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  Science and technology in Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Israeli contributions to science and technology have been significant, even strangely out of proportion for a country of roughly six million with continuous security challenges.
Since the establishment of the State of Israel, Israel has pioneered work in science and engineering, compensating a small national budget with creativity and imagination.
Moreover, Israel is among the small group of nations in the world that have the capability to launch satellites into orbit (the others include the USA, Russia, Europe mainly through the common European space agency ESA, the People's Republic of China, Japan, and India).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Science_and_technology_in_Israel   (458 words)

  
 US-Israel Science and Technology Commission (USISTC), March 24, 2004
Our Office of Technology Policy, along with the collaborative efforts of the BIO organization and in consultation with other federal and state policymakers, recently completed the first in-depth government assessment on the development and adoption of biotechnology in American industry.
The Technology Administration is involved with emerging technologies that have the potential for contributing to economic growth.
Technology development and commercialization are the new drivers of economic growth, both in the U.S. and around the world.
www.technology.gov /Speeches/p_PJB_040324.htm   (1231 words)

  
 Prof. Gerald Steinberg   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Given the centrality of science and technology, the evolution of political and economic conditions and institutions have necessarily been accompanied by, and in many cases, directly involved changes in the role of science, and in the interaction between science and the state.
Science and technology are also considered to be crucial in the area of immigrant absorption, on the one hand, and emigration, on the other.
The importance of technology in maintaining the military balance, and the contribution of this factor to the close convergence between the state and the scientific community is still prominent in the perceptions of both the political and scientific elite.
faculty.biu.ac.il /~steing/public/tech.htm   (8569 words)

  
 FOCUS on ISRAEL (Science & Technology)
srael is a small country in a world of big science and technology and, like many other small countries, it has sharply defined policies towards scientific and technological activities in order to enhance its competitiveness.
Israel aims to maintain a minimal international level of quality achievement across the broad spectrum of scientific fields, while encouraging the establishment of centers of excellence around outstanding scientists and in areas of vital concern to the development of the industrial sector.
In technology, Israel strives for high performance mainly through specialization, concentrating national efforts on a limited number of areas and organizations.
www.focusmm.com /israel/is_sc_01.htm   (164 words)

  
 Jewish Science and Technology Books: Links
Bar-Ilan University, Israel's largest academic community of students, scientists and staff (32,000 in total), seeks to produce students of moral and intellectual aptitude; students who adopt the highest standards of excellence in scientific and academic research; and students who bear a deep commitment to Jewish community.
Blossoms of Science was founded in 1992 for the purpose of bringing the sciences to the North of Israel.
Through its Technology for All (TfA) range of science and technology learning systems ORT aims to create open-minded students who are equipped with the basic knowledge to use, manage and understand technology in order to benefit from the advantages of a changing world whilst keeping the environment safe and clean.
www.jewish-sci-tech-books.com /links.htm   (1345 words)

  
 Open Directory - Regional: Middle East: Israel: Science and Environment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Israel Science and Technology - Database of institutions of higher education, research centers, funds, associations and related government agencies.
Rabin Desalination Laboratory - Israel Desalination Society - The objective of IDS is the development and promotion of the appropriate use of desalination and desalination technologies for the water supply needs of the State of Israel.
Ramon Science Center - Conducts long-term research on the ecology and geology of the Makhtesh Ramon and surrounding environment in the central Negev desert.
dmoz.org /Regional/Middle_East/Israel/Science_and_Environment   (412 words)

  
 NJ-IC News Release
Companies that participate in the Technology Excellence Fellowship have the opportunity to network with contacts from Israel and the U.S., to expose their products and services to potential business partners or customers, and to expand their exports and investment.
The U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation is the funding and administrative arm of the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission -- a bilateral government initiative created in 1994 to strengthen scientific and technological collaboration between the United States and Israel.
Israel is New Jersey’s 4th largest export market, with a total of $938 million in goods sent there in 2003 alone.
www.state.nj.us /commerce/israel/ic_pr_2004_0914a.htm   (613 words)

  
 IsraCast: 2004 - IN SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY IN ISRAEL
The technology detects the presence of telomerase, an active enzyme appearing in cancer cells that is considered a general marker for different types of cancers.
The new tumor-targeting approach developed by these two scientists is based on molecules that can identify their target by attaching themselves to special receptors on the cancer cells, thus identifying and eliminating only the harmful cancer cells while keeping the normal healthy body cells unharmed.
Israel Aircraft Industries recently successfully tested a system that uses sophisticated missile detection and tracking systems that can react automatically in a split second and launch a flare that causes the terrorist anti-aircraft missile to stray away from the plane.
www.isracast.com /tech_news/311204_tech-part1.htm   (1099 words)

  
 Israel science technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Clinton established in March 1993 a U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission.
The United States-Israel Science and Technology Foundation is a non-government...
The percentage of Israelis engaged in science and technology, and the relative sums spent on research and development...
scienceplanets.info /israel-science-technology-r.html   (177 words)

  
 Arab-Israeli conflict - Basic facts
"Israel is the very embodiment of Jewish continuity: It is the only nation on earth that inhabits the same land, bears the same name, speaks the same language, and worships the same God that it did 3,000 years ago.
Arab leadership in Israel and in the countries surrounding Israel, planned a Jihad, holy war, against Israel and encouraged the Arabs to leave Israel promising their return after they purge the land of Jews.
The number of terror attacks against Israel and the number of Israelis killed by Arab terror bombings greatly escalated after Oslo to a level that has not been seen since 1948 (see statistics and list of victims killed by Arab terrorists and suicide bombers).
www.science.co.il /Arab-Israeli-conflict.asp   (2582 words)

  
 US - Israel Science and Technology Foundation
The U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation "USISTF" seeks to foster the broadest possible range of collaborative opportunities in high technology for American and Israeli entities for the mutual benefit of the people and economies of both nations.
USISTF was established in 1995 by the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission, a bi-lateral government initiative created by the President of the United States and the Prime Minister of Israel.
While it no longer offers grants for technology development or joint ventures, the Foundation has funded a number of collaborative projects in the development of solar energy technology, new generation gamma cameras, desalination plants, alternatives to methyl bromide and biological treatment of hazardous waste.
www.usistf.org /01_A_about.html   (225 words)

  
 Science - Israel - The British Council - creating opportunity worldwide   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Science Networking Development Scheme (SNDS) was set up in 2001 by the British and Israeli Governments for a period of three years.
The SNDS is jointly funded by the UK Office of Science and Technology (OST) at the Department of Trade and Industry and the Israeli Ministry of Science, Culture & Sport.
The report must be written in English and sent to the British Council Israel and the Israel Ministry of Science, Culture & Sport, within two months of the event having taken place.
www.britishcouncil.org.il /cgi-bin/wops.cgi?path=science/snds   (347 words)

  
 Israel
Measures of Success: One of the driving factors behind the establishment of Israeli technology parks was the goal to establish a competency in the commercial sale of technological innovations.19 It is apparent that when measured against this goal, technology parks in Israel have been quite successful.
Also, despite the enormous success seen in Israeli technology firms, thousands of technology professionals have left Israel for the United States, resulting in severe labor shortages that continue to rise.
Israel Trade Commission, "A Brief Overview of Aspects of the Israeli Economy in the Information Technology Sector," http://www.israeltrade.org.au/it.html, visited December 12, 2001.
www.american.edu /carmel/ab5293a/Casestudy/Israel/israel.htm   (899 words)

  
 U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission, Office of International Technology, Technology Administration
The U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission (USISTC) was established in 1994 to help promote technological and economic progress between the United States and Israel by leveraging the technological and commercial strengths of both nations.
The U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation maintains a fiduciary responsibility to both governments and has responsibility for executing and administering the Commission’s programs and projects.
Today, the Commission’s spotlight on science and technology provides a unique and highly beneficial environment for promoting binational collaboration at the highest levels of government and industry.
www.technology.gov /International/MideastAfrica/Israel/p_USISTC.html   (426 words)

  
 News Releases
The collaboration is being fueled by a newly awarded grant of $150,000 from the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Foundation (USISTF).
The Technion is widely recognized as Israel's first modern university, dating to 1924, with graduates comprising much of the leadership and workforce in Israel's biotechnology and technology sectors.
The collaboration is funded by the grant from USISTF, which was set up by the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission, a government initiative created by Bill Clinton, the President of the United States, and Itzak Rabin, the Prime Minister of Israel, in 1995.
ucsdnews.ucsd.edu /newsrel/awards/US_Israel.asp   (872 words)

  
 US - Israel Science and Technology Foundation
The Office of the Chief Scientist (“OCS”) of the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor is responsible for implementing government policy regarding the support and encouragement of industrial research and development in Israel.
Israel’s primary advantage is its human potential and possesses an outstanding academic-technological infrastructure.
The mission of the OCS is to develop technology in Israel as means of fostering Israeli economic growth, encouraging technological entrepreneurship, leveraging Israel’s exceptional science-skilled resources, encouraging high added value RandD, enhancing the knowledge base of Israeli high-tech industry, and promoting cooperation in RandD both at the national and international levels.
www.usistf.org /01_C_04_IMIT.html   (97 words)

  
 Remarks by Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer - U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission
I don't know much about technology, but I do know that the brain- power, the innovativeness, the drive and the energy that each of you, American and Israeli, brings to this enterprise is really the engine of growth of a continued strong relationship between our two countries.
Israel needs to do more to exploit human brainpower and to make the biotechnology cluster idea work.
Whenever we see American visitors these days it is a cause for a certain amount of joy and our hope, of course, is that we continue through the auspices of the U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission, to build an even stronger relationship of science, technology, and goodwill between our two countries and our two peoples.
www.usembassy-israel.org.il /publish/mission/amb/050504.html   (472 words)

  
 Small Times: News about MEMS, Nanotechnology and Microsystems
And the United States government, mainly through the U.S. Israel Science and Technology Foundation (USISTF), has joined the effort to bring nanotech to Israel.
Eli Opper the chief scientist at the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Labor, and joint chairman of the USISTF with U.S. Undersecretary of Commerce for Technology Phillip Bond, explained, “I do not wish to comment on activities in the past, but since I took office some two years ago the foundation has been very active.
Tali Rozenbaum, director general of the Ministry of Science, said the program is also beneficial to the U.S. “American and Israeli scientists work well together, and there is a good chance that together they may develop some revolutionary technologies which will have a positive impact on both parties,” said Rozenbaum.
www.smalltimes.com /document_display.cfm?document_id=8256&keyword=Israel&summary=1&startsum=1   (808 words)

  
 ComCom:Interview with Honorable Eliezer Zandberg - Israel's Minister of Science and Technology   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
I mean, knowing that a technology already exists and by an innovative approach, in a short period, if we can get better results, we go for it.
In Israel, we say the Dream of Israeli mother is that her son or daughter should become a Doctor or a Lawyer.
If somebody immigrates to Israel and becomes a part of Israel Society, there is no reason to keep them aside of the mainstream as much as possible.
www.vigyanprasar.com /comcom/inter70.htm   (4378 words)

  
 U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission (USISTC)
The Task Force on Commercialization of Military Technologies, in cooperation with the Israeli Ministry of Defense and the U.S. Department of Defense, is assessing the opportunities for civilian, commercial application of existing military technology developed in Israel.
The task force has inventoried Israeli technologies, such as, lasers, sensors, environmental technologies, and biotechnology, which could be readily adapted for commercial use and easily declassified.
Israel has not developed a strategic plan for how it will compete in the world economy in the future, and there is a fear that it will be left behind by countries such as China and India.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/US-Israel/usistc.html   (2789 words)

  
 U.S.-ISRAEL INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
The Task Force on Information Technology, U.S.-Israel Science and Technology Commission, proposes to undertake an Information Technology Development Program consisting of a set of application-oriented projects for cooperation between the United States and Israel.
The projects will be oriented to allow for rapid start-up, establish a basis for broad cooperative effort, and facilitate the introduction of advanced concepts and technology as the projects progress.
Earth System Science - In this project a Middle East Regional Center for the Arid Zone (MERCAZ) will be created to monitor global change, to study the effects of climate change on local resources (water, land use) in the semi-arid region, and to validate and apply geophysical products from the Earth Observing System.
cimic.rutgers.edu /us_israel/proposal.html   (520 words)

  
 Elbit Systems Awarded Contract From Israel's Ministry of Science and Technology to Supply Tauvex II Space Camera
The contract was signed in a ceremony which took place on June 21, 2004 in the presence of The Minister of Science and Technology Mr.
The Minister of Science and Technology of the State of Israel, Eliezer (Moodi) Sandberg, said: "International cooperation between India and Israel in space research and exploration is an important ingredient in strengthening the strategic relations between the two countries which include cooperation in the areas of science, industry and agriculture.
India and Israel hold proven space technologies and share the same vision of space research, as a vehicle to achieve national goals for the benefit of the two nations".
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/06-22-2004/0002197409&EDATE=   (775 words)

  
 Science and technology in israel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-10)
Summaries of the major points of conflict between Arab countries and Israel.
Non-profit organization about the Israel beyond the headlines, including medicine, science, technology, and other contributions to global society.
The US Israel Science and Technology Foundation (USISTF) Israel Association of Electronic and...
scienceplanets.info /science-and-technology-in-israel-r.html   (180 words)

  
 The Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology - Home
The Samuel Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology is an independent public-policy research institute, established in 1978 to assist in the search for solutions to national problems in science and technology, education, economy and industry, and social development.
The paradox of the Israeli R&D: The investment is rising and the GDP is declining.
The Forum is a follow-up of the conference: 'Transition to Higher Education Systems: International Comparisons and Perspectives' in which it was recommended that an open dialogue be conducted between the Universities and the Colleges with the collaboration of the Council for Higher Education, the Planning and Budgeting Committee and other bodies
www.neaman.org.il   (205 words)

  
 ScienceDaily -- Browse Topics: Science/Technology/Biomedical_Engineering
Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society of the IEEE - Advances the application of engineering sciences and technology to medicine and biology, promotes the profession, and provides global leadership for the benefit of its members and humanity by disseminating knowledge, setting standards, fostering professional development, and recognizing excellence.
DOE Advanced Biomedical Technology Research - Advanced Biomedical Technology Research --- basic research into medical technologies that can be transferred to the medical field for further study.
Utilized to evoke contraction of paralyzed muscles to move limbs and evacuate the bladder, and to produce visual sensations in the blind and auditory sensations in the deaf.
www.sciencedaily.com /directory/Science/Technology/Biomedical_Engineering   (3538 words)

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