(Israel21c) - In bad news, a report assessing the state of trees worldwide has found that 30 percent of tree species are threatened with extinction. But in good news, it would seem that only two out of Israel’s 60 or so tree species are threatened –...
(Israel21c) - The bacteria wars are coming. Researchers at Tel Aviv University have pitted “good” bacteria against “bad” bacteria and the good guys, it appears, are winning.
If the system can be scaled, this new approach could potentially replace...
(Israel21c) - TIME magazine recently named Israel’s Negev Desert as one of the World’s Greatest Places for 2021. And for good reason, too, since despite its seemingly arid appearance the southern desert is one of the most fascinating places in the...
(JTA) — In his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly, Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett addressed the twin threats of Iran and the coronavirus, in keeping with his quest for a relationship with the international community that is...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21C
• Published September 27, 2021
(Israel21C) — Ravit Ram Bar-Dea, co-founder and CEO of digital health startup Well-Beat, will represent Israel in a global contest to be held in Dubai in October, after she won first place in the TiE Women Entrepreneurship Competition held for the...
Abigail Klein Leichman, Israel21C
• Published September 27, 2021
Many organizations work to defuse tensions and promote understanding between Israel’s 74% Jewish majority and 21% minority Arab population.
But few address the big divide between secular Jews and the 13% minority of ultra-Orthodox (haredi) Jews.
A...
(JTA) — Hundreds of Iraqi civic leaders and activists attended a conference calling for the country to establish full diplomatic relations with Israel.
But Iraq’s government rejected the call and is now seeking to arrest the leaders of the conference...
Israeli cultivated meat startup Aleph Farms recently received an investment from a particularly glamorous source: Hollywood actor and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio.
Aleph Farms has developed a technology that creates cultivated meat...
(Israel21c) - A year and a half of lockdowns, school closures and social distancing caught adolescents at a vulnerable time in their emotional development, says Dr. Shelly Ben Harush Negari, a physician specializing in adolescent medicine.
Many kids...
Eric Berger, Associate Editor
• Published September 23, 2021
Rep. Cori Bush, a Democrat from St. Louis, was among the Democrats who voted against a bill Thursday to provide $1 billion in funding to Israel for its Iron Dome missile defense system.
In a tweet Thursday afternoon, Bush described Israel as an apartheid...
Abigail Klein Leichman
• Published September 22, 2021
(Israel21c) - Avital Elyakim’s 10th-grade daughter prepared for her matriculation exam in civics in an unusual way: She and her classmates in a Jewish high school in Tel Aviv had study and project sessions with peers from a high school in the Israeli...
(Israel21c) - Vanilla is a paradox. One of the world’s most popular flavors is among the least studied.
And that’s why Oren Zilberman, CEO of the Israeli startup Vanilla Vida, sees the largely, uncharted territory of the great bean as a “blue...
