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The uniformed reservists are participating in an officer-training program.
“In the future, it will be possible to train a computer for an ALS patient in the early stages of the disease while they can still speak."
The findings open a new door to potential new treatments for disorders characterized by impaired impulse control, such as ADHD, drug addiction and schizophrenia.
The research offers a promising avenue for reducing cancer risk among heart disease patients.
Researchers successfully classified two crucial components of the immune response that occur during severe infectious diseases.
One protester bragged how he got close to Rothman and blew a horn right into his ear until a bodyguard pushed him a way.
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“We are honored and delighted to welcome Mr. Jack Ma to Tel Aviv University,” says TAU President Ariel Porat
Thousand-year-old Codex Sassoon manuscript is expected to fetch up to $50 million at Sotheby’s.
Why has junk DNA has not been eliminated from the genome of living creatures?
Renowned Swiss architect Mario Botta designed the building.
An experimental drug developed at a TAU lab may be suitable for treating a range of rare syndromes that impair brain functions.
An Innovative Technology has been Launched into Space.
Saving lives with artificial intelligence.
The technology has detected 73% of the lies told by trial participants based on the contraction of their facial muscles,
The new technology, enabling the storage of information in the thinnest unit known to science, is expected to improve future electronic devices in terms of density, speed, and efficiency.
Scientists discovered that water produced from air is affected from where the air originated.
"Glioblastoma is the deadliest type of cancer in the central nervous system, accounting for most malignant brain tumors."
"The huge demand is a pleasant surprise indicating a welcomed and in-depth change in the attitude to the language."
This new appointment follows eleven women who have been appointed to leading positions at TAU over the past year.
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“The AI revolution is expected to impact our way of life in every aspect,” from drug development to security systems, robotics and even social issues,” said Professor Meir Feder, who will head the center.
At an altitude of 400 km above sea level, the nanosatellite will orbit the earth at a dizzying speed of 27,600 km per hour, or 7.6 km per second, completing a cycle around Earth every 90 minutes.
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“We have joined the ‘Civil Space Revolution’ called New Space, in which, unlike the Old Space, not only giant companies with huge budgets and large teams of engineers can build and launch satellites,” said Professor Colin Price.
TAU stressed that this growth took place without any affirmative action regarding admission requirements.
The list includes 160,000 researchers from 149 countries in 22 scientific disciplines and 176 subdisciplines.
Elmalem encoded motion information cues in the raw optical image which are decoded by an image processing algorithm which utilizes them for motion deblurring.
“We are setting out on a new path, familiar but different, at the end of which we hope to land three spacecraft safely on the moon."
The Israeli team found that early humans may have had a good understanding of the effects of heating the stone before flaking it into blades, and they may have used different temperatures to create different types of tools.
The research reveals that the migration from Africa occurred during a period of a global ice age and supports the belief that the adaptations that made humanity the dominant species on Earth appeared early on in our evolution.
“The CRISPR-IL consortium will enable Israeli industry to be at the forefront of genome editing worldwide."
The patent, approved in March, covers a vaccine that targets the most vulnerable point in a coronavirus’s structure, through which it penetrates human cells
Israeli scientists have found rare and benign tumor, called LCH, in a young dinosaur that roamed the plains of southern Alberta, Canada, over 60 million years ago.
The treatment reduced the number of pancreatic cancer cells by 90% in the developed tumors a month after it was administered.
“It is disgraceful that Tel-Aviv University allows its students to hold demonstrations in solidarity with terrorists."
Prime Minister Netanyahu has shown a clear preference for American trained economists.
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“The facts in this case, many of which were disregarded by the previous administration, are troubling.”
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The new ranking is one spot up from last year, while TAU remains the only non-American university in PitchBook's top ten.
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Through their new partnership, Cannabics and Seedo will develop the first controlled device for growing medical cannabis at home.
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"This study of 22 individuals is one of the largest ancient DNA studies carried out from a single archaeological site, and by far the largest ever reported in the Near East."
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Not surprisingly, a full 84% of the Arab public thinks there was no need to legislate the Nationality Law.
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"States can do much worse. They can do everything that you heard here and much more."
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A skull slashed by a sword and palm bones from approximately 1,000 years ago discovered in a cave in the Jerusalem hills.
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Liran Baroch, Chairman of the Forum of Wounded IDF Veterans for a Secure Israel, said it was "absurd" that Tel-Aviv University provides a platform for a protest that calls for the destruction of Israel.
Critics warned the measure would detract from the status of Israel’s more established universities and "would turn the entire Israeli academia into an active partner in the 'occupation.'"
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With the purchase, the lands will become part of a local nature preserve that is being managed by the local communities.
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The TAU team dug up the remains of the skeleton several hundred feet from an Egyptian temple, suggesting she may have been a musician or a singer.
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Monty Hall's wife since 1947, Marilyn Hall, died on June 5, 2017, in their home in Beverly Hills.
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Cows are considered the most dangerous source of methane on the planet.
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Of the 500 Jewish respondents, 44% strongly supported, and 25.8% moderately supported the death penalty. 12.4% moderately opposed, and only 12.9% strongly oppose. 4.9% declined to answer.
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The textiles date to King Solomon’s reign, in the Iron Age (eleventh–tenth centuries BCE), and some are decorated with a red-and-blue bands pattern.
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Over the past year and a half the security services have succeeded in locating more than 2,000 potential terrorists through the use of technology.
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With a $20 million donation from the Adelsons, Ariel will become home to Israel's sixth medical school.
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Daniel Bar-Tal, Emeritus Professor at the School of Education at Tel Aviv University, Areas of expertise: Militarism in Israeli society; Culture and ethos of Conflict
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On many key issues Arabs are more appreciative of their condition and more optimistic about their country's future than Jews.
"The regional cooperation key to restoration of the Jordan River could be emulated around the world."
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'Within less than a year, we’ve managed to show that it’s possible to save species and protect the earth through crowdsourcing, thanks to lots of caring people.'
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Israeli farmers upriver from the Kinneret have been refused an increase of 11 billion gallons annually, precisely the amount Jordan continues to siphon from the lake for its own agriculture.
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Carlos Galindo-Elvira, Director of the Arizona Anti-Defamation League, who told local TV station 12News that 'when you joke with symbols like the swastika you begin to normalize them and make it very casual within our society.'
An Israeli delegation of high-school students won two medals on Friday at the International Olympiad in Informatics held in Kazan, Russia.
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Among the Jewish respondents, only 4% strongly believe in peace between Israel and the Palestinians. 16.1% believe it moderately. 35.4% moderately do not believe it. 41.1% do not believe it at all.
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In the future it may be possible to make use of the study’s findings to breed crops with a higher yield and a greater resistance to drought.
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Many Israeli and Jewish universities were in the top 500...
A Smartphone app may be able to help prevent Parkinson's disease patients from falling.
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The Israel-based Dan David Foundation has awarded this year’s Dan David Prize for scientific, technological, and cultural accomplishments to Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales, among other prominent honorees. The three annual $1 million prizes are administered by Tel Aviv University and named for late philanthropist Dan David. In the past, it has been awarded to former […]
An Israeli startup company called StoreDot has unveiled a prototype charger that can re-energize a phone battery in 30 seconds. The new technology was based on research for Alzheimer’s disease at the nanotechnology department of Tel Aviv University, but the prototype still needs to be developed into a smaller batter to be of commercial use. […]
Tel Aviv University has cancelled the appearance at a campus event of a former Arab prisoner jailed by Israel for his activities on behalf of the terrorist Hezbollah organization. Mohammed Kana’ane, an Arab-Israeli who spent four-and-a-half years in prison, was invited to speak Monday by the left-wing Hadash and Balad student groups at a conference […]
"Every doctor knows that overuse of the TMJ will cause headaches."
If the effects of “global warming” today are going to be anything like those of the 3,200-year-old drought and cold wave that, according to research in the Kinneret, existed in the Middle East, watch out.
Are you a man with no facial hair to shave? Feel like a man but look like a girl? It happens to the best of us, even a combat soldier, who now is a real man thanks to a Tel Aviv University doctor.
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Francois Englert, a Belgian Jewish professor at Tel Aviv University and a Holocaust survivor, shared the Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday, the third Jew in two days to win the esteemed award. The prize for Englert and Peter Higgs of Britain for their discovery of the Higgs particle was announced by the Royal Swedish Academy […]
The conference develop into a nightmare - a sick and calculated blueprint for the annihilation of Israel.
Tel Aviv University and China's Tsinghua University have signed a Memorandum of Understanding for strategic cooperation in innovative research and teaching, with an investment of hundreds of millions of dollars. A new research center in China initially will focus on life sciences and nanotechnology but later will include other sciences and high-tech, Globes reported. The […]
Cinnamon, once thought to have been carried on trade routes in ancient Israel, may have been made along the northern Israeli coast and not just in Africa and India, as previously thought, Israeli researchers told LiveScience. They analyzed 27 flasks from archaeological sites in Israel dating back 3,000 years and found that the compound that […]
Israel’s Garin Tzabar program, supporting ‘lone soldiers’ with no family in Israel, recently welcomed close to 360 young women and men from around the world into its care.
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Hillel Argentina and Tel Aviv University are launching an entrepreneurship center and incubator of companies for Jewish entrepreneurs. The companies participating in the program, which will start Tuesday, will have training and accelerator courses in Buenos Aires and Tel Aviv with a focus on entrepreneurship, Jewish business values and Israel-Diaspora ties. Ryan Fain, the Hillel […]
Video games do not necessarily numb brains. They actually can help the brain recover from damage caused by a stroke, according to a Tel Aviv University researcher. Bring on Nintendo.
Research teams headed by a Hebrew University graduate and Tel Aviv University researchers have suggested that an experiment on rats showed that blocking their memory of alcohol use helped them break the habit. Memories of addiction often cause drinkers to return to their habit when they are aroused by the smell of alcohol, creating pattern […]
Marijuana is known to have therapeutic qualities. A Tel Aviv Univ. professor now says a very low dosage of grass also can prevent brain damage. A new study may reach the same conclusion for the heart.
The international Dan David Prize will be awarded June 9 at Tel Aviv University to an American Jewish philosopher, a research doctor at Johns Hopkins and a French economist. The Dan David Prize awards three $1 million to individuals with proven exceptional excellence in the sciences, arts, humanities, public service and entrepreneurship that have made […]
Many Jewish day school students in the U.S. and around the world today wore either red, or blue and white to show support for Israel. Still, there are those who are determined to cast Israel as the aggressor.
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the influential paper published by a Mount Sinai physician, Dr. Burrill Crohn, and his colleagues that for the first time characterized a disease associated with severe inflammation of the intestine. Patients with what was later named Crohn’s disease develop diarrhea, fever, stomach pain, and often lose weight. Crohn’s is now classified as an autoimmune condition in which the immune system attacks its own healthy tissue in the gastrointestinal tract, causing chronic inflammation. It affects young individuals, and, even though it is not curable, it can be treated and controlled by medications and surgery.
One of the largest-ever gold caches located in Israel was discovered by Tel Aviv University and the Nature and Parks Authority in a dig in the Apollonia National Park near Herzliya.
Since becoming the first ordained rabbi in Jamaica in thirty-three years, I have been working tirelessly with my community to build a Jewish future on this tropical island. Every Jewish community wants to survive and indeed thrive, but there is a particular importance to the preservation and development of the world's small, history-rich Jewish communities.
One of Israel’s leading universities seems to have lost its way. In a move that is as incomprehensible as it is shameful, Tel Aviv University (TAU) agreed to allow a student group to hold a ceremony commemorating “Nakba Day,” when Palestinians bemoan the establishment of the state of Israel.