Kiram Baloum: Women are capable of doing everything, they just have to be enabled to do so.If anyone can understand the plight of Israeli Arab women today, then it’s Kiram Baloum, director of the Women’s Empowerment Unit of the Center …

By the time Tatiana Pogrebnyak was 11 years old, she knew she liked to sew and put things together. By the age of 13, she was interested in “the outfit, the cloth, the colors, everything.” And by 15, she was …

Yehuda Shinar (center) gives tips to members of Scotland’s rugby squad. (Photo: Phil Wilkinson/ Scotsman Publications Ltd)”You’re lucky you caught me here. I’m leaving in the morning for London,” said Yehuda Shinar. “Lately, I’ve only been coming back to Israel …

Dr. Hagar Landsman at the South Pole – Thanks to the scientific challenges, I am overcoming the difficulties.Israeli physicist Dr. Hagar Landsman has gone from the cold winters of Wisconsin to the colder winters of Antarctica. The graduate of the …

Galia Albin is one grandmother who isn’t spending afternoons knitting booties, baking cookies or changing diapers. Instead, she’s running to television studios for tapings, representing Israel at international business forums and wielding influence on Israeli policymakers. She is one of …

There may not always be strong waves on Israel’s Mediterranean shore, and sometimes there are no waves at all. But that hasn’t stopped 20-year-old Mor Meluka from becoming the first Israeli surfer to compete in the trials for the upcoming …

MK Nadia Hilo addresses a gathering of Na’amat activists.The offices of the freshman members of the Knesset are situated in a windowless corridor on the bottom floor of the historic building. But Nadia Hilo doesn’t seem to mind the less-than …

One of Meiri’s early murals in Tel Aviv – ‘Tel Aviv needed some beauty and I needed the exposure.’Rami Meiri is tired. The Israeli artist spent the weekend applying his signature outdoor mural style to post-war Kiryat Shmona on the …

Prof. Shulamit Levenberg: [The recognition] is an acknowledgement of the importance of what we do scientifically and therapeutically.It was an ordinary day like any other when Shulamit Levenberg picked up her mail near her home in Israel’s Lower Galilee region. …

Ishmael Khaldi: My grandmother, who passed away only last year, spoke Yiddish. (Photo: David Blumenfeld)Ishmael Khaldi lived in a Bedouin tent until he was eight years old, walked four miles round trip to school each day and still goes home …