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Mar 21, 2025, 6:37 AM

Boycotting Israel: A Dangerous Attack on Knowledge

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The Dangerous Trend of Academic Boycotts Against Israel. For years, people have complained about the declining level of education—not just in the Netherlands but across the world. Many factors contribute to this, but one that is often overlooked is the...

Feb 18, 2025, 3:57 PM

Capturing carbon: Israel’s bold plan to lead a global climate revolution

Curbing global warming requires innovative solutions. One promising approach involves emerging technologies for the capture, adsorption, and storage of carbon by changing its state of aggregation. These technologies aim to enhance natural sequestration through accelerated weathering of minerals, including...

Feb 16, 2025, 6:27 AM

Greater Israel—Jewish Genius and Technological Accelerationism (Part 2)

Part 2 of 3 The accelerationist concept of a cultural or civilizational ‘speed up’ is typically or frequently combined with the idea of events moving rapidly towards what is called a ‘singularity’ or a ‘technological singularity.’ This is the idea...

Feb 15, 2025, 1:50 PM

Greater Israel—Jewish Genius and Technological Accelerationism (Part 1)

Part 1 of 3 This blog is devoted to projects, proposals and related themes that pertain to the Greater Israel project, which we alternatively dub Zionism 2.0, or Zionism Potentia. Zionism 2.0 sees Israel at the beginning of its historical...

Dec 2, 2024, 10:53 PM

David Ben-Gurion takes us back to the future

David Ben-Gurion in the Negev desert. Photo courtesy of Americans for Ben-Gurion University (A4BGU).

What will allow for a “full recovery” from these atrocities, while providing hope and optimism for the future of Israel and the Jewish people? It may sound cliché to suggest that the solution involves stepping into a time machine,...

Aug 14, 2024, 12:42 AM

Scholarship and Commitment

Last week I began my new position as director of the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism at Ben-Gurion University. Entering a new position of this kind entails a kind of dissonance between a sense...

Jul 12, 2024, 8:12 PM

Remembering the Boykos and the Ben-Gurion Dream

On the day of his yahrzeit, Israel pays tribute to David Ben-Gurion and his dreams and historic accomplishments. He dreamed of a homeland for the Jewish people and brought it to life. Where others saw a desert, he saw...

Jun 19, 2024, 10:10 PM

Moed Bet and Conflagration: Parshat Behaalotcha

THE ORIGIN OF MOED BET AND ITS RAMIFICATIONS In September,1968, my husband and I moved to Jerusalem from Alonei Yitzchak. A casual meeting with someone I had studied English Literature in 1965 resulted in a job offer at the Mechina...

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May 27, 2024, 7:36 AM

Dust storms in Israel in a glass of water

A protest against ongoing bad science reporting Once, I read, with much pleasure, Haaretz in English's scientific section. Then, most of the paper went behind a pay wall, probably to ensure it is only read by people who would have...

Oct 31, 2023, 11:54 PM

In the Midst of Deception

Discovering Deception

The complexity of the conflict surrounding the Jewish state extends far beyond the physical battleground. In the current context, words themselves have become potent weapons, their meanings often twisted and distorted to serve specific agendas, making it difficult to...

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