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The Back Page with Vicki Knafo: �I�m back protesting because promises weren�t kept�
Last July, an unknown divorced mother of three wrapped herself in an Israeli flag and set out on the 160 km (100 miles) to Jerusalem from her home in Mitzpeh Ramon, deep in the Negev. It was Vicki Knafo�s way to protest Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu�s cuts in welfare payments to single moms. Knafo�s bold act ignited the media and turned the honey-haired, unpolished but confident and articulate Knafo, who worked as a part-time cook in a preschool, into a charismatic leader overnight: Protest tents soon carpeted the pavement outside the Treasury�s offices, across from the Knesset, as hundreds of single mothers gathered to demand cancellation of the cuts and the creation of jobs. More...

Business: The Rogue Enzyme
Using Israel�s 2.8 million Ashkenazim as the ideal base to research genetic causes for common diseases, a Jerusalem company believes it has found the key cause of schizophrenia More...

Business: My Sun, the Surgeon
It won�t be much use in London or Seattle. But an inexpensive solar-powered surgical device could be perfect for sun-belt countries. More...

Business: Not Only the Savage Beast
Will a new device which uses music to lower blood pressure garner a chorus of approval? More...

Business: Net Profits, Finally
A Netanyah-based firm is competing with Amazon and Yahoo! in the highly competitive electronic marketplace. Even more unusual, it�s making money. More...

The Game�s the Thing
Computer recreation has been good to British entrepreneur Jez San, who�s released a best-selling Harry Potter game and been honored by the Queen. More...

Deep in the Heart of Enron
Critics describe Andrew Fastow, who�s at the center of the controversy over the collapse of America�s seventh-largest company, as an aggressive, arrogant businessman. Friends call him a mensch. More...

The Trouble with Paradise
A Brooklyn builder's dream ofa Middle Eastern Eden is vanishing under bureaucratic quicksand More...

The Second Time Around
Hewlett Packard's purchase of Israel's Indigo represents more than an $882-million deal. It's the culmination of a remarkable comeback. More...

Salesman for the States
Sherwin Pomerantz represents American states in Israel. And, more surprisingly, across the Arab world. More...

How Sweet It Is
Sugar molecules called glycans may cut millions of dollars off drug development costs, and pave the way for tailor-made pharmaceuticals. More...

Rx: Chardonnay
A Technion professor is working on a white wine that, like the reds, will be good for your heart More...

Cyber War I?
Pro-Palestinian hackers call it "the electronic jihad." But are clashes between them and pro-Israeli computer whizzes really the start of cyberspace�s first world war, or merely kid games over the Internet? More...

Separate But Unequal
Is it possible to cut the links between the Israeli and Palestinian economies, forged over three decades? More...

The Weightless Laptop
(August 14, 2000) A Tel Aviv-based company has lightened the load for traveling businesspeople More...

Of Mice and Man
(July 17, 2000) Some uniquely human rodents are being placed on the front lines of the battle against liver disease, transplant rejection and antibiotic-resistant bacteria More...

Company with a Vision
(July 3, 2000) Why can't the sightless play computer games and read Internet text? A Jerusalem firm says they can. More...

The End of a Jewish Saint
(June 5, 2000) Whatever happened to Marks & Spencer, once the quintessential British Jewish business? More...

Sour Grapes?
(January 31, 2000) At the Golan Heights Winery, they pray they won�t have to leave their high-tech HQ, and unique vineyards, as part of a peace deal. But they are building a second production center, in the Galilee. More...

If the Shoe Fits, Sell It
(September 27, 1999) Meet duty-free king Solly Sakal, whose airport store sells Israelis almost half of their sports shoes. His latest offering, after the $200 VCR and the $200 TV: the $200 PC More...

The $600 Million Question
(August 2, 1999) Are Israel�s taxpayers getting their money�s worth for the staggering grant that lured Intel to Kiryat Gat? More...