UAE Minister of Science Sarah Al Amiri and Astronaut Haza Al Mansouri will participate in Israel Space Week

The Israeli Space Week will be held on January 25-29 and will include, among other things, activities for children, as well as two professional conferences for people in the space industry, including the 16th Ilan Ramon Conference. Also, the Emirati astronaut Haza Al Mansoori will participate in the conference. * Under the circumstances of the Corona, the conference will be online

Israel Space Week, initiated by the Israel Space Agency at the Ministry of Science and Technology, will take place between January 24 and 29. The date was set close to the Columbia shuttle disaster that occurred on February 1.2.2003, 107, in which the XNUMX-STS mission team perished, one of whose members was the Israeli space pilot, the late Col. Ilan Ramon.

According to Shi-Lee Spiegelman, Director General of the Ministry of Science and Technology The purpose of Space Week is to increase the connection and identification of the general public with the field of space and to expand the interest and curiosity of young people in the space activities promoted by the State of Israel: "Due to the outbreak of the corona virus, it was decided to turn the challenge into an opportunity, and hold this year the Israeli Space Week in a digital format through אתר אינטרנט where a multitude of interactive activities for children in the field of space will be concentrated, including live broadcasts from scientific centers throughout the country on all days of space week and conversations with astronauts. All this, alongside professional conferences that will also be delivered on online platforms".

All activities will appear On the Israeli Space Week website

The grand opening event It will be held on Sunday 24.1 at 12:00 and is intended for school students and the general public. As part of the event, the students will meet the people who dream far away: Kafir Demari, founder of the SPACEIL association that will send the second spacecraft "Beresheit 2" to the moon, Gesika Meir, a NASA astronaut who stayed on the International Space Station and will participate in the Artemis project that will land the first woman on the moon, and representatives of the Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry the education

Every evening at 17:00 There will be a series of interactive transmitters from science and space centers throughout the country that will be live-streamed on the website space week . The broadcasters in the Hebrew language will be moderated by: Eliana Tadhar, Tom Baum, Lee Byrne, Kevin Rubin, Oded Paz and Liron Rabivo and in the Arabic language Obeidah Zeid. In each of the centers there will be a live broadcast: Interactive science activities, interviews, quizzes, experiments, demonstrations, games, and tasks with the children at home.

Every day the transmitter will end with a close encounter with an astronaut - "Hour the astronaut"The meeting will start every evening at 18:30. The astronauts will share their experiences with the viewers/ surfers and answer their questions. Among the participants: Haza Al Mansouri, the first Emirati astronaut, Ee Soo-yeon, the first South Korean astronaut, Charlie Bolden, former head of NASA, Andrew Feustel an astronaut and the singer of the country rock band Max Q, whose members are all astronauts, Scott Kelly who spent a year on the station International Space in the framework of the Twin Astronaut Brothers experiment.

The space week will be accompanied by morning activities: Throughout the week, 11 science centers throughout the country will hold activities for schools. The activities will be delivered as a class, about an hour and a half for each class, some of which will incorporate hybrid means.

In addition to the activities for the general public, there will be two conferences for the professional community as part of Space Week: conference The international space named after Ilan Ramon Your hair on 26-27.1 which this year marks new opportunities in space for industries, entrepreneurs and government bodies. The space that used to be far away and very inaccessible is now becoming a source of scientific, economic and research opportunities and an open and never-ending field for collaborations for the advancement of humanity as a whole. This year, senior officials of agencies, space industries and entrepreneurs in the world will participate in the professional panels, including: the head of NASA, the head of the European Space Agency, the head of the Italian Space Agency and the director of the Emirates Space Agency. Also participating will be Dr. Daganit Paikovsky, the first Israeli to hold the position of Vice President of the International Astronaut Federation (IAF), Julie Pate, Governor of Canada and an astronaut, and Avi Blasberger, Director of the Israel Space Agency. During the conference there will also be B2B rooms where the participants will meet to talk, hear and create new international collaborations.

To the website of the 16th Ilan Ramon conference at No. 26-27/1/2021

Rona Ramon education and space conference On 28.1 he will deal in the field of education and art. The conference will be held for the ninth year in cooperation with the Ministry of Education and the Ramon Foundation. This year in the program: a variety of inspiring lectures, including a special lecture from an astronaut! Interactive workshops to integrate the subject of space in diverse content areas in teaching. And more... more details bSpace Agency website.