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EXPAND accelerator. Credit: Creation Space

A new accelerator will qualify Israeli startups to integrate into NASA's Artemis moon return program

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The Israeli company Creation-Space is launching the accelerator 'EXPAND' which will give start-ups an opportunity to develop breakthrough technologies in the field of space exploration and the settlement of the Moon and Mars • The winning start-up will receive a scientific-technological grant in the amount of 100 thousand NIS • Dr. Rui Naor, The founder of the company: "Israeli entrepreneurs can take a significant part in the next great step of humanity"
Studying the reproductive timing of corals. The image was prepared using DALEE and should not be considered a scientific image

Citi coral and village coral

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Prof. Oren Levy researches the timing of the reproduction of corals around the world and is surprised by Dioc. However the biological clock of the corals is not adapted to the volume lights
Prof. Nathan Rosen. Courtesy of the historical archive of the Technion by Yehoshua Nasiyo

Research Prof. Natan Rosen, 1995-1909

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Founder of the Faculty of Physics at the Technion, co-author of the historical article EPR with Albert Einstein and Boris Podolsky
sign the agreement. Right: Space ISAC chairman, Samuel Wiesner, and Israel Space Agency director, Uri Oron

Cyber ​​in space: an agreement was signed between the Israeli Space Agency and Space ISAC

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The agreement paves the way for research and development of technologies in the fields of cyber space
Prof. Jackie Schiller. Photo: Technion spokespeople

Two researchers from the Technion won ERC Advanced grants

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Prof. Michael Glickman and Prof. Jackie Schiller from the Technion won ERC Advanced grants - prestigious grants on behalf of the European Union's Horizon Europe program given to veteran researchers with unprecedented achievements in research in the last decade. Each of them will receive 2.5 million euros
Professor Mona Maron and Professor Gur Elroy will replace him in the position of Rector, photo: Haifa University

Prof. Mona Maron was elected Rector of Haifa University

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Prof. Maron will take up her position in about six months, at which time she will replace Prof. Gur Elroy, who currently serves as rector and will be appointed at the same time as the next president of the University of Haifa
Prof. Zvi Maza, photo: Tel Aviv University

Professor Zvi Maza is the recipient of the Israel Prize in the field of physics research for 2024 - an overview of his main discoveries

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Professor Maza studied planets outside the solar system and even developed a method for discovering planets that allows expanding the search circle
Shenkin Street in Tel Aviv has undergone gentrification. Illustration: depositphotos.com

To protect the city from the damaging effects of urban renewal

"As a result of urban renewal, commerce, like residents, is undergoing a process characterized by the entry of new businesses and the displacement of old local businesses, a process called 'commercial gentrification,'" explains Eyal Shavit from Bar Ilan University, who studies the field
Award winners Ramon Tashpad credit Elad Zagman to p

Aut Ramon 2024 winners

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2024 Blavatnik Prize winners. Courtesy of the Israel National Academy of Sciences

Three researchers from the Weizmann Institute of Science will receive a grant of $100 each for their groundbreaking research  

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Prof. David Harel, President of the Israeli National Academy of Sciences, said: "Today we recognize the great achievements of the best young Israeli scientists. This recognition is especially important at the present time, when Israel is going through one of the most difficult times it has known
Investments in applied research in Israel. Credit: The Science website via DALEE

The Ministry of Science and Technology launched a NIS 100 million program to accelerate applied research

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The purpose of the program is to support research in the Proof of Concept (POC) phase, a phase in which the level of technological/commercial maturity is low, and therefore commercial entities have no interest in investing in it
Damage to the academy. Credit: The Science website via DALEE

The past and present presidents of the academy appeal to the government to stop harming science in Israel.

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Recently, the National Library, the Council for Higher Education, the Israel Prizes, the Life Institute, and the Volcanic Institute, which is an institution of national importance and important for food security, suffered attempts at government intervention and damage to the budgets, in addition to all this, also contempt on the part of the Minister of Finance
Ministerial exchange ceremony at the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology, 19/3/24. Photo: L.A.M

Gila Gamliel replaces Ofir Akunis as Minister of Science

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A ministerial change ceremony at the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology took place yesterday (Tuesday 19.3.24/XNUMX/XNUMX)
The late Capt. Denis Krokhmalov-Wexler. From the private archive

Students at the Technion will design the NOVA-SAT satellite in memory of the late Captain Denis Krokhmalov-Wexler in cooperation with the TAA

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The late Krukhamlov-Wexler, was supposed to start his studies this year at the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering and who was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip
The Minister of Education at the time, Yifat Shasha-Biton awards the 2022 Israel Physics and Chemistry Research Prize to Prof. Yehoshua Zak

The Technion mourns the death of Prof. Emeritus Yehoshua Zak, one of the founders of the Faculty of Physics and laureate of the Israel Prize for Physics and Chemistry Research

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Prof. Zak, a survivor of the Vilna ghetto led scientific breakthroughs and two phenomena in physics are named after him. He was a student of Prof. Natan Rosen, Albert Einstein's research partner. Prof. Zak spent his entire career at the Technion
The President of the National Academy of Sciences Prof. David Harel at the meeting of the Knesset's Science Committee, 3/3/2024 next to Eil Waldman, the winner of the prize in entrepreneurship for 2024 and whose awarding of most of the prizes was canceled because of his winning. Screenshot from the Knesset channel

The President of the Academy, Prof. David Harel, proposes to transfer the administration of the Israel Awards jointly to the President's House and the National Academy of Sciences

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Prof. Harel said these things at the meeting of the Knesset's Science Committee on Sunday this week, following the decision to cancel most of the categories of the Israel Awards and award an award to those who showed bravery during the invasion of Otef
Right: Ella Amitai Sadovsky - cystic fibrosis. On the left, Reut Dafna - Marfan syndrome

A database on the rare genetic diseases in Israel and an artistic project called "Rare" that illustrates each of these diseases

A new site that serves as the first knowledge base of its kind in Hebrew in the field of rare genetic diseases in Israel - was launched on the occasion of the International Day for Rare Diseases, which is noted on a date that returns only once every four years - February 29. The Internet project is a joint initiative of Bar-Ilan University and the Weizmann Institute of Science.  
Preparations for the Rob Goldberg Competition Davidson Institute for Science Education. Photograph of the Hattab C. School staff.

The machine that produces coexistence

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In the coming week, a competition will be held at the Davidson Institute in which 15 classes from both the Jewish and the Arab societies will take part, and will compete in the Rob Goldberg machine competition
Illustration: depositphotos.com

Nature-based solutions to the problem of global warming

Noa Zuckerman from the Department of Environment, Planning and Sustainability investigates the effect of vegetation growing on top of buildings on the climate in an urban environment
social functioning. Illustration: depositphotos.com

ERC grant for research that will lead to the improvement of group functioning

The European Union grants 2 million euros to Prof. Ilanit Gordon from the Department of Psychology and the Multidisciplinary Center for Brain Research at Bar-Ilan University, for her research that deals with brain, physical and behavioral synchronization during group dynamics
Prof. Daniela Reva. Photo credit: Chen Galili, Technion Spokesperson

For the first time: a woman Dean at the head of the Faculty of Aeronautics and Space Engineering at the Technion

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Prof. Daniela Reva, a graduate of the faculty, took office on January 1, 2024
The SpaceIL team. Photo: Shlomi Amsalem, L.A.M. (1)

The SpaceIL association won the tender to manage the HORIZON community, the community of educators of the Israel Space Agency

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This was announced this week, 31.1.24/XNUMX/XNUMX, at the Rona Ramon space education conference held as part of Israeli Space Week
Fruit flies mate. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Sexual frustration leads to stress in fruit flies

The research insights of Yulia Rivkin from the Faculty of Life Sciences in Bar-Ilan open up an opportunity for in-depth research into the effect of stress on the nervous system
Recognition to Yitzchak Ben Israel for his many years of work Credit_Oz Schechter, L.A.M

Lifetime Achievement Award to Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel

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Prof. Ben Israel received a certificate of appreciation from the Israel Space Agency and the Ministry of Science. At the same time, the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) announced that next year it will award the Distinguished Service Award to Prof. Yitzhak Ben Israel, former Chairman of the Israel Space Agency, for his great contribution to astronautics and the promotion of the Federation
Photo: Oz Schechter, L.A.M

The space forum announced today will bring together those involved in the field from the government, industry and academia

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The Rakei mission and the Israel Space Agency at the Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology announced today for the first time the establishment of the Israel Space Forum
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