Science in Israel

Insisted on returning to service. Wahlberg (left) with a tank crew in reserve training Photo courtesy of the Wahlberg family

The scientist who did not return from the war

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Alexander Wahlberg, doctor of physical chemistry, returned to Israel after years of studying and working in the United States and worked at Kirya for nuclear research. He also insisted on continuing to serve in the reserves, as a patrol officer, and his death in the Yom Kippur War
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Kornit Vision accelerates the development of its artificial cornea implant that will restore sight to the blind

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Dassault Systèmes' 3DEXPERIENCE Lab joins Kornit Vision, a groundbreaking Israeli startup, to its open innovation lab. Kornit Vision develops, among other things, an artificial corneal implant, which allows patients who have gone blind as a result of diseases
Tamar Stein. Credit - Uri Stein

The Hebrew University is a leader in entry-level ERC grants. Ten researchers will receive 17 million euros for five years 

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The number of wins by male and female Hebrew researchers places the university in first place among universities in Israel in terms of success rate among applications, with an increase of 5.5% compared to last year and it has the highest number of winners
Dr. Shahar Alon. Photo: Bar Ilan University

Cancer cure and chirality research: two researchers from Bar Ilan won ERC grants

Dr. Shahar Alon from the Faculty of Engineering won a grant of about 2 million euros for his research in the field of the interaction between immune cells and cancer cells, and Dr. Assaf Ben Moshe from the Department of Chemistry won a grant for a total of
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Develops catalysts for clean energy production

Dr. Ariel Friedman, develops solutions in the field of electrochemistry that will lead to green and cheap energy
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The researchers of the Desert Research Institute in Sde Boker are leading an international experiment to grow plants in space in the Beresheet 2 spacecraft

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The project is an important step towards proving the ability to grow plants on the moon to produce healthy food for astronauts who will land on it in the future. Finding new ways to maximize sustainable food production on a globe
Antiquities Authority excavations at the Byzantine church in Geth Shemanim. Photo: Shai Halevi, Antiquities Authority

Researches the roads to Jerusalem

Annette Landes Nagar is an archaeologist-digger and Bar Ilan President Fellow, whose research has yielded important discoveries in the Jerusalem area
A satellite biological laboratory, as understood by DALEE2. Definitions: DALL·E 2023-08-28 20.48.45 - biological lab inside a sattelite orbiting earth with few test tubes and a microscope looks like a photo

The pharmaceutical manufacturing market in space is developing; Companies raise considerable sums; Space Pharma has received approval from the USPTO to manufacture a drug in space

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Two British companies have raised funds from investors to develop satellites for the production of drugs and chips in space. CEO of Spice Pharma Yossi Yamin: This shows that we are not the only crazy people and that even the capital market recognizes the market
The excavation site at Tel Tivneh. Photo: Shahar Cohen, Ariel Zion for Bar Ilan University

A magnificent building from the Second Temple period was uncovered in Tel-Tavna

In the archaeological excavation project that took place, for the second year in Tel Tabna, findings were discovered that indicate, among other things, the use of the area as an administrative regional center in the Roman period.
Prof. Katlin Crico (courtesy of István Sahin-Tóth)

The Technion announced the winners of the 2024 Harvey Prize: mRNA researchers whose research helped develop corona vaccines, and a theoretical physics researcher

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The prestigious prize will be awarded to the developers of the corona vaccine Professors Katelyn Crico, Drew Weissman and Peter Callis and to Prof. Helen Quinn for solving one of the greatest mysteries in physics
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Those suffering from social anxiety are prone to depression

Dr. Reot Tsbag, a graduate of the psychology department at Bar Ilan researches the relationship between social anxiety and depression as part of a post-doctorate at Yale University in the USA
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Does the program - a scientific and technological reserve contribute to paving and inequality?

About the program - scientific and technological reserve - in the schools, and about its effect on the future of the students
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Merger between the organization of Israeli medical students abroad and the organization ScienceAbroad, which works to encourage the repatriation of Israeli scientists and researchers

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Chairman of AIMS Overseas, Tomer Savchinsky, for the position of head of the division of Israeli medical students abroad Next week there will be a meeting where the effects of the legislation will be presented
Prof. Elon Vadia at the Israeli chip club meeting, 23/6/14. Photo: Shmuel Oster

All brain researchers at the Hebrew University signed a letter: to excel in science, curiosity and freedom of thought are required and these are in danger from the dictatorship

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Forty male and female researchers, the entire staff of the Multidisciplinary Center for Hebrew Brain Research express their fear of limitations that will be imposed on freedom of thought and the politicization of higher education, which will result in limitations on research that may upset
Prof. Omri Koren. Photo: Bar Ilan University Spokesperson

Antibiotics in pregnancy affect the behavior of the fetus

Prof. Omri Koren from the Faculty of Medicine won an ERC grant for his research dealing with the development of a post-biotic supplement to protect mothers and newborns
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The heads of the universities and the members of the MoLMOP council to Netanyahu: the damage to the startup nation is already about to become irreversible

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In the letter, they state that both the members of the Molomaf Council and the presidents of the universities are witnesses to the departure of researchers from Israel, to the unwillingness to return to Israel, and to a real damage to relations with the scientific elite in the world, including the cessation of donations
The Israeli commercial satellite TECSAR1 that was launched in 2018 and uses radar technology. Photo: Israel Aerospace Industries

The DS-SAR satellite that IAI produced for Singapore has been successfully launched

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The satellite began its mission in space and transmitted first data to the ground station. The DS-SAR radar observation satellite will be used for government and commercial purposes; by the Singapore government and a private company
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68% of the Israeli start-up companies took legal and financial measures to protect against the legal changes

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This is according to a survey published by the Start-up Nation Central association. Avi Hasson, CEO of Start-up Nation Central: "Companies and investors are taking active steps to move operations away from Israel and this behavior has increased significantly in the last three months. trends
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Bar-Ilan University hosted the opening conference for managers of scientific infrastructure units in Israel

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The event is a collaboration between Bar-Ilan University and the association of managers of scientific infrastructure units in Israel, a national initiative supported by the Innovation Authority and the Ministry of Science and Technology, which aims to maximize the potential
Presidents, rectors and CEOs of research universities in Israel, including Prof. Aryeh Tsavan, chairman of the RA and president of Bar Ilan University; Prof. Asher Cohen, president of the Hebrew University; Prof. Ariel Porat, president of Tel Aviv University; Prof. Uri Sion, president of the Technion; Prof. Alon Chen, president of the Weizmann Institute and Prof. Ron Rubin, president of Haifa University. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Hebrew University

The presidents of research universities in Israel: We are worried about the government's harassment of academia, the buds and effects of which we are already seeing

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The committee of heads of universities published a special announcement this morning following the cancellation of the reason for reasonableness in the Knesset and the fear of the inability of the judicial system to assist in such cases. The universities will assist any faculty member who joins the protest. "And the educated at the time
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St. Uni' Bar Ilan: "They are opposed to a change of regimes in a unilateral procedure"

The Senate also warned of a negative impact that could be caused by the legislation and the manner in which it was adopted on the continued cooperation with researchers from abroad and on the winning of international research grants by Israeli researchers, and harm to their position
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The Innovation Authority will invest NIS 113 million in the establishment of a research and development service infrastructure center for chip-based biodevices

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The Authority invites companies and organizations to submit funding applications for the establishment of an R&D service infrastructure for biodevices and biochips
Presidents, rectors and CEOs of research universities in Israel, including Prof. Aryeh Tsavan, chairman of the RA and president of Bar Ilan University; Prof. Asher Cohen, president of the Hebrew University; Prof. Ariel Porat, president of Tel Aviv University; Prof. Uri Sion, president of the Technion; Prof. Alon Chen, president of the Weizmann Institute and Prof. Ron Rubin, president of Haifa University. Photo credit: Courtesy of the Hebrew University

The heads of the research universities in Israel: This is a difficult and sad day for all of us, a day we feared for a long time

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"The constitutional coup that the government of Israel is dragging the country into will be a disaster for the academy as well! We call from here on the lawmakers in the Knesset - do not reach out to damage the democratic foundations of the State of Israel! Stop before it happens
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Six leading research institutes in Germany issued a statement fearing for the freedom and autonomy of science and research in Israel

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The declaration is jointly signed by the Max Planck Society, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, the Helmholtz Society and the German Council for Sciences and Humanities
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Does carbon offset compensate for its emissions?

One of the problems is that offsetting carbon to the Rav fails to offset emissions empirically, and its effectiveness is questionable. In addition, when calculating emissions, emissions caused by ancillary activities are sometimes ignored
The atomic structure of the material strontium vanadate (strontium vanadate) - illustration of the atomic structure of the material under tension (right) and compression (left). In the center you can see the true atomic arrangement in the material in an electron microscope image. At the bottom of the picture you can see how the various efforts change the structure of the energy levels in the material and therefore also the way the electrons arrange themselves in it. By controlling these properties, the researchers intend to engineer these materials into future transistors. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson

The materials for the transistors of the future

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Researchers at the Technion have engineered a material that may replace silicon in the world of electronics in the future; Through the stretching of the material at the atomic level, they gain control over the material's conduction and insulation properties, thus progressing towards turning it into a switch
In the photo: a five-dimensional cube that Dr. Klein printed with a XNUMXD printer for his supervisor. Photo: Bar Ilan University Spokesperson

led to the solution of a 35-year-old mathematical problem

Meet Dr. Ohad Klein, PhD graduate in the Department of Mathematics at the Faculty of Exact Sciences, postdoctoral student at the Hebrew University and working at a startup company as an algorithmist
Prof. Yitzhak Weitz. Photo: Tel Aviv University

Prof. Yitzhak Weitz won the Saint-Georges Prize for the promotion of cancer research for 2023

His important contribution included a host of breakthrough insights and discoveries, publications and collaborations in the field of cancer research
In the photo: Technion President Prof. Uri Sion. Photo: Nitzan Zohar, Technion Spokesperson.

Technion President Prof. Uri Sion was elected for a second term

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The Board of Trustees of the Technion approved the extension of Prof. Sion's term for four more years
The winners of the Wolf Prize for 2023 at a ceremony in the Knesset together with President Yitzhak Herzog, Minister of Education Yoav Kish and Chairman of the Wolf Prize Foundation Prof. Dan Shechtman. Photo courtesy of the Wolf Foundation

The Wolf Prizes in Science and Art for 2023 were awarded at the Knesset

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Eight winners and trailblazing winners from five countries received the Wolf Prizes for the Arts and Sciences last night. The prestigious Wolf Prize, known as the second most important prize in the world after the Nobel Prize, was awarded this year in the fields of chemistry, medicine,
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Prof. Yosef Shilo was elected a member of the US National Academy of Sciences

Prof. Shiloh is the 43rd Israeli researcher elected to the US National Academy, alongside Nobel brides and grooms such as Prof. Ada Yonat, Prof. Dan Shechtman and Prof. Aharon Chachanover
Prof. Sarit Kraus. Public relations photo, Bar Ilan University

IJCAI award in the field of artificial intelligence to Prof. Sarit Kraus

Prof. Kraus won the award thanks to her research in the field of interactions between self-interested agents, creating a field of automatic negotiation, and developing methods for creating coalitions and work teams, both as formal models
From the right Uri Oron Dror Gloverman Hila Hadad Hamelnik and the founding partners of the Einat Berkowitz Foundation Yaron Sagi Lior Herman and Udi Danhirsh TYPE5. Photo: Nir Shmol

The Israeli space economy has something to aspire to when the global space economy currently generates about D450 billion

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Lior Harman - co-founder of TYPE5 VC Space Tech Group: the space market in Israel generates tens of millions of dollars - a relatively small figure compared to the inherent potential in this field and certainly compared to other countries
Dr. John Mather (right) presents Dr. Eliad Peretz with the NASA medal for extraordinary achievements at a ceremony of the Friends of the Technion Association in the USA. Photo: Association of Friends of the Technion in the USA (ATS)

The prestigious NASA medal for extraordinary achievements to Israeli Dr. Eliad Peretz

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While still a doctoral student, Dr. Peretz, a graduate of the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering at Technion, began working at NASA after it and the US National Science Foundation (NSF) appointed him a research fellow and awarded him a grant of more than half a million
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The "Mosaic" project will promote personalized medicine

The information that will be collected in the project will help in locating risk factors for diseases, which cannot be detected by other research methods
Engineering model of the Genesis 2 lander. Courtesy of SPACEIL

A large group of donors is withdrawing from the Genesis mission

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The donor group that invested 45 million dollars in the Genesis 2 mission, announced that it would stop further funding; The Kahn Foundation: the group will continue to support the educational activities of the Spice IL association; CEO of Spice Eye
The SLS launcher with the Artemis 1 spacecraft on it was due to launch at the original launch on August 29, 2022. The launch was delayed due to a hydrogen leak from one of the engines. Photo PR, NASA

Astronauts take off into space in a rocket

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An interview with Erez Bader, one of the initiators of the new word that was recently approved by the Hebrew Language Academy as a replacement for the launcher due to the fact that the old word is too inclusive
From right to left: Guy Zimmerman, Noam Barash Biram, Yonatan Guttenmacher, Neta David Eiger, Shawn Hantz and Amit Gesol. Photo credit: Technion spokespeople

The delegation to the Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad won 4 medals

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The Israeli delegation of high school students trained at the Technion, who returned with four medals from the Mendeleev Chemistry Olympiad held in Astana, Kazakhstan
The woolly umbrella blooms in the greenhouses of the Weizmann Institute of Science. A close relative of lettuce and Maccabian blood. Photo: Dr. Sagit Meir

The new green: the South African plant that blows in the back of cannabis

Weizmann Institute of Science scientists revealed that a botanical relative of lettuce produces no less than 40 cannabinoids - active substances with medical potential that characterize the cannabis plant
Winners of the 2023 Creel Award for Young Scientists. Photo: Keren Wolff

The Wolff Foundation has awarded the 2023 Creel Prizes for Scientific Excellence to promising young researchers

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Researchers who develop an artificial testicle that will allow infertile people to give birth to a biological child; who examine the dynamics of fasting and its consequences on diabetes and obesity; who develop innovative technologies for treatments against cancer and other diseases and more
From right to left - the president of the Academy of Sciences, Prof. David Harel, the chairman of the Knesset's science committee, MK Ayman Auda, and Prof. Tana Rashef, who headed the committee that prepared the state of science report

A significant decrease in the rate of spending on academic R&D in relation to GDP compared to Switzerland and Singapore

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This is one of the most prominent conclusions in the State of Science in Israel 2022 report published by the National Academy of Sciences, which was submitted today to the Knesset's Science Committee
Gazit is the winner of the Israel Prize in the field of environmental science and sustainability research, which is awarded this year for the first time. Prof. Avital Gazit. Photo: Courtesy of the photographer

From a child who grows tadpoles to a laureate of the Israel Environmental Prize

A true environmental pioneer: Prof. Avital Gazit, a leading researcher in the field of freshwater bodies - is the recipient of the Israel Prize for Environmental Sciences and Sustainability, which is awarded this year for the first time. "I don't get the award for being
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Is Israel becoming a Spice Nation?

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How does Israel integrate into the wave of deep technologies in space and on the ground? Towards a space stack
Photographs: Engineered gray soil in sand above fresh ground water. Photo. Dr. Itamar Taksel, Antiquities Authority, a lime kiln on top of an embankment. The products of the kiln were apparently used to improve the sand and turn it into fertile soil. Photo. Prof. Yoel Raskin. Photographs of the researchers: Prof. Yoel Raskin - Bar-Ilan University Spokesperson, Dr. Itamar Taksel (on the beach), photographed by Prof. Yoel Raskin.

Near Caesarea, evidence of the beginning of agriculture in the sands was discovered

The system from the tenth century AD, in the Islamic period is the first significant development of agriculture in the sand in human history
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delay the diseases of aging

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On aging fish, folding proteins and a new route for the development of medicinal substances
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Expulsion from Spain

The Alhambra Edict signed by Ferdinand of Aragon and his wife, Queen Isabella of Castile on March 31, 1492 and prohibiting by law Jewish settlement in Castile and Aragon, changed the face of Jewish history beyond recognition
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The committee of heads of universities stopped the shutdown of studies

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In a statement published tonight, the heads of the universities stated that this was done "against the continuation of the legislative process that undermines the foundations of Israeli democracy and endangers its continued existence."
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73% of faculty members fear that they will be forced to leave the country if the coup goes ahead

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This is according to a new survey conducted by the Israeli Young Academy during the month of March. In the segmentation of the results by age, it can be seen that there is an increase in the chances of leaving at all ages, but it is more pronounced for faculty members
Prof. Amnon Shashua at a Mobileye event as part of the CES 2023 conference held in Las Vegas. Photo: Avi Blizovsky

Israel Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof. Amnon Shashua, founder of Mobileye

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In the reasons for the award committee it was stated that Shashua is the ambassador of Israeli excellence, daring and creativity in the world
Prof. Emmanuel Peled. Courtesy of Tel Aviv University

Prof. Emmanuel Peled from the School of Chemistry is the winner of the Israel Prize in the field of chemical research and chemical engineering

According to the award committee "His groundbreaking research in understanding the mechanisms of operation and degradation of batteries are used to develop advanced generations of batteries worldwide"
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