Rehovot History: High-Tech Park for Rehovot

News Archive 1991

"A plan is being formulated in the Israel Investment Center and Ministry of Industry and Trade to establish a park for high-tech industries in Rehovot. The plan was discussed at a meeting attended by Moshe Terri, director of the Investment Center, Danny Graz of Rehovot..."

Source: High-tech park for Rehovat. (Rehovat, Israel). ICEN ( 11 January 1991) [FullText]

Rehovot News in Brief: a month-old baby died in Rehovot Hospital

"A month-old baby died yesterday in the children's intensive care ward at Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot following whooping cough complications. The baby was hospitalized two and a half weeks ago in serious condition and required artificial respiration. The Clalit health maintenance organization, which owns the hospital, set up an inquiry committee following the baby's death. Babies are immunized against whooping cough at age 2 months, the hospital reported. Health Ministry figures indicate that five babies have died since 2004 from whooping cough."

Source: Yuval Azoulay. News in Brief. Haaretz.com (25 May 2007) [FullText]

Rehovot Student Leaders Vow to Converge on Capital, Start Hunger Strike

The unions have organized three large car and bus caravans that will leave Tel Aviv, Haifa and Beersheba at 3 p.m. headed for the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood. The convoys will gather at 5 p.m. at the Shoresh Junction, and continue to the entrance to the city, where students will disembark and complete the trip on foot.

In addition, a group of some 40 students of veterinary medicine from Hebrew University's Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences in Rehovot [situated next to the Weizmann Institute of Science] launched a march from Beit Dagan to Jerusalem Wednesday, which is also expected to end on Thursday afternoon in front of the prime minister's residence...

Source: Haviv Rettig. Student leaders vow to converge on capital, start hunger strike JPost.com (10 May 2007) [FullText]

Rehovot resident tragedy: Police probe whether hikers had adequate warning of flash flood

Survivors deny ignoring several warnings from park rangers

All four of the rappelers - Tal Alon, 24, from Moshav Mei-Ami; Dror Koren, 23, from Herzliya; Noa Shapira, 23, from Kfar Saba and Amit Gottleib, 23, from Rehovot - were buried Sunday, less than 24 hours after horrified park rangers, friends and bystanders saw the four swept away by a powerful surge of muddy water rushing down Nahal Qumran.

At one point, when the group realized that they were trapped in the canyon, Koren called his older brother, Yaron, a firefighter, to tell him that they were in need of rescue. Yaron contacted another firefighter whose brother was also on the trip, and they and two co-workers set out to try to rescue the climbers - but to no avail.

Source: Rebecca Anna Stoil. Police probe whether hikers had adequate warning of flash flood. Survivors deny ignoring several warnings from park rangers. JPost.com (14 May 2007) [FullText]

Rehovot Scientist Among the Winners of this year's Wolf Prizes

The chemistry prize will be jointly awarded to Prof. Ada Yonath (born 1939 in Israel) of the Weizmann Institute of Science and Rehovot, and Prof. George Feher (born 1924 in Czechoslovakia) of the University of California, San Diego for ingenious structural discoveries of the ribosomal machinery of peptide-bond formation and the light-driven primary processes in photosynthesis...

Source: Judy Siegel. Two Israeli academics among the winners of this year's Wolf Prizes. Jerusalem Post (13 May 2007) [FullText]

Man kills wife in Rehovot Area

News Archive 1998

Just a day after the attempted murder of a Givatayim woman by her husband, a woman from the Rehovot area was shot and killed by her husband yesterday in a parking lot outside her workplace.

Forty-four women have reportedly been murdered by their husbands in Israel in the past two years.

Shlomo Tsabari, 43, had called his wife Shosh on a cellular phone at about 9 a.m. and asked her to meet him in the parking lot outside the Club Market store, where she worked in the Bilu Shopping Center south of Rehovot...

Source: Margot Dudkevitch. Man kills wife; 44th case in two years. Jerusalem Post (1 January 1998) [FullText]

Three Students Detained in Clashes with police in Rehovot Weizmann and Hebrew University area

[While] Gov't acts to end student strike, three detained in clashes with police in Rehovot. "If we agree to this," the official said, "an absurd situation would occur - a new student would pay a different, higher tuition fee than a student already enrolled, whose fee would stay the same. This is something we totally object to as higher education must be equal and made accessible to all."

Source: Camilla M. Butchins. Gov't acts to end student strike. Three detained in clashes with police in Rehovot. JPost.com (1 MAy 2007) [FullText]

Online Grocery Shopping Comes to Rehovot

Are you too lazy to go to the grocery store? Sick at home? Can't get out? Now, there is no need to! You can't go to the Makolet - so the Makolet comes to you! How? Because, finally, online grocery shopping comes to town.

Check it out yourself, click here. Rehovot Kosher grocery store online is no risk shopping - straight from the shelf. Payment is made in cash upon delivery of your order. Delivery is free for purchases over NIS100.

Please note that our Makolet online is very easy to operate, easier than any other conventional online shopping facility. This is because there are no long catalog pages to review, no scrolling down through hundreds of items, no selecting and adding them to your online shopping cart. Also, there is no advance payment, so one is assured of his/her online security. We attempted to make it more simple so that even a computer beginner can manage it easily.

How does it work?

Operating My Rehovot Grocery store is simple: You navigate though the thumbnails of the Makolet shelves (numbered 1 to 31) at the Makolet home page. You then click on a shelf of your choice. This action opens your selection - enlarged and in a separate browser window, enabling you to take a close look and select the items of your choice. Now, you can call Zvia or Nisan at (08) 946-2858, place your order, and have your shopping basket delivered to your door in an hour or so. Or, you can ask them to postpone delivery till you return home after a busy day in the office. The delivery is free for purchases over NIS100. Payment is made, in cash, upon delivery of your groceries. It's that simple! Plus, you shop with confidence, as there is no concern of online advance payment.

Should you have any questions, or are interested in creating a similar online shop, please use the form provided at the bottom of the Makolet home page. Online Makolet business hours match the operation hours of the reality grocery store behind it: Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, Thursday 6 AM - 14 PM and 16 PM - 20 PM, Tuesday and Friday 6 AM - 15 PM.

Of course we welcome you to visit the reality grocery shop too. It is located at H ertzog/Menucha V'nahala and Weizmann/Miller Streets junction.

We wish you easy and pleasant shopping with us!

Rehovot's Kaplan Hospital Officials to be Indicted for illegal Experimentation on Elderly Patients

Police will recommend indicting senior officials at Hartzfeld Geriatric Hospital in Gedera and Kaplan Hospital in Rehovot for allegedly performing illegal experiments on elderly patients under their care, police sources said yesterday. Four of the officials, including Dr. Shmuel Levy, deputy director of Kaplan-Hartzfeld, were arrested last October following a complaint by the Health Ministry concerning alleged immoral and illegal experiments on elderly patients. In one experiment concerning the effects of psychiatric medications on the appetites of geriatric patients, 12 of the 41 participants died.

Source: Yuval Azoulay. News in brief. Haaretz.com (29 April 2007) [FullText]