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3 weeks ago | 
israel21c.org | Nicky Blackburn |Yulia Karra
On October 8, 2023, just a day after Hamas invaded Israel’s south on a killing and kidnapping spree that left thousands dead and injured, it was already apparent to staff at Tel Aviv’s Sheba Medical Center that the country urgently needed new medical innovations to handle the crisis.
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1 month ago | 
israel21c.org | Nicky Blackburn
Creativity, inventiveness and a sense of fun were the key elements that made this year’s ISRAEL21c ambassador group, Shalom Stars, win the attention of judges (including myself) in this year’s ISRAEL21c Digital Ambassador Program. The team, led by Arianna Skolnick, developed a range of engaging posts on the topics of Israeli innovation, culture and music, focusing particularly on Eurovision, which Israel has been competing in since 1973.
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1 month ago | 
israel21c.org | Nicky Blackburn |Abigail Klein Leichman
Israeli-founded companies are having a substantial impact on Florida’s economy by generating $7.3 billion in earnings – a massive 46 percent of the gross state product – according to the findings of the Florida – Israel Economic Impact Report released by the United States – Israel Business Alliance in April. The study, the first study of its kind for the state, is based on data from 2024, and identifies 429 Israeli-founded companies in Florida that directly employ 8,190 Floridians.
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1 month ago | 
israel21c.org | Nicky Blackburn |Abigail Klein Leichman
As toxic masculinity rears its head once more with a new movement seeking a seeming return to more traditional gender roles, an Israeli social psychologist is warning that this behavior actually harms the men at the forefront of the change. Orly Bareket, head of the Social Relations Lab at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, warns that gendered arrangements not only harm women, but also harm men’s relationships, careers and health. In a study she co-authored with Prof.
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1 month ago | 
israel21c.org | Nicky Blackburn |Abigail Klein Leichman |Naama Barak
Despite a second year of war in Israel, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art has been ranked the 78th top museum in the world in a list of the most visited museums globally by international art magazine, The Art Newspaper. The ranking, published at the start of April, is based on visitor numbers at leading museums worldwide.
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2 months ago | 
israel21c.org | Nicky Blackburn |John Jeffay |Yulia Karra
A three-year-old girl has become the latest person to accidently stumble on a valuable ancient artifact while out on a walk in Israel. Ziv Nitzan, who is three-and-a-half, picked up a stone on a family trip to Tel Azekah near Beit Shemesh in March. After rubbing it clean, her family immediately understood that it was an important archeological find and reported it to the Israel Antiquities Authority.
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2 months ago | 
blogs.timesofisrael.com | Nicky Blackburn
My youngest son enlisted in the army this week. This is the third time I’ve gone to the enlistment center (the bacum), and watched a son disappear on a bus behind the army gates. You’d think it would get easier. In fact, this time was the hardest of all. Since October 7, I have come to understand clearly what the army means, how vital it is to Israel’s survival, and how goddam dangerous for the soldiers who fight in it.
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2 months ago | 
israel21c.org | Yulia Karra |Nicky Blackburn |Abigail Klein Leichman
Oligo Security, an Israeli startup that specializes in protecting applications against cyberattacks, has raised $50 million in a Series B funding round. This brings Oligo to $80 million in total funding since its establishment in 2022. The round was led by Greenfield Partners, with participation from Red Dot Capital Partners, Strait Capital, and existing investors Ballistic Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and TLV Partners.
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2 months ago | 
israel21c.org | Nicky Blackburn |John Jeffay |Yulia Karra
Google’s parent company, Alphabet has agreed to buy Israeli cybertech company Wiz for $32 billion, according to the Financial Times, making it the largest acquisition in Israeli history. First discussion of a Google buy-out of Wiz began in July last year, when it was reported that Alphabet was in talks to purchase the Israeli unicorn for a sum of $23 billion. The acquisition collapsed, however, as a result of antitrust concerns raised by some Wiz investors and directors.
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2 months ago | 
israel21c.org | Nicky Blackburn |Zachy Hennessey |Abigail Klein Leichman
At the end of every day, Edith Zakai-Or still thinks about the things that gave her joy during the day. It’s an exercise in happiness, where you write down in a notebook three positive things that happened that day, to boost your sense of contentment. Even today, three and a half years after she took over as the CEO of Maytiv Center for Positive Psychology at Reichman University in Herzliya, she finds it a helpful way to summarize her day.
