Prof. Koa expressed an ambition to double the number of excellent students studying in the departments of nanotechnology and brain research and to recruit more returning scientists
Prof. Koh presented to the minister the accelerated projects at the university, including the nanotechnology building, the engineering building and the Leslie and Susan Gonda Goldschmidt research center.
Prof. Koa expressed an ambition to double the number of excellent students studying in these departments and to recruit more returning scientists. Prof. Koa told Minister Hershkovitz "We are in a happy month where we were informed that Bar-Ilan will establish the medical school in the north, as you have seen the research being done in Bar-Ilan is groundbreaking. There are two government ministries that are close to my heart: the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science. You can see Bar-Ilan as a friendly place and we will be happy to cooperate to help continue the acceleration of higher education and scientific excellence, which depend on considerable budgetary assistance."
The rector of the university, Prof. Yosef Manis, noted, "The minister's visit is a taste on the tip of the fork. I have to admit, as someone who goes around different universities in the world and some of them even exist for over a century, we have nothing to be ashamed of. I am definitely proud of the university's achievements."
Minister Hershkovitz thanked Prof. Koa and Prof. Manis and all his hosts. "It is clear that Bar-Ilan University is in a development boom that has no equal in Israel." The minister turned to Prof. Koa and addressed the words to him: "The manner in which you have developed the campus is unimaginable and awe-inspiring."
The minister will meet with outstanding scientists who have returned to Israel from abroad and talk with them about their research innovations including: Dr. Avi Zadok who has returned from Katak and is teaching optical communication at the engineering school.
With Dr. Analiya Somech Baruch, a returning scientist from Princeton University in the USA, who teaches information theory at the School of Engineering
With Dr. Rachel Popovtzer, who returned from the University of Michigan and teaches miniaturized sensors for medical biological applications in the engineering department at Bar-Ilan University.
At the Center for Nano Technology, the Minister met Dr. Yuval Goreini, who studied at Delft University in the Netherlands and currently teaches nanophotonics, and Dr. Amos Sharoni, a returning scientist from San Diego who teaches nanomagnetism.
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I googled some concepts and got here.
I graduated from the Technion, and also took a course in differential equations with Prof. Hershkowitz. Beyond the fact that his name precedes him as professor of mathematics, I wanted to testify about a wonderful lecturer, who was previously selected in a serial way as an outstanding lecturer. His way of teaching is charming - he is insanely funny and is known to be a favorite of the students (this course is also filmed on video and there is not a semester that goes by without tens or perhaps hundreds of students watching the above video, praising him over the lectures given by other lecturers now).
So that's it - it bothered me a bit that this is how a person of his rank and above is belittled. Next time you should check before mocking 🙂
Hahaha… respect principle, amirite?
to Ilay
You're right. I despise and fear it.
You must understand that all these initiatives you are talking about, of tireless attempts to find so-called scientific "solutions" to halachic problems, are part of the problem and not the solution.
Most of the public (what you might call "secular") see these methods as nothing more than grotesque and amusing attempts to adapt rules set by dark people in the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.
I mean all those prohibitions and boycotts and difficulties that were added over the years by all kinds of strange people and made the lives of young people and those who want to be considered believing Jews difficult and complicated.
Like for example the stupid ban on turning on a light bulb on Shabbat, which is now "circumvented" so to speak with ridiculous and pitiful technological means such as the Shabbat clock.
You must understand that these things only distance any sane Jew from Judaism and this is, in my opinion, the main blasphemy.
The solution is to return to the origins or at least to adapt Judaism to the twenty-first century and not to try to supposedly adapt the twenty-first century to Judaism.
did you understand?
I love Bar Ilan, it's just a shame that you have to take 7 Judaism courses to complete a degree, plus a test for basic concepts in Judaism...
With all due respect to Jonathan's criticism, there are and are interfaces between religion and science. Minister Hershkowitz, who is both a respected rabbi and a respected professor, is educated enough to know that these are indeed separate disciplines. However, from my conversations with him I understood that his goal is to encourage scientific applications in the fields of Halacha and Torah. In doing so, he seeks to advance the Torah world and allow it to enjoy the fruits of science, and to encourage the sciences to reach even higher and more developed applications. This is the case, for example, in technological issues that enable applied halachic solutions to complicated issues (artificial insemination, organ transplants, immunology and more). You may be underestimating this, but a significant percentage of the country's residents want the technological solutions offered to them to meet the requirements of Halacha, and if this can be done - what is good and what is pleasant?
In general, dialogue between worlds always promotes and enriches. What exactly are you afraid of?
It's over then, and we're done.
Hi Pekarlit
Calm down, I'm religious in my own way (not the domed way) I don't hate all religious people (only the dark and pretenders among them), and really I admit that I was wrong and it's good that there is a minister with such a stature suitable for his position.
Although the idea that the government will fund initiatives to integrate Torah and science is both noel and grotesque.
Such a combination cannot and should not be made, religious faith and science are two separate schools of thought that no one who truly believes has any desire or need to bring them together. As you don't have to combine heavy rock with science.
In light of his distinguished resume, I give this minister the credit that the idea was brought up only to clear the ears of the foolish among his party's voters.
what are you afraid of?
Of all the value he has, that he is a minister in the government, a major in the reserves, a professor of mathematics, and despite all this he manages to combine it with faith and become a rabbi, you are caught precisely by that sentence,
that before you try to understand what he is saying, what is behind it and what is his purpose, you are straight up rambling out of fear about the science (which is still not so clear about your part in it), and that is of course only after you have taken care to slander him based on nothing and even before you have had time to know anything about him .
This? Are you religious and you get anxious?
And if you've already contacted my father, I guess he won't take your arguments seriously, but maybe the too deep anti-religion on this site is the cause of phenomena like yours.
To the attorney: You are right,
Now I saw the following sentence in the wiki: "Since his election, Rabbi Hershkovitz has been working to create a combination between Torah and science, and in this context he issued a call for government support for initiatives of this type."
Indeed, my dog sings.
Attention my father!!!
It seems that from now on you will have no choice but to combine knowledge with the Torah. In accordance with the approach of the honorable minister in charge.
From now on, it is said that for every scientific article evidence will be cited in the Torah sources in the Talmud, the words of the Sages and the Shavat that can be seen as support for the scientific approach. And a beautiful hour...
The minister is a professor of mathematics.
By the way, what's your connection?
And one more thing, according to what I remember, the minister who preceded him specialized more in pitas and hummus than in science. So what does the current minister specialize in? Maybe in the kitchen?
I would like to know what is the connection between this minister and science?
is he a scientist Or studied something in the field of science?
Or is this another stalker?