Noy Nechmad was born in 1992 and raised in Shoham, Israel. From a young age, she was curious about how the world works,from simple questions like why is the grass green? and why does rain fall? to more profound questions about life and its evolution. To fulfill her curiosity and desire for knowledge, she decided […]

Noam Harel was born in the US and raised in Ramot Meir, a small moshav in the center of Israel. She completed three years of military service in an elite intelligence corps technological unit. Noam enrolled in a joint degree of biological and medical sciences in Tel Aviv university for her undergraduate studies and graduated […]

Born in Jerusalem in 1991, Yonatan served for three years in the Combat Intelligence Collection Corps of the Israel Defense Forces. Yonatan studied chemistry at the Hebrew University and co-authored a paper in the area of biosensors during his BSc studies. He received the Dean’s award during his BSc. studies and a scholarship for his […]

Dana Binyamin was born and raised in Tiberias, where she now lives with her husband and their 2-year-old girl daughter Noya. Immediately after completing her National Service, Dana started her BSc at Bar-Ilan University in the Faculty of Life Sciences. During the third year of her degree, she became especially interested in microbiology and began […]

Noam Shahar, who is 30 years old, grew up in the Jezreel Valley and now lives in Tel Aviv with his wife Tal and their two sons. His project deals with synthetic biology in plants, and specifically in microalgae, a group of photosynthetic microorganisms that have recently emerged as promising hosts for biotechnology industries, such […]

Dan was born and raised in Haifa, where he currently lives with his wife Aviya. As a student in high school, he studied chemistry at the Technion and twice won first place in the Israeli National Chemistry Olympics. He also took part in the National Astrophysics Olympics, in which he won third place. Studying math […]

Noam Lifshitz completed his undergraduate studies at Bar-Ilan University at the age of 19. After that he was recruited into the army, but he still managed to complete his MSc two years later, by dedicating most of his weekends to research. Noam’s MSc research at Bar-Ilan University, under the supervision of Prof. Nathan Keller, concentrated […]

Dalya Baron is the daughter of Russian immigrants who immigrated to Israel when the Soviet Union disbanded. She was raised in Beit Shemesh and matriculated at the Johanna Jabotinsky Youth Village, concentrating in physics and computer science. She completed three and a half years of military service, a year of which she spent in the […]

Gil Bashan was born in 1987 and grew up in Givatayim, Israel. He lives with his wife, Yaara, and their four children in Petah Tikva. He studied Torah in the Birkat Moshe Yeshiva and in Beit Midrash Givat Shmuel. During his period of Torah study, in the Hesder Yeshiva track, Gil also did military service […]

Barry Ginat grew up in Haifa, Israel. From an early age, he was fascinated with science and in particular with physics: He wanted to understand the most fundamental constituents of reality. Barry did his BSc in mathematics and physics at the Technion, in the framework of the physics honors program there. He graduated summa cum […]