HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — The University of Haifa will give its Outstanding Leadership Award to Knesset Speaker Yuli-Yoel Edelstein in recognition of his many years of public service; his contribution and actions to help immigrants; and his efforts to maintain Israel’s character as a Jewish, democratic, and law-abiding state. The award will be presented
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) — Male brown widow spiders seek to mate with older, less-fertile females who are 50 percent more likely to eat them after sex, according to Israeli researchers in a study published in the journal Animal Behaviour. Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The Volcani
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy Ira Sharkansky JERUSALEM — After several weekends of coping with massed Gazans on or over the edge of violence, the country has been obsessed with the deaths of teenagers, seemingly caused by the negligence of an upper status pre-army program. The disaster also reflected one of the country’s natural attractions: spectacular desert canyons (wadis)
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –The Jewish Studies Program at San Diego State University has announced that Israeli political scientist, Dr. Luba Levin-Banchik, will be teaching courses in the History and Political Science Departments and will be in residence at SDSU for the 2018/19 academic year. Her residency is supported by a grant from the Murray
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Jewish History, Middle East, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationLOS ANGELES (Press Release)–StandWithUs, an Israeli advocacy group headquartered here, is protesting actions at New York University and George Washington University, respectively in New York and Washington, as both anti-Israel and anti-Semitic. Fifty-one NYU student organizations on April 9 co-signed a joint statement pledging to boycott Israeli goods, Israeli academic institutions and conferences, and numerous pro-Israel outside
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HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — Sigalit, 40, and Nathan Drassinover, 53, married in 2016, were told they could never have a child together. Sigalit was diagnosed with a chronic gynecological condition in her 20’s, “premature ovarian failure” that typically causes loss of normal ovarian function before age 40 resulting in infertility. Sigalit had suffered for
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) – A new method for early and accurate breast cancer screening has been developed by researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Soroka University Medical Center, using commercially available technology. The researchers were able to isolate relevant data to more accurately identify breast cancer biomarkers using two different electronic nose
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By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Lemonade and chalk are two tools that the pro-Israel organization StandWithUs (SWU) utilizes on college campuses across the U.S. and Canada to combat aggressive anti-Israel campaigns launched by such groups as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) Sarah Tagger, a campus strategist for the 17-year-old StandWithUs, briefed members
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Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) — Anti-Semitic violence around the world dropped 9% from 2016 to 2017, but a “dramatic increase” of all other forms of anti-Semitic manifestations, including harassment and hate speech, has raised increasingly “grave concerns among Jews regarding their security and the continuation of communal life,” according to an annual report from Tel
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Thou Shalt innovate: How Israeli ingenuity Repairs the World by Avi Jorisch; © 2018; Gefen Publishing; ISBN 9789652-299345; 176 pages with 90 additional pages of acknowledgments, notes, bibliography, and index. By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Discover a problem; figure out how to fix it; create a company to market your solution; and in
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Books, Poetry & Short Stories, Donald H. Harrison, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release) — A new Tel Aviv University study addresses the challenges of nanoparticle-based cancer-targeting strategies. It also suggests ways of refocusing the collaborative work of cancer researchers and clinicians to move the field forward from “the bench” to the patients. The study follows landmark research published 10 years ago in Nature Nanotechnology
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationSACRAMENTO, California – Tammi Rossman-Benjamin, the director of AMCHA Initiative, on Tuesday testified before the California State Assembly’s Committee on Higher Education in support of AB 2374, the Free Speech on Campus Act of 2018. The bipartisan bill, introduced by Assemblymen Kevin Kiley (R-6th) and Bill Quirk (D-20th), calls on campuses of the California Community Colleges, California State
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SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Dr. David Rubenson, M.D. will be guest speaker at Beth Israel Men’s Club’s April 18 Dinner Forum where he will discuss “Advances in Cardiovascular Imaging”. This program, beginning at 6:30 p.m., is open to the entire San Diego Community, both men and women. Temple or Men’s Club membership is not a requirement to attend.
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationBEER-SHEVA, Israel (Press Release) –Earthquake warning and forecasting systems used worldwide are ineffective,according to new research from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) and the Sami Shamoon College of Engineering Studies.Their research shows that electromagnetic radiation measurement would be a better predictor,providing hours, or even days, warning before an earthquake. According to the study published
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