On 29 April 2022, the editorial board of Harvard Crimson published “In Support Boycott, Divest, Sanction and a Free Palestine” in support divestment from Israel. 1 In it, cited importance global solidarity charges leveled by Amnesty International Human Rights Watch against Israel, “crimes humanity.” 2 The clearly had changed its position 2002, when staff “Do Not Divest Israel,” regarding compar...

The Mediterranean region is both a global biodiversity hot spot and one of the biomes most strongly affected by human activities. Ecologists and land managers are increasingly required to advise on threats to biodiversity under foreseeable climate change. We used expert surveys to evaluate current understanding and uncertainties regarding climate change impacts on biodiversity in terrestrial, i...

IRAD BEN-GAL*, YALE T. HERER and TZVI RAZ Department of Industrial Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion–Israel Institute of Technology, 32000 Haifa, Israel E-mail: [email protected] Faculty of Management, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel E-mail: tzvira...

a Department of Psychiatry, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel b Bar-Ilan University, Department of Psychology, Ramat-Gan, Israel c Sheba Medical Center, Psychiatry Unit, Ramat-Gan, Israel d Center for Behavioral Sciences, Israeli Defense Forces, Ramat-Gan, Israel e Department of Psychiatry, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA f Department o...

The Israel Journal of Health Policy Research (IJHPR) is a new, open access journal. IJHPR seeks to promote intensive intellectual interactions among scholars and practitioners from Israel and other countries regarding all aspects of health policy, with particular attention to Israel. The ultimate aim of these interactions is to contribute to the development of health policy in Israel, and also ...

Yuval Yaron1,2,*, and Rachel Michaelson-Cohen3,4 1Prenatal Genetic Diagnosis Unit, Genetic Institute, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Tel Aviv, Israel 2Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Israel 3Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel 4Medical Genetics Institute, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Hebrew University of...

We explicitly construct extractors for two independent n-bit sources of (log n) minentropy. Previous constructions required either polylog(n) min-entropy [CZ15, Mek15] or five sources [Coh16]. Our result extends the breakthrough result of Chattopadhyay and Zuckerman [CZ15] and uses the non-malleable extractor of Cohen [Coh16]. The main new ingredient in our construction is a somewhere-random co...

1 Department of Physics of Complex Systems, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 2 Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science,Rehovot, Israel. 3 Department of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 4 Department of Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. 5 Sheba Cancer Research Center, The Chaim Sheba Medical C...

E. Eyal, B. N. Bloch, E. Furman-Haran, E. M. Genega, W. C. Dewolf, G. J. Bubley, H. Degani, N. M. Rofsky, and R. E. Lenkinski Department of Biological Regulation, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, Department of Radiology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States, Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Har...

1 The Minerva Otto Warburg Center for Biotechnology in Agriculture and The Robert H. Smith Institute for Plant Science and Genetics in Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot 76100, Israel 2 Department of Virology, Agricultural Research Organization, Volcani Center, Bet Dagan 50250, Israel 3 Plant Protection and Inspection Service, Ministry of Agriculture, Bet Dagan, Israel 4 D...