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Artificial intelligence is changing the world. But behind every AI chatbot and search engine are enormous data centres moving unfathomable amounts of information every second. As computers became more powerful, moving that information quickly became one of the biggest challenges facing the industry. In 2001, Israeli physicist Dr Michal Lipson began working on an idea that many thought impossible: using light instead of electricity to move information around computer chips.

Farmers have always faced the same challenge. An orchard might look healthy from a distance, but every tree is different. The problem is that orchards as a whole don't get sick. Individual trees do. One tree may need more water. Another may be showing the first signs of disease. A third may be producing less fruit than the one beside it. Spotting those differences across thousands of trees has always been one of farming's biggest challenges.That challenge inspired the creat

The Pulitzer Prize is one of journalism's highest honours. Every year, it recognises outstanding reporting, writing and photography. The prize is named after Joseph Pulitzer, a Hungarian-born Jewish immigrant whose remarkable journey helped transform American journalism.Born in Makó, Hungary, in 1847, Pulitzer's father died when he was young, leaving the family in financial hardship. At 17, he travelled alone to the United States to join the Union Army during the American Civ

Widely considered one of the finest Israeli footballers of his generation, Manor Solomon has represented his country on some of football's biggest stages. Born in Kfar Saba, Israel, in 1999, Manor Solomon dreamed of playing football at the highest level. His abilities and determination took him from the Israeli Premier League to major clubs across Europe, while also representing Israel on the international stage. In 2023, Manor signed with English Premier League club Tott

Emergency bandages changed very little in the decades after World War II. When Israeli military medic Bernard Bar-Natan began his training in 1984, he was surprised to discover that the same 1940s style of bandages was still being used. He was even taught to use a stone to apply extra pressure to a wound. Believing there had to be a better solution, he went on to invent what is now known as the Israeli Bandage. The Israeli Bandage (also known as the Emergency Bandage), is a s

Every second of every day, your body converts food into energy. It's something we rarely think about, yet for centuries, nobody fully understood how it worked. One of the people who changed that was Dr Gerty Cori. Born into a Jewish family in Prague in 1896, Gerty studied medicine alongside her husband, Carl. Together, they discovered how the body stores and releases energy by converting glucose into glycogen and back again, a process now known as the Cori Cycle. Their gr

Bari Weiss has built her career around the belief that people should be free to speak, question and disagree. An American journalist and author, Weiss worked at some of the world's most influential publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times. In 2020, she resigned from The New York Times, publicly arguing that the newspaper had become increasingly intolerant of views that challenged prevailing opinions. Rather than leaving the industry, Weiss cr

Most of us use our smartphones for so many things every day that it's hard to imagine life without them. But for people who have little or no use of their hands, many of the things we do on our phones can be difficult or impossible. In 2012, Israeli entrepreneur Oded Ben Dov was demonstrating touch-free technology on television. Giora Livne, an Israeli who was paralysed following an accident, was watching at home. Livne contacted Ben Dov with a question: could this technolo

Helen Suzman spent much of her political career speaking out against South Africa's apartheid system, one of very few in Parliament willing to do so. Suzman was born in South Africa in 1917 to Jewish immigrant parents from Lithuania. She entered politics in the 1950s and became one of the country's most outspoken parliamentary opponents of apartheid. From 1961 to 1974, Suzman was the only representative of the Progressive Party in Parliament. She used her position to chal