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BrainTech Israel 2013 to Showcase New Opportunities and Next-Generation Brain Technologies that Could Revolutionize Our Lives TEL AVIV, Israel, May 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Israel Brain Technologies (IBT) has announced the launch of BrainTech Israel 2013 [http://conference.israelbrain.org ], Israel's 1st International Brain Technology Conference, which will take place on October 14th-15th in Tel Aviv, recently ranked as the 2nd most innovative city in the world by the Wall...
The Number One Turkey Travel Specialist is excited by the news that Turkey continues to entice holidaymakers to its shores. (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 The proposed figures for 2013 may seem an astronomical figure to some but with almost 32 million tourists last year, it’s definitely not unobtainable. These estimated statistics came from Basaran Ulusoy, the chairman of the Association of Turkish Travel Agencies, while talking to an Anatolian newspaper about the future of Turkish tourism. The...
The number one holiday specialist for Turkey and Northern Cyprus is excited by the new figures that show tourism in Northern Cyprus has risen drastically. (PRWEB) May 16, 2013 New figures released show that tourism in Northern Cyprus has risen 43% over the last ten years. Southern Cyprus has been popular with holidaymakers for a long time, often attracting all of the limelight, whereas Northern Cyprus has previously been overlooked by visitors. Although these new figures suggest that this...
TEL AVIV, Israel, May 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Monday, May 13, Save a Child's Heart (SACH), an Israeli based international humanitarian organization, performed lifesaving heart surgery on a four-year-old Syrian girl. The child, whose identity is not being released for security reasons, was referred to SACH by an American humanitarian organization operating in Jordan and Israel. The girl was brought last week to Israel from Jordan, where she and her mother were living as refugees...
WESTPORT, Conn., May 13, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The Westport Country Playhouse will be rockin' with a taste of Israel on Sunday, May 26 when Fairfield County comes together to celebrate Israel's 65(th) birthday. A concert by renowned Israeli world music group "The Shuk" anchors a day dedicated to the founding of Israel and fostering greater understanding of Jewish and Israeli culture. The event begins at 2 p.m. with free admission to an Israeli marketplace of unique wares, from...
"The Next List" to feature global solar power pioneer; broadcast change due to events in Boston JERUSALEM, May 9, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, May 11th, at 2:30p.m. EST, Israeli solar pioneer Yosef Abramowitz will be featured on CNN's "The Next List." Abramowitz is the first Israeli to appear on the 30-minute weekend program, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, which profiles innovators, visionaries and agents of change from around the globe. The original broadcast timing was postponed...
Lawrence LeBlond for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online The Hanging Gardens of Babylon have long been regarded as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, although not without controversy. It seems that the Gardens have also been regarded as purely legendary, with no evidence that this ancient site ever existed in Babylon. For centuries, historians, archaeologists and others have imagined what the Hanging Gardens may have looked like and several artists, most notably Dutch artist...
RAMALLAH, Palestine, April 30, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Bank of Palestine (BOP) held its 47th ordinary annual General Assembly Meeting (AGM) on Friday, April 26, 2013 at the bank's headquarters in Ramallah and in Gaza via video conference. (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20130430/612840 ) The General Assembly approved the board of directors' report, the financial statements for the year 2012, the external auditor's report, and the board of directors'...
"The Next List" to feature global solar power pioneer; broadcast change due to events in Boston JERUSALEM, April 24, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- On Saturday, April 27th, at 2:30p.m. EST, Israeli solar pioneer Yosef Abramowitz will be featured on CNN's "The Next List." Abramowitz is the first Israeli to appear on the 30-minute weekend program, hosted by Dr. Sanjay Gupta, which profiles innovators, visionaries and agents of change from around the globe. The original broadcast timing...
HERZLIYA-PITUACH, Israel, April 23, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Immune Pharmaceuticals Ltd. ("Immune"), a privately held Israeli company, announced today that the company's CEO Daniel Teper is the moderator of this morning's BIO International Convention breakout session "Can Israel Become the Next BioTech Startup Nation?" The panel, which will take place from 9:00 am - 9:45 am CT today at the conference in Chicago, IL, USA, will bring together life science thought leaders to discuss...
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Aaron Aaronsohn (1876-May 15, 1919) was a renowned Romanian-born Jewish agronomist, botanist, traveler, entrepreneur, and Zionist politician. He was born in Bacău, Romania, and brought Palestine, then part of the Turkish Ottoman Empire, at the age of six, when his parents were among the founders of Zichron Yaakov, one of the pioneer Jewish agricultural settlements of the First Aliyah. After his study in France, Aaron Aaronsohn botanically mapped Palestine and its surroundings and...
