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		<title>Vindicated: Ridiculed Israeli scientist wins Nobel</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2011/10/12/vindicated-ridiculed-israeli-scientist-wins-nobel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 14:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ARON HELLER Associated Press JERUSALEM &#8211; When Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman claimed to have stumbled upon a new crystalline chemical structure that seemed to violate the laws of nature, colleagues mocked him, insulted him and exiled him from his research group. After years in the scientific wilderness, though, he was proved right. And on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Israeli Physicists Win White House Award</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2010/11/09/two-israeli-physicists-win-white-house-award/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:58:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Tzvi Ben Gedalyahu, www.IsraelNationalNews.com Two Israeli physicists are among the top 10 scientists to be awarded the U.S. National Medal of Science by U.S. President Barack Obama in mid-November. Yakir Aharonov, a professor at Chapman University in California, will be honored for his work in quantum physics. Prof. Amnon Yariv, of the California Institute [...]]]></description>
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		<title>18-YEAR-OLD ISRAELI GIRL IS A PHYSICS WHIZ</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/29/18-year-old-israeli-girl-is-a-physics-whiz/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Sep 2009 11:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By  Orli Gold-Haklay   www.JPost.com Hadas Tzaban, an 18-year-old high school student from the development town of Netivot, recently won first place in the international &#8220;First Step to Nobel Prize&#8221; research project competition held in Warsaw, Poland. To compete, high school students submit projects &#8211; in Hadas&#8217;s case her final matriculation project &#8211; which are then [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why autumn in Israel is yellow</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2009/09/27/why-autumn-in-israel-is-yellow/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:35:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[www.Israel21c.org In the U.S., the brilliant autumn foliage with its variations on red, orange, brown, and yellow never fails to delight the eye. In Israel and Europe, however, it&#8217;s mostly a one-color spread of yellow. Researchers at the University of Haifa in Israel and the University of Kuopio in Finland have a new theory that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeologists: New evidence for Herod&#8217;s tomb site</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/11/19/archaeologists-new-evidence-for-herods-tomb-site/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 23:29:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The remains of a sarcophagus believed to be King Herod&#8217;s are on display during a press conference at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008. Israeli archaeologist Prof. Ehud Netzer announced at a press conference Wednesday that analysis of newly revealed items found at the site of King Herod&#8217;s mausoleum at Herodium provided [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Electric Waves</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/05/05/electric-waves/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 23:59:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Sam Ser, www.JPost.com Apr. 17, 2008 It doesn&#8217;t look like much, this thing lying dormant in the grassy driveway of Shmuel Ovadia&#8217;s exceedingly modest offices in south Tel Aviv. Still, Ovadia insists, this bunch of plywood and rusting engines, bolted together in an old shipping crate, could save the planet. The box of parts, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Treating Alzheimer&#8217;s&#8211;Through The Nose</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/02/18/treating-alzheimers-through-the-nose/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Nicky Blackburn, www.Israel21c.com For Prof. Beka Solomon it was obvious. If it isn&#8217;t possible to send drugs to the brain to treat Alzheimer&#8217;s disease the normal way because of the blood-brain barrier that prevents drugs from moving from the blood stream into the brain, then send them through the nose instead. Solomon, of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Daytime Naps Help Long-Term Memory</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/02/18/daytime-naps-help-long-term-memory/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Siegel-Itzkovich , www.JPost.com If you &#8220;sleep on it&#8221; by taking a daytime siesta, you may find that the nap speeds up the consolidation of your long-term memory, according to new research conducted at the University of Haifa&#8217;s Center for Brain and Behavior Research. A 90-minute nap during the day is enough to quicken [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel Must Reverse Brain Drain</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2008/02/02/israel-must-reverse-brain-drain/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 02 Feb 2008 12:19:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Judy Siegel, The Jerusalem Post Bringing back 3,500 Israeli scientists and researchers and 20,000 hi-tech professionals who have left the country must be an urgent national target, Science and Technology Minister Ghaleb Majadleh said in the Knesset on Monday in a special session of the Knesset Science and Technology Committee. The session was held [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israeli Scientist Proposes Weakening Hurricanes With Micro-dust</title>
		<link>http://www.levitt.com/news/2007/11/28/israeli-scientist-proposes-weakening-hurricanes-with-micro-dust/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Nov 2007 12:38:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By ISRAEL 21ST Century, www.Israel21c.com The devastating Hurricane Katrina may not have been preventable back in 2005, but if a new concept developed in Israel to zap the strength from hurricanes proves functional, it could prevent future natural disasters from wreaking such extensive damage. According to noted Israeli weather specialist Prof Daniel Rosenfeld of Hebrew [...]]]></description>
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