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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 that time - no - will die"
School of Engineering at Bar Ilan University. Illustration: depositphotos.com

St. Uni' Bar Ilan: "Oppose regime change 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 received on continued cooperation with researchers from abroad and on the winning of international research grants by Israeli researchers, and harm to the position of Israeli scientists in the international science community
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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 on the legislators in the Knesset - do not reach out to damage the democratic foundations of the State of Israel! Stop before it is too late! You must create a broad consensus on essential questions about the nature of the regime in Israel!
Damage to Israeli science. Produced using Dali 2.

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 fast and efficient 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, mathematics, agriculture and art
Prof. Yossi Shilo. Photo courtesy of Tel Aviv University

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 and as real-world applications
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 the countries of the world. 
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 dollars; he was included in the list of fifty promising young scientists In the US, a prediction that later proved itself
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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; Kahn Foundation: The group will continue to support the educational activities of the Spice IL association; CEO of Space IL, Shimon Sharid: We will continue to make every effort to realize the vision of Genesis 2, and we will work as soon as possible to find new paths to carry out the mission
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 am not receiving the award for being a brilliant scientist, but for the contribution I had to preserving the environment - which my students will continue, and hopefully, their students as well"
space Research. The image was produced using artificial intelligence software. Definitions: Avi Blizovsky

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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