The Tefen Industrial Park includes the Open Museum display the beauty of industry. (Photo: Gems in Israel)Israeli industrialist Stef Wertheimer is planning a major project that he says will bring stability to the Middle East – 100 industrial parks that …
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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.
Making it in New York
Ron Giladi arrived in New York three years ago when he established the Designfenzider design company with Lior Haramati.The young designer Ron Gilad, 31, completed his studies at the department of industrial design at Bezalel only five years ago, but …
A Hi-Tech Veteran With a Mission
“We have to work very hard to develop a society with high standards of justice and morality, and a high quality of economy, education, and science,” says Eli Ayalon, a business leader with an idealogical mssion.For hi-tech veteran, Eli Ayalon, …
Northern exposure in the Mideast
Eva and Jimmy Ben-Sira in their adopted home in Israel.It’s a far cry from the frozen tundra of Alaska, but eighteen-year-old Eva Ben-Sira has become the first Eskimo to be inducted in the Israel Defense Forces.Ben-Sira was born to a …
Expect an extraordinary experience
“I work on the seam between the content and the attraction,” says entertainment technology developer Ofer Yardeni.As a 21-year-old who had just completed his service in the Israel Defense Forces, Ori Yardeni, born and raised in Israel, gazed at the …
UN recruits Israeli activist as AIDS campaigner
Inbal Gur-Arie – ‘I understood that that was my purpose of my life – that there was some meaning in why I had been infected with AIDS. I realized that I had a gift that could save others.’For the first …
A “Fox” of fashion
Everywhere you go around Israel, you are likely to meet people wearing Fox clothes – including actors Yael Bar-Zohar and Yehuda Levy.Israel doesn’t have the Gap, Old Navy, or Banana Republic. Instead, when it comes to shopping for casual and …
A hero to a tee
Zohar Sharon: “I have a sniper’s sense of direction. With golf, it’s a matter of training and iron will. I live on this golf course. It’s my life.”Just over two and a half years ago, Zohar Sharon barely knew the …
Soul on ice
Regarding her three hour daily workouts, Tamar Katz says, “It’s hard work, but when I’m on the ice, time flies.” (Photo: George Javor)Tamar Katz is already media savvy, offering a short biography at the beginning of an interview. “I’m 14 …
Israel’s first Druze math lecturer does it by the numbers
“My grandfather was a human calculator; he could do all kinds of calculations in his head. My father only went to the fourth grade, but he could do four-figure multiplication in his head. I guess I inherited their genes.” Toufik …