Priests, sheikhs, rabbis, scientists and ministers in the French government participated in the grand salute event, with 1,300 guests
In the photo: Nobel laureate in chemistry, Professor Avraham Hershko from the Rapaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion (right), his wife Judith (center) with Dr. Bernard Kushner.
UNESCO, the educational, scientific and cultural organization of the United Nations, sponsored an evening of salute to the Technion, which took place this week at the UNESCO center in Paris. The event was attended by priests, sheikhs and rabbis, as well as French government ministers and senior scientists. On behalf of the Technion, the winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Professor Avraham Hershko, the embryonic stem cell researcher, Professor Yosef Itzkovich and the water researcher, Professor Uri Shamir, as well as the president of the Technion, Professor Yitzhak Apluig, and his deputy - Professor Peretz Lavi, participated.
Muriel Tuati, the representative of the Technion in France, who initiated the event, said that it aroused great interest in the French media, as it united, for the first time since the sectarian riots that broke out in Paris recently, the heads of religions and denominations. Of particular interest was the participation of ten of the heads of the French-Muslim Federation, led by Sheikh Dalil Boubaker, who took part in a panel on ethics and religion on the issue of embryonic stem cells, alongside Father Patrick DeBois, the Vatican's adviser on Jewish affairs, and Rabbi Gilles Barneys.
The French government will be represented by the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Philippe de Blasius and the Minister of Health, Xavier Bertrand, and the Mayor of Paris, Bertrand Delanoit, Dr. Bernard Kouchner, former French Minister of Health and founder of the organization "Doctors Without Borders" and the vice president of the French Saint, Christian Fonsalle, will participate alongside them. .
The event opened with three scientific sessions, on the topics of water, cancer and embryonic stem cells and ended with a dance and singer show, about the "celebration of life", with the participation of 30 singers and dancers.
