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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 588

Rona Ramon

Eytan Stibbe, set to become Israel's 'second astronaut in space,' speaks at the president's residence on November 16, 2020. (Mark Neyman / GPO)
November 16, 2020, 8:39 pm
Israeli astronaut to fund own space flight, just might fly alongside Tom Cruise
Eytan Stibbe, ex-fighter pilot set to be Israel’s 2nd astronaut, will also finance equipment for experiments on space station; 1st astronaut Ilan Ramon was his air force commander
By ToI Staff
Illustration of the space shuttle that will carry Eytan Stibbe (Axiom Space)
November 16, 2020, 12:05 pm
Israel to send its second-ever astronaut into space
Eytan Stibbe to head to International Space Station late next year; announcement made in presence of son of 1st Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in 2003 Columbia mission
By Nathan Jeffay
NASA astronaut Jessica Meir outside the Soyuz MS-15 spacecraft after she lands with NASA astronaut Andrew Morgan and Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Skripochka in a remote area near the town of Zhezkazgan, Kazakhstan on Friday, April 17, 2020.(NASA/GCTC/Andrey Shelepin)
June 12, 2020, 1:05 am
Back from space odyssey, astronaut Jessica Meir adapts to Covid-plagued Earth
With 7 months on International Space Station and historic all-female space walks behind her, trailblazing child of Iraqi-born Israeli sets sights on Artemis moon landing project
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Rona Ramon, widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, speaks at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Ilan and Asaf Ramon International Airport in southern Israel, on May 9, 2013. (Flash90)
May 9, 2019, 10:19 pm
Rona Ramon posthumously awarded Israel Prize for lifetime achievement
Late widow of Israeli astronaut who became youth advocate is among 2019 laureates honored at annual Independence Day ceremony
By ToI Staff
Rona Ramon, widow of first Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon who died in a fatal accident aboard the space shuttle Columbia attends a conference at the Space School in Jerusalem on October 15, 2007. (Flash90)
April 3, 2019, 1:29 am
Rona Ramon posthumously awarded Israel Prize for lifetime achievement
Ramon, widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon and founder of the Ramon foundation, hailed as ‘an Israeli hero full of giving and light’
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin, center left, and his wife Nechama, center right, with bereaved family of crew members from the Columbia space shuttle disaster, January 27, 2019. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
January 27, 2019, 6:24 pm
Rivlin hosts bereaved families of Columbia shuttle astronauts
President fulfills wish of deceased Israeli crew member’s wife, Rona Ramon, who had invited the visitors but died last month before they arrived
By Stuart Winer
Rona Ramon, widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, speaks at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Ilan and Asaf Ramon International Airport in southern Israel, on May 9, 2013. (Flash90)
December 23, 2018, 9:06 pm
Judges throw out attempt to stop Rona Ramon cremation
High Court says lawyer had no standing to ‘intervene in a matter between a person and their family’ and orders he pay NIS 3,000 for frivolous lawsuit
By ToI Staff
A US soldier walks on a newly installed position, near the tense front line between the US-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, April 4, 2018. (AP/Hussein Malla)
December 20, 2018, 2:40 pm
Leaving Syria, abandoning Israel: 10 things to know for December 20
Trump’s decision to pull US troops out of the country will result in big gains for Iran and an even more complicated mission for Israel to stop Tehran and Hezbollah
By Joshua Davidovich
Rona Ramon, who died on December 17, 2018. She was the widow of first Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who died in a fatal accident aboard the space shuttle Columbia on May 9, 2013, and the mother of IAF pilot Asaf Ramon, who died in a crash during a training flight in September 2009. (Flash90)
December 20, 2018, 11:56 am
Rona Ramon’s cremation request roils rabbis
Some Orthodox religious leaders offer to arrange Jewish burial in defiance of her last wishes; others say there’s no room for intervention or judgment
By Marissa Newman
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pays his respects to Rona Ramon, at the Peres Center for Peace and Innovation in Tel Aviv, December 19, 2018 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
December 19, 2018, 1:09 pm
Israelis pay respects to Rona Ramon, hailed by Netanyahu as ‘hero of the spirit’
Students inspired by Ramon Foundation projects pay tribute to a woman who encouraged them to ‘look farther afield to create a better society’
By Melanie Lidman
Rona Ramon, widow of Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, speaks at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Ilan and Asaf Ramon International Airport in southern Israel, on May 9, 2013. (Flash90)
December 18, 2018, 3:20 pm
Rona Ramon to be cremated to spare her kids another funeral — report
Body of widow of Israel’s only astronaut, who later lost a son in an army training accident, to lie in repose at Peres Peace Center in Jaffa
By ToI Staff
Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky speaks during an event in San Francisco, on February 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg, File)
December 18, 2018, 2:58 pm
Blunder ‘n’ bereavement: 8 things to know for December 18
Airbnb and the Tourism Ministry took reporters and others on a wild ride, and it might be a long, long time until it’s clear; plus Israel mourns the wife of its first rocket man
By Joshua Davidovich
Rona Ramon, left, and her daughter Noa, in Cocoa Beach, Florida, on January 15, 2003, a day before the launch of the space shuttle Columbia. (AP Photo/Alan Diaz, File)
December 17, 2018, 7:24 pm
Rona Ramon, widow of astronaut killed in Columbia shuttle disaster, dies at 54
Politicians mourn ‘inspirational’ woman, who turned to grief counseling and education when her tragedy was compounded with the death of her son — an IDF pilot — in 2009
By Michael Bachner
Jeffrey Hoffman reads from the Torah aboard the space shuttle Columbia during a 1996 mission. (Courtesy of Hoffman)
December 30, 2016, 6:00 am
Space Torah: When the creation story flew back into the firmament
To read the divine among the stars, three holy scrolls have made the journey to outer space; only two returned safely
By Rich Tenorio
IDF troops march in the formation of two hearts at an Independence Day ceremony on Mount Herzl in Jerusalem on May 11, 2016. (Melanie Lidman)
May 11, 2016, 9:19 pm
As Independence Day begins, Israelis move from commemoration to celebration
State ceremony fetes ‘civil heroes,’ including quake aid worker, Holocaust survivor, and the widow of Israel’s first astronaut
By Raoul Wootliff
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