With a degree in general economics from the University of Hanover, Germany, Michael’s focus is on economy and technology. As an Orthodox Jew, Michael also writes about Jewish and Biblical topics.
Michael was born in Minsk, Belorus, but grew up in Germany. He speaks Russian, German, English and Hebrew. Michael came to Israel in 2007 as a tourist, but in Jerusalem he found his way back to the faith of his forefathers and decided to stay in the Promised Land. Here he met his wife, who is from Germany as well and together they moved to an Orthodox Jewish neighborhood in Bet Shemesh. They have four children.
Michael writes and coordinates for the German edition of Israel Today’s magazine since 2009.
Ahead of a recent entrepreneurial conference, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu identified three global industries in which Israel already has or could soon take a leading role.
Maybe it’s more than just a gadget for party animals who can’t remember the people they met the night before, because OrCam Technologies Ltd., the company behind MyMe, scored an impressive $130 million in investments last year.
Israeli firm Aleph Farms has unveiled a new kind of steak that does not come from a slaughtered animal, but is grown in the lab.
The Jewish people are, of course, descendants of the 12 Tribes that entered and divided the Promised Land under divine command.
In what is now a Palestinian Christmas tradition, local officials and media outlets spent the holiday season insisting that Jesus was a “Palestinian refugee” and the first “Palestinian martyr.”
The train to Tel Aviv passed right by. I had missed it by 18 seconds.
“As a rabbi, I do a lot of talking about love, doing things for others and altruism.
Last year, 4,120,800 tourists came to Israel, 14 percent more than the year before, which was also a record year, and 42 percent more than in 2016.
An online troll is someone who mocks, scolds or simply annoys other people on the Internet, mostly to elicit an emotional response.
At the end of 2018, Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics published figures revealing that the Jewish state’s population had increased by 2 percent over the past year to 8,972,000 inhabitants.
