A working model

An upstart program gives the hopelessly unemployed the tools – and the motivation – to find rewarding careers
In their down time, the unemployed play charades. They laugh, they mingle, they pour each other coffee. But they also dress in formal office attire and carry with them copious notes from their latest meetings. After all, just [...]

No ‘poultry’ matter

In Dubi Lang’s and Yudke Friedman’s ideal world, every red-blooded Israeli would be obsessed with breasts. Turkey breasts, that is.

It must still be Purim

This is rich — Netanyahu as Robin Hood, taxing the rich to rain money on the poor, and Barak playing the sidekick to Netanyahu. It must still be Purim.

Who’s collapsing now?

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been dancing a jig to the sounds of falling markets around the world, but now he’s finally facing the music at home.

Neither flour nor Torah

The collapse of the haredi economy is an opportunity to fix the flaws that are causing it.

Something to build on

Rehovot’s last remaining green fields come into view, unfolding beneath the sheet metal and wire fence elevator that is shimmying up the side of an unfinished apartment building. Rafi Halaf doesn’t notice. He’s focused on this skeleton of a structure, this tower of concrete strewn with sawdust and sand. There’s something inside he wants us [...]

In search of gold in China

Close to 1,000 Israeli companies are doing business across China, tapping into the world’s fourth-largest economy and marking the beginning of an eastward shift in Israel’s economic and diplomatic interests.

Making waves

A set of Shmuel Ovadia’s buoys would exploit one of the world’s most reliable – and most potent – sources of energy

Bulls on parade

That Israel’s economy has been humming along is the worst-kept secret in the world’s business circles

The making of a miracle

John Brown, a born-again Christian, has spent the better part of the past 25 years pursuing his belief that the Bible points to vast petroleum deposits in the Holy Land, and that God has sent him to find them