Jungo CEO Ofer Vilensky: We see broadband as the fifth utility; it will provide a tremendous range of services.The modern home is now part of the digital revolution. TVs, computers, internet, telephone, video recorders, DVD players, printers, fax machines, copiers, …
Author Archives: Susan Goodman
Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s sufferers receive boost from Israeli research
The brain is the control center for most of the functions throughout the body; it is also where we experience the physical world around us and perceive our inner psychological and emotional selves. It is where thought, love and dreams …
Days of war, dreams of peace
While we sit sipping our cappuccinos, a shred of the illusion still shimmers.’Most people were more interested in getting their cup of coffee than talking about the war on the Lebanese border,” said the Canadian Broadcast Company reporter I met, …
Johnson & Johnson looks to the future with Israeli science
The research of Professor Hermona Soreq on an accurate, objective method of diagnosing anxiety disorders based on the body’s regulation of acetylcholine was presented to the J&J team.American healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson has decided to cast an enormous vote …
Israel’s Nobel winner talks of a cure for war
Bringing peace to the world is usually the preserve of political or religious ideologues – certainly well outside the domain of mathematicians. But this is the theme of the lecture that Prof. Robert J. Aumann of the Hebrew University of …
Joint Israeli-US team finds thyroid drug reduces colon cancer risk by 50%
Professor Stephen Gruber (left) and Professer Gad Rennert study the charts. (Photo: Gregory Fox/Medicine at Michigan)A joint US-Israeli research project has discovered that the drug L-thyroxin, most commonly used for the treatment of an underactive thyroid, can halve the risk …
Israel’s Mr. Pomegranate
Noted pomegranate researcher Dr. Ephraim Lansky in his natural habitat. (Photo: Debbie Zimelman) A renovated tailor’s workshop in the old Turkish market in Haifa is an unlikely setting for the hub of a research company. But it’s here that the …
Israel’s real-life CSI sleuth
Next month, Professor Yossi Almog will be the recipient of the highly prestigious Lucas Medal, awarded by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences at the International Association of Forensic Sciences in Hong Kong.Time: Sunday morning, 9 am. Location: Jerusalem. The …
West meets east in Jerusalem
We forget who and where we are. We are a sisterhood of women.”Do you know where the Augusta Victoria Hospital is?” asks my taxi driver as we drive through that invisible veil which separates east and west Jerusalem. It is …