Category Israel

Liberal Zionism still critical

photo - Israel Defence Forces soldiers debrief during the Israel-Hamas conflict

Israel Defence Forces soldiers debrief during the Israel-Hamas conflict. New Israel Fund of Canada’s president Joan Garson discussed the painful war of this past summer and the ongoing responsibility of liberal Zionists in Canada to push for Israel to be…

How mammals respond to novelty

photo - Measuring the response to novelty: A mouse repeatedly touches the object and pulls away (nose and whisker contacts are color-coded; d is the distance of the snout from the object)

Measuring the response to novelty: A mouse repeatedly touches the object and pulls away (nose and whisker contacts are color-coded; d is the distance of the snout from the object). (photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) Put a young child in a new…

Israel hopes tourists return

photo - Temple Mount Western Wall on Shabbat

Temple Mount Western Wall on Shabbat. (photo by David Shankbone via en.wikipedia.org) Robin and Jon Sirkin prepared to celebrate their son Eitan’s bar mitzvah in Jerusalem last weekend. There was a Dr. Who theme and an ice-cream bar planned for the…

SoftWheel reinvents the wheel

photo - The concept of SoftWheel was initially imagined as an improvement for wheelchairs, but its potential uses are numerous

The concept of SoftWheel was initially imagined as an improvement for wheelchairs, but its potential uses are numerous. (photo from SoftWheel) While new patents and inventions appear all the time, they don’t often aim at a mainstay, like the common wheel, which…

Peering into universe’s past

photo - A small black hole gains mass. Dense cold gas (green) flows toward the centre of a stellar cluster (red cross in blue circle) with stars (yellow); the erratic path of the black hole through the gas (black line) is randomized by the surrounding stars

A small black hole gains mass. Dense cold gas (green) flows toward the centre of a stellar cluster (red cross in blue circle) with stars (yellow); the erratic path of the black hole through the gas (black line) is randomized…

Charedi community confronts mental illness

photo - An artists’s rendering of the new facility now under construction in Bnei Brak

An artists’s rendering of the new facility now under construction in Bnei Brak. (photo from Mayanei Hayeshua Medical Centre)  Chavi (not her real name) awkwardly positions herself on the chair in the group therapy room. The doctors gave her parents no choice,…

BGU student-built car races

photo - In Italy, at Ben-Gurion Racing’s pit, from left to right, BGR2014 team leader Dudy Daud, project manager Tamir Plachinsky, main sponsor of the event Giampaolo Dallara, former EU president and former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi and the rest of the BGR team

In Italy, at Ben-Gurion Racing’s pit, from left to right, BGR2014 team leader Dudy Daud, project manager Tamir Plachinsky, main sponsor of the event Giampaolo Dallara, former EU president and former Italian prime minister Romano Prodi and the rest of…

Israelis invent handheld spectrometer

photo - SCiO allows users to find out the molecular breakdown of almost anything

SCiO allows users to find out the molecular breakdown of almost anything. (photo courtesy of Consumer Physics) Consumer Physics, a technology startup based in Israel, was founded on the idea of empowering people to learn more about the physical world…

World’s first photonic router

photo - Members of Dr. Barak Dayan’s team, left to right: Serge Rosenblum, Yulia Lovsky, Orel Bechler and Itay Shomroni

Members of Dr. Barak Dayan’s team, left to right: Serge Rosenblum, Yulia Lovsky, Orel Bechler and Itay Shomroni. (photo from wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il) Weizmann Institute scientists have demonstrated for the first time a photonic router – a quantum device based on a…