics.
Miraculous comeback for Israeli rowing champ
A freak accident nearly drowned her three years ago. Now Jasmine Feingold, 23, is paddling toward the 2016 Olympics.
The man who sells Europe on Israel
Shortly after leaving Paris for Israel at age 18, Edouard Cukierman began building cross-continental economic bridges. He’s now chairman of the largest investment team in Israel.
Israel’s solar star Jacob Karni
‘The sun is the only solution I can see — the only one,’ says Karni, who has pioneered three separate solar technologies.
Turning scrap iron into angels
Artist Dina Merhav produces skyscraping sculptures of birds and angels, which can be seen in outdoor spaces all over the world.