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Former UK ambassador to Israel Matthew Gould announces the winners in a recent start-up event sponsored by the UK-Israel Tech Hub (Photo credit: Mati Milstein)
February 11, 2015, 6:42 pm
A boost for Israel-UK tech ties
Israeli, British medical researchers are set to begin several new joint projects, while Israeli financial start-ups are headed to London
By David Shamah
Ben-Gurion University campus, August 2014. (Dani Machlis)
September 16, 2014, 6:26 pm
Four Israeli universities ranked in world’s top 300
Hebrew U. is Israel’s highest, at 138 on list; Ben-Gurion jumps 39 spots to rejoin the club after 6 years
By Andrew Tobin
Alan Weinkrantz
April 13, 2014, 6:51 pm
Alan Weinkrantz
Coded in creativity and innovation: Israel & New Orleans make a great match
Hurricane Katrina was a horrible tragedy, but it gave the hard-hit Bayou city a chance to reboot
Visitors discuss nanotechnology at the Ben Gurion University booth at NanoIsrael 2014 (Photo credit: Courtesy)
March 25, 2014, 7:59 pm
Chief Scientist: Israeli nanotech set to make commercial leap
Nanotechnology is ready to revolutionize just about everything, say industry experts
By David Shamah
James Morris
March 14, 2014, 2:36 pm
James Morris
Lessons from Israel’s cyber security success
Cooperation between industry and academia, ‘clustering,’ and plain old chutzpah are Israeli phenomena the UK should consider adopting
Hundreds of Israelis study or work in research at MIT, across the river from Boston in Cambridge, Massachusetts (photo credit: courtesy)
October 23, 2013, 9:37 pm
In Boston, Israel’s brain drain becomes a meeting of the minds
For the thousands of Israeli scientists living in Boston, the US offers more partnership possibilities with Israel than had they stayed put
By Matt Lebovic
Israel's 'green house' entry in the 2013 Solar Decathlon (Photo credit: Courtesy)
August 22, 2013, 12:40 am
Israel’s ‘green’ house cleans up in world contest
Academics build a home that produces more energy than it consumes, and come in near the top in the Solar Decathlon
By David Shamah
Members of the Project Interchange University Presidents Seminar 2013 (photo credit: Courtesy)
July 23, 2013, 6:14 pm
American university heads wave welcome sign for Israelis
College BDS campaigns notwithstanding, leaders in US higher education seek firmer ties with their sabra counterparts
By David Shamah
R to L, forefront) Education Minister Gideon Sa'ar, Finance Minister Yuval Steinitz, and Professor Manuel Trajtenberg, chairman of the Israel Council for Higher Education, welcome post-doctoral students from India and China Sunday (Photo credit: Education Ministry)
February 21, 2013, 1:16 pm
Joint research programs advance with UK, China, India
British Embassy backs 30 fellowships for local researchers to work at top UK medical facilities
By David Shamah
Amos Shapira (Photo credit: Courtesy)
From the WebNovember 24, 2012, 7:56 pm
New Haifa U president warns of Israeli brain drain
Canadian Jewish News: The emigration of Israel’s top minds is a threat to Israel’s well-being, Amos Shapira warns
Students participate a mass chemistry experiment in Tel Aviv University last September, a re-enactment of an experiment performed in the space shuttle Columbia in 2003 by the first Israeli astronaut in space – the late Colonel Ilan Ramon. The re-enactment, one of 13 conducted at Israeli institutions, was part of an attempt to break the Guinness World Record for "largest chemistry lesson at multiple venues.” Guinness presented the award to the participating institutions last November (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash90)
March 19, 2012, 6:21 am
Israeli universities net top honors in global rankings
Two key indices of academic achievement place Israeli institutions of higher learning among the world’s most important
By David Shamah
(right to left) President Shimon Peres, Broadcom CEO and president Scott McGregor, Broadcom vice president Dr. Shlomo Markel (photo credit: Moshe Milner/La'am)
March 15, 2012, 12:10 pm
Broadcom CEO: Israel one of our top tech assets
Semiconductor giant has acquired nine Israeli companies in the past decade, and intends to keep going
By David Shamah
Dr. Yonatan Elkind of Hebrew University's Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment, posing with some of the hybrid peppers he developed with his research team. (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
March 12, 2012, 12:59 pm
Photos highlight ‘the start-up of the start-up nation’
A new exhibition focuses on technologies developed by Hebrew University professors and researchers
By David Shamah
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) with Bar-Ilan University CEO Chaim Glick (left) and Professor Michael Weingarten, vice dean of the Faculty of Medicine, at the opening of Bar-Ilan University's Medical School last September (photo credit: Moshe Milner/GPO/Flash90)
From the WebMarch 12, 2012, 10:59 am
Bar-Ilan, University of Miami to collaborate on cancer research
Ynet: The two schools will explore opening a joint research center
March 11, 2012, 8:50 pm
Hebrew U invention will keep fruit and flowers fresh longer
Dow Chemicals will market an innovation that prevents early ripening
By David Shamah
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