Nov 30 2009
The 2nd University of Haifa Symposium in Copenhagen is taking place on “Climatic Changes - Consequences and Solutions” at the National Museum of Denmark on 1-2 December, 2009. This bilateral Israeli-Danish symposium project is orchestrated by the Danish Friends of the University of Haifa and will be opened with an introduction by Malgorzata H. Hansen, Chairman of the Danish Friends of the University of Haifa. Continue Reading »
Nov 30 2009
November 26, 2009 The Jewish Chronicle
Businessman and philanthropist Sir Maurice Hatter loves deep sea diving — he’s been doing it for 30 years with Haifa university’s department of maritime civilisations.
Nov 30 2009
An impressive crowd of businesspeople representing leading firms in the country attended the gala event inaugurating the Friends of the University of Haifa’s Business Leaders Forum. In the course of the evening, which was held at the home of the Russian Ambassador to Israel, businessmen Ami and Teddy Sagi and Moshe Mano were presented the Business Leaders Forum award of merit. President of the University of Haifa, Prof. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev, and Minister of Finance Yuval Steinitz were the main speakers at the event.
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Nov 30 2009
November 30, 2009 Haaretz
Prof. Daniel Gutwein of the University of Haifa’s Department of History writes in Haaretz:
The National Insurance Institute’s poverty report for 2008 shows that the poverty rate in Israel is still at the high level that Benjamin Netanyahu set in 2004 when he was finance minister, and the picture is expected to be the same for 2009. Despite appearing not to be newsworthy, the static nature of poverty is a development that reveals some of the fundamental trends in Israeli society and Israeli politics.
Nov 30 2009
November 30, 2009 The Jerusalem Post
Nearly 90 percent of the Israeli public would like to take an active role in the campaign to release Gilad Schalit, according to a survey conducted by University of Haifa students. However, only 28% have actually taken action to bring about the release of Schalit, who has been held captive by Hamas in Gaza since June 2006.
Nov 29 2009
University of Haifa students have joined the public fight for the release of Gilad Shalit and decided to make their final project for a course in the School of Political Sciences a campaign for Shalit’s release. A survey that the students carried out among 200 respondents as a preparatory step for the project reveals that 87.5% of the Israeli public are interested in taking an active role in the fight for the release of Gilad Shalit. Continue Reading »
Nov 29 2009
November 27, 2009 Arutz Sheva (INN)
Dr. Sarit Larisch, Head of the Cell Death Research Laboratory and senior lecturer at the University of Haifa, has been awarded the prestigious Johnson & Johnson Focused Funding grant for what has been described as “breakthrough research” exploring the cause of brain cell damage in Parkinson’s disease. The award, which is granted each year to scientists in support of innovation and excellence in science, was announced in 2008, and officially conferred earlier this month in the United States. This is the first time in three years that an Israeli scientist has received the award.
Nov 26 2009
November 26, 2009 The Medical News
Dr. Sarit Larisch, Head of the Cell Death Research Laboratory in the University of Haifa’s Department of Biology, has been awarded the prestigious Johnson & Johnson Focused Funding grant for her research exploring the cause of brain cell damage in Parkinson’s disease. The award, which is granted each year to scientists in support of innovation and excellence in science, was announced in 2008, and officially conferred earlier this month at an event at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in New Jersey, USA. This is the first time in three years that an Israeli scientist has received the Johnson & Johnson Focus Funding award.
Nov 26 2009
Dr. Brenda Shaffer (Head of the Center for Advanced Energy Studies, School of Political Sciences)
Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, June 2009
It is not uncommon to hear states and their leaders criticized for “mixing oil and politics.” The U.S.-led Iraq War was criticized as a “war for oil.” When energy exporters overtly use energy as a tool to promote their foreign policy goals, Europe and the United States regularly decry the use of energy as a “weapon” rather than accept it as a standard and legitimate tool of diplomacy.
In Energy Politics, Brenda Shaffer argues that energy and politics are intrinsically linked. Continue Reading »
Nov 25 2009
November 25, 2009 Top Cancer News
Lital Keinan-Boker who is a medical doctor in the School of Public Health, Faculty of Welfare and Health Sciences within the University of Haifa located in Israel, led a team of investigators in a research regarding the above mentioned association. The group of scientists observed a sample of approximately 300,000 Jews coming from Israel. A particularity of these Jews was the fact that they were born in Europe, but later, before and during the World War II they moved in Israel. One of the groups was exposed to the Holocaust, whereas the other one was not. The group which experienced the Holocaust was determined as such by taking into consideration their immigration to Israel dates, due to the fact that specific information about the exposure to the massacre experience was not available.