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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Rehovot's Israel Scholar to Expand Israel and Global Jewish Scholar Communication Tradition

Rehovot's Israel Scholar Works (ISW) is a digital archive ( repository ) for creative work by the faculty, staff and students of Israel Academic Institutions and Jewish scholars all around the world. Israel Scholar Works aims to facilitate innovation in the production and dissemination of Israel scholarship, to unite Israel and Jewish scholarship, to make it available to a wider audience, and to help assure its long-term preservation. Israel Scholar Works has published first postscript archive article and now open for submissions of a wide range scholarly publications.

By publishing the first postscript article, Israel Scholar, a web based independent non-profit educational organization based in academic town of Rehovot, Israel, officially launched today The Israel Scholar Works.

Israel Scholar Works (ISW) is a digital archive (repository) for creative work by the faculty, staff and students of Israel Academic Institutions and Jewish scholars all around the world. Run by scholars, Israel Scholar Works aims to facilitate innovation in the production and dissemination of Israel scholarship, to promote and unite Israel and global Jewish scholarship, to make it available to a wider audience, and to help assure its long-term preservation.

Israel Scholar, its partners in Israel and across the global academic world are reshaping scholarly communication. Taking digital age advantage of the modern Internet technology and its' end-user availability, Israel Scholar has established the Israel Scholar Works, where every Israel and/or Jewish scholar can personally permanently archive his or her creative work, and make it freely available for peers and for the public. Such archive thus provides a platform to have Israel scholars' rights to regain control over their scholarship realized easily.

While Israel Scholar Works present focus is postscript (or postprint) archiving of articles originally published in peer-reviewed journals and dissertations by Israel/Jewish scholars, in future the Repository will offer direct control over creation and dissemination of the full range of scholarly output, including pre-publication materials, conference proceedings, book chapters and teaching series. Importantly, it will cross disciplinary boundaries, giving it a wider scope than any journal or any small set of journals.

This is especially important, because current scholar publishing models are not economically sound and do not serve the public interest. Academic researchers, faculty and students have access to a decreasing fraction of relevant scholarship. New software tools and technologies, however, are being developed, tested and implemented. In addition to The Works, Israel Scholar runs Israel Scholar Communication Scrolls section that help scholars to realize that the responsibility and rights of regaining control of scholarly communication rests with them.

Sadly, "Israel does not have the level of Open Access activity that we see in any other part of the world with comparable levels of higher education and research," says Peter Suber, a leading proponent of Open Access, Open Access project director of Washington, DC based non-profit Public Knowledge, and the author of Open Access News. Israel Scholar Works founder Dr. Alexei Koudinov "is the leading proponent of Open Access in Israel and is trying almost alone to change this," Professor Suber adds.

Israel Scholar aims to raise the profile of Open Access among Israeli scholars, librarians, university administrators, and government officials, and help bring Israel to a level of recognition for its OA activity commensurate with its levels of scientific research.

Having a feasible development project (presented at the Society for Neuroscience annual meeting in Atlanta, Georgia, October 14-18, 2006), Israel Scholar is open for grant or philanthropic support by an individual or organization.

Israel Scholar Works is available at this link.

Source: Israel Scholar (14 October 2006) [FullText]

Tuesday, October 24, 2006

News Archive 2002: Robberies in the Rehovot Area and the South Involving Large Amounts of Money and Expensive Equipment

According to police speculations, the gang has been involved in dozens of robberies in the Rehovot area and the south involving large amounts of money and expensive equipment. Rehovot police chief, Hen Surie, says: "We're talking about a professional gang which does not stop at violence. Investigations show that in some cases they even used a jeep with police signs."
The first burglary in the area occurred around three months ago when the safe was stolen from the Club-Market supermarket in Asheret. The police knew immediately that this was a professional job. Further burglaries followed a similar pattern. The suspects would arrive in two vehicles: a 4 x 4 jeep on which they would load the booty and another escape vehicle which would lie in wait nearby. They would remove iron bars with a heavy rope tied to the jeep or else drive the jeep straight in through the door like in the movies. Safes were what they were most interested in but they also loaded other items on the jeep. Then they would take the stolen goods to a nearby quiet hiding place. The police suspect that they have several such bases where they store stolen goods awaiting sale. So far equipment worth over NIS 100,000 has been found in a wood between Rehovot and Yavne and four safes have been discovered on the sand dunes between Yavne and Ashdod.

Source: R Harari. Focus on Rehovot & Rishon Lezion. Jerusalem Post .com (4 oct 2002) [Fulltext]

Sunday, October 22, 2006

News Archive 2002: Rehovot Residents are Dissatisfied with the State of the City, Independent Survey Concluded

According to a recent survey conducted by Maagar Mohot on behalf of Rehovot Municipality, Rehovot residents are generally dissatisfied with the state of the city and the services provided by the municipality

Rehovot Municipality is considering transferring responsibility for culture to Reshet Hamatnasim (the Community Centers Network), reports Bamakom Hebrew weekly.

Senior officials at Rehovot Municipality said that it appears that the city will opt to merge with the national Reshet Hamatnasim. One of those closely involved expressed his fears: "Such a decision will not necessarily bring about any saving and may even harm the city's culture. If we want to privatize, then we should set up a municipal company for culture like in Rishon Lezion. Reshet Hamatnasim deals with educational and community activities which is another matter entirely. Sacking workers will not bring about any saving because the transfer will cost money, and Reshet Hamatnasim will have to employ more people. The cultural department is not overstaffed and this is not the place to make cuts."

Source: Rosalyn Harari. Focus on Rishon & Rehovot. JPost.com (14 June 2002) [FullText]

Friday, October 20, 2006

Rehovot News Archive by JPost: Municipality Affairs May 2003

"Rehovot Mayor Shuki Fohrer and senior Rehovot municipality officials were found guilty earlier this month of failing to deal promptly with ecological damage.

At Ramle Magistrates Court, Judge Zahava Bustan ruled that the three, as well as the Rehovot municipality, were guilty of contributing to water pollution and pollution of public property, after untreated sewage overflowed into the city sewage system and into the Gamliel and Shorek streams.

The Rehovot municipal parents committee is considering following the lead of Rishon Lezion, where Mayor Meir Nitzan announced that he intends introducing a five-day school week from September, reports Bamakom Hebrew weekly."

Source: Rosalyn Harari. Focus on Rehovot & Rishon Lezion. Jerusalem Post Archive (23 May 2003) [FullText]

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Rehovot Scientist Teaches Global Neuroscience Community on Open Access at the Major Congress of Neurosciences

Atlanta, Georgia - 16 October 2006 - Teaching Presentation on Open Access by Israel Scholar Founder Alexei Koudinov, MD, PhD provides an ABC for the Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting attendees on how Open Access to Scholar literature may benefit and be easily achived by every scientist, their labs and Universities.

Neuroscience 2006, held this year October 14-18 in Atlanta, Georgia, is a major world gathering and showcase of latest research and technology in Neurosciences, hosted by Washington, DC based professional Society for Neuroscience (SfN). Unlike half-a-day science sessions, Dr. Koudinov teaching session is open for poster viewing during the entire conference week. Two poster board pospresentation serves to educate global scholar community about noteworthy OA projects, their usefulness and ease of use.

Dr. Koudinov (who also serve as founding and managing editor of two Open Access journals, Neurobiology of Lipids and Doping Journal) is a neuroscientist with fifteen years expertise in Alzheimer's disease. The list of his academic affiliations includes New York University Medical Center, The Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel, Hamburg University Hospital in Germany, and a number of Institutions in Moscow, Russian Federation. His research on the role of cholesterol and other fats in brain function and brain diseases was published in the major world science journals, such as Science, PLoS medicine, FASEB Journal, Neurology, etc. His Society for Neuroscience Annual Meeting science and teaching presentations were named hot science stories, as supported by their appearence in lay language in the Neuroscience Meeting Press Books 2000, 2001, 2004. In 2004, Dr.Koudinov co-authored Neuroscience Annual Meeting 2004 teaching presentation on Open Access (with a key OA advocate Prof.Peter Suber, available in the abstract form, as full text poster presentation .PDF imprint, and press book lay language article.

Quoting Neuroscience 2006 Open Access presentation abstract (available in full at the Neuroscience 2006 abstract central web site): "Open Access (OA) is the online access to scientific literature, free of charge and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. OA was named one of the top recent science news stories by science, learned society and media publishers (including Nature, Science, The Scientist, The Wall Street Journal) and governments (USA, EU, UK, India). Rapidly rising conventional subscription journal prices have been denounced by leading universities, found dysfunctional by independent analysts (PNB Paribas, Citigroup, Credit Suisse), and are supported by most influential science funding bodies (National Institutes of Health USA), Howard Hughes Medical Institute USA; the Wellcome trust UK; the Max Planck Society and the DFG, Germany, the CNRS and INSERM, France), graduate students, leading scientists and the panel of Nobel Prize laureates. OA movement includes the development of OA journals and OA archives. There are high profile OA journals (such as PLoS Biology and PLoS Medicine) successfully competing with most influential science, technical and medical (STM) serials. OA archives (institutional or governmental, such as PubMedCentral, PMC by National Library of Medicine USA) allow scholars to deposit their articles published previously in regular peer-reviewed subscription-based journals, to secure free access to their creative works by peers and the public. Modern web search capabilities (ex. Google Scholar) allow easy web accessibility of an article at either publisher or an archive web site..."

Israel Scholar founder presentation explains why OA journals and OA archives both provide the tools to liberate scholarship from commercial publisher cabal, why OA improves the impact of scientists' publications, their university recognition, and ease grant application and reporting requirements. Studies show that OA accelerates research, shares knowledge, improves the usefulness of scholar literature, higher education and global scientific heritage. Wider development of Open Access depends on educating the scientific community about its simplicity and benefits. The presentation makes simple the understanding of what Open Access is and how easy it can be achieved by students and scientists. It is available for viewing at Israel Scholar Advocacy section as .PDF imprint of the poster presentation, part 1.

The second part of the presentation by Alexei Koudinov (entitled Grant Support Wanted: Developing Universal Open Access to Scholar literature and available in full as .PDF imprint of the poster presentation) describes the rationale and the development plan of run by scholars (not commercial publishers) non-profit OA science journals (Neurobiology of Lipids and Doping Journal) and nation-wide OA archive (Israel Scholar Works). This project as competitive award application of "merit" (submitted to The Rolex Awards for Enterprise 2006) reached final evaluations step by Rolex Awards committee. "The Rolex Awards support exceptional men and women who are breaking new ground in areas which advance human knowledge and well-being," - Rolex Awards Official Web site says. The project, however, was not funded and therefore open for support by other interested organizations. Full application and any additional info are available upon request, Neuroscience 2006 presentation by Israel Scholar founder concludes.

For further info please contact Israel Scholar: (972 54) 796-8607 or postmater[at]israelscholar.org

Source: Israel Scholar Communication Scrolls (16 October 2006) [FullText]

Wednesday, October 18, 2006

Rehovot Municipality Does Not Fight Illegal Operation of the Business by Rehovot Major Nephew, JPost says

Imagine that you've spent a fortune on building a nice house, looked into every detail, toiled for months to make sure that everything caters to your needs and taste, waited for several years until construction was finished - but one factor evaded you and you realize it only when it's too late. This has happened to thousands of Rehovot residents who are regularly awoken in the middle of the night by loud techno music...

"The first night I woke up, I thought I was back in miluim (military reserve) in the middle of a bombardment," says one frustrated Rehovot resident who asked not to be named. "It took me a moment to realize it was merely fireworks. Mostly the noise is fireworks and extremely loud music that can be heard all the way to Ness Ziona. Sometimes the music lasts all night long. I spend too many sleepless nights. No matter what I do, I can't evade it, and in the morning I'm a wreck. It's frustrating because we are absolutely helpless, while the authorities - the police and the Rehovot municipality - do not do enough, if anything, to solve the problem and stop this nightmare."

Rehovot residents have been suffering from such noise bouts since the territory around the railway station turned into the hottest local club scene. Clubs such as Metrock, Metro, and Tarazina, as well as the Shamayim Kchulim wedding hall, have been operating north of the city's railway station for several years on agricultural land owned mainly by the Ya'acovs, a wealthy family from Be'er Ya'acov.

Two of these clubs - Metro and the Shamayim Kchulim wedding hall - have licenses, but Metrock and Tarazina operate illegally. Tarazina is owned by Nir Forer, a nephew of Rehovot mayor Yehosha Forer. The younger Forer's partially outdoor club has been operating without a license for the past six years. When questioned about the club's legal status, Tarazina shift manager Assaf Cohen says laconically "We are working on it now..."

Source: Edna Shemesh. Sleepless in Rehovot. JPost.com (7 July 2006) [Fulltext]

Monday, October 16, 2006

Rehovot Girl Is A Hero of a US Lone Star Conference Women's Soccer

CANYON, Texas — Sarit Shenar posted a hat trick in the second half on Saturday to lead unbeaten West Texas A&M to a 4-1 victory over Eastern New Mexico University in a Lone Star Conference women’s soccer match.

Shenar, a senior forward from Rehovot, Israel, scored the last three goals for the Lady Buffs (8-0, 1-0 LSC), who led 1-0 at halftime when kendal Kitchens scored midway through the period.

Shenar made it 2-0 with an unassisted goal less than seven minutes into the second half, then added another tally barely two minutes later on an assist by Kitchens.

Senior forward Kara Henderson got the Zias on the board midway through the second half, scoring off a pass from junior Nicole Bregler, but Shenar added another unassisted goal in the final two minutes.

Source: Zias bow to Lady Buffs. CNJ (17 September 2006) [Fulltext]

Saturday, October 14, 2006

A Boy Found Unconscious on Saturday in a Rehovot School

A 12-year-old boy who was found unconscious on Saturday in a Rehovot school and claimed he was beaten changed his tune on Wednesday and admitted he had actually collapsed after drinking alcohol.

According to the boy's original story, two boys from school beat him senseless after he refused to steal cigarettes for them.

However, the boy now said he had actually drunk an alcoholic beverage and gone to meet the two boys in the school courtyard, but then felt ill and fainted. The boys then kicked him and poured water on him to revive him, he said, and then covered him with a blanket.

The two suspects remained under house arrest while police continued to investigate the circumstances of the incident.

Source: 12-year-old 'abuse victim' drank alcohol, fainted. JPost.com (8 October 2006) [Fulltext]

Thursday, October 12, 2006

Rehovot Hospital Doctors Suspected of Illegal Experimentation on Humans

Four senior doctors at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot and Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gedera suspected of illegally experimenting on humans were arrested Monday.

The national fraud squad has opened an investigation into the affair. The four are suspected of abuse, aggravated assault, causing death through negligence, fraud, forgery, breach of statutory duty, and disruption of legal proceedings.

The Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court on Monday extended by three days the remands of Kaplan-Hartzfeld deputy director Dr. Shmuel Levi and Dr. Nadia Kagensky. The third suspect, Dr. Alona Smirnov, was released to house arrest for five days, and the fourth suspect was released following an investigation.

Police searched the houses of all four suspects and confiscated incriminating documents.

Many of the details of the affair were revealed in a series of Haaretz articles on the subject, as well as Channel 2 TV's investigative documentary series "Fact."

In May 2005, the State Comptroller's Office slammed the hospitals over the illegal experimentation in a report.

According to a report issued by the investigations department of the Health Ministry and exposed by Haaretz, the hospitals in Gedera and Rehovot conducted illegal and unethical testing on thousands of elderly patients for years.

During one of the incidents described, twelve patients died either during the experiments or shortly after they took place, but these incidents were not reported to the Health Ministry or investigated, as is required by law.

The Health Ministry's director general filed a complaint with police following an internal inquiry into the affair and the fraud squad confiscated from the hospitals many documents pertaining to the experimentation.

The ministry's investigation revealed that some of the patients were included in the experiments without providing their consent, while some of them suffered from severe mental damage, which prevented them from being legally capable of providing consent.

According to the report, some of the tests did not even yield any medically or scientifically beneficial results. Furthermore, some of the experiments were conducted despite top doctors' warnings that they were illegal or unethical.

The report voices harsh criticism of the Helsinki committee at the hospitals, responsible for approving the experiments and failing to protect the public's best interests.

The ministry's report further condemns the hospital's management for failing to address the complaints and information handed to it over the past few years, describing the flawed medical procedures.

According to the report, some doctors received promotions, both in their professional and academic careers, on the basis of the illegal tests. In some cases, the tests were used as the basis for research studies published in local and international medical journals.

At least four doctors at the hospitals were named as experts in Geriatrics based on the illegal tests they allegedly conducted along with their colleagues.

Source: Ran Reznik. Four top doctors arrested over illegal human experimentation. Haaretz.com (10 october 2006) [FullText]

Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Rehovot's Kaplan Hospial News: Toddler Saved After Eating Battery

"A 15-month-old girl brought to Rehovot's Kaplan Medical Center was suffering from a swollen belly, stomachache, lack of appetite and a drop in weight. When doctors took an x-ray, they saw a foreign body but could not identify it.

She was rushed to the operating theater, where Dr. Moshe Greenspan, head of pediatric surgery, pulled out a small, rusty battery and a large number and variety of seeds and pits, including those from olives, pistachios, watermelons and cherries.

It turned out that the toddler was suffering from a partial blockage of the intestine and that swallowing these objects caused a complete blockage. The operation was successful, and the girl is out of danger.

Iris Lisha, the nurse in charge of the toddlers' wing, reminded parents to keep small objects, including food, out of reach of young children. This case, she said, could have ended in tragedy."

Source: Judy Siegel-Itzkovich. Toddler saved after eating battery (29 September 2006) JPost.com [FullText]

Sunday, October 08, 2006

Rehovot News Archive: President Moshe Katsav Visit to the Town

"President Moshe Katsav, who was granted the title Honorary Citizen of Rehovot when he was Minister of Transport, visited Rehovot earlier this month together with his wife Gila, reports Bamakom Hebrew weekly. The couple toured the Ort High School, the Ironoar Center, the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood and the Eylon Museum.

Rehovot Mayor Shuki Fohrer and the Chief Rabbi of Rehovot Simcha Hacohen Kook received President and Mrs Katsav at the northern entrance to the city with halla and wine, as hundreds of elementary school pupils dressed in white shirts, waved flags while holding their gas masks in their other hand. At the reception the President recalled that when he came to live in Israel in the '50s, he lived in Kfar Bilu."

Source: Rosalyn Harari. JPost.com (18 April 2003) [FullText]

Friday, October 06, 2006

Rehovot's Weizmann Institute Participated in Researcher's Night 2006 in Haifa Museum

6,000 youths took part in an exciting night of science at the National Museum of Science, Technology and Space in Haifa - part of a European Union-wide project entitled "Researchers' Night 2006."

What do scientists do when they get up in the morning? How do patents and advanced technologies develop? What do the stars look like? How does the Israeli telescope Tauvex work? These are some of the questions that the students looked into in a "night of science" to which they were treated by the museum and several universities.

The project was a joint initiative of the European Union, the Technion in Haifa, and the museum, together with Weizmann Institute in Rechovot, the Science Museum in Jerusalem, and Hebrew University. A similar event will be held throughout Europe on Friday night, September 22; it was advanced in Israel because of the Rosh HaShanah holiday of that nigh.

Science Minister Ophir Pines-Paz visited at the event, saying, "This is a festival of true science, and the great turnout shows that our youngsters are interested in and curious about science."

"This is a wonderful opportunity to introduce young people, who include tomorrow's scientists, to the world of science, in a language all can understand," said Technion President Prof. Yitzchak Apeloig.

Museum Director Prof. Yoram Zvirin said the purpose was to "bring together the public, scientists and researchers in a relaxed, pleasant atmosphere."

Dozens of buses chartered by the Technion brought some 2,500 youth and students, as well as 300 soldiers, to the event.

Among the displays were "Scientists in Slippers," "The Magic in Illusion," "The Sounds of Science," and "A Taste of Science." There were also observatory activities such as "A View of the Stars" and "Science Fair," at which Technion researchers presented their nanotechnology and brain studies research. In addition, films were screened throughout the evening and night in the museum's Cinematrix theater, and magic shows and scientific demonstrations were held.

Source: Hillel Fendel. Thousands Take Part in "Researchers´ Night" in Haifa Museum. (20 September 2006) [FullText]

Thursday, October 05, 2006

Rehovot's Sukkot 2006: All Are Invited to Community Sukkah

This year's Sukkot there will be a full program of activities at the Rehovot community Succah (200 Sq. meters), which is erected on the grounds near Matnas Chavayot, at Sereni and Miller St. There will be activities for the whole family during the entireSuccot holiday week.

Activities will include: setting up and decorating the succah; gala opening ceremony; arts and crafts;
screening of "Ushpizin"; community kiddush sponsored by Berman's synagogue; lectures; choral performance and sing along

Please call Ellen Lax at 050-6874245, or David Tannot at 052-6991433 or 08-9494656 for schedule and details

Chag Samaiach!

To learn more about Succot tradition please visit Wikipedia Sukkot page

Wednesday, October 04, 2006

Rehovot Men Enjoy Maternity Leave. Instead of Wives

Growing number of men in Israel leave place of work, take maternity leave instead of wives

"A new trend: More and more men, whose wives have just given birth, leave their job and substitute their wife on maternity leave. A survey carried out by the national insurance institute shows that 157 men took a maternity leave this year.

Most of these supporting fathers came from Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and Kfar Saba. In Ashdod and Bnei-Brak, not even one could be found.

The taking of a maternity leave for men pays off: A father on maternity leave gets an average of 444 NIS per day, whereas the deliverer gets only 194 NIS per day. The reason for this is due to the fact that the allowance is given according to salary, and in this case, men's salaries are higher.

Since 1998, the law allows men to go on partial maternity leave. At first they were in no hurry to use this option but the phenomenon accelerated in past years. Nevertheless, numbers are still low.

A survey conducted by Esther Toledano from the Research and Planning Department at the National Insurance Institute lead by Leah Achdut, shows that in 2003, 128 men took a maternity leave. A year later, 150 men took it and this past year the number rose to 157 men.

In first place is Tel Aviv with 22 men who received birth allowance this last year. After that comes Jerusalem with 21 men, Kfar Saba 16 men, Petach Tikva 14 men, Ramla 11 men and in sixth place comes Rehovot with 10 men.

In the past year, 133,561 babies were born in Israel, 2,865 of them twins and 66 triplets and more."

Source: David Regev. Men in Bnei Brak don’t go on maternity leave. Ynetnews.com (28 September 2006) [FullText]

Sunday, October 01, 2006

Rehovot's Scientists to Develop Alternative Energy Future

"An ambitious multidisciplinary research initiative into alternative, sustainable energy resources is being launched by the Weizmann Institute of Science, with the goal of significantly advancing the search for solutions to the world's most pressing energy problems. The Rehovot institute plans to raise significant funds for its Initiative for Research in Sustainable and Alternative Energy, which will support innovative scientific projects in the field.

"Developing alternative means of producing energy is a necessary step for dealing with the continuing energy crisis," says institute president Prof. Ilan Chet. "Creating fresh, sustainable methods of producing energy in the required amounts will only be possible if we can gain the knowledge to invent completely new technologies. The Weizmann Institute has an obligation to take a lead in the global effort in this field. We believe we can help shape the planet's future."

Among the major global energy challenges confronting researchers and policymakers is the sharp rise in demand for energy in recent years, fueled by rapidly rising standards of living and expanding populations, especially in China and India. Experts predict that if nothing is done to change current patterns, energy demand will rise nearly 60 percent by the year 2030.

In addition, non-renewable energy sources such as fossil fuel are running out, petroleum-based fuel supplies could be held hostage to political upheavals, affecting the peace and security of Israel and the entire world, and the continuing upward spiral of oil prices threatens the stability of the global economy. Burning fossil fuels is a major cause of air pollution and increases the accumulation of greenhouse gasses in the upper atmosphere, which may already be causing global warming.

As Weizmann Institute scientists are concerned about this state of affairs, said Chet on Tuesday, several of them have committed themselves to help search for solutions.

Chemistry faculty dean Prof. Mordechai Sheves added: "The special nature of the Weizmann Institute, with its emphasis on multidisciplinary scientific cooperation, makes it one of the most promising places to pursue such solutions." "

Source: Judy Siegel-Itzkovich. Weizmann Institute looks to alternative energy future. JPost.com (26 September 2006) [FullText]

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