Science and Technology
The plan calls for closing factories and the country’s largest oil refinery over the next decade, replacing it with a park, businesses and housing.
Israel Defense Prize winner and pioneer of the nation’s space program Aby Har-Even “contributed greatly to Israel’s security in ways that will never be recounted,” says Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
“Thanks to the [Abraham Accords], we—an Israeli company—are able to cooperate with our Middle East neighbors to solve one of the region’s difficult problems: water scarcity,” said Dr. Michael Mirilashvili, president and CEO of Watergen.
Post-event, participants can enter the LevTech Lab Pre-Accelerator to further develop products or create their own startups.
An overexpression of SIRT6 increases longevity in engineered mice and enables them to stay vigorous without becoming frail.
The move seemed to be a non-controversial way of trying to simmer tensions between Jews and Arabs after violent clashes have raged throughout the country in the past several weeks.
The office of Israeli Minister of Energy Yuval Steinitz assured the public that its energy needs will not be affected by the temporary closure.
While America and Israel had reached an agreement in 2005 to prevent the Jewish state from exporting defense systems to China, trade in other economic sectors has expanded, with China now Israel’s second-largest trading partner.
Grant winners include researchers from disciplines including zoology, electrical engineering, economics, statistics, communication disorders, earth sciences, computer science, sociology and anthropology.
Construction is expected to begin soon and be completed by 2023.
“Israel is the only country in the world to start the 21st century with more trees than the previous century,” she pointed out.
The Israel Defense Forces said it was most likely gathering intelligence, and taken down using electric pulses and not gunfire.
