Science and Technology
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.
The iPhone has about a 30 percent market share in the Jewish state.
It asks U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken to consider the Nexus document and Jerusalem Declaration on anti-Semitism, in addition to the official IHRA one.
Joint efforts will also be applied to encourage public participation in environmental protection.
For years, it has been viewed as a shipping route, a source for marine resources, a beachside resort, even a possible garbage dump, says Professor Ilana Berman-Frank of the University of Haifa.
The project, estimated to last at least five years, will combine expertise from marine biology, acoustics, artificial intelligence and linguistics.
Technion biomedical engineering student Aseel Nama grew up in the Arab town of Deir al-Asad in the Galilee and is now based in Haifa.
