In April of this year, the Blavatnik Family Foundation, the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, and the New York Academy of Sciences announced laureates of the 2023 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in Israel. This year’s winners, each of whom will receive $100,000, are: Shai Carmi, Ph.D. (Life Sciences) — The Hebrew University of…
In a global first, Tel Aviv University (TAU) scientists have discovered about 100,000 new types of viruses previously unknown to science — even specifying which organisms they are likely to attack. These viruses were discovered in global environmental data from soil samples, oceans, lakes, and a variety of other ecosystems. The researchers believe that their…
Each year, many thousands of people lose their lives in earthquakes, millions lose their homes, and countries around the world incur billions of dollars in damages. (The 2010 earthquake in Haiti alone is estimated to have taken approximately 300,000 lives.) Being able to predict when earthquakes are about to happen could significantly help reduce the…
Scientists from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said they identified a previously…
Photosynthesis is a process used by plants and other organisms to convert light energy into chemical energy that, through cellular respiration…
Researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have discovered a “disrupted” state in some…
On Feb. 22, 2019, the Israeli SpaceIL lunar lander Beresheet (named after the first book of the Torah) was launched…
Eytan Stibbe (pronounced STEE-buh) is a 63-year-old former Israeli fighter pilot, fighter ace, businessman, and future private astronaut. Stibbe will be blasting off into space next October, as part of history’s first all-civilian mission. (He’ll be Israel’s second astronaut in space after the late Ilan Ramon, who perished in the 2003 shuttle Columbia disaster.) Sibbe…
In what is being called “a breakthrough” and “a monumental achievement,” a team of scientists at the Weitzman Institute of Science — led by Dr. Jacob Hanna — has successfully grown more than 1,000 mouse embryos in artificial wombs. The project to create the artificial wombs has been in the works for seven years. Obviously,…
The Denisovans, now extinct, were a species or subspecies of archaic humans during the Lower and Middle Paleolithic periods. Hebrew University research scientist Liran Carmel and his colleague David Gokhman (among others on the team) have, for the first time, given the world an idea of the Denosivans’ probable appearance. They used genetic data from…
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