About thirty years ago, in Israel, Dr. Shaul Eger, a physiologist specializing in animal husbandry, turned to his roots to cure an otherwise fatal heart arrhythmia. The cure he found was inspired by the Jewish doctor Assaf Harofeh, or Assaf the Physician who wrote that olive oil kept mental illness and an array of other [...]
Filed under: Healthcare, News on August 27th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: healthcare, innovation, israel
As clean technology finds success in the commercial and industrial sectors, green implements are also finding their way closer and closer to home. In order to satisfy the growing demand for green urban architecture in particular, Israeli-Greek architect, Elias Messinas, is organizing a sustainable building workshop for Palestinian and Israeli architecture students.
Inspired by the late [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on June 18th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: Environment, infrastructure, israel, sustainability
There couldn’t have been a better time for Israeli professor Shafrira Goldwasser to receive an award for ‘zero-knowledge,’ an ingenious way to encrypt information. With Google having been recently accused of using private data to improve its mapping service, Internet users from all over the world need some peace of mind about letting their private [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on June 14th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: innovation, israel, research, Technology
Infertility in men results from low quality sperm, and may involve low semen volume, low sperm count, and reduced sperm motility among others. This accounts for 35 to 40% of infertility in couples. This is not only a result of bad habits such as smoking, drinking and drug use, but also because of other factors [...]
Filed under: News on June 11th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: healthcare, israel
Regardless of the social or political landscape of today, Israelis continue to push, and occasionally break through, the boundaries of technology. And nowhere is the euphemism of exceeding limits more apt than in Tel Aviv University, where new nano-based technology is poised to make computers and the Internet hundreds of times faster.
This project is being [...]
Filed under: News on May 12th, 2010 @ 7:00 am
Tagged with: innovation, internet, israel, Technology
The Charles and Lynn Schusterman Family Foundation recently announced the release of Searching for the Study of Israel: A Report on the Teaching of Israel on U.S. College Campuses 2008-09, prepared by the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies at Brandeis University.
An updated version of a 2006 report, Searching for the Study of Israel examines [...]
What a year it has been in the Middle East! Among the good news from 2009:
• Qatar Airways completed the world’s first commercial passenger flight powered by natural gas
• The fully automated Dubai Metro became the first urban train network in the Middle East
• In Saudi Arabia, the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology opened its doors. [...]
Filed under: News on January 5th, 2010 @ 8:00 am
Tagged with: entrepreneur, global economy, israel, middle east
In a formal ceremony held at the Stockholm Concert Hall last Thursday, Weizmann Institute of Science Professor Ada Yonath became the first Israeli woman, and the ninth Israeli, to win a Nobel Prize. Yonath was a pioneer in the study of the key protein-producing ribosomes in all cells, and only the fourth woman to become [...]
Filed under: News on December 14th, 2009 @ 12:00 pm
Tagged with: chemistry, innovation, israel, science
Stacy and I were proud to work with Rabbi Danny Cohen (no relation) to support expansion of the Hevron Kollel (Jewish Academy).
I was asked about the project by the Israeli National News Service, Arutz Sheva. They included the following quote which I think sums up how we feel about the work being done there.
“I am [...]
Filed under: Community, News, Philanthropy on July 12th, 2009 @ 10:36 am
Tagged with: hevron, israel, jew, jewish, jewish academy, Kollel
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.