Writer: Susan Goodman

Days of war, dreams of peace

While we sit sipping our cappuccinos, a shred of the illusion still shimmers.’Most people were more interested in getting their cup of coffee than talking

Israel’s Nobel winner talks of a cure for war

Bringing peace to the world is usually the preserve of political or religious ideologues – certainly well outside the domain of mathematicians. But this is the theme of the lecture that Prof. Robert J. Aumann of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will deliver next week when he receives his Nobel Prize for Economic Sciences in Stockholm.

Israel’s Mr. Pomegranate

Noted pomegranate researcher Dr. Ephraim Lansky in his natural habitat. (Photo: Debbie Zimelman) A renovated tailor’s workshop in the old Turkish market in Haifa is

Israel’s real-life CSI sleuth

Next month, Professor Yossi Almog will be the recipient of the highly prestigious Lucas Medal, awarded by the American Academy of Forensic Sciences at the

West meets east in Jerusalem

We forget who and where we are. We are a sisterhood of women.”Do you know where the Augusta Victoria Hospital is?” asks my taxi driver