Among the farmers, labourers, religious zealots and political refugees who washed up on the shores of British-controlled Palestine during the inter-war period was German architect Erich Mendelsohn. Fleeing the rise of Nazism, Mendelsohn landed in the Levant in 1934, leaving behind a decade’s worth of prominent commissions in both Germany and Britain.
In Palestine, then a country in the making, Mendelsohn found an unblemished canvas on which he could inscribe an evolving aesthetic as much informed by his sophisticated past as by his idealistic visions for the nation’s future. Emboldened by the potential of this desert utopia and lauded by its nascent intellectual class, the modernist Mendelsohn unabashedly enthroned himself as Palestine’s chief architect. ‘Palestine of today symbolises a union between the most modern civilisation and a most antique culture,’ he wrote. ‘It is the place where intellect, vision, matter and spirit meet.’
December 12, 2018
Horizon, the EU Research & Innovation Magazine, reports on a breakthrough by Dr. Liran Shlush in diagnosing AML, a form of leukemia that is typically diagnosed at a late stage. Shlush has found a way to predict AML long before symptoms appear.
December 04, 2018
JEM interviews Prof. Eran Elinav, whose microbiome research has transformed the way we think about diet, nutrition, probiotics, and more.
November 30, 2018
The European Research Council created a web comic to illustrate Prof. Ulf Leonhardt’s invisibility research in a memorable and engaging way.
November 23, 2018
Fortune reports on investment by major corporations in Duality Technologies, the cutting-edge tech firm co-founded by Weizmann’s encryption pioneer Prof. Shafrira Goldwasser.
November 13, 2018
U.S. News & World Report has ranked the Weizmann Institute of Science as the best university in Israel.
November 01, 2018
While many of his peers spent the summer gearing up for college, Tony Pan of Grosse Pointe Farms traveled to Israel to work in a lab at one of the world’s foremost scientific research institutions. Thanks to a scholarship from the Borman family of Bloomfield Hills, Pan was one of 19 American teens participating in the 50th annual Dr. Bessie F. Lawrence International Summer Science Institute (ISSI) at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, a global leader in scientific disciplines, from cancer to alternative energy to space exploration.
October 25, 2018
The Jerusalem Post features an interview with Weizmann staff scientist Dr. Daniela Novick, whose research has helped create drugs that ease the suffering of MS and rheumatoid arthritis patients.
October 25, 2018
Weizmann’s Dr. Tamir Klein and colleagues conducted a large-scale study showing that climate change is deforesting Israel. Haaretz reports.
October 22, 2018
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