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Left to right: Mikhail Fridman (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images), Petr Aven (Alexander Aleshkin/Epsilon/Getty Images ), Moshe Kantor (Menahem Kahana/AFP via Getty Images), Roman Abramovich (Ian Walton/Getty Images) All images via JTA.
July 12, 2022, 7:52 am
With their planes grounded, Russia’s Jewish oligarchs see consequences of Putin ties
With no end in sight to invasion of Ukraine, effect of sanctions ripples through world of Jewish philanthropy
By MADELINE FIXLER and Asaf Shalev
The new FAST telescope in China is the largest radio telescope ever built. (Video screenshot)
April 30, 2022, 7:41 am
Alien-hunting scientists controversially want to blast out Earth’s location
Stephen Hawking warned of danger of contacting aliens with superior tech, saying they could destroy humanity; others say advanced civilization would already know of our existence
By chris impey
Yuri Milner, giving the commencement speech for Wharton MBA students of class 2017. (The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania)
September 16, 2020, 1:26 pm
Wharton School to provide full tuition MBA fellowship for Israeli students
$10 million donation over 10 years at Pennsylvania business school comes from alumnus Yuri Milner, a tech investor who has also funded research into extraterrestrial life
By Shoshanna Solomon
Surgical face masks arrive in Israel from China, April 17, 2020 (Screen grab/Kan)
April 17, 2020, 8:50 am
3 million face masks arrive in Israel from China for medics, government workers
Project funded by foundation belonging to Russian-Israeli billionaire Yuri Milner; protective gear to be distributed by Magen David Adom to those working in essential jobs
By ToI Staff
Russian Jewish entrepreneur and co-founder of the Breakthrough Prize, Yuri Milner, attends a press conference in London on July 20, 2015, where he and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking announced the launch of Breakthrough Listen Initiative, a new effort to detect intelligent life in the cosmos. (AFP photo/Niklas Halle'n)
May 23, 2018, 5:23 am
A complete guide to the Jewish machers in the Russia probe
From Len Blavatnik to Yuri Milner, several Russian Jews who made it big also feature prominently in the investigation into Trump’s ties to Moscow
By Ron Kampeas
Russian Jewish billionaire investor Yuri Milner and famed cosmologist Stephen Hawking host a press conference to announce Breakthrough Starshot, a new space exploration initiative, at One World Observatory on April 12, 2016 in New York City. (Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for Breakthrough Prize Foundation/AFP)
April 12, 2016, 11:31 pm
Billionaire, famed cosmologist unveil plan to reach Alpha Centauri
Light-propelled ‘nanocraft’ riding laser sails at one-fifth the speed of light may be humanity’s first interstellar messengers
By AFP
Russian Jewish entrepreneur and co-founder of the Breakthrough Prize, Yuri Milner, attends a press conference in London on July 20, 2015, where he and British cosmologist Stephen Hawking announced the launch of Breakthrough Listen Initiative, a new effort to detect intelligent life in the cosmos. (AFP photo/Niklas Halle'n)
July 23, 2015, 3:48 am
Jewish tech billionaire partners with Hawking in $100m. search for alien life
Yuri Milner, who is funding the Breakthrough Listen initiative, calls it the most intensive scientific bid ever to find signs of alien civilization
By Robin MILLARD
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