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Israeli-American Study Identifies Genes Improving Drought Resistance in Wheat

By Pesach Benson / TPS

“This is the first time that a gene has been found that confers resistance to drought conditions in bread wheat.”

Politics / Travel / On Campus / Education / Germany

Haifa U to Award Honorary Doctorate to Chancellor Merkel

By JNi.Media

Throughout her years in office, Merkel strengthened the friendship between Germany and Israel.

Featured / Israel / US / Global / Business and Economy / Science and Tech

Two Israeli High Tech Pioneers Partner on First Auto-Grow Device for Medical Cannabis

By JNi.Media

Through their new partnership, Cannabics and Seedo will develop the first controlled device for growing medical cannabis at home.

Featured / Israel / Chessed and Tzedaka / On Campus / Education / South America

Haifa U. NGO to Purchase 1,730 Acres of Amazon Rainforest

By JNi.Media

With the purchase, the lands will become part of a local nature preserve that is being managed by the local communities.

Featured / Book Reviews / The Muqata

A History of the Palestinian People - From Ancient Times to the Modern Era

By JoeSettler

Assaf A. Voll has written one of the most comprehensive books on the history of the Palestinian People.

Headline / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech

Israeli Researchers Find Male-Only Longevity Gene Mutation

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

A deletion of the growth hormone receptor Exon 3 was not only a marker of exceptional longevity, but it also made them taller.

Israel / News Briefs / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Haifa University Predicts Arrival of Jellyfish in Israel Using Sea Temperature and Lunar Cycle

By JNi.Media

Jellyfish caused a cascading blackout in the Philippines in 1999, and damaged the Diablo Canyon Power Plant in California in 2008. Clogging can stop desalination plants and ship engines.

Israel / Jewish / US / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Trust Fund of US ‘Queen of Mean’ Gives $25 Million to Haifa U

By Jewish Press News Desk

The Helmsley Charitable trust, which was bankrolled by the late hotel tycoon “Queen of Mean” Leona Helmsley, has donated $25 million to Haifa University, which will use the funds for undersea robots and automated vehicles and undersea laboratories for its new Mediterranean Sea Research Center. Her name became more widely known for her including her […]

Israel / News Briefs / On Campus / Education

Haifa U. Denies Prof. Aumann Honorary Award because of Politics

By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)

The University of Haifa’s Executive Committee said it decided not to grant an honorary doctorate to Professor Robert Aumann, winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in economics in 2005, because his political beliefs do not fall in line with the university’s values. The university was concerned about several Zionist positions espoused by Aumann, including a […]

Op-Eds

Israel’s Totalitarian Left Never Sleeps

By Steven Plaut

There is a species of radical leftist that believes the main purpose of taxpayer-funded universities is to indoctrinate students in radical left-wing ideology. Such people believe the only legitimate form of scholarly research and teaching is to force upon students the ideas and agendas of the left because only these represent correct thinking.

Israel / News Briefs / Health and Living

Israeli Buildings Pink-Lit to Fight Breast Cancer

By Malkah Fleisher

The tall buildings of Haifa University and the Naveh Nof residential Tower in Bat Yam were lit up in pink Tuesday night in solidarity with an international breast cancer awareness campaign.

Op-Eds

The Amazing Saga Of Two-Gun Cohen

By Steven Plaut

In November 1947, the United Nations was considering the creation of a Jewish state in parts of Western Palestine and a new Arab state in the other parts.

Op-Eds

The Passover Peacock

By Steven Plaut

It was a few days before Passover when I first heard the horrific cackling. “What,” I asked family members, is that? It sounded just like the longtime leftist agitator Shulamit Aloni. But it wasn’t.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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