As members of the ATLAS collaboration, my team develops and employs novel approaches to search for signatures of BSM physics with the goal of expanding the discovery reach of the LHC. I am also leading the detector activities of the Israeli ATLAS group and in particular two of the ATLAS Muon upgrade projects (national projects). In parallel, we are developing novel, MPGD-based, instrumentation for future high energy and astro-particle experiments. Our current focus is on the Resistive-Plate WELL concept and its possible applications in Digital Hadronic Calorimetry and civil applications