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Founded in 1944, the American Committee for the Weizmann Institute of Science develops philanthropic support for the Weizmann Institute in Israel, and advances its mission of science for the future of humanity.
Aug 05, 2019... JERUSALEM, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) – Researchers from Israel, China, the United States and Switzerland have found that water accumulated in an ancient aquifer in the so ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/in-search-of-the-wild-fava-bean/
Dec 07, 2016...
14,000-year-old faba seeds contain clues to the timing of the plants’ domestication.
Like all food crops, the faba, or fava, bean – a nutritious part of th ... Read more
Jun 19, 2017... The Spring Citadel was excavated in the City of David National Park by dozens of researchers led by Professor Ronny Reich of the University of Haifa and Eli Shu ... Read more
Sep 11, 2019... Three fragments from the Temple Scroll, one the Dead Sea Scrolls, is displayed at the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage in Beachwood, Ohio, March 28, 2006. (AP Ph ... Read more
Aug 10, 2018...
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Scientists may have miscalculated the age of an olive branch that has served as a key piece of evidence in dating the Sa ... Read more
Jan 08, 2014...
Evidence of ancient habitation at Mashabei Sadeh, 4,500 years ago, but what did they live on? Photo by Zach Dunseth
The Negev has been inhabited for thousa ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/science-tips-march-2015/
Mar 02, 2015...
Manot Cave cranium
A partial human skull unearthed in 2008 in northern Israel may hold some clues as to when and where humans and Neanderthals might have i ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/news-releases/uncovering-varied-pathways-to-agriculture/
Dec 06, 2017...
Prof. Elisabetta Boaretto and Dr. Tobias Richter. In the foreground is a Natufian hearth at Shubayqa, Jordan
REHOVOT, ISRAEL—December 6, 2017— Around 15,00 ... Read more
Sep 02, 2019... A view of Earth from space. Two billion years ago the planet would have looked very different. Researchers have now found evidence of a massive die-off event fr ... Read more
https://www.weizmann-usa.org/news-media/in-the-news/illuminating-jewish-life-in-a-muslim-empire/
Jan 14, 2013... Prof. Haggai Ben-Shammai of the National Library of Israel, which obtained 29 handwritten texts from the 11th century. Jim Hollander/European Pressphoto Agency< ... Read more
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