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Israeli Companies Seek to Transform Women’s Health Care
In Israel, there’s no shortage of FemTech startups. The challenge, however, is convincing male investors to fund women’s health.

In Israel, there’s no shortage of FemTech startups. The challenge, however, is convincing male investors to fund women’s health.
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Orthodox Women Are Saying: Lights, Camera, Action!
Fed up with policies that remove women’s images from publications, a number of Orthodox women are fighting back—with photo shoots!

Fed up with policies that remove women’s images from publications, a number of Orthodox women are fighting back—with photo shoots!
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Helping Children Deal With Trauma
Young victims of pandemic stress learn coping strategies at Hadassah Hospital.

Young victims of pandemic stress learn coping strategies at Hadassah Hospital.
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What Will Israel Look Like at 100?
Asking the tough questions is our responsibility, says former Ambassador Michael Oren.

Asking the tough questions is our responsibility, says former Ambassador Michael Oren.

Letter from Jerusalem: Change We Can’t Believe in

November 15. When people ask me why the Arab-Israeli conflict is so misunderstood, the best and simplest way to explain is by citing the central

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Sticks, Stones and Delegitimization

by Rochelle Furstenberg

October 4. For a decade, the international attacks have been coming one after another: academic and cultural boycotts of Israeli institutions, trade embargoes and threats

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Learning Experience

by Rochelle Furstenberg

The on-again, off-again peace talks between Israel and the Palestinian Authority will determine the fate of the West Bank settlements. Which ones will live and

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Interview: Einat Wilf

by Charley J. Levine

At 39, Jerusalem-born Einat Wilf has been an Israeli Army intelligence officer, newspaper columnist, venture capitalist, policy planner, teacher, feminist and foreign policy adviser to Shimon

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Letter from Jerusalem: Toward a Two-Leader Solution

by Gershom Gorenberg

Perceptions drive politics—and so do misperceptions. A good case study, one loaded with irony, is Vice President Joseph Biden’s speech at Tel Aviv University last

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Israeli Life: Day of As One-ment

It is the night of Yom Kippur. After Kol Nidrei services, busy, bustling Emek Refaim Street in Jerusalem’s upscale German Colony, famous for its trendy cafés, is

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Cut & Post

In Memoriam, In Israel The next time you are in Israel, be sure to make a detour to the entrance of Jerusalem’s Arazim Park to

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Cultivating Agricultural History

It is a hot summer morning in the hills of Jerusalem. The sun has barely arched over the horizon and already the heat is stultifying.