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Dr. Yael Pilowsky Bankirer is a psychoanalyst and a poet, based in Cambridge, UK. She is a medical doctor and holds a Ph.D. in gender studies and psychoanalysis. Yael is a member of the Site for Contemporary Psychoanalysis in London, and a co-editor of Sitegeist — a journal of psychoanalysis and philosophy. This new episode […]
When he was just 11 years old, Hagai Suissa suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident that left him fighting for his life. Twenty-six years later, Dr. Suissa, now 37, has come full circle — returning to the operating room, this time as a neurosurgeon at Ziv Medical Center in Safed. Just a month ago, Suissa completed his residency in neurosurgery at the Galilee Medical Center in Nahariya and began working as a senior physician in Ziv’s newly opened neurosurgery department. For him, the moment marked the culmination of a journey that began in 1999, when he was…
For Negin Nader Bazrafkan, Yiddish lessons have been an unexpected perk of moving into her Upper West Side apartment. Her roommate — and unofficial Yiddish teacher — is 96-year-old Rebecca Schull, a retired actress best known for her roles as Fay Cochran on the sitcom Wings and as protagonist Mike Ross’ grandmother on Suits. From Schull, Bazrafkan has learned words like chutzpah, schmuck, simcha, klutz, schmutz, and faynshmeker. Her favorite is tuches, slang for buttocks, a word that makes them both laugh and their cheeks flush. The unlikely roommates’ 61-year age gap might raise eyebrows on its own. But for some of Bazrafkan’s friends, it’s the fact that she’s Muslim and…
At 15, when a neurological condition took Tobias Weinberg’s ability to speak, aspects of his personality became more difficult to express. Typing to communicate, he struggled to keep up in conversations, especially to make the jokes or sarcastic comments that had been his norm. And his first text-to-voice device was monotone, with Mexican or Spanish accents but not his native Argentinian. “The monotone voices, the timing of interjections and conveying my personality through this new way of communication was definitely frustrating,” wrote Weinberg, now a doctoral student and Siegel PiTech Fellow at Cornell Tech. As part of the Matter of…
For Omer Sabary, life changed almost overnight. Days after winning top honors at Technion Pitch Night in New York City — a competition for t:hub students to pitch the next wave of Israeli startups — Iranian missiles rained down on Israel. His apartment was destroyed, his loved ones were in danger, and his world turned […]
President Isaac Herzog this evening, (Wednesday, 22 October 2025), conferred the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor upon nine distinguished laureates from diverse fields, in recognition of their lifelong contribution to the State of Israel and the Jewish people. The ceremony took place at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, in the presence of U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, and with the participation of freed hostages Matan Angrest and Segev Kalfon and their families. Initiated in 2012 by the Ninth President of Israel, Shimon Peres, the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor is awarded to those “who, by virtue of their skills,…
“After three years of studying very hard and one year of studying during military service, it just wasn’t the time to give up,” L. said. “I could have taken it easy and finished later, but it’s my life, our future, and no one else will do it for me.” In November 2024, just a month […]
This hands-on, field-based methodology became the foundation of Yaara’s work at the Technion Innovation Center, where she helped traditional industries enhance their innovation capabilities — not just by generating ideas, but by implementing them. “We were focused on how management works within itself, how it enhances creativity and innovation,” she said. “It was a great […]
Giving to your alma mater is one of the most popular philanthropic pathways for the average donor; far rarer in the charitable giving space is donating to another university with which you have no previous affiliation. Yet this is exactly what happened at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology over the last several months, during which we at the American Technion Society (the Technion’s U.S. fundraising arm) have seen a surge in planned giving commitments from brand new donors, many of whom have never engaged with the university previously. This uptick was not merely coincidence but a result of…
In the sweltering summer heat, search teams are still scouring the Guadalupe River in central Texas for the bodies of dozens of people who have missing since flash floods devastated the Hill Country earlier this month. A search and rescue team of ZAKA volunteers from Israel is using a unique set of skills to help find them faster. “We arrived about two weeks ago after authorities made a request for us to provide assistance,” ZAKA International commander Nachman Dyksztejn told Times of Israel. “People here know and appreciate that Israel is here helping, and the entire community has been very…
Even though they may occasionally be disgruntled by Israel’s deeds and policies, this does not deter serial philanthropists from supporting the Israeli causes in which they believe. One such person is Stephen B. Klein, the founder and CEO of the Klein Company, a real estate development firm that operates in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Florida. A longtime donor to Haifa’s Technion-Israel Institute of Technology and a member of its Board of Governors, he is also a Technion guardian and fellow, and has been the recipient of a Technion honorary doctorate. His most recent gift is the addition of a building…
For Maya Hocherman-Drimer, life is all about balance – between the rigorous demands of studying computer science at the Technion and the intense discipline of being one of Israel’s top sport climbers. As she enters her second semester in the Henry and Marilyn Taub Faculty of Computer Science, she is also preparing for an ambitious […]