The first TEDxTelAvivSalon, themed Incentivizing Innovation and Virtue, is impromptu and it’s just around the corner. It is a casual, by invitation, mini TEDx, hosted in a private residence by Guy Spier (TEDxZurich co-organizer) and Maya Elhalal (TEDxTelAviv co-organizer). Between larger scale open events, TEDxTelAviv Salons are designed to keep the TED conversation going, the [...]

Prof. Yair Tauman is a game-theorist, a mathematician, and a top notch Black Jack player. In this talk he show how game theory comes to play in personal and business decision making and shares some important tips on auction bidding.

Image manipulation has been around since the beginning of photography but as a timely process in the hands of an expert. Watch as Ariel Shamir demos simple tools for the rest of us.

How many of you out there are bug lovers? You may well become one by the end of the talk as Shimon Steinberg makes an enthusiastic case for using bugs as biological plant protection.

Laser beams killing mosquitos & used for crop protection, a tube in the ocean to suppress hurricanes, an idea for reversing global warming. Welcome to inventions at hacker Paul (Pablos) Holman’s lab. PS Stay watching to the end for an extra.

What happens when a Computer Science Professor, Shimon Schocken, takes a group of juvenile delinquents mountain biking once a week? A program for profound psychological and mental change.

In this funny, moving and engaging talk, Clinical Psychologist Hedy Schleifer shares her adventures in the art of listening, and how to cross the bridge between us. Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there — Rumi

Itay Talgam is back with an entertaining talk on leadership and the art of rehearsal – the art of letting go.

Musician Asaf Avidan, accompanied by The Mojos’ cellist, Hadas Kleinman, weaves us in a blanket of song and story. Magical.

Inside all of us is a cell lineage tree – the history of how our body grows from a single cell (the fertilized egg) to 100 trillion cells. In this fascinating talk, Ehud Shapiro explains why uncovering this map holds the key to curing cancer, diabetes and more.

Where does stuff come from? Are we responsible for it? What do we do about it? Martin Rapaport makes a passionate case for how our choice as consumers offers a solution to end the exploitation.

How do idea spread? TED’s European Director, Bruno Guissani, shares some of the lessons of the TED organization.

Turn up the sound as Snowball Studio’s Dave Levy takes you into the virtual world of 3D animation.

As language is the cornerstone of culture, new media entrepreneur Oded Vardi candidly teaches us the meaning of common Hebrew phrases in English and the source of many cultural glitches.

Adina Tal shares her funny and inspiring tale of how she went from never meeting a deaf or blind person to starting the only deaf-blind theater in the world: Nalaga’at in Jaffa, Israel.

Isaac Berzin shares his small solution for a big problem — carbon emissions and renewable energy meet algae.

An electrifying performance by the Vertigo Dance Company followed by inspiring Noa Wertheim, Vertigo’s founder, who tells of her journey to dance and her responses to the world we live in. You can find Vertigo Dance Company performing at Suzanne Dellal, Tel-Aviv Birth of the Phoenix | Mana | White Noise A Trilogy- three pieces [...]

In this talk School Principal Karen Tal shares how to create an educational miracle – academic success in the most unlikely school. Watch as she takes us on a virtual tour of the Bialik-Rogozine School, with 800 students from 48 different nations, many refugees without legal status, and explains how to navigate through the turbulent [...]

In this interactive talk Haim Shafir shows us how to ‘un-trap’ our creative block.

1 day to go to TEDxTelAviv!!!! Looking forward to sharing more from tomorrow but in the lead-up here are a few great design-related talks from TED: Scott McCloud on Understanding Comics Rives‘ Typographical Fairytale Jonathan Harris On The Web’s Secret Stories Philippe Starck on Design See you next at TEDxTelAviv!