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Technion, the Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa, Israel

Israeli vintage postcard

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As explicitly shown by the physicist David Bohm,¹¹ the reasoning of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen can be easily extended to the question of whether particles have definite spins about any and all chosen axes.

11. David Bohm is among the creative minds that worked on quantum mechanics during the twentieth century. He was born in Pennsylvania in 1917 and was a student of Robert Oppenheimer at Berkeley. While teaching at Princeton University, he was called to appear in front of the House Un-American Activities Committee, but refused to reside at the hearings. Instead, he departed the United States, becoming a professor at the University of São Paulo in Brazil, then at the Technion in Israel, and finally at Birkbeck College of the University of London. He lived in London until his death in 1992.

"The Fabric of the Cosmos" - Brian Greene

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A Soldier’s Tale: The Parakeet in the Abandoned School on the Gaza Border

Sderot is located less than a mile from the Gaza Strip. Some ninety per cent of the town’s 30,000 residents fled on October 7 after Hamas invaded southern Israel. My wife’s cousin, Ilan, is currently stationed with his infantry unit in what was, until recently, a Sderot elementary school. The happy, high-pitched yelping of children has been replaced by the metallic sounds of assault rifles being…

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Az izraeli hadsereg folytatja előrenyomulását a Gázai övezetben

Az izraeli hadsereg (IDF) folytatja támadó hadműveleteit és előrenyomulását a Gázai övezetben – jelentette be a katonai szóvivő csütörtök reggel. A gázai szárazföldi hadműveletek során számos fegyvert találtak az övezet északi részén fekvő Dzsabalia egyik iskolájában. Az IDF jelentése szerint az elmúlt napon több tucat légitámadást hajtottak végre az iszlamista Hamasz terrorszervezet…

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By Edward H. Kaplan and Evan Morris

At Ben Gurion-Soroka Hospital, Technion-Rambam Hospital, and the Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Center, we saw how integrated their medical schools and faculty are. The percentage of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who are Arabs greatly exceeds their share in the total population.

We heard Arab university vice presidents, and their Jewish counterparts take full pride in jointly leading Israeli university life. Unlike the scene on American campuses, Muslim and Christian Arabs, Druze and Jewish students understand that their job is to learn, not to fight each other.

In presentations by an Israeli Arab journalist and a Druze professor, we learned that contrary to conceptions prevalent on American campuses, the majority of Israeli Arabs do not seek to separate from Israel. Indeed, while Israeli Arabs do have demands, we learned they are in service of more integration into Israeli society—better schools, law enforcement, and physical infrastructure—not less. Similarly, we learned from a Druze professor the strong connection to the Jewish State felt by the Israeli Druze.

We met face-to-face with faculty in academic disciplines matching our own at each of Ben Gurion University of the Negev, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Tel Aviv University. We also met with the leaders of Sapir College in Sderot which came under direct attack on October 7, and Tel Hai Academic College which is currently evacuated due to the Hezbollah threat from Lebanon.

The President of Israel's Academy of Sciences and Humanities and a Nobel Prize winner addressed the challenges facing Israeli academics in discussion with us. Facing such brilliance (and in such a small country), we were dismayed to learn the extent of academic discrimination being directed at Israeli academics: faculty who were invited to address conferences only to be told later—and in one case upon arrival in Australia—that they were no longer welcome to speak; external reviewers returning evaluation requests because they refuse to consider Israeli scholars; journals reneging on decisions to publish papers that were already accepted.

This is especially upsetting to us given the emergence of organized faculty extremists on American campuses with the publicly stated objective of boycotting Israeli academia. Our reaction to such prejudice is clear: we will build upon already existing collaborations with our Israeli colleagues, invite Israeli speakers to campus, offer to provide objective evaluations and reviews within our academic areas of expertise, and provide opportunities for budding young Israeli researchers.

[transingthoseformers]

After checking through the rediscovered notes for the new-old colony au, because it's been on my mind, I've discovered I didn't just have one human cult in that au but two, with directly opposing opinions about the cybertronians (the Acolytes of Technion and the Radicals respectively)

Which, in 2025 hindsight, could lead to funny situations if it was more lighthearted

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120 Heroes of Hope: Honoring Qanta Ahmed and the Light of Coexistence

By Justine Zwerling Shalom, Salaam, Hello – In case you’re losing hope in Muslims, Christians, Jews, Druze & people of all faiths – in humanity – PLEASE DON’T! سلام שלוםWe decided not to wait until after this horrific war, with 50 of our hostages still being held by terrorists for 644 days, before recognizing true leaders & unsung heroes. We are honoring, thanking, and celebrating our brothers…

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Israel Top University IQ Test #shorts #shortsfeed #iqtest #trivia #quiz ...

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Good News From Israel

In the 24th Mar 24 edition of Israel’s good news, the highlights include:

An Israeli Arab policeman saved hundreds of Jews on Oct 7.

Israeli scientists are testing new innovative treatments for Alzheimer’s and AMD.

Israelis are the fifth happiest people in the world.

An Israeli device that can detect infected food.

Thousands of foreign workers are reviving Israel’s construction industry.

An Israeli cycling team won the Tour de Taiwan.

Archeologists have found where Jews prepared to fight the Romans.

Read More: Good News From Israel

Jews around the world have just heard how Queen Esther saved the Jewish people from annihilation over 2,000 years ago. This week, the positive Israeli news is full of the achievements of Israeli women.   They include the discoverer of a treatment for a common eye disease.  Three women who developed a test for newborns at risk of disabilities.  The Oct 7 survivor who is back on her feet thanks to Israeli technology.  Technion’s first female dean of aerospace engineering. The winner of the “Nobel Prize” for Electrical Engineering. And the founder of an NGO that has brought water & electricity to 1,100 African villages.   Read also about an Israeli startup that uses AI to increase fertility, and how the Technion is encouraging young mothers to join the ranks of future entrepreneurs.   The photo (TY Sharon) is of Jerusalem’s Bible Lands Museum – one of the venues for the Jerusalem Biennale which is featuring the works of Jewish and Israeli women artists.

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Electrical Engineering building of the Technion in Haifa, Israel

Israeli vintage postcard

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Integrating more natural features into city landscapes can play a crucial role in enhancing the mental well-being of residents. A study by Bangor University and Technion- Israel Institute of Technology, published in the scientific journal People and Nature, involved city dwellers and showed how paying visual attention to greenery, rather than human-made structures, can alleviate anxiety and enhance restorative feelings. The 117 urban residents who took part in the study, were guided on a 45-minute urban walk, while wearing eye-tracking glasses. They were instructed to focus their gaze on trees, plants, lawns and flowers, man-made structures or a mix of both. This unique methodology revealed that a participants' focus on nature was associated with improvements in various mental health metrics, including anxiety levels and feelings of restorativeness.

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UPenn donor redirects $5M to Israeli universities after cutting ties with alma mater

David Magerman, a former donor to the University of Pennsylvania decided to redirect $5 million to Israeli universities.Bloomberg via Getty Images

After halting donations to his alma mater last year, a former University of Pennsylvania donor has redirected $5 million to Israeli universities instead, citing the Ivy League institution’s refusal to address antisemitism on campus.

David Magerman, a venture capitalist and philanthropist, has reallocated millions in donations to universities in Israel after witnessing the anti-Israel protests and antisemitism that has permeated U.S. college campuses in the months following the Oct. 7 attack on Israel by Hamas, he told Fox News Digital.

Magerman said he will give $1 million grants to five institutions of higher learning across Israel, including Tel Aviv University, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Bar-Ilan University and Jerusalem College of Technology. 

He also revealed that he intends to donate to additional Israeli causes in the coming months.

His donations will support programs for English-speaking students to learn academic Hebrew and integrate into STEM degree programs in Israel.

Magerman said he hopes his contributions will give Jewish-American students who are considering moving to Israel more options to study abroad after growing weary of campus life in the U.S.

“My plan is to redirect my philanthropic efforts going forward largely to Israel,” he told Fox News Digital. 

“I don’t see much value generated by giving to American universities. I think that liberal colleges in America are flawed institutions that are doing a poor job of preparing students for the real world.”

Asked what his message is to other prominent Jewish donors still contributing to Ivy League schools, Magerman said pointedly, “Stop.” 

He said it’s naive to believe that elite U.S. universities are “reformable.”

Magerman, a venture capitalist and philanthropist, cited that his alma mater’s refusal to address antisemitism on campus is why he gave millions of dollars to Israeli institutions instead.

“They’re fulfilling the mission they want to fulfill. Their goal, it seems, is to indoctrinate their students to question the validity of Western civilization, to question the value of the Founding Fathers and to criticize Western society. I don’t think that’s what these philanthropists believe and I don’t think that they should be donating money to support propagating that ideology,” said Magerman.

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A grant to study linguistic differences between Hebrew and English was flagged as an example of “woke DEI grants” in a new database released by Sen. Ted Cruz.

The database is part of ongoing Republican efforts to justify significant cuts to federal research funding and diversity programs under President Donald Trump.

The $226,000 grant, given by the National Science Foundation to the University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2022, was flagged by the Texas Republican senator’s team as having an inappropriate focus on “gender.” 

But according to the description of the research in Cruz’s own database, the sole mention of gender in the grant’s description is in reference to the fact that the Hebrew language (like many) assigns gender to nouns.

The UMass grant was also one of seven in Cruz’s database of Biden-era grants that stated an intent to promote partnerships between American and Israeli research institutions — something that did not appear to mitigate opposition from Cruz, an avowed supporter of Israel. He said in a statement that the more than 3,400 grants in his database demonstrated that the NSF had funded “questionable projects that promoted Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) or advanced neo-Marxist class warfare propaganda.”

A request for comment to Cruz’s office was not returned; nor was an inquiry sent to UMass. Cruz, the chair of the Senate committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation, said in a statement that his data “exposes how the Biden administration weaponized federal agencies to push a far-left ideology.” 

He added, “Congress must end the politicization of NSF funding and restore integrity to scientific research.”

The public database of grants compiled by Cruz provides a window into how Trump and his allies are thinking about cuts to research funding. The flagged grants mentioning Israel were made to six universities including Brown, the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland-Baltimore County. They cover a range of scientific topics, from studying cognition to magnetic technologies to energy storage. 

What they have in common is a stated intent to collaborate with an Israeli university. For example, Michigan’s grant specifically references a partnership with Ben-Gurion University in the southern Israeli city of Beersheva, while a second UMass grant mentions partnering with Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in the port city of Haifa, as well as “outreach by the Israeli collaborator to local high schools in Haifa.”

The second common thread among the Israel-related grant descriptions is the use of keywords flagged by the database as related to gender or DEI. Cruz’s team sorted the grants based on the presence of keywords related to the categories of “gender,” “status,” “social justice,” “race” and “environmental justice.”

None of the grants to mention Israeli partnerships make such topics the focus of their research, though some state a general commitment to “groups underrepresented in science” or “outreach to women and underrepresented minorities.” UMBC’s grant states that it will allow participation “for local high school students from underrepresented groups on the US side, and from various nationalities on the IL [Israeli] side.”

The UMass grant exploring the Hebrew and English languages makes no such commitment to diversity. Its reference to gender comes as it states that “English and Hebrew differ in how they organize the words within sentences and whether they assign gender to nouns; Hebrew assigns masculine and feminine genders to nouns, similar to languages like Spanish and French but unlike English.” 

The project’s stated focus is to study how such linguistic differences affect “interpretation errors” among people who speak both languages.

Cruz’s dragnet of so-called “woke” research grants also comes as a number of American researchers and campus groups have pushed for boycotts of all Israeli institutions, in protest of Israel’s war in Gaza. 

The database was posted as Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency has targeted federal research funding on the basis of keywords that, the Trump team claims, reveal evidence of gender- and DEI-driven agendas. On Tuesday a federal judge intervened to block steep cuts to medical research funding at the National Institutes of Health. Another injunction blocked key parts of Musk’s effort to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development. 

A report last week in the Washington Post found that NSF staff were also being directed to comb through their research projects in search of dozens of offending keywords, including “women,” “victims,” “trauma” and “ethnicity.” Such efforts are part of a larger slashing of federal spending, including the shuttering of entire departments, that scholars say is unlawful and may be leading to a constitutional crisis.

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🚨 Anonymous Sudan launched a cyber attack on universities of the zionist entity yesterday, including "Tel Aviv University," "The Hebrew University," "The Technion," "Ben-Gurion University," "Haifa University, "Bar-Ilan University," "Weizmann Institute," successfully taking down their systems. The group has renewed its attack on the universities today.

The group stated: "Attacks against Israel will continue as they continue their genocidal campaign on Gaza. One of the reasons for the attack: drawing attention to the dire situation in Sudan."

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Fun Hebrew fact ג: "double-colon"

A little background in programming: plenty of programming languages make a use of the following operator:

::

Which is basically just the colon symbol twice in a row.

This operator has a name: The scope resolution operator (named after what it's meant to signify, I won't get into it)

But, this operator happened to have another, fairly-commonly-used name.

You see, there's a programming language called PHP which was mostly developed in Israel back in the day (by Zeev Suraski and Andi Gutmans from the Technion in Haifa. Side note: the language was created by the Danish-Canadian programmer Rasmus Lerdorf).

And PHP was one of the first languages to use the scope resolution operator [source needed].

So these two Israelis, when they had to look for a name for that operator - they decided to call it פעמיים נקודותיים, Hebrew for "double-colon". and in English? paamayim nekudotayim. they didn't bother translating it.

And to this very day, there are PHP error message which include the term "paamayim nekudotayim", and to this very day there are people using that term, often without even knowing it's Hebrew.

So that is how Hebrew found its way into programming.

Sidenote: It's actually supposed to be pa'amayim nekudatayim (unless there's some type of Ashke pronounciation that i'm not aware of, which is fairly possible), and this is a common Israeli mistake (using the plural form instead of the singular before the ayim suffix, which means "two").

Bonus: people complaining about the term on Stack Overflow, a website where people ask for help with programming:

Another bonus: PHP's icon becauae I kinda like it: