Upcoming New Event 2025
MINDSTART HACKATHON
- 4 - 6 June 2025
- Jerusalem, ISRAEL
Join us for a groundbreaking 72-hour hackathon focused on transforming healthcare innovation and tackling real-world medical challenges.
A groundbreaking 72-hour hackathon focused on transforming healthcare innovation and tackling real-world medical challenges.
Thank You & See You Next Hackathon!
Congratulations to the winning teams and sincere thanks to everyone who joined us.
Your enthusiasm and commitment were inspiring – see you at our next event!
About MinDset
MinDset fosters leadership, innovation, and excellence among future medical professionals through workshops, courses, and conferences. Our mission is to equip participants with the skills to drive meaningful changes in healthcare. MinDset also proudly publishes the Journal of Israeli Medical Students (JIMS), showcasing groundbreaking research and promoting academic excellence.
About MinDstart
Hackathon 2025
Join us for MinDstart Hackathon 2025, a groundbreaking 72-hour event dedicated to revolutionizing healthcare innovation and solving real-world medical challenges. Hosted by MinDset, the Israeli Medical Association, top Israeli medical centers, top high-tech and biotech companies, and all Israeli medical faculties, this hackathon will unite 200 participants – including medical students, physicians, tech developers, and entrepreneurs from around the globe.
As the first international hackathon designed specifically for medical students, this one-of-a-kind event will foster collaboration between future healthcare leaders and industry experts to drive innovation and research in global health.
Be part of this transformative experience and help shape the future of healthcare at MinDstart Hackathon 2025. Together, we can empower the brightest minds to create meaningful advancements in medicine.
Why Should I Participate
Medical students are the future of healthcare, and MinDstart Hackathon 2025 provides an unparalleled opportunity to develop essential skills beyond the traditional classroom or clinical setting. Here’s why you should take part in this groundbreaking event.
Hands-On Experience
in Medical Innovation
MinDstart Hackathon is not just a competition - it’s a real-world innovation lab where medical students can actively engage in solving pressing healthcare challenges. By working alongside physicians, tech developers, and entrepreneurs, participants will experience firsthand how interdisciplinary collaboration drives medical advancements.
Hands-On Experience
in Medical Innovation
Exclusive Access to Industry Leaders and Experts
Strengthen Problem-Solving
and Teamwork Skills
Hands-On Experience
in Medical Innovation
MinDstart Hackathon is not just a competition - it’s a real-world innovation lab where medical students can actively engage in solving pressing healthcare challenges. By working alongside physicians, tech developers, and entrepreneurs, participants will experience firsthand how interdisciplinary collaboration drives medical advancements.
Hands-On Experience
in Medical Innovation
Exclusive Access to Industry Leaders and Experts
Strengthen Problem-Solving
and Teamwork Skills
Global Networking
and Career Opportunities
Contribute to the
Future of Healthcare
Global Networking
and Career Opportunities
Contribute to the
Future of Healthcare
Event Conferences
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Why attend conference
What you’ll discover at events
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Event Gallery
Relive the Hackathon Moments
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MinDstart Challanges
PSYCHIATRIC CHALLENGE
REDUCING EARLY READMISSIONS AMONG PSYCHIATRIC PATIENTS
The Challenge:
Approximately one in three psychiatric patients is readmitted within 30 days of discharge -reflecting a significant gap in continuity of care. These frequent readmissions indicate not only clinical relapses, but also systemic, logistical, and social shortcomings that undermine long-term recovery and place a significant burden on mental health services.
Objective:
Develop an integrated solution to support psychiatric patients’ stability after discharge. This may include tools for early detection, improved follow-up, patient engagement, adherence support, and community resource coordination.
BREAST CANCER CHALLENGE
PERSONALIZING PREVENTION THROUGH RISK-BASED SCREENING
The Challenge:
Despite significant advances in detection and treatment, breast cancer remains one of the most common and deadly malignancies among women worldwide. A major barrier to early detection is the lack of personalized risk awareness. Most women do not know their individual risk and are therefore less likely to engage in timely, proactive screening — especially in underserved populations. Current risk assessment tools are often outdated, underutilized, and not integrated into routine care or digital health environments. This contributes to late diagnoses, unnecessary anxiety for low-risk individuals, and missed opportunities for prevention in high-risk groups.
Objective:
Create a solution that helps women understand their breast cancer risk in an accessible, intelligent, and equitable way.
MEDICAL EDUCATION CHALLENGE
ENHANCING MEDICAL RESIDENCY THROUGH PERSONALIZED LEARNING AND REAL-TIME FEEDBACK.
The Challenge:
Medical residency is a critical phase in the development of future physicians – yet the current system remains largely time-based, emphasizing duration over demonstrated competence. Residents are expected to master diverse clinical skills under high-pressure conditions, often with limited feedback, fragmented mentorship, and no systematic tracking of which clinical exposures they’ve experienced – or missed. This results in wide variability in training quality and preparedness. Amid global discussions around shortening residency programs to address workforce shortages, there is an urgent need to make clinical training more efficient, structured, and outcome-oriented – without compromising educational quality or patient safety.
Objective:
Design a tool that personalizes residency training with real-time tracking of clinical experiences, skills, and milestones. It should enhance feedback, support adaptive learning, and enable data-driven decisions.
GYNECOLOGY CHALLENGE
PREDICTING THE CLINICAL COURSE OF ENDOMETRIOSIS
The Challenge:
Endometriosis affects approximately 1 in 10 women of reproductive age, yet the path to diagnosis often takes 7 to 10 years – a delay that leads to prolonged suffering, mismanagement, and irreversible complications. Even after diagnosis, clinicians currently lack tools to predict the disease’s clinical course, rate of progression, or risk for future complications such as infertility, chronic pelvic pain, or organ damage. This diagnostic and prognostic uncertainty leads to generalized, trial-and-error approaches to care, further burdening patients and healthcare systems alike.
Objective:
Develop a tool to predict endometriosis progression over time, helping clinicians personalize treatment and manage risks. It should use clinical, biological, imaging, and patient-reported data to forecast disease severity, symptoms, and complications.
Cardiology Challenge
REDUCING TREATMENT DELAYS FOR WOMEN WITH ACUTE MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION
The Challenge:
cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in women worldwide, yet women suffering an acute myocardial infarction (AMI) are significantly more likely to delay seeking medical attention – and less likely to receive timely, evidence-based care compared to men. Atypical symptom presentation, implicit bias in clinical assessment, and low public awareness all contribute to under-recognition and treatment delays. These delays lead to avoidable morbidity and mortality, highlighting a critical need for targeted solutions that close the gender gap in cardiovascular care.
Objective:
Develop a solution to shorten diagnosis and treatment time for women with suspected heart attacks by raising awareness of sex-specific symptoms and speeding up recognition and clinical decisions for patients, clinicians, or both.
Finals
Meet our Judges
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Final of Gynecology Challenge:
Predicting the Clinical Course of Endometriosis
Moty Pansky
Ob/Gyn Assuta
Ashdod Hospital
Naama Weintraub
Director of Business Development,
Xcardia
Yotam Hod
Gynica
Final of Medical Residency Challenge:
Enhancing Medical Residency Through Personalized Learning and Real-Time Feedback
Prof. Mordechai Muszkat
Hadassah Mt Scopus
Gayle Squires
Advisor
Ms. Ainat Bin Nun
Ilanot Galil - Emerging Medical
Leadership in Galilee
Final of Psychiatric Challenge:
Reducing Early Readmissions among Psychiatric Patients
Amit Lotan
and the Biological Psychiatry Lab
Hadassah University
Medical Center
Omer Muzzafi
Ichilov Tech - Tel Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center Innovation and
Tech Transfer Company (Ichilov)
Michal Shevach
Business Development @ I - NEXT
Data AI Center, Tel Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center (Ichilov)
Final of Cardiology Challenge:
Reducing Treatment Delays for Women with Acute Myocardial Infraction
Avi Peretz
System Manager
Microbiology Laboratory Manager
Tzafon Medical Center (Poriya)
Omer Muzzafi
Ichilov Tech - Tel Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center Innovation and
Tech Transfer Company (Ichilov)
Gayle Squires
Advisor
Final of Breast Cancer Challenge:
Personalizing Prevention Through Risk - Based Screening
Irit Ben Aharon
Health Care Campus,
Professor of Oncology,
Rappaport Faculty of Medicine,
Technion
Guy Tish
David Muller
Mount Sinai
GRAND FINAL
Brachie Sprung
VC & Chief
Storyteller
David Zeltser
Director General for
R&D and
Innovation
Tel Aviv Sourasky
Medical Center -
Ichilov
Uri Pollak
Section of Pediatric
Critical Care at
Hadassah
University Medical
Ichilov
Leonid Eidelman
of Anesthesiology, Assuta Ashdod
Chair, General Assembly,
College of Law and
Business,
Ramat Gan
Yael Gruenbaum - Cohen
aMoon Fund
Rizan Khoury - Sakhnini
Tzafon Medical
Center (Poriya)
Member, Medonna
Association
Silvia Noiman
Serial Entrepreneur
and Mentor at
jump TAU
Our Mentors By Challenges
MinDstart Hackathon Awards
First Place
Team EndoVolt
Team EndoVolt Pioneering a breakthrough in women’s health with an innovative, non-invasive solution for early diagnosis and functional classification of Endometriosis.
Meet the outstanding team members, who come from no fewer than five different medical faculties across the country:
Mika Rabinovich – Ben-Gurion University
Yarden Feller – Tel Aviv University
Pninit Liber – Bar-Ilan University
Yaara Goldstein – Bar-Ilan University
Shani Klausner – Technion
Sagiv Klein – Hebrew University
First Place
Team EndoVolt Pioneering a breakthrough in women’s health with an innovative, non-invasive solution for early diagnosis and functional classification of Endometriosis.
Meet the outstanding team members, who come from no fewer than five different medical faculties across the country:
Mika Rabinovich – Ben-Gurion University
Yarden Feller – Tel Aviv University
Pninit Liber – Bar-Ilan University
Yaara Goldstein – Bar-Ilan University
Shani Klausner – Technion
Sagiv Klein – Hebrew University
Team EndoVolt
Second Place
Team SkillScope
Team SkillScope introduced an artificial intelligence platform designed to integrate with hospital computer systems. Without requiring any additional effort from residents, the platform seamlessly fits into their daily workflow and serves as a tool to track their progress throughout their residency.
Meet the outstanding team members:
Shani Erez – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Hillel Stern – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Sivan Kijner – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Maayan Aloni – Hebrew University
Lihi Fridan – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Noa Shochat – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Team SkillScope
Second Place
Team SkillScope introduced an artificial intelligence platform designed to integrate with hospital computer systems. Without requiring any additional effort from residents, the platform seamlessly fits into their daily workflow and serves as a tool to track their progress throughout their residency.
Meet the outstanding team members:
Shani Erez – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Hillel Stern – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Sivan Kijner – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Maayan Aloni – Hebrew University
Lihi Fridan – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Noa Shochat – Hebrew University, Tzameret Track
Third Place
Team BrainPower
Team BrainPower introduced a psychiatry-focused application aimed at reducing the rate of recurrent hospitalizations among psychiatric patients.
Meet the team members, all of whom came from the United States especially for the Hackathon:
Devorah Siegel – NYU
Ze’ev Gems – SUNY Downstate
Baruch Meir – Indiana University Medical Center
Eden Monahin – NYITCOM
Liora Rahmi – Drexel University Medical School
Gabriel Reznik – Stern College
Third Place
Team BrainPower introduced a psychiatry-focused application aimed at reducing the rate of recurrent hospitalizations among psychiatric patients.
Meet the team members, all of whom came from the United States especially for the Hackathon:
Devorah Siegel – NYU
Ze’ev Gems – SUNY Downstate
Baruch Meir – Indiana University Medical Center
Eden Monahin – NYITCOM
Liora Rahmi – Drexel University Medical School
Gabriel Reznik – Stern College
Team BrainPower
Places 4-5th will receive WeCcelerate consultation hours
First Place
Second Place
Third Place
First Place
Third Place
Congratulations to Our Winners!
Places 4–6th will receive limited amount of WeCcelerate consultation hours
* Awards are subject to change at the Host’s discretion.
HACKATHON Schedule
Follow event schedule
Note: All remaining time outside scheduled sessions is dedicated to team work on hackathon projects.
The working space will be open daily from 07:00 to 23:00.
1st Day
June 04, 2025
Nefesh B'Nefesh Campus|
Jerusalem
Registration & Breakfast
- 09:00 - 10:00
Opening Remarks
- 10:00 - 10:20
Hackathon Overview & Timeline
- 10:20 - 10:35
Opening Lecture
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- 10:35 - 11:05
Prof. Varda Shalev
Managing Partner, Team 8
working session
- 11:05 - 19:00
Gala Evening & Dinner
Separate registration required!
- 19:00 - 22:00
- Rooftop of Nefesh B’Nefesh
Nelson Kety
Host & Speaker
2nd Day
June 05, 2025
Nefesh B'Nefesh Campus|
Jerusalem
Power Start – Optional Morning Sports Session
- 09:00 - 09:45
working session
- 09:45 - 18:00
Lecture - Pitch Like a Pro: The Art of Storytelling
- 18:00 – 19:00
- Rooftop of Nefesh B’Nefesh
Brachie Sprung
Partner at Amiti VC & Chief Storyteller
Dinner
- 19:00 - 20:30
3rd Day
June 06, 2025
Nefesh B'Nefesh Campus|
Jerusalem
Semi-Final Project Presentations
- 08:30 – 11:00
Coffee Break & Announcement of Finalists and Hackathon Reflections
- 11:00 – 11:30
Final Presentations
- 11:30 - 12:30
Additional Break
- 12:30 - 12:50
Announcement of Winners & Closing Remarks
- 12:50 - 13:10
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Event Venue:
Nefesh B'Nefesh Aliyah Campus
Address:
Sderot Yitshak Rabin 10, Jerusalem, 91950, Israel
Get Directions:
- Jerusalem - Yitzhak Navon Railway Station
- Ministry of Foreign Affairs/Rabin Blvd
General Questions
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Registration is free.
Registration is open to medical students in their clinical years from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Bar-Ilan University, and Ariel University.
Registration is open for all medical students, graduates and professionals all around the world!
