Shiri Grosbard: "You can’t be what you can’t see."
01.07.25|CTechIn a conversation with Noa Eshed and Ronen Menipaz on the podcast Real Life Superpowers, Shiri Grosbard speaks about building a career on connecting values, storytelling, and growth.
“More than ever”: Maccabiah marches on despite war
08.06.25|Diana Bahur NirCEO Roy Hessing on solidarity, safety concerns, and why the Games must go on.
Noam Mills faced the world’s best in fencing. Now she’s solving a problem most CFOs ignore
03.06.25|Diana Bahur NirPanax, her fintech startup, tackles the blind spot in cash management with the urgency of a final bout.
“I don’t want to be the richest man in the cemetery” — Morris Kahn on giving it all away at 95
20.04.25|Diana Bahur NirThe tech billionaire who co-founded Amdocs is spending his final chapter investing in life-saving science and telling old regrets to get lost.
Mor than meets the eye: How Mor Peretz turned challenges into CaPow’s breakthrough
24.03.25|Sophie ShulmanHow a disabled army veteran became a professor, a tech innovator, and the founder of CaPow.
Take it or Levitt: A Nobel Prize winner’s winding road to the top
09.02.25|Roni DoriProf. Michael Levitt talks about his unconventional life path, from childhood in South Africa with a single mother, emigrating to England, and finding logic in the chaos of nature.
Big tech's unexpected reversal: The role of politics in shaping corporate culture
02.02.25|Adrian FilutHow Trump’s leadership has forced a dramatic change in the behavior of tech giants.
John Bolton: “Donald Trump unfit” to lead the nation
29.12.24|Roni DoriJohn Bolton knows Donald Trump intimately, having served as his national security advisor. Now, after serving for 40 years in senior positions in both the administration and at the United Nations, it’s crucial for Bolton, a long-time Republican, to warn against the president-elect. Trump “sees things almost exclusively through the prism of his own self-interest” and, to get what he wants, will have no problem breaking agreements, igniting a trade war, and undermining order both at home and abroad. Fasten your seatbelts; it’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Hello, Neumann: Aussie serial investor takes Israel by storm
08.12.24|Diana Bahur-NirEvan Neumann left Max Stock, a nationwide chain of discount stores, with an impressive exit and rolled through investments in cultured milk and high-tech until he settled at the real estate company Aspen Group. In an exclusive interview, he explains why he's not afraid of high interest rates, what makes him feel at home in Israel, and why he loves frenzied investing, which looks like a shopping spree at a Max store.
State Street Global Advisors CEO: "Israel's unique capabilities make it a strategic focus for us"
25.11.24|Irit AvissarYie-Hsin Hung, President and Chief Executive Officer of State Street Global Advisors, which manages $4.7 trillion, believes that market volatility will continue after Trump's inauguration and is not reducing exposure to Israeli market.
Israeli success story: Monday.com’s road from underdog to SaaS giant
24.11.24|Sophie ShulmanThe startup that transformed workplace software eyes new horizons after a billion-dollar milestone. In an exclusive interview, co-CEOs Roy Mann and Eran Zinman emphasize that the company’s potential remains vastly underappreciated.
"The genome project will change the face of medicine in Israel and save human lives"
10.11.24|Roni DoriPsifas is an ambitious new genome project aiming to create a genetic database of Israel’s citizens, with a budget of NIS 250 million. The collected information already provides information that will make it possible to treat life-threatening diseases in the subjects. The hope is that after accumulating 100,000 samples, the database will help jumpstart the biotech industry. CEO Prof. Gabi Barbash: "Psifas is a great achievement and advantage for Israel, which aspires to become a global hub of biotechnological information."
“I have no doubt that Donald Trump is anti-Semitic”
01.11.24|Roni DoriRita Katz, whose father was hanged on charges of espionage in Iraq, has been the head of an American intelligence group that monitors and infiltrates extremist organizations, from Muslim jihadists to Christian alt-right movements, for 20 years. In a rare interview, she comes out of the shadows and warns the Jews of the United States: "Trump is the main culprit in the tsunami of anti-Semitism in the country. If he is elected, hatred against Jews will increase."
Inside the FBI’s biggest sting: How encrypted phones exposed the underworld
13.10.24|Viki AuslenderAnom was meant to be a secret weapon, but it became a global tool for infiltrating drug cartels and murder plots. With the help of criminal masterminds, the operation spread fast—until its consequences became too great to handle.
"Hamas used rape to break up the entire Israeli community"
02.10.24|Roni DoriA feminist gender researcher, a religious woman with a headscarf, and a settler who demonstrates against settler violence, Dr. Nomi Halbertal Landau has been researching sexual violence in the context of genocide, from Rwanda to Bosnia. Now she explains why the events of October 7 requires us to go out not only against the terrorists, but also against the entire patriarchy
“I haven’t decided whether Bitcoin is something to be proud of”: Prof. Naor talks proof of work, anonymity, and cryptographic impact
01.10.24|Viki AuslenderProf. Moni Naor from the Weizmann Institute, recent winner of the Rothschild Prize for his research in the field of computer science, is responsible for the theoretical foundation of Bitcoin mining.
Eye of the beholder: Eye prosthetics expert restores soldiers’ self-esteem
01.10.24|Yonatan SredniDr. Yoav Vardizer, a senior ophthalmologist at Haifa’s Bnai Zion Medical Center and a global expert in eye prosthetics, operates on soldiers who have lost their sight in battle since October 7th, “Prosthetic surgery gives patients the self confidence to go forward with their lives”.
Ofer Ben-Noon’s billion-dollar journey to Palo Alto Networks: Mentored by Zohar Zisapel
26.09.24|Diana Bahur-Nir , Meir OrbachAt 38, entrepreneur Ofer Ben-Noon already has two exits worth more than a billion dollars, including the sale of Talon to Palo Alto Networks at the height of the war. In a candid interview, he shares his close relationship with the late Israeli high-tech pioneer Zohar Zisapel, who became a father figure and transformed him from a "talented entrepreneur to a successful one."
Inside the mind of Israel’s cyber queen: Tal Kollender’s unlikely path to success
29.08.24|Diana Bahur-Nir , Meir OrbachFrom a teenage hacker to the founder of GYTPOL, Kollender’s journey was anything but ordinary.
Making rehab fun: Sheba’s Immersive Rehabilitation Room
27.08.24|Yonatan SredniProjecting visuals onto walls and the floor, the new interactive Immersive Rehabilitation Room at Sheba Medical Center enhances patients’ therapeutic experience through advanced technology. “Rehab sessions can be repetitive and tiring,” says Sheba’s Maya Ehrlich, “but now patients want to come back again and again.”
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