Women hold a workshop at the Golda Meir Mount Carmel International Training Center.An impressive array of female leaders from throughout the world recently gathered in Haifa to address a host of common concerns, including a problem that is becoming a …
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Israeli college students fortify troubled towns by moving in
In return for free tuition and low rent, members of Ayalim student villages volunteer their time to transform Negev and Galilee communities.
Israel’s developmentally disabled receive a loving home
Residents of Kishor Village work in the Pastel Toys factory.The pop group REM may have sung about ‘shiny happy people’, but in the Galilee village of Kishor, you’ll actually find them. Serving as a home for developmentally disabled people with …
Israeli elementary schools put 2 and 2 together
Israeli math textbooks will focus ‘on the content to be learned, rather than how it should be taught.’Ron Aharoni, who teaches mathematics at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel, took an excursion into teaching elementary school. “What surprised …
Israeli wins Nobel Prize for conflict resolution theory
Prof. Emeritus Robert J. Aumann of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was named as the co-winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics for 2005. The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that Aumann and Prof. Thomas C. Schelling of the …
Israel welcomes US students displaced by Katrina
This summer, as Gina Weintraub prepared to begin her final semester of graduate school in social work at Tulane University in New Orleans, she couldn’t have possibly imagined that less than two weeks later, she would be living and studying …
Buckeyes and sabras: Agritech brings Israel and Ohio closer together
Much of the agricultural cooperation between Ohio and Israel lies the field of cattle production.It’s almost become a cliché about how Israel has made the desert bloom. But the fact remains that Israel’s agritech developments in the arid Negev region …
Presidential forum launched to recommend changes in Israeli government structure
Hebrew University President Menachem Magidor, President Moshe Katsav, and CECI founder Isaac Parviz Nazarian at the launch of the public commission this week at Beit Hanassi.Israeli President Moshe Katsav has convened 70 leading Israelis in the academic, political and judicial …
When Israeli venture capital meets social ventures
Proceeds generated from successful company exits have thus far been contributed to twelve Israeli non-profit organizations active in the areas of youth and education.What began just three years ago as the brainchild of Israeli venture capitalist Yadin Kaufmann has been …
Putting Israel’s historic sites on the map – and on the UNESCO World Heritage List
Tel Megiddo, one of the many Israeli historical sites which have been recognized this year as a UNESCO World Heritage Site.Anyone who has enjoyed a full-scale tour of Israel’s vast array of ancient and modern historic sites knows that the …
Going to the head of the class
An ISEF-run math class for Israeli high school students. Galit Bareket Danielli grew up in a family of 11 children with parents who emigrated from Libya in the 1950s. Like many young Israelis from a disadvantaged background, Galit struggled against …