In November 2022, Israel and Jordan agreed at a UN climate meeting in Egypt to clean up the polluted Jordan River, an essential waterway suffering under decades of pollution and drought. Despite having diplomatic ties, Jordan and Israel have often had fraught relations, especially over Israeli policies toward the Palestinians — tensions that have hindered…
The US and Israeli governments will jointly invest in energy projects and technologies that will be used to reduce carbon emissions, the [Israeli] Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD) has announced. The new funding cycle will focus on carbon-free technologies that reduce carbon emissions as part of an effort to address climate change and…
In a first for an Israeli institution of higher education, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has announced it will be creating a School of Sustainability and Climate Change. The location of BGU in a desert climate makes it ideal for studying many of the issues involved. BGU researchers have recently set their focus on a…
The research team, headed by Professor Avner Rothschild and doctoral student Yifat Piekner, is looking at hematite, an iron oxide chemically similar to rust…
It’s no secret that bees -– among other varieties of insects — are under threat due to a variety of environmental factors. If the world’s bee populations were to collapse, it would be a huge problem for the human race, since bees (honeybees in particular) are some of the most efficient and important pollinators Mother…
Israeli company EcoTech Recycling has patented a thermodynamic process that turns waste rubber into a nontoxic synthetic material for new tires, auto parts. and insulation — and does so in an environmentally friendly way. The company finished testing and scaling in early 2020 and signed a strategic partnership with Austria-based Sibur International, one of the…
It’s no secret that aircraft powered by carbon-based fuel are noisy and bad for the environment. “By 2020,” Wikipedia notes, “aviation emissions were 70% higher than in 2005 and they could grow by 300% by 2050 [due to increased air traffic].” Electric-powered airplanes would be a great improvement — both in terms of carbon footprint…
LATE UPDATE: As we were publishing this premier edition of AmazingIsraelis.org, an ecological disaster was unfolding in the Jewish state: a massive oil spill along its Mediterranean coast. The event is being investigated by Israeli authorities. More details will be coming in the next edition. Israel has a major problem with plastic pollution. Indeed,…
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WOW! FACTS
Inventor of the mobile phone, “Father of the Internet,” inventor of the video game cosole, inventor fo the laser, inventor of the gramophone, creator of the Barbie Doll, creator of the cruise ship, “Father of Immunology,” inventor fo the modern condom (!), a prime minister of the U.K., a three-time prime minister of France, a president of Switzerland and the primary financier of the American Revolution?
We knew you could guess… all of them are (or were) Jews!
To learn about these and many more AmazingJews, watch a compilation put together by JewOfTheWeek.net in 2015 and posted on YouTube. >>
Nobel Prizes
Although Jews are less than two-tenths of one percent of the world’s population, more than 20% of Nobel Prize winners have been Jewish. Source: Google
Polio Vaccine
Millions and millions of people worldwide have been spared the ravages of poliomyelitis — including paralysis and even death — thanks to research conducted by Jewish scientist Dr. Jonas Salk and his team. The Salk vaccine entered widespread use in the U.S. in 1955. Source: Wikipedia
Miss Liberty
The words “…give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses…” on the Statue of Liberty were written by Emma Lazarus, a Jew. Source: BuzzFeed
Blue Jeans
Levi Strauss, an immigrant from Germany, invented his blue jeans in 1873. Source: BuzzFeed
Start-Up Nation
Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship in the world. It has the highest rate of entrepreneurship among women and people over 55 in the world. Source: BuzzFeed