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19/02/2020 - 17:35

In current environment, there is a bitter confrontation for regional hegemony between those three actors: Arab world, non – Arab states and... →

12/02/2020 - 13:11

As it continues to spread around the world, bringing panic with it, scientists are striving to develop ways of fighting this... →

07/02/2020 - 13:16

A now-classic thought experiment illustrating this problem was posed by the Oxford philosopher Nick Bostrom in 2003. Bostrom... →

01/02/2020 - 12:37

Nothing came of this proposal and, on Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations voted to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. Full-... →

26/01/2020 - 13:03

When I started these challenges, my life was almost all about building the Facebook website. (It was mostly a website at the time.) Now... →

19/01/2020 - 14:36

The book, published in Hebrew in 2018 and English in 2019, is based on a survey of beliefs and practices among 3,005 Israeli Jews. The... →

14/01/2020 - 17:37

The RAS commission’s preliminary report documenting the problems and journals’ responses to them is “a bombshell,” says Gerson... →

06/01/2020 - 13:57

But the task of science fiction is not to predict the future. Rather, it contemplates possible futures. Writers may find the future... →

01/01/2020 - 21:29

All Soviet children and families celebrated this holiday, and young Regina was no different. She remembers her excitement as she wondered... →

28/12/2019 - 14:13

Why do we still feel hungry after feast? Does overeating “stretch” your stomach, meaning you have more room for food the following day?... →

21/12/2019 - 12:13

At the same time, the man who strove, as he himself said, to turn political writing into an art and who declared that everything he wrote... →

13/12/2019 - 15:02

As Segev makes clear, Israel’s founding father was both exceptional and eccentric. And nearly five decades after his passing, Ben-Gurion... →

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