By Aryeh Savir Haifa has been crowned the ‘smartest’ city in the Middle East by the IESE Business School at the University of Navarra in Barcelona. A research team examined 135 cities from 55 countries as part of the IESE Cities in Motion Index (ICIM), an annual survey that ranks the cities based on […]
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationTEL AVIV (Press Release)— In an impressive ceremony at Tel Aviv University on May 19th during the university’s annual Board of Governors Meeting, Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu awarded the fourth annual Prime Minister’s Initiatives and Innovation Prize to Dafna Lifshitz, CEO of Appleseeds Academy. The grassroots organization will receive NIS 80,000 ($23,000) to further
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & EducationBy David Brin ENCINITAS, California — A lot of efforts have been made to appraise the Bible in terms of science and vice versa. For example, I’ve had fun showing (to a conference of transhumanists, no less!) that the Book of Genesis clearly states we were meant to be scientists and co-creators and that “nothing
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Jewish History, Science, Medicine, & Education
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — In a grand ceremony on May 18, during Tel Aviv University’s 2014 Board of Governors annual meeting, prestigious Dan David Prizes were awarded to seven scientists and intellectuals before an audience of prominent political, business, philanthropic, and academic figures from around the world. Among this years’ laureates were Prof. Saul
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International, Jewish History, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)–The Rady School of Management at UC San Diego on Monday, May 19, announced a $1 million matching gift donation from local philanthropist and campus supporter Ernest Rady. The gift from the Rady School naming donor will fund fellowships that will help attract outstanding MBA students. Rady has pledged to donate one
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
LA JOLLA, California (Press Release)– For Pauline Foster, community philanthropist and longtime supporter of the University of California, San Diego, giving $7.5 million in support of the new cancer care hospital at the UC San Diego Jacobs Medical Center is a gift from the heart—both her husband and brother died of cancer. The campus announced today that
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Anav Silverman JERUSALEM (TNA) — Three Israeli students from Ben Gurion University of the Negev won second place at the International Cultural and Academic Meeting of Engineering Students conference (ICAMES), a world-wide engineering project competition organized by the Engineering Society of Bogazici University in Istanbul. Gilad Keizler, Yuval Ben Zion and Nimrod Shalit’s final project in
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Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
BOSTON (Press Release) — Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman urged Suffolk University Law School graduates to use their legal expertise to recognize injustice and to be courageous enough to speak out against bias in a commencement speech May 17 at the Citi Performing Arts Center-Wang Theatre in Boston’s Theatre District. Foxman asked graduates to
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA
TEL AVIV (Press Release) — In a lively ceremony during Tel Aviv University’s annual Board of Governors Meeting, the university conferred its most distinguished award — the degree of Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa — on former President of Brazil Fernando Henrique Cardoso and six outstanding leaders from diverse disciplines. The recipients were individually
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International, Middle East, Science, Medicine, & Education
By Josh Hasten/JNS.org Living in the fast-paced world of evolving mobile technology, two young Israeli entrepreneurs have invented what they hope will revolutionize the one device that they feel “got left behind” and seemed to miss the mobile revolution train: the printer. Tuvia Elbaum and Matan Caspi, both 29 and students at the
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Science, Medicine, & Education
SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –Hillel of San Diego is calling for volunteers to help distribute food to victims of San Diego County’s wildfires. Wendy Bryer, coordinator, may be contacted at wbryer@hillelsd.org The organization noted that while the Hillel House at California State College at San Marcos had to be evacuated, it was still clear of
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San Diego County, Science, Medicine, & EducationWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Steve Cohen (TN-09) joined several U.S. Senators and Representatives today in urging the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, to bring more fairness to struggling students by establishing clear standards of eligibility for “undue hardship” discharge of federal student loans in bankruptcy. In a letter sent by Congressman Cohen, U.S.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, DC (Press Release)– U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawai‘i) stood with students Thursday, May 15, and sent a letter to U.S. Department of Education urging it to put in place stronger protections for students in career education programs—particularly those at for-profit colleges—who take on significant debt to attend but are frequently left with meager job prospects.
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USAWASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)—Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) and Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) this week introduced a Senate resolution recognizing May as National Cancer Research Month. As co-chairs of the bipartisan Senate Cancer Coalition, Feinstein and Isakson introduced the resolution to honor contributions made by scientists, clinicians and patient advocates who have committed themselves to finding a
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Science, Medicine, & Education, USA