Israeli poet Avraham Halfi wrote: "A successful journey never ends. The miles do. But time remains etched within you, becoming part of you. At the end of the journey, I don't feel victorious, but more grateful. It's as if the road passed through me and not me through it." Tonight, I would like to talk about our shared journey, but this time I won't use concepts from science or even from science education. I will do it as I did when we first met, at the beginning of 2017. I

In 1921, shortly after the beginning of the British Mandate in the land of Israel, the British Colonial Secretary, Winston Churchill, came for a visit. Tel Aviv was barely a bat mitzvah (depending on how you count...), and the mayor, Meir Dizengoff, was worried: when Churchill will drives along Rothschild Boulevard, what he will see is mostly sand and bare, white houses, gleaming in the sun. Although decorating a little with flowers and carpets might help, there will still be

In one of the beautiful songs he wrote, Yoram Taharlev z"l wrote - "We are like dreamers after the sun." He was right: we are the organism that dreams – and does. And when the dream helps building a better society, we call it "Tikkun Olam" – "fixing the world". Tikkun Olam is the result of clever navigation between three factors: a clear vision; Its wise fulfillment; and values of equality and human rights for all. This is the compass that will make sure that we continue to b

"Do you really think we'll need it?!" On the eve of a work trip to the U.S. in February 2020, Davidson's then-donor relations manager, Shiri, shoved two masks into my suitcase. "Just in case," she replied. "They say there's a problematic virus going around..." Less than a month later, the problematic virus became a global pandemic – and we all found ourselves going into lockdowns and operating under various guidelines and restrictions. Zoom was the name of the game. Worrying

"How is a song born? Like laughter, it starts inside and rolls out." (Jonathan Geffen, from "The Sixteenth Lamb") In our case, not a song but rather a book, to be precise - a series of books, and no one planned in advance that it would be born just a few minutes after a global pandemic stuck us all at home. The Davidson Institute's "Try It at Home" book series was born out of the thrilling combination of three factors: · "The Grandmother of Books" – A few y

Full disclosure: I love Disney. When I was three years old, my parents took me to Disneyland for the first time. We were living in Los Angeles at the time, and it was the first and only theme park that Disney had built. The park itself was still relatively young, Mary Poppins had yet to jump into drawings (who knew then that years later she would come back to dive into the depths of bathtubs), and Disney was just beginning to think about a whole world he would build in Orland

I know that there are numerous Davidson professionals and participants who will laugh or at least smile at the title of this post, since it's based on a story I've been telling – not to say, relentlessly poking– myself and them more or less once a quarter for seven-something years: the need to ask ourselves, every day, who are we and what are we doing here. So I'm warning in advance: this post will do it again. Who are we – it's not enough to say that we are an insti

"We have an idea that we'd love to present in hope of receiving your blessing to fulfill it." Davidson's professional lab technicians stood before me. They looked embarrassed, somewhat shy. They excel at their job, which usually requires them to work behind the scenes. It was clear that they're not used to leading such an appeal, even if the CEO — me — keeps telling them and the other employees that my door is always open to them. There are approximately 2,000 lab technicians

Nine months. Alongside words that we are tired of hearing, such as "unimaginable," "unbelievable," or "together we will win," we feel time ticking every day. Had I been asked nine months ago what timeframe is possible for the situation we were all thrown into, I would never have imagined that it would reach such proportions. But time goes on. Two weeks, a month, two months, three. Six months. Nine. Many have asked me why, since October 7, my "Moment before Shabbat" has almost

"Happy Hannukkah", wrote some friends - all from overseas. While the blessing is well intended, heartwarming and embracing with care and concern, these days most Israelis aren't using it. This year we are not having a happy Hanukkah. Just a Hannukkah. It can't be a happy Hannukkah as long as more than a hundred of our kidnapped civilians are still in the hands of Hamas, and from what we know through the stories of those who were saved, we are going out of our minds trying not

This week, on my way home from work, I noticed the taxi in front of me. It was on the highway so the photo is blurred – allow me to help: the left side shows a weeping girl. The right side declares: ABORTION (in big bold letters) and underneath, a few threatening sentences about murder and eternal remorse. It's not the first time I noticed this add. It sometimes appears on huge billboards, on busses. It always catches me unprepared. We didn't need "Roe vs Wade" to know that w

(Dean – this is for you! I don’t promise continuum… 😊) At the end of "Fiddler on the Roof", a moment before they are expelled from their homes, the Jews of Anatevka ask – "What is this place of ours? Nothing much. A little bit of this, a little bit of that," they answer each other. "A pot, a broom, a hat…here I know everyone. This is my Anatevka: A little bit of this, a little bit of that..." As he leaves, Tuvia is followed by the fiddler who dances around him, comforting. I

I would like to present to you the Jerusalem Innovation Park, she said. Although Jerusalem and most of my country is still under occupation, I don’t want to talk about that, We will create the park in the part of Jerusalem that we can. Even though my country isn’t free, it’s mostly occupied and suffering, we don’t have money, we have refugees that we need to take care of, we can’t move freely and have checkpoints, it takes years to receive building permits. We must discuss o

Different people learn in different ways. למאמר המלא באתר ג'רוזלם פוסט http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Vive-la-revolution-474431

Recently, we have revisited the question of the efficacy of such prizes. למאמר המלא באתר ג'רוזלם פוסט - http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Its-not-about-the-money-446008

From today's ILTV edition. The Jerusalem-based Wolf Foundation issues one of the world's largest academic excellency awards. לראיון הוידאו המלא באתר ערוץ 7 באנגלית: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207337

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Those who actually read the studies can find sentences such as “no significant differences in employment have been found between those who studied three, four and five units of math" לקריאת המאמר המלא באתר ג'רוזלם פוסט - http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/A-complete-mind-416241