Author Archives: MichaelOrdman

World class nano-scientist

Posted on July 4, 2022

Professor Jacob Sagiv of Israel’s Weizmann Institute is the first Israeli to win the international Kavli award, for astrophysics, nanoscience, and neuroscience. Prof. Sagiv shared the Nanoscience prize, with 3 USA colleagues for their pioneering work on self-assembling monolayers on … Continue reading →

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World Bank praises Israel’s fiber rollout

Posted on July 4, 2022

A study by the World Bank praises Israel’s rollout of hi-speed fiber-optic Internet. 60% of Israeli households now have fast Internet access. The Communications Ministry plans to meet again with the World Bank in September to share its deployment model … Continue reading →

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A school for coexistence

Posted on July 4, 2022

Jalal Toukhi trained as a lawyer in Tel Aviv municipality and has a Social Studies master’s from Al-Quds University. He is the first Israeli Arab to be principal of an Israeli school. The Ajyal school in Jaffa has 150 teachers … Continue reading →

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Ending discrimination against women

Posted on July 4, 2022

By a majority of 115, the United Nations General Assembly elected Israel to its Committee on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women.  UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan was “proud to see more Israeli women leading & promoting women’s … Continue reading →

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IDF warning prevented cyberattack on US power plants

Posted on July 4, 2022

The deputy chief of IDF Unit 8200 said that his intelligence agency warned the United States of attempts to hack the country’s power plants in time to thwart the cyberattack. The IDF spotted the attack on the US while they … Continue reading →

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Disaster aid for Afghanistan

Posted on July 4, 2022

Israel’s IsraAID is working with local partners to provide humanitarian relief to victims of the magnitude 6.1 earthquake in Eastern Afghanistan. It plans to provide essential items such as bandages, sterile syringes, gauze, suture kits, tourniquets, pain killers, antibiotics, and … Continue reading →

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Muslim EMT rescues Jewish Ukrainian refugees

Posted on July 4, 2022

United Hatzalah’s Khaled Hardan, a Muslim volunteer paramedic from Wadi Ara in northern Israel, flew to Warsaw to help ensure Jewish Ukrainians could undertake the journey to Israel. Khaled said, “I am happy that I was part of the team … Continue reading →

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Apple for Israelis & PA Arabs

Posted on July 4, 2022

Apple’s R&D centers in Herzliya and Haifa currently employ 2,000 Israeli engineers working on Apple M1 chips and depth sensing camera. Apple also has 60 Palestinian Arab engineers at its Apple hub in the new PA city of Rawabi, run … Continue reading →

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No more building of chicken cages

Posted on July 4, 2022

Israel is among the first countries in the world to ban chicken cages for egg-laying hens and to move to non-cage systems. Israel’s new regulations also include providing regular care for chickens and bans on the practice of induced molting … Continue reading →

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Empowering female entrepreneurs

Posted on July 4, 2022

Israeli NGO Yozmot Atid empowers women from Israel’s geographical, social, and economic periphery. Its training program helps some 1,000 women each year start businesses and become financially independent. The NGO took dozens of senior Israeli executives on a tour of … Continue reading →

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