Hayadan is Israel's leading content site in the field of science and technology. The site has an extraordinary history of activity - since 1997, and it offers its users a comprehensive and extensive database of over 25,000 articles, articles, interviews, media coverage in Israel and around the world, and daily updated news. Starting in 2024, the site's contents are also offered in Arabic and English (Hayadan Science and Reason, Al-Aleem.science).
The science website adheres to scientific accuracy even if this is not to the liking of one group or another (for example climate crisis deniers and promoters of various conspiracies). The site's content is based on peer-reviewed scientific articles, a feature that is not present in general news sites. In an age where the truth has no value, it is important to stick to the facts and the scientific method that has proven itself in the past centuries.
Hayadan Includes news and diverse articles that are updated daily on science topics such as:
- Space and astronomy
- environment ecology
- Computing and technology
- Biology and Medicine
- Society and history
In view of the fact that the site operates from Israel, it reports extensively on Science news from Israel And also about the Israeli academic ecosystem which is known to be one of the most advanced in the world, all Israeli universities are among the 500 best institutions in the world and some of them are in high places. Since the beginning of the 21st century, ten Israeli citizens have won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry and three others have won the Nobel Prize for Economics (the Swedish Central Bank Prize in memory of Alfred Nobel). This is reflected in the publications of researchers from Israeli academic institutions in the most important scientific journals in the world.
locate Hayadan Programmatic collaborations with leading bodies in Israel, including research institutions, academia, museums, associations and international and Israeli content bodies, as mentioned provided links to scientific articles in respected journals. The science site also serves as a content partner of the science channel on YNET.
The site's writers include top-notch scientists and researchers in the fields of science and technology. The site's editor, Avi Blizovsky, is a veteran journalist in the fields of space, science and technology, and the site's founder.
Awards and recognition
- In November 2012, the editor of the newspaper website, Avi Blizovsky, was awarded In the "Outstanding journalistic digital venture" award as part of the Eilat Journalism Conference. The award was awarded jointly by the Journalists Association and Google.
- In December 2009, the knowledge site won Lifetime Achievement Award from the Israel Association for Science Communication and the National Academy of Sciences.
Avi Blizovsky is a veteran journalist, starting in 1983. He served, among other things, as an environmental correspondent for the Haifa department store newspaper during the 1980s, and then from 1994-2000 (after graduating from the Technion) he served as a technology and science correspondent in the economic section of the Haaretz newspaper (now called THE MARKER). He then served for twenty years in various positions in the People and Computers media group. Since 1999 he has also been the editor of the CHIPORTAL website, which covers the chip industry in Israel and around the world.
At the same time, since 1997, he initiated, founded and edited the Hidan website.
Blizovsky is a graduate of the Technion, 1993, in the field of economics and management.
site staff
- Avi Blizovsky - Website editor, +054-2999322-XNUMX
- Levi Sigman - Business Development Manager, +054-2489016-XNUMX
- Rami Yushobiev - Systems development, +054-2090196-XNUMX
Prominent writers
- Dr. Assaf Rosenthal Environement
- Dr. Moshe Nachmani – Chemistry and nanotechnology
- Dr. Yehiam Sorek – History
- Dr.Roey Tsezana – Futurism
- Rami Yushobiev – Space and technology
- Elisef Kosman – Space operations
- Nahum Sherashevski - translator