Nabeel Abu Nassar: The device is a tool that can help Americans learn everything about how the brain works.Nabeel Abu Nassar, an Israeli Arab from Nazareth, is helping to change the face of American brain research. His company NAN Instruments …
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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.
For first time, Israeli Bedouin named university department chairs
Dr. Aref Abu-Rabia , the newly appointed chair of Middle East Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. (Photo: Dani Machlis)In a striking and encouraging coincidence, two Bedouin professors at Ben-Gurion University in Beersheva were elected chairs of their respective …
An Israeli emissary via the commissary
Oren Pe’er poses with some of his culinary creations which guests to the Democratic Convention in Boston enjoyed this summer.Israeli Oren Pe’er is not on the staff of the Israeli Foreign Ministry, but in his role as executive chef of …
Israeli inventor develops a standup boat
Yoav Rosen: There is an undeniable capability that Israelis seem to have to dream and to create something out of nothing. (Photo: Dan McDonald)Don’t stand up in the boat! Anyone who has ever been in a canoe or small boat …
Israeli general faces the challenge of a lifetime
Major General Doron Almog and his son Eran – ‘Raising Eran has made me a better human being.’Major General Doron Almog has taken part in some of Israel’s most daring military operations: He was the first para-reconaissance commander to land …
Mediated Learning Experience – an Israeli educational innovation
Professor Reuven Feuerstein: My mission is to those who need me most, who need the bread and butter of education – not those who want an aperitif, or a cigar after dinner.Lisandra Gawad of Moor Park, California was a golden …
An electric conductor from Israel
Gisele Ben-Dor: The desire to conduct grew in me naturally.Internationally renowned conductor Gisele Ben-Dor may have been born in Uruguay, but her heart is in Israel.Ben-Dor, 49, the Israeli musical director of the Santa Barbara Symphony is among the tiny …
Helping Israeli Bedouin by identifying mutant genes
Dr. Ohad Birk takes a self portrait: We’re combining basic research using the latest scientific technologies, with practical applications and deeply human concerns. Wearing two hats – he’s both a clinician and a researcher – Dr. Ohad Birk is treating …
An Israeli vision for the future
Ronny Douek: The real, long-term solutions for most of Israel’s social problems lie in the creation of a new civil society that takes full responsibility for what occurs in it.Some might assume that the new generation of dynamic Israeli business …
Israeli twins set the cartooning world on fire
Tomer Hanuka in front of a display of ‘Bipolar’. “It’s the background of my life.”The direction of the lives of identical twin brothers Tomer and Assaf Hanuka was set into motion on the day when a package arrived at their …