Yulia Karra

1 day ago | israel21c.org | Zachy Hennessey |Yulia Karra

Israel’s flag. The ol’ star and two stripes, rendered on a white background in a deep blue, has become a symbol of Israel — which is good because that’s literally the one job that a flag has to accomplish. As it happens, though, there were several contending concepts that had a fair shake at becoming Israel’s banner, and quite a few were considered before the country settled on the current design.

5 days ago | israel21c.org | Abigail Klein Leichman |Yulia Karra

Racheli Kogan is a partner at the Symbol VC fund. Her husband, Ohad Bobrov of Palo Alto Networks, is a serial entrepreneur with several successful exits to his credit. This Israeli power couple has two daughters, ages 10 and eight. “In the first years of Ohad’s entrepreneurship, we definitely had a lot of difficulties and disagreements” regarding parenting, Kogan tells ISRAEL21c.

5 days ago | israel21c.org | Yulia Karra

The name of former supermodel Michaela Bercu may not be as familiar to the new generation of Israelis as Bar Refaeli or Gal Gadot, who was a model before she ventured into acting. But Bercu was actually the one who paved the path to international careers for all the Israeli beauty queens who came after her. In 1988, at just 18 years of age, Bercu was chosen by Anna Wintour herself to appear on the cover of Vogue, becoming the first Israeli ever to do so.

1 week ago | israel21c.org | Yulia Karra |Abigail Klein Leichman |John Jeffay

Israeli startup ProFuse Technology has launched a new drug discovery platform that seeks to prevent muscle mass loss caused by aging, cancer and the growing use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) weight-loss injections, such as Ozempic. Sarcopenia, age-related muscle loss, affects approximately 10 to 16 percent of individuals over 50 years of age, equating to around 13 million to 20 million Americans.

1 week ago | israel21c.org | Yulia Karra

Acclaimed French actress and “Inglourious Basterds” star Mélanie Laurent will join the cast of the new season of Israeli Netflix hit “Fauda,” the show’s production studio announced this week. Yes Studios did not reveal any details on the role Laurent is set to play, but said she will feature in seven out of nine episodes planned for the fifth season, which will begin production later this month.