· Over 500 million birds fly over Israel every year to and from winter sheltering -spots. This is one of the busiest migration routes in the world. Yossi Leshem, an Israeli scientist and ornithologist, one of the world’s foremost experts on bird migration, has devoted his life to creating a safer environment for birds and people worldwide. Click the link to watch the short video entitled, The Man Who Taught me to fly
· Archaeologists have recently discovered a village from Talmudic times that was home to many potters. The village which was known as Shikhin, was found near to Tzipori in the Galili and will, says Dr. Mordechai Aviam co-director of the project, help to answer crucial questions surrounding the identity of the Galileans and about Jewish life in the region including the origins of Christianity. Shikhin is one of the two earliest names known from the Second Temple period and is mentioned by Flavius Josephus along with neighbouring city Sepphoris (modern Tzipori) as well as in the Talmud, as a village that was home to many potters. Already the moulds of seven different shapes of oil lamps have been discovered, the largest amount ever found in one village.
· Israeli Professor David Newman, dean of the Faculty of humanities and social sciences at Ben Gurion University, is shortly to be honoured by the Queen of England with an O.B.E. (Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire) This honour is to be given to Professor Newman who was born in the UK, for his contribution to promoting academic cooperation between Israel and England.
· Dr. Osnat Zomer-Penn of Tel Aviv University who is researching the genetic origins of autism, is one of three Israelis chosen to compete in the finals, and the third Israeli in a row to actually win the L’Oreal-UNESCO prize. She recently received the European award in a ceremony at the Sorbonne in Paris. The L’Oreal-UNESCO Women in Science Prize has been awarded for the past eight years with Israel joining in 2008 since when, Israel, though one of the smallest countries participating in the event, has become one of its biggest winners with three Israelis winning the European award over the past three years. Dr. Anat Yonath who went on to win a Nobel Prize won the award in 2008 and Israeli Victoria Yavlasky won in 2005.
(Times of Israel)
· In the first week in October, over 10,000 participants, including British Ambassador to Israel, Matthew Gould, took part in the 59thannual Kinneret (Sea of Galilee) swim which is the largest amateur sports event in Israel. Swimmers can choose from the long swim, 3.5 Km right across the lake or the shorter one of 1.5 Km. The event attracts both Israelis as well as many foreign visitors and is very efficiently organised with all possible precautions taken to ensure the safety of the swimmers.
· Nine-year-old Noam Glick who was shot in the shoulder by a masked terrorist last Saturday night while in the garden of her home in the West Bank village of Psagot is back from hospital and recovering well. Two Palestinians from the West bank city of El-Bireh have been arrested in connection with the crime. Security forces believe that one man planned and executed the attack while the other assisted. One of the masked men cut through the steel chain fence surrounding Psagot , ran up a rocky hillside and shot at Noam who was just returning from B’nei Akiva (a Jewish youth club) It is likely that her screams which were immediately heard by her father, prevented the gunman from entering further into the village and causing deaths and even worse injuries.
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