Israel: Communication satellite superpower

Spacecom’s rapidly growing satellite fleet provides communication capabilities for many of the world’s highest-demand markets. An artist’s rendering of the AMOS-4 satellite, the fifth communications satellite set to be launched by Israel’s Spacecom, sometime next year. Many people are surprised …

ISRAEL21c invited to prestigious global cancer fellowship

ISRAEL21c has been chosen by the American Cancer Society to represent Israel at its first ACS Global Journalist Fellowship in New York City. Viva Sarah Press, associate editor at ISRAEL21c is one of 44 journalists and 78 cancer and tobacco …

Helping the world breathe

An estimated 300 million people worldwide suffer from asthma, and about 250,000 deaths are attributed to the disease. In the US alone 34.1 million Americans have been diagnosed with the illness, an inflammatory disorder of the airways, which causes attacks …

New $10m. Israeli-Swiss brain research accord launches

A $10 million collaborative brain research agreement has been signed between Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL), in Switzerland. The agreement, which was signed last week in the presence of Israel’s President, Shimon …

Three Israeli universities sign research collaboration with Google

Eager to address opportunities of the Internet economy, particularly online auctions, Google will sponsor some 20 research projects at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv Universityand the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa. “The field of electronic auctions and markets has …

Israel to aid refugees from Ivory Coast

Israeli relief agency IsraAID is to send medical aid to Liberia in an effort to help refugees fleeing the civil war in the Ivory Coast. Over one million people have been forced from their homes in the Ivory Coast as …

‘Zenga Zenga’ has them rolling in the aisles

Photo by Doe Garbash Cue the dancing girls: Noy Alooshe, a 31-year-old Tel Aviv journalist/musician, has a hit on his hands. “Zenga Zenga”, his electro hip-hop spoof of Libya’s Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s recent tirade against revolutionaries, has nearly two million …