A delegation consisting of the most important senior British scientists arrived in Israel for the launch meeting of the British-Israeli Council for the Life Sciences. This new body will meet for the first time on Tuesday at the Israeli National Academy of Sciences in Jerusalem to discuss scientific cooperation
A delegation consisting of the most important senior British scientists will arrive in Israel tomorrow (Monday, January 24) for the launch meeting of British-Israeli Council for Life Sciences. This new body will meet for the first time on Tuesday at the Israeli National Academy of Sciences in Jerusalem to discuss scientific cooperation.
He announced the council British Foreign Secretary William Hague during his last visit to Israel in November, and it includes 21 members: 12 British and 9 Israelis - including four Nobel Prize winners.
The role of chairman of the council will be served by the British ambassador to Israel, Mr. Matthew Gould. The vice-chairmen will be Prof. Raymond Devek from the University of Oxford, and Profervka Karmi The president of Ben Gurion University, who also serves as the chairman of the committee of heads of universities in Israel (WAR). Coming to the meeting from the UK: Lord Robert Winston an expert in IVF and fertility treatments and one of Britain's best-known scientists; Prof. Lorna Castleton- Foreign Secretary and Vice President of the British Royal Society of Sciences (Royal Academy) fSir Adrian Smith - Director General of Knowledge and Innovation, Ministry of Business, Innovation and Skills. The meeting will be held under the auspices and with the participation of Prof. Ruth Arnon - The president of the Israel Academy of Sciences, a world-renowned expert in imology from the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Fars and Zablodovich Foundations They are among the bodies that support the establishment of the council, which was founded on the initiative of the British ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gold. Ambassador Gold explained the great importance of establishing this body, "Britain and Israel are both global powers when it comes to science and research. Both countries have a disproportionate number of Nobel Prize winners in relation to the number of inhabitants, and both countries are home to some of the most groundbreaking and important research ever done. It is only logical that our scientific communities work together and in cooperation. This sends an important message to the way our countries work, and to the relationship we want between the two countries. The British government opposes the boycott of Israel, and this council is the expression of that."
The Council will operate in addition to the UK-Israel Science and Research Exchange Program (BIRAX), which funds collaboration between Israeli and British scientists. And BIRAX recently announced 10 researchers who will receive funding.
In the list below you can find the names of the participants in the UK-Israel Life Sciences Council. Details of the participants who will take part in the meetings during the week.
UK Members
- Professor Lorna Casselton – Foreign Secretary, Royal Society
- Professor Sir John Bell – President of the Academy of Medical Sciences
- Professor Raymond Dwek – Oxford University, Director of Glycobiology Institute
- Professor Sir Marc Feldmann – Imperial College, Head of Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology
- Professor Baroness Susan Greenfield – Oxford University, Fullerian Professor of Physiology
- Professor Sir Aaron Klug – Cambridge University, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry
- Professor Chris Mason – UCL, Chair of Regenerative Medicine
- Professor Lord Naren Patel – University of Dundee, Chancellor
- Professor Sir Richard Sykes – Former Chairman of GlaxoSmithKline
- Professor Sir John Walker – Cambridge, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry
- Professor Lord Robert Winston – Imperial College, Professor of Science and Society
- Professor Sir Adrian Smith – Director General, Knowledge and Innovation, Department for Business, Innovation & Skills
Israeli members
- Professor Moshe Abeles – Bar Ilan University, Director of the Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center
- Professor Ruth Arnon – President of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- Professor Rivka Carmi – President of Ben Gurion University and Chairperson of the Committee of University Heads
- Professor Aaron Ciechanover – Technion, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry
- Professor Benny Geiger – Weizmann Institute, Chair of Israel Science Foundation academic board
- Professor Yossi Shiloh – Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Medicine
- Professor Hermona Soreq – Hebrew University of Jerusalem, former Dean of the Faculty of Science
- Professor Daniel Weihs – Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Science and Technology
- Professor Ada Yonath – Weizmann Institute, Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry
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A consolation for the poor in a time when anti-Semitism rears its head, under the guise of criticizing the State of Israel but explicitly calling for its destruction, especially in Europe, at least the Jews are not affected by the propaganda which, unfortunately, also has innocent supporters in Israel.
As you can read, I have a lot of criticism of the state, for example the ultra-Orthodox takeover, the surrender to the tycoons, the damage to the environment, and the damage to the universities. Many things and priorities need to be fixed, but from here to the complete negation of the state's existence, there is a red line that must not be crossed.
Is it just me, or are half of the British Jewish...