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Nov 17, 2014, 8:53 AM

A “Technion Lifer”: Steve Grand’s Amazing Story

File: Former science minister Daniel Hershkowitz (second from left), in an unusual meeting in July 2012 with Israeli Nobel laureates. Participants included Ada Yonath (left), Aaron Ciechanover (second from right), and Israel Aumann (right). (photo credit: Gil Yohanan/Flash90)

A lifetime friend of Israel's premier scientific educational institution had his life saved by research done at that same school

Aug 2, 2014, 11:39 AM

Why aren’t we seeing images of Hamas rocket launchings?

Like many of us in Israel, I have spent nearly every non-working, non-sleeping hour over the last month in front of the TV or computer/smartphone/tablet screen (sometimes all simultaneously), devouring inhuman quantities of commentary, opinion and analysis. And like everyone...

Jul 29, 2014, 5:30 PM

To my friends on the Israeli Left

I know that your repeated pleas for an immediate ceasefire come from a place of compassion and humanity, from the horror we all feel at the apparently senseless loss of life, at the terrible injury and trauma and destruction...

Apr 1, 2014, 11:31 AM

At Technion, Inspiration Comes Often

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (left) and US President Barack Obama look on as disabled IDF veteran Radi Kaiuf demonstrates the ReWalk exoskeleton system. Kaiuf, who was formerly nearly fully paralyzed, completed the Israel Marathon in 2012 using the system (Kobi Gideon / GPO /FLASH90)

There's a lot going on at Haifa's premier technical university -- including the development of life-saving devices

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Danny Shapiro is the director of public affairs of Technion - Israel Institute of Technology.