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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 348

Volcani Center

Ellen Graber poses with one of her cacao plants at the Volcani Center in central Israel. (Courtesy: Ellen Graber)
March 27, 2024, 10:29 am
After surviving October 7, Israeli cocoa plants could help stave off world shortage
Chocolate-loving Ellen Graber’s ‘superhero’ seedlings, forced to fend for themselves after Hamas attack, survived 3.5 months without water or fertilizer, suggesting high resilience
By Sue Surkes
MK Yisrael Eichler (L) speaks to MK Moshe Gafni during a discussion on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 12, 2024 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 12, 2024, 8:41 pm
Lawmakers spar over amended 2024 budget ahead of Knesset vote
Finance Minister Smotrich ‘doesn’t see the Arabs in the budget,’ says Ra’am MK Waleed Alhwashla, claiming package set to pass Wednesday will widen gaps between sectors of society
By Sam Sokol
An aerial view of the Volcani Institute. (Yigal Elad, Wikipedia)
February 25, 2024, 10:02 pm
Agricultural research body says planned budget cuts will force it to halt activities
Volcani Institute fears having to renege on local, international research contracts, face lawsuits demanding return of funds, if Knesset approves amended 2024 budget
By Sue Surkes
Shock trauma specialist Prof. Avi Rivkind (center right) with members of a delegation from the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Hadassah Medical Center, Jerusalem, July 13, 2023. (Renee Ghert-Zand/Times of Israel)
August 2, 2023, 11:03 am
Impressed by Israeli science, Black universities plan student and faculty exchanges
‘If you send one or two students to start, you are changing their lives,’ says president of South Carolina State University, who joined recent trip of historically Black colleges
By Renee Ghert-Zand
The Golda hens when they were chicks. (Ori Peretz)
December 13, 2022, 4:36 pm
In first, Israeli scientists program hens to lay eggs that carry only female chicks
Gene editing technology developed by Volcani Center scientists, who say it has potential to stop ‘devastating’ destruction of 7 billion unwanted male chicks globally each year
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative image of radioactive waste barrels. (vchal, iStock at Getty Images)
September 12, 2022, 3:13 pm
Agricultural research body stored barrels of radioactive waste for years — report
Environmental Protection Ministry says the waste, recently removed from Rishon Lezion facility, was stored correctly and posed no risk
By Sue Surkes
A mountain gazelle is pictured on a hill next to a forest in a suburb of Jerusalem on January 7, 2021. (MENAHEM KAHANA / AFP)
January 15, 2021, 2:37 pm
Israel studies new forest home for endangered mountain gazelle
Wildlife experts hope population numbers can recover in woodlands like the Forest of the Martyrs west of Jerusalem
By Alexandra Vardi
A photo of the two altars found at the entrance to a shrine at Tel Arad in southern Israel, at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem. (Israel Museum/Laura Lachman)
May 30, 2020, 12:46 am
1st high: Ancient Israelites at Biblical shrine used cannabis to spark ‘ecstasy’
Researchers find resin on altar at Tel Arad is marijuana mixed with animal dung, used 2,700 years ago ‘as deliberate psychoactive’ – first evidence of ritual cannabis use in region
By ToI Staff
Early infestation of an Indian fig prickly pear. (Courtesy Prof. Zvika Mendel of the Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center)
August 8, 2019, 4:14 am
Israeli scientists fight to save iconic Sabra prickly pear from devastating pest
Predatory flies from Mexico are being released to devour an insect that is decimating the Sabra cactus across northern Israel
By Sue Surkes
Dr Dvory Namdar, the chief chemist and research associate at the government's marijuana greenhouses at the Volcani Center in Rishon Lezion, holds a flowering cannabis plant on June 27, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)
August 18, 2018, 12:43 pm
Weed firms fume as government rolls with cannabis research but stubs out exports
The Volcani Center’s medical marijuana research is part of Israel’s bid to be a world leader in medical cannabis, though businesses are angry over Netanyahu’s exports freeze
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative image of a brown spider (JasonOndreicka; iStock by Getty Images)
April 30, 2018, 11:48 am
Male spiders prefer mature aggressive females over fertile young ones
Israeli researchers say older female mates are 50 percent more likely to eat males after sex
By Shoshanna Solomon
The Volcani Institute research helicopter, gifted by Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel to Russian Prime Minister Dmitri Medvedev on November 10, 2016, seen in action flying over agricultural fields. (YouTube screenshot)
November 25, 2016, 7:50 pm
Spain seeks answers for Israel’s drone gift to Russia
Madrid says license on Spanish-made $50,000 craft did not allow minister Uri Ariel to impulsively hand it over to Medvedev
By ToI Staff and AFP
Illustrative photo of an agricultural field in Israel, May 2013 (Issam Rimawi/Flash90)
November 22, 2016, 12:33 pm
Israel fund to raise $50m to invest in ag-tech projects
Copia Agro & Food fund aims at improving the food chain, reduce harmful effects of food production
By Iacopo Luzi
Russian prime minister Dmitry Medvedev (R) seen with Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development Uri Ariel during their visit at the Volcani Institute, November 10, 2016. Photo by Flash90
November 14, 2016, 3:28 pm
Minister gives Russia $50,000 drone on whim, crimping research and breaking rule
Uri Ariel impulsively gifts Dimitri Medvedev advanced aircraft used for surveying crops; he wanted the software too, but didn’t get it
By Sue Surkes
Professor Zeev Schmilovitch (L) and Eshet Eilon CEO Menashe Tamir with the company's NIR technology date sorting machine (Photo credit: Courtesy)
May 3, 2015, 5:23 pm
How much fat in that avocado? Israeli machine knows for sure
Eshet Eilon’s new fruit sorters use ‘X-ray powers’ to analyze the inside of produce
By David Shamah
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