Science, Medicine, & Education

U of Haifa, ECNU form Shanghai research center

HAIFA, Israel (Press Release) — The University of Haifa and the East China Normal University (ECNU) in Shanghai signed a memorandum of cooperation on the construction of the Shanghai-Haifa International Research Center, the first of its kind in Shanghai for Israeli and Chinese academia. The joint fields of research already agreed upon include neuroscience, mathematics

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Positively Israel ~ February 18, 2015

By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — Long-awaited winter rains, plus my recent trip to the Arava in southern Israel are the inspiration for this week’s report. The Arava region in Israel’s Negev “desert” now produces 60% of Israel’s exports of food crops, right alongside massive fields of solar panels. It is a microcosm of Israel’s

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Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

BDS movement supresses free thought on campuses

By Richard L. Cravatts, PhD BOSTON–In the campus war against Israel, the all too familiar refrain from anti-Israel activists, many of whom form the loose coalition of groups and individuals spearheading the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, is that their quarrel is only with Israelis and their government’s policies, not with Jews themselves.  But

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International, Middle East, Richard L. Cravatts, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

Study of voles probes how leaders emerge

TEL AVIV (Press Release) — Who takes charge during a disaster or at an accident scene? The question has intrigued sociologists since Gustave Le Bon first studied “herd behavior” in nineteenth-century France. The question of an individual’s influence over the activity of a collective has perplexed researchers, in countless studies of this behavior, ever since. Now

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Confident of licking cancer, Emerald to run again

  By Donald H. Harrison SAN DIEGO – Confident of her recovery from breast cancer, for which she currently is undergoing radiation five days a week, City Councilwoman Marti Emerald says she plans to run in 2016 for another four-year term in part because she wants to protect the children of the 9th District against

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Donald H. Harrison, San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education

Scholarship to support IDF reservists at BGU

NEW YORK (Press Release)– The Max Steinberg Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund, named for a young Californian, has been established at Ben Gurion University of the Negev in partnership with the fallen soldier’s parents, Stuart and Evelyn (Evie), and Max’s siblings, Paige and Jake. Max died in battle in Gaza during Operation Protective Edge last July.

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA

‘Past, present, future’ learners awarded $1 million each

TEL AVIV (Press Release)–The winners of the 2015 Dan David Prize, which annually bestows three awards of $1 million each. The announcement of the winners was made on February 10 by Tel Aviv University President Prof. Joseph Klafter, chairman of the Dan David Prize Board of Directors, and Prof. Itamar Rabinovich, Chairman of the Dan

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Squid can ‘edit’ their gene sequences

TEL AVIV (Press Release)— The principle of adaptation — the gradual modification of a species’ structures and features — is one of the pillars of evolution. While there exists ample evidence to support the slow, ongoing process that alters the genetic makeup of a species, scientists could only suspect that there were also organisms capable

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, The World We Share

Grape seeds provide intoxicating view of early Halutza

By Yotam Rozenwald JERUSALEM (Tazpit)– Charred grape seeds dating back 1,500 years were discovered recently in an archeological excavation in the ruins of the ancient Byzantine city of Halutza, about 19 miles southwest of Beersheba. In its heyday, in the 6th and 7th centuries A.D., Halutza or Elusa as it was called in Greek, was

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Durban University student council wants Jews expelled

DURBAN, South Africa (WJC) — Jewish students at the Durban University of Technology (DUT) who support the State of Israel, or receive funding from Israel, should be kicked out of the college, the Students Representative Council (SRC) at DUT has urged. The demand has shocked and angered Jewish organizations in South Africa. SRC Secretary Mqondisi

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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Positively Israel ~ February 12, 2015

By Michael Ordman NETANYA, Israel — In reading about the Children of Israel leaving Egypt, it is easy to imagine that Moses was the original CEO of the very first Startup Nation.  Today, the “company mission” – to become a light to the nations – is certainly being fulfilled by the prolific recent achievements of

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International, Michael Ordman, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education

Divestment vote fails at Stanford University

Editor’s Note:  After an anti-Israel divestment resolution before Stanford University’s student government failed to obtain the necessary two-thirds vote, thus failing, the pro-Israel advocacy group, StandWithUs, issued the following commentary: LOS ANGELES (Press Release) —  StandWithUs congratulated Stanford’s student government for defeating an anti-Israel divestment resolution on February 10. The Associated Students of Stanford University (ASSU) voted

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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA