The President of the Academy, Prof. Neely Cohen: "The addition of the six scientists strengthens the ranks of the Academy of Sciences with researchers of the highest caliber. They will help the academy achieve the national and international goals it has set for itself and develop the extensive scientific activity in Israel in the years to come."
Six new scientists were elected to the National Academy of Sciences: Israel Bartel - Professor Emeritus in the Department of History of the People of Israel and Contemporary Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Naama Goren-Anbar – Professor Emerita at the Institute of Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Billy Melman - Professor in the Department of General History at Tel Aviv University; Jacob Klein - Professor in the Department of Materials and Surfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science; – Professor at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Gideon Ravavi - Professor of hematology at Tel Aviv University, hematologist and pediatric oncologist and director of the Sheba Center for Cancer Research in Tel Hashomer.
President of the Israel National Academy of Sciences, Prof. Neely Cohen, congratulates the new members and said that the joining of the six scientists strengthens the ranks of the Academy of Sciences with researchers of the highest caliber. They will help the academy achieve the national and international goals it has set for itself and develop the extensive scientific activity in Israel in the years to come.
The Israeli National Academy of Sciences It is the highest body in the scientific community in Israel. It was founded by law in 1961 with the aim of bringing together the best scientists in Israel, fostering and promoting scientific activity in the country, and advising Israeli governments regarding research and scientific planning of national importance. Academy members are elected for life.
Israel Bartel He is a historian, educator, editor of scientific periodicals in history and professor (emeritus) in the Department of History of the People of Israel and Contemporary Judaism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Prof. Bartel's research areas encompass the history of Eastern European Jews and their culture and the history of the Yishuv in the Land of Israel in the 18th-20th centuries. A significant part of his scientific work deals with the beginnings of the Jewish national movement and the Jewish settlement in the Land of Israel. He is one of the founders of the magazine "Cathedra" and one of its first editors. Prof. Bartel is the initiator and chief editor of the three-volume work "History of the Jews of Russia", which was published in the last decade in Hebrew and Russian. Now he is working on writing a biography of the writer Shalom Yaakov Abramowitz (Mandeli Mocher Bookseller). Prof. Bartel published about 250 scientific articles. Winner of the Landau Prize for Science and Research in the History of the Land of Israel (2008).
Naama Goren-Anbar She is Professor Emeritus at the Institute of Archeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Her main research topics are human behavior in the early prehistoric times. Prof. Goren-Anbar's multidisciplinary research is based on shocking discoveries made throughout the country. The excavations of the south of the Hula Valley led to the discovery of the remains of the earliest hearths in Eurasia, advanced cognitive abilities reflected from the ancient material culture (illusory culture) and original aspects of the ancient human diet.
Prof. Goren-Anbar has published many books and articles. A. M. T. Award winner (2014).
Billy Melman She is a professor in the Department of General History at Tel Aviv University and holds the Henri Glasberg Chair in European Studies. Prof. Melman's research, which focuses on Great Britain, France and the domains of control of the modern European empires, was ahead of its time and considered groundbreaking in the fields of cultural history, the history of colonialism and Orientalism from the 18th century to the mid-20th century, the history of gender and the study of past use in the modern era . She authored many books and articles on these topics. number Women's Orients, on Orientalism, class and gender, is considered the first academic critique of Edward Said's "Orientalism" and the essay that offered "a more complex and analytical alternative than his own" for the study of West-East relations, culture and colonialism. Prof. Melman served for about five years as the head of the Zvi Yabetz School of History at Tel Aviv University. She is a fellow of the British Royal Historical Society and a Landau Prize laureate (2006).
Jacob Klein He is a professor in the Department of Materials and Surfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science and holds the Hermann Marck Chair in Polymer Physics. Prof. Klein investigates properties of soft matter: liquids, polymers, dispersions of nanoparticles and interrelationships between surfaces. In his research, he uses experimental systems he developed, capable of measuring forces at the molecular level with peak sensitivities. In recent years, he has focused on the study of friction (tribology) at the nanometer level; He discovered the phenomenon of the water pin, which is the basis of friction and lubrication processes in water systems, and especially in the living body, for example in joints and eyes. Among Prof. Klein's honors: the prize for the physics of polymers from the American Physical Society; the Israel Chemistry Association Award; the Soft Matter and Biophysics Award of the British Royal Society of Chemistry; Turnbull Prize on behalf of the International Society for Materials Research; Gold Medal of the International Council of Tribology; and the Prize for Physics of Fluids from the European Physical Society (2016).
shooting age He is a professor at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is in charge of the Henry and Mania Noskwitz Chair. He is a member of the Center for the Study of Rationality and the Center for the Study of Quantum Information at the Hebrew University. Prof. Kalai deals with combinatorics and was particularly interested in its connections with geometry and the theory of convex bodies and with analytical and probability methods. He studies multidimensional convex pauons and their connections to algorithms for the linear design problem. He deals with the connections between algebra, topology and harmonic analysis with combinatorics and uses for computer science and economics, as well as understanding noisy functions and the limitations of noisy quantum computation.
Prof. Kalai was the editor-in-chief of the Israeli Journal of Mathematics, and he writes a scientific blog dealing mainly with combinatorics. He won the Ardash Prize, the Puglia Prize, the Fulkerson Prize and the Rothschild Prize. He is a member of the European Academy and an honorary member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
Gideon Ravavi He is a pediatric hematologist and oncologist at the Sheba Medical Center, a professor of hematology and is in charge of the Jersey Chair of Oncology at Tel Aviv University. His works demonstrated for the first time the role of mobile genetic elements, which constitute a significant part of the human genome, in activating cancer-causing genes. The findings of his research, which identified for the first time the migration of mobile sequences in the genome of mammalian cells, gave rise to a branch of research on the importance of these elements in the control of gene expression. In the last decade, Ravavi and his group's researchers were pioneers in identifying modification and editing processes in RNA sequences. The work of Ravavi and his colleagues showed that the modification of RNA bases has an important role in controlling gene expression processes, they are essential for differentiation processes and function, and their disruption is associated with diseases such as cancer and degenerative brain processes. Prof. Rahabi founded and managed the Department of Hematology, Oncology and Bone Marrow Transplantation in Children at Sheba, as well as the Sheba Center for Cancer Research, which he currently directs. The findings of his work have been published in more than 450 scientific articles. He is a member of the European Academy of Cancer Research and has won, among others, the Kennedy Award, the Alkels Award for Outstanding Scientist in Medicine, the Beutler Award for Research Excellence in the Field of Medicine and Genetics and the AMT Award (for 2013).
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So why aren't people like him promoted in the Israeli public?
Why do scumbags like the Basel Rats get more media coverage than people like Said?
Although there was a legitimate criticism of the late Professor Edward Said's book Orientalism by an American academic, the influence of the book Orientalism is very great. I think he was a professor of comparative literature at Harvard. He was in his life the most prominent example of a Palestinian who understands the Jews. Organized together with Daniel Birnboim (who is considered a traitor in Israel and at the same time received the Wolf Prize during the Limor Livnat period) the Israeli Arab Divan combined orchestra - of high quality in classical music, the music academy that Birnboim founded in Spain and Germany. Barenboim regardless of his controversial opinions, in music he is a first class professor.
Edward Saeed organized visits of Arabs in general and Palestinians to Auschwitz on a regular basis, recognized the legitimacy of the state and people of Israel, and the understanding of the trauma of the Jews from the Holocaust. Obviously, as a Palestinian, he identified with the Palestinians.
I was impressed by watching an interview with him on YOUTUBE, that he felt he was a first class American academic, and also an Arab. He likes American culture and his home, but he also feels like an exile. He died of cancer several years ago.