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New Jerusalem exhibit demonstrates how plastic is ‘suffocating Earth’

Maayan HoffmanJanuary 31, 2022

Artist Beverly Barkat’s latest work, “Earth Poetica,” captures the world’s plastic pollution crisis. The artist hopes the massive sculpture, which will debut in Jerusalem, will “create some kind of dialogue that will enable change.”

"Earth Poetica" by Beverly Barkat. Photo: Michael Amar.

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Elbit awarded $16 million to build new space telescope for Weizmann Institute

January 26, 2022

It is intended “to help scientists in understanding the creation of heavy elements, black holes and gravitational waves, and to discover astronomical phenomena such as supernovas (star explosions).”

Elbit Systems space telescope for Israel’s Ultraviolet Transient Astronomy Satellite (“ULTRASAT”) program to observe and research deep space. Credit: Courtesy of Elbit Systems.

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