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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 566

L'Oréal-UNESCO Awards for Women in Science

(L. to R.) Adit Naor, Nava Ravid, and Natalie Zetoony at this year's presentation of the Israel L'Oreal-UNESCO For Women in Science Award winners (Photo credit: Lamm-Velitz Studio)
July 23, 2013, 9:22 pm
Female Israeli scientists to vie for top UNESCO award
Two women selected as candidates for a $100,000 prize, awarded to help mothers and wives continue lab work without worrying about family pressures
By David Shamah
File: Winners of the Israeli competition of the L'oreal-UNESCO Women In Science event, held July 2013. Left to right: Professor Hagit Yaron-Meser, Chairperson of the Open University; Prize winners Osnat Zomer-Penn, Dr. Efrat Shamah-Yaakovi, and Gili Bisker; and Ruth Arnon, director of the Israeli Academy of Sciences (Lamm and Velich Photo Studio)
March 29, 2013, 4:57 pm
Israeli wins European women’s science competition
Dr. Osnat Zomer-Penn, researching genetic origins of autism, is the third Israeli in a row to win the L’Oréal -UNESCO prize
By David Shamah
Left to right: Professor Hagit Yaron-Meser, Chairperson of the Open University; Prize winners Osnat Zomer-Penn, Dr. Efrat Shamah-Yaakovi , and Gili Bisker; and Ruth Arnon, director of the Israeli Academy of Sciences (Photo credit: Lamm and Velich Photo Studio)
July 24, 2012, 4:24 am
Israeli scientists in the running for worldwide award, even if UNESCO still can’t find Israel
Despite the fact that Israel does not fit into any of UNESCO’s world groupings, three women still have a chance to win up to $100,000
By David Shamah
Dr. Naama Geva-Zatorsky (Photo credit: Julien Chatelin, CAPA Pictures)
March 29, 2012, 8:47 pm
UNESCO awards Israeli biologist prestigious prize, but neglects promised update of 2010 Science Report
Weizmann Institute’s Naama Geva-Zatorsky named Europe’s top female researcher of the year
By David Shamah
February 28, 2012, 6:18 pm
Eureka! UNESCO’s science study set to discover Israel
For over a year, UNESCO refused to correct a global science report that omitted Nobel Prize-winning Israel. Only a concerted diplomatic effort — and perhaps a ‘Palestine’-prompted funding crisis — secured a promise to make amends
By David Shamah
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