Yoed Nir’s accomplished string-playing is featured on some 450 albums by top artists such as Regina Spektor, Judy Collins and Rufus Wainwright.
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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.
Extreme adventurer, motivational role model
Israeli Doron Erel, who scaled Mount Everest in 1992, leads multicultural expeditions and inspires others to reach high.
Nurse-turned-chemist wows research world
Lital Magid’s painstaking success making compounds that mimic marijuana’s THC validate her choice to leave nursing for the lab.
The gay painter of Tel Aviv
The vibrant canvases of Rafi Perez project Israel’s second largest city as a happy home for gay families and a mecca for GLBT tourists.
Kaptain Sunshine, the luckiest guy on the planet
CNN highlights Israeli solar energy pioneer Yosef Abramowitz as an international Green Pioneer with ‘big ideas to change the world.’
No words necessary, as Israeli director returns to roots
Israeli director, Daphna Attias has made a name for herself on the London theater scene with a series of productions that cross the line between dance, performance and music.
Israel’s No. 1 handcyclist heads to the Paralympics
How an overweight high-tech exec got to be an athletic powerhouse despite two devastating accidents.
Ilana Goor’s artistic jungle
She lives in it, and she displays her works in it. The Ilana Goor Museum in Jaffa is an ever-changing, living exhibition by an unusual artist.
Biking the US to fight cancer
An Israeli college student is kicking off a cross-country US bike tour to raise money for Israeli cancer research.
Israel’s whiz kids
They’re young, they’re talented, and they’ve already got their own businesses – meet Israel’s teenage entrepreneurs.