Avi Jorisch

On the road to Medina, Saudi officials recently removed signs reading “Muslims only.”

For the last 20 years I lived in Capitol Hill, a bucolic neighborhood in Washington, DC – surely a place with no open antisemitism, right? Wrong.

Israel has learned that one of the most effective ways to curb illicit actors is to hit them where it hurts: their pocketbook.

Revel, a professor emeritus at the Weizmann Institute, developed Rebif using a formidable Jewish characteristic and a particularly important body part: a new-born male baby's foreskin.

Chris Schroeder writes a fascinating account of the startup and innovation scene in the Arab world and its potential long-term impact on the Middle East.

One extraordinary organization, United Hatzalah, has leveraged technology and some 5,000 people to save an awe-inspiring number of lives – Jewish, Christian and Muslim, Israeli and Palestinian.

One outstanding example of this diversity is a partnership between a Jewish Israeli medic who created a revolutionary bandage and a Bedouin Israeli factory owner who employs women to manufacture it.

In 2000, Shoham approached the Technion’s incubator and started a company, today known as Mazor Robotics.

“The problem is that for many years, marijuana was put on the [same] scale as cocaine and morphine.”

Chutzpah, obligatory military service, a dearth of natural resources and diversity explain how tiny Israel has become a technological powerhouse – an excerpt from Avi Jorisch's new book.