Fulbright Israel Community

Our U.S. Postdoctoral Fellow at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Dr. Michael Wine, is quoted in a National Geographic article about the decreasing Sea of Galilee, following his research (co-author) published this September in the journal Science of the Total Environment, entitled "Agriculture, Diversions, and Drought Shrinking Galilee Sea". Read the full National Geographic article HERE.

Congratulations to our Board member and Fulbright fellow, Prof. Hossam Haick for receiving the European Commission “Innovation Prize”, a new prize which was awarded in Lisbon on November 21, at The European Forum of Electronic Components and Systems (EFECS). He won the prize for his SNIFFPHONE system.

Prof. Haick was a 2004 Fulbright Post-doctoral fellow at Caltech - California Institute of Technology, and is now a Professor at the Wolfson Faculty of Chemical Engineering at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology.

To read more about the award, click here.

Photo by: Simon Pugh Photography

This week at the Center for the Study of the United States at Tel Aviv University, Professor Steven Ross from the University of Southern California, will lecture about his new book and speak with students and faculty. Both events will be held in English.

Congratulations to Professor Alon Chen, our Fulbright alumnus, for being chosen as the next president of the Weizmann Institute of Science. 

Professor Chen was a 2001 Fulbright Post-doctoral fellow at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, California.

Read the full announcement by the Weizmann Institute.

Photo taken from the Weizmann Institute website.