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center The Health Ministry is continuing its epidemiological investigation and is in constant contact with the children's parents After the staffer was confirmed to have contracted tuberculosis working together with the Tuberculosis Department of the Health Ministry worked to explain to the parents the necessary actions The Ministry noted that the chance of the children infecting others with tuberculosis is low since the infants' coughing is not developed enough to spread the infection colloquially known as "white death" or "consumption," is a contagious disease usually caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosism bacteria but can also affect other parts of the body but about 10% of latent infections progress to active disease which Symptoms include chronic cough with blood-containing mucus When organs other than the lungs are affected when those with active tuberculosis in their lungs sneeze Those with latent tuberculosis do not spread the disease Prevention involves screening those at risk Treatment requires extended use of multiple antibiotics but there are increasing numbers of antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis cases Run by renowned chefs and kosher entrepreneur Bardelas (ברדלס) is their new kosher brainchild located in a new commercial complex on the north side of Rehovot Bardelas is a chef-inspired Italian bistro that offers a refined yet family-friendly dining experience The menu highlights traditional Italian flavors with modern and trendy twists and a full selection of cocktails and wines to complement any meal.Perfect for a night out with friends for drinks Bardelas offers something unique within Israel’s dining scene The interior space is small with dining mostly around the U-shaped bar and is paired with ample seating outside in front of the restaurant but that doesn’t diminish the ambiance or service that Bardelas brings to its diners While Bardelas is the first of its kind in Rehovot kosher consumers should expect to see more Bardelas locations around Israel The restaurant is kosher-certified by Rabbanut Rehovot Dani Klein founded YeahThatsKosher in 2008 as a global kosher restaurant & travel resource for the Jewish community He is passionate about traveling the world and spending time with his friends & family We use ads & sponsored posts to support the creation of new content © YeahThatsKosher 2024 – Reproduction without explicit permission is strictly prohibited. | Privacy Policy • Download our kosher restaurant directory app Second-hand apartments sold Tel Aviv and central region Ramat Gan: A 109 square meter 11th floor apartment on Hadekalim Street in the Hagefen neighborhood was sold for NIS 4.6 million fourth floor apartment with two parking spaces on Evnei Hahoshen Street was sold for NIS 3 million third floor apartment with parking on Bialik Street in the city center was sold for NIS 2.95 million second floor apartment on Rashi Street in the city center was sold for NIS 1.8 million third floor apartment with a 73 square meter roof area and parking on Menia and Israel Shochat Street in Neot Rachel was sold for NIS 3.15 million fourth floor apartment with parking on Tzfat Street in Kiryat Sharet West was sold for NIS 2.23 million ninth floor apartment on Heletz Street in the city center was sold for NIS 1.8 million fourth floor apartment with two parking spaces on Haharazit Street was sold for NIS 4.2 million third floor apartment on Iyun Hatalmud Street was sold for NIS 2.42 million first floor apartment on Ritba Street was sold for NIS 1.1 million third floor apartment on Netivot Hamishpat Street was sold for NIS 3.6 million fourth floor apartment in Azorim Rehovot was sold for NIS 2.2 million Moskovitz Street was sold for NIS 1.95 million second floor apartment on Bielar Kalman Street with parking was sold for NIS 2.98 million Haifa and the north Akko:A 80 square meter fifth floor apartment on Haoren Street was sold for NIS 900,000 third floor apartment with parking on Maaleh Hahorsha Street was sold for NIS 1.06 million second floor apartment with parking on Ramhal Street was sold for NIS 1.25 million Beersheva and the south Ashkelon:A 74 square meter eighth floor apartment with a 7 square meter balcony elevator and parking but no security room on Ayala Street in the Naot Ashkelon neighborhood was sold for NIS 1.18 million (Anglo-Saxon) All deals were reported on the Israel Tax Authority website Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on March 9 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. The merger process between Scitex and HP Indigo Sources close to the matter have told "Globes" that Scitex employees are now being integrated into HP Indigo ending the situation until now in which Scitex remained an independent company under HP Indigo's management Even before the latest stage in the process began veteran Scitex general manager Dudu Tomer stepped down after 20 years at the company where he worked his way up as an industrial engineer and junior team leader The company is now considering how to avoid duplication of jobs and is initiating a move that will mainly involve talks with veteran employees on voluntary retirement there is no wave of layoffs planned for Scitex's 200 employees The merger process between the two divisions began at the end of 2022 when global HP management decided to subordinate the Scitex printing unit in Netanya one of the founding companies in Israeli tech industry to the HP Indigo division in Ness Ziona and Kiryat Gat "As part of our integration plan announced in November 2022 The integration of HP Indigo and Scitex will allow us to better deliver for our customers and partners HP remains committed to our local market and local team." Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on July 7 "\/liveblog_entry\/former-idf-chief-joins-hostage-rally-in-rehovot-cyclists-wear-orange-shirts-in-tel-aviv-for-bibas-family\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=Dg8CGTxZyZUafgC7sgEo1QBn7y3JAAHB6neprmXxNNE-1746534522-1.0.1.1-0nVuzkZ9T8NxidRyVoZDqs2gxh7QQAQbsShx.r5bET4" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null Plans for a bus-rapid-transport (BRT) line between Rehovot Ness Ziona and Rishon Lezion have been unveiled by the Netivei Ayalon transport infrastructures company The 21 kilometer service along the busy Road 412 is scheduled to begin operations in 2027 and will be similar to the Metronit BRT service in Haifa a one kilometer stretch of the main street in Rehovot (Herzl Street) and a 600 meter section of the main street in Ness Ziona (Weizmann Street) will be closed to cars and accessible only to public transport Other bus routes will be allowed along some parts of these roads The Rehovot-Ness Ziona-Rishon Lezion BRT electric bus service originally planned as the Tel Aviv Metropolitan area light rail Blue Line will have 44 stops and is designed to carry 77,000 passengers per day and 55 million passengers annually The length of Road 412 will be adapted for the plan cycle paths and more trees and generally an enhancement of urban spaces the BRT electric buses will run every five minutes in each direction and will receive preference at traffic lights which will be adjusted to automatically turn green when the buses approach Journey time from the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot to Rishon Lezion City Hall will be 26 minutes while it will take 15.5 minutes to travel from Habanim Street in Ness Ziona to the Vulcani Institute at the northern edge of Rishon Lezion NIS 2.2 billion will be allocated for the project Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on April 14 two large-scale development plans that will add tens of thousands of residents to Rehovot in the coming years have been advanced an urban renewal plan for 10,000 housing units in the Kiryat Moshe neighborhood was approved Now another huge plan has been approved for deposit through the National Committee for Planning Priority Housing Areas involves a 1,800-dunam (450-acre) parcel of land in east Rehovot This plan contains 6,900 housing units and 700,000 square meters of commercial and business space as well as public buildings and 230 dunam (57.5 acres) of open space The plan is located on privately owned agricultural land east of Begin Road which is currently the city's eastern boundary which was designed by the Rosenfeld-Arens architectural firm was selected in a closed architectural competition conducted in May by the Rehovot municipality The plan is being promoted in cooperation with Apartment for Rent - The Governmental Company for Housing and Rental 1,000 of the apartments in the plan are reserved for long-term rentals Following the decision by the National Committee for Planning Priority Housing Areas Apartment for Rent CEO Yair Tal told "Globes," "The new neighborhood will provide high-standard residences in the heart of a high-demand area with very good access to transportation The plan is another important element in the company's activity in developing and establishing a long-term rental market in Israel." Rehovot Mayor Rahamim Malul also responded positively to the decision by the National Committee for Planning Priority Housing Areas "We welcome the Committee's decision to deposit the plan for east Rehovot The new neighborhood will offer a high quality of life with a range of public spaces and bustling commercial streets I have no doubt that the proposed plan will contribute to the city's economic strength by creating a supply of desirable employment a member of an organization called "The Center for Social Justice," attended the discussion at the National Committee for Planning Priority Housing Areas "It is known that Rehovot has land resources for construction that could double the city's population so there is no need for construction in east Rehovot There are urban renewal plans that have been stalled for years and plans in open spaces that are far less important to the environment and far more accessible to the city," he remarked The Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel (SPNI) also criticized the decision to go ahead with the plan "We regret another decision by the National Committee for Planning Priority Housing Areas that damages valuable open space for the sake of creating a suburban neighborhood that will only weaken the existing city It is time to do away with the Committee's activity in order to prevent further destruction of open spaces," SPNI stated Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on November 27 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd Dec 11 (EFE).- Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz told his United States counterpart Lloyd Austin in a telephone conversation on Wednesday that there was a possibility of signing an agreement to free the hostages still in Gaza after 14 months with the hope of releasing all the hostages including those with US citizenship,” Katz said according to a readout of the call released by the Israeli ministry of defense Katz also discussed with Austin the Israeli army’s decision to occupy the demilitarised zone in Syria telling him that the strikes on Syrian territory were to counter “the danger of future use of strategic weapons against Israel.” with which Israel agreed on a ceasefire on Nov Katz stressed his position of “zero tolerance for violations,” even though both nations accuse each other of violating the terms of the agreement had agreed to work together to stop any attempts to “smuggle weapons from Iran through Syria into Lebanon.” The talks between the two come amid optimism of a return to the negotiating table to reach a ceasefire in Gaza after a stalemate that has lasted since August According to EFE sources close to the negotiations an Israeli delegation met with Egyptian officials in Cairo on Tuesday to discuss the deal Among the hostages proposed for possible exchange with Palestinian prisoners were women as well as four hostages with dual Israeli and US citizenship Inside the enclave remain 96 of the hostages taken in the Hamas attacks of Oct Hamas and Israel have reached only one ceasefire and hostage release agreement in November 2023 in exchange for 240 Palestinian prisoners held in Israeli jails The National Infrastructure Committee has approved an urban renewal plan in Rehovot that will be the largest such "demolish and rebuild' plan in Israel 1,400 existing homes will be pulled down and replaced by 10,000 housing units which has been promoted for several years by the Urban Renewal Authority and the Rehovot Municipality covers 1,500 dunam (375 acres) in southern Rehovot The Kiryat Moshe neighborhood in Rehovot is well known as a disadvantaged suburb afflicted by violence and crime consists of three and four-floor apartment buildings on the outskirts of the neighborhood Over 55% of the neighborhood's residents are immigrants from Ethiopia and their descendants 4,000 of the apartments in the project are in this neighborhood while 6,000 are on land allotted to the project by the Israel Land Administration The new apartments will be in buildings with 7-20 floors 2,000 of the apartments will be small ones The plan also includes 470,000 square meters in commercial and office space and 350,000 square meters of space for public buildings and institutions The plan provides for construction of an interchange over Road 410 and Road 411 and a 14-dunam (3.5-acre) public transportation terminal Rehovot Mayor Rachamim Malul told "Globes" today that the decision was of "national importance," adding because most of the people in it are immigrants from Ethiopia We're reconstructing all of the apartments here Residents of the neighborhood will finally be able to live in large new apartments with elevators "Globes": There has been criticism before that the public was not consulted about this project Authorized representatives and authorized community representatives participated in the steering committee we set up an administration responsible for relations with the residents There is also a neighborhood steering committee." "We won't approval any construction before a roof agreement is signed with the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of Construction and Housing I'm going to add 10,000 more housing units there - 30,000 residents We won't allow construction to start without a roof agreement." The plan was drawn up by the Barre Levie Dayan architectural firm Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on October 23 Officers from the Rehovot Police Station and a police explosives expert arrived on Thursday at a home in the city after receiving a report from an individual who found a large number of weapons in the attic which were apparently collected by his grandfather and father over the years Among the items that were found: Dozens of rifles and pistols of various types 17 old Mills bomb grenades without caps/detonators (one without gunpowder) The explosives expert examined the items to ensure they were not dangerous and took the explosive items The weapons were taken to the police station Rehovot has the highest net revenue per household - NIS 19,099 According to the Central Bureau of Statistics 2015 Household Expenditure Survey on the 14 Largest Cities in Israel Figures indicate that the gross average revenue per household in Israel is NIS 18,671 Bat Yam has Israel's lowest revenue per household - NIS 11,005 Tel Aviv has Israel's highest net revenue per capita and expenditure per capita - NIS 8,053 and NIS 6,419 Rehovot also has the largest gap between net revenue and expenditure - NIS 5,974; the smallest gap was noted in Ashkelon and Bnei Brak - about NIS 250 Petah Tikva and Rishon Lezion - over 80% of revenue is from salaries while in Bnei Brak about 25% is from allowances and financial aid the highest household expenditure article is housing (24.7%) Ashdod has Israel's highest percentage of expenditure on food (18.8%) healthcare (7%) and clothing and shoes (4%) The national average of people living in homes they own is 67.6% and the percentage of people living in rented apartments is 26.7% Bnei Brak and Ashdod over 70% of households live in apartments they own has the highest average rent price - NIS 4,563 per month Rehovot has the highest percentage of people owning at least one computer and internet subscription Rishon Lezion has the highest percentage of TV owners (98.4%) over 50% of households have a water purification device compared with only 18.8% in Jerusalem Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - www.globes-online.com - on December 19, 2016 © Copyright of Globes Publisher Itonut (1983) Ltd. 2016 Text description provided by the architects The community center includes a variety of spaces attracting visitors of all ages for a variety of activities The two buildings are designed to operate together and separately The project is built in a new neighborhood in the city of Rehovot, called New Rehovot, which is an area in development stages. The site is located in the center of the neighborhood which is designated for public buildings; some of which have already been built, such as an elementary school and a sports-center. Tall residential buildings are yet to be built in the area. © Amit GeronSustainability is of major importance in the project. The facades are treated with shading elements of bamboo profiles, and the courtyard is partly shaded throughout the year, while also being protected from street noise. The building is fully accessible to people with disabilities. The community center was funded by Keren Hayesod Switzerland, under Chairman Sami Bollag. The library was funded by Mifal Hapeis. © Amit GeronProduct Description: One of the principal materials is the BPC used for the brise soleil: The brise soleil are covering the long façades of the hovering volume, creating a continuous appearance, while shading over large windows against the intensive Israeli sun. Indoors, the brise soleil creates a varying pattern of light and shadow over the white walls and dark floors.  For those who cross the piazza, outdoor stairs, bridge and roof terrace, the brise soleil alternately expose the activity inside.   The BPC is built as a profile which enables hiding the construction within its width. The material of bamboo polymer composite is designed for outdoors conditions, while bringing a sense of warmth to the environment of light plaster and grey stone.  You'll now receive updates based on what you follow Personalize your stream and start following your favorite authors If you have done all of this and still can't find the email The National Council for Promoting Preferential Areas for Housing has approved for deposit for objections by the public a plan to build a large new neighborhood in Rehovot The new neighborhood will extend over 450 acres in the east of the city between Menachem Begin Boulevard and Road 40 To the northeast are the fields of Moshav Yashresh and the Gezer Regional Council Most of the land is owned privately with only 3.5% of state owned lands and 1,200 private landowners many of them private developers like Prashkovsky Investment & Construction Ltd which recently notified the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange that it has rights to 21.25 acres and plans building 380 housing units for sale 205 homes for long-term rental and 600 square meters of commercial space 1,000 are being developed by the Apartment for Rent - Government Company for Housing and Rental Ltd The new neighborhood will also have 300 sheltered housing units 700,000 square meters for office developments The neighborhood mixes high-rise and lower density construction and the public has 60 days in which to object "We welcome everything that moves forward construction of the new residential neighborhood in the east of Rehovot The plan provides a comprehensive response to the overall needs of the neighborhood and the city while taking into account the open spaces surrounding it and it offers a developed infrastructure for pedestrians Promotion of the plan has been undertaken with strategic thinking together with expert consultants and adapted to the correct pace of development for the city." Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on June 30 GE Healthcare recently launched its new GE Healthcare Rehovot engineering and laboratories department The company's site in Rehovot is already a global center for GE in research and exports of digital nuclear medicine systems and development of GE's PET/CT systems - positron imaging of cell activity which is more advanced and expensive than other imaging technologies - will now also be moved there Nuclear medicine is an imaging method in which radioactive material is injected into the patient after which external devices track the presence of the material and its dispersal in the patient's tissue in order to create a 3D imaging that shows the functioning of the tissue GE Healthcare decided to expand the center after getting a NIS 50 million grant from the Israeli government via the Israel Innovation Authority with help from the Invest in Israel organization which amounts to 40% of the project's budget will be used to expand GE Healthcare's activity in Tirat Hacarmel and Rehovot Responsible for the expansion of this activity is Noam Zilbershtain who was promoted in July 2019 from general manager of the GE Healthcare's detectors unit in Rehovot to global manager of the company's detectors group Zilbershtain is responsible for developing new nuclear medicine and CT technologies and products in five global sites Zilbershtain told "Globes" about the detectors department's growth which developed nuclear medicine detectors we developed a brand-new detectors production department and increased the volume of production fourfold following increased demand for the project we are now one of GE's most advanced and fastest growing sites because PET is gradually becoming a standard in cancer detection including extremely advanced laboratories and new development personnel We're working on completely new developments that will make earlier detection possible by detecting smaller tumors with greater accuracy," he said GE Healthcare currently has 100 employees in Rehovot out of 500-600 employees in Israel manager of the Israeli R&D Fund at the Innovation Authority says that in addition to its innovation and growth potential GE Healthcare Israel is "an excellent example of an entire company that in addition to its development center from marketing and management to production and local subcontractors." Published by Globes [online], Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on February 18 Are you a journalist? Please sign up here for our press releases Dr. Yasha Gindikin was wide awake when the war began His fear that Russia was about to invade Ukraine – which it did at around 5 a.m a theoretical physicist then working at a research institute near Moscow I couldn’t stand being part of this monstrous crime – giving it legitimacy by my very presence,” he recalls He knew that continuing to voice protests against the war would land him in jail for years his pregnant wife and their two small children He contacted three physicists in his field at universities across the United States asking for help in finding a position outside of Russia all three got back to him with the same advice: Check out the emergency program at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel The program was initially intended for Ukrainian scientists It was initiated by Weizmann Institute Vice President Prof Ziv Reich after hostilities broke out and was implemented by Dr the vice president’s liaison for research affairs Scientists fleeing the war were invited to be hosted by Weizmann labs; they were to be granted airfare financial support and laboratory space for three months But draft-aged Ukrainian men were banned from leaving the country thus hardly any scientists from Ukraine had applied “At the same time, refugees of a different kind were in dire need of a sanctuary,” says Prof. Sergei Yakovenko of Weizmann’s Mathematics Department He was among the first to alert the Weizmann administration to the issue of the many Russian scientists who were rushing to leave their country after the war began The Weizmann program was promptly expanded to include all scientists affected by the war in Ukraine, from both sides of the conflict. Soon applications from Russia started coming in. “Typically for Weizmann, there was very little bureaucracy,” says program coordinator Prof. Joel Sussman of the Chemical and Structural Biology Department who helped to find a host lab for each applicant Many scientists immediately agreed to serve as hosts before they even knew that funding would be provided by the institute rather than their own budget.” Gindikin was one of the first scientists to arrive we learned that it was the end of Passover He describes his family’s arrival at Weizmann’s Kipnis Residences “We opened the door and saw an apartment full of boxes – to our amazement sheets and all else we needed for a comfortable stay,” he recalls he walked from the residence to the office of his host Erez Berg of the Condensed Matter Physics Department I hadn’t imagined to find an oasis full of blooming trees,” Gindikin says walking down the hall of the physics building was like traveling through the pages of Science and Nature – so many offices had names of physicists whose papers I’d read and admired.” He was no less impressed by the bustling scientific atmosphere on campus with conferences and almost daily seminars that continued through the summer Russia announced the mobilization of its army reservists triggering a new exodus of people reluctant to take part in the fighting The Weizmann administration responded by extending the emergency program until the end of March 2023 about 60 scientists took part in the program during the year it was offered followed by mathematicians and computer scientists as well as scientists working in the life sciences Weizmann’s Feinberg Graduate School launched its own emergency initiative playing host to some 20 students from Ukraine and Russia who came to the campus for six months or longer receiving airfare and full funding for their stay About a third eventually remained at Feinberg as regular students; others went on to study elsewhere Other Israeli universities also opened their doors. Olga Orlova, editor-in-chief of T-invariant, a Russian-expat news website on science, politics and society, estimates that since the war began some 800 to 900 researchers working in science engineering and mathematics moved to Israel from Russia and Ukraine a substantial number for a country Israel’s size their number is estimated at nearly a thousand and now it went beyond that,” says Sussman referring to the integration of Russian scientists in the country Probably adding to the atmosphere of openness has been the fact that the scientific community in Israel took no part in boycotting Russian science “I believe it’s wrong to put the blame on scientists for decisions they didn’t make,” Sussman says The Weizmann emergency program served as a runway from which scientists could take off to longer-term positions Gindikin was accepted as a postdoctoral fellow in the theoretical physics institute at the University of Minnesota His stay at Weizmann was extended for an additional three months until he received a US visa in October 2022 leaving Israel with his wife and three children Gindikin says he’ll always be grateful to all those who so wholeheartedly received him and his family at Weizmann “We hadn’t expected such a warm welcome,” he says “One particularly touching memory is of Departmental Secretary Inna Dombrovsky who made sure we had all we needed for the new baby and brought our family food for an entire week after my wife came home from Beilinson.” While some of the other participants also moved on to positions abroad particularly those eligible for aliyah under the Law of Return looked for jobs in Israeli industry or academia The Weizmann program provided them with crucial support while they waited for their Israeli citizenship applications to be approved About a dozen participants stayed on at Weizmann in various capacities “The institute launched the emergency program for purely humanitarian reasons but it’s been a win-win move because we’ve gained some outstanding scientists who otherwise might not have come here,” Sussman says One of these is prominent mathematician Prof. Victor Vasilyev president of the Moscow Mathematical Society and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences one of the most enigmatic areas of topology – a branch of mathematics with a recently found relevance to quantum field theory,” Yakovenko says “He discovered a virtually endless number of knot characteristics now named after him – Vasilyev invariants.” Vasilyev is now a visiting professor in the Mathematics Department Among the scientists who received positions at Weizmann is Tatiana Smirnova a cell biologist who had specialized in microscopy She quit her job at a gene biology institute in Moscow when the war started devoting herself to helping Ukrainian refugees in Russia She hosted refugees in transit in her Moscow apartment and served as a “car volunteer” – driving across Russia to transport refugees who couldn’t travel by train because they lacked foreign passports she drove a Ukrainian family who couldn’t use public transport because they had four dogs fleeing Russia with her two daughters and her draft-aged husband She came to Weizmann through the emergency program arriving in Rehovot with her family in December 2022 head of advanced optical microscopy in the Life Sciences Core Facilities Department was so impressed with her knowledge and skills that he offered her a job in his unit Says Smirnova: “We wouldn’t have been able to come here if it weren’t for the Weizmann emergency program – it’s been a lighthouse in a stormy sea.” Numerous Weizmann scientists and employees made important contributions to the running of the program among them Dana Dvash and Taly Loebinger of the International Office and Housing Branch Sphera Kitchen and Bar is a brand new gourmet meat restaurant in Rehovot The restaurant is staffed by Chef Beni Madar a Cordon Bleu graduate who trained at the world-famous “Noma” restaurant in Copenhagen 7 million shekels were spent on concept and design to ensure the dining experience enhances all of your senses Sphera is already considered one of the country’s top kosher restaurants The menu at Sphera breaks down into three categories: farm The restaurant also offers a full bar with an extensive selection of cocktails and top Israeli wines behind the Weizmann Institute of Science and near the Science Park and Rehovot Train Station Sphera Kitchen & Bar is kosher certified by the Rechovot Rabbanut More pics from the beautiful restaurant are below Thank you to Yehudah Jacobs (@theisraelifoodie) for his help with this article Another public meeting took place on Tuesday to discuss a development plan for eastern Rehovot The city's engineering department is excited about it and 700,000 square meters in business and commercial space who also heads the city's engineering department Rehovot envisions the construction of a new science campus to rival the Weizmann Institute of Science The plan is reminiscent of Apple's headquarters in Cupertino and residents are even angry about the plan and are devising a strategy for thwarting the plan The new complex is located on privately owned agricultural land east of Begin Road which currently constitutes the city's eastern boundary was selected in a closed architectural competition in May conducted by the Rehovot municipality in the framework of the National Committee for Planning Priority Housing Areas (Priority Housing Area 3003) Approval of the plan is expected within a year with construction slated to begin in five years Rehovot municipal engineer architect Dalit Harel explains that up until recently the agricultural land on which the new neighborhood will be located was not included in the Rehovot municipal development area we requested an expansion of our territory in order to accommodate new construction All of the land reserves in the city have been used up We decided that we would build on these 1,000 dunam This is privately owned agricultural land to which no noise restrictions from the nearby Tel Nof base apply." Harel emphasizes that one of the plan's advantages is that planning is being furthered in the National Committee for Planning Priority Housing Areas framework Most planning is with the District Planning and Building Commission Planning through the National Committee takes two-to-three years peak speed for approving a plan on such a scale in Israel Quite a few plans that go through the District Commission take 10 years or even more you forget where you began and where you finish "Globes": What is the word "campus" doing in the context of a neighborhood in eastern Rehovot a campus is something that includes quite a few uses Some people call it 'multi-use,' a concept deeply implanted in the new urbanism The city can allow commerce on the ground floor You can be living on the top floor of a tower go down and put your kids in the kindergarten The campus is an idea that puts most uses together emphasizes that the planned campus will be different from the closed-in Weizmann Institute He compares it to the New York University campus and you don't have to present a student card Rosenfeld explains that when you plan a city on agricultural land you have to grow out without causing too much environmental damage in a way that the plan will be a continuation or a single continuity with the existing city." The Rehovot agricultural colony was based on a network of orthogonal streets - one main street and streets perpendicular or parallel to it Rosenfeld explains that this is the main anchor for the plan he proposed: "Every street that existed historically continues into our plan Since people drive 70 kilometers and hour here We're piling construction on this street and putting in enough intersections to make it a lively urban road." When I try to understand where the round form of the colossal building they call a "campus" comes from Rosenfeld directs my attention to an aerial photograph showing the adjacent agricultural land by means of giant radial water sprinklers is for it to include in it all the technology functions I'm not embarrassed to say that this could compete with the Weizmann Institute The urban campus has to compete with not just Rehovot or Tel Aviv It's something that should compete globally Harel adds that the round building can become a new urban icon "Just like Bilbao started with one building by Frank Gehry that created a buzz for the city this building can create a buzz for Rehovot's urbanism It can recharacterize the city," she exclaims Why is it necessary to build a new section outside the city when the existing city could have been made denser you have more business districts that did not realize all of their potential Harel: "We already proved that we have used up all of the available space within the city boundaries The spaces are not available for construction The speed at which a city is renewed within itself is very slow we have a great urban renewal plan on Herzl Street called the Binyamin Yaakov site with 11 buildings from the very beginning of Rehovot as an agricultural colony We contacted the District Planning and Building Commission and renewed it a second time in order to avoid losing it There are so many owners there that we can't manage to get the plan off the ground We also see urban renewal plans taking a great many years to be approved It takes a very long time for the landowners to be assembled as developers." Harel: "The Paz Economy and Engineering company analyzed for us the relation between the number of residents per square meter of residences We have reached a situation in which we're lower on the scale than Yavne and Rishon Lezion The tests say that just like a plan should take care of the residences within it and also public areas like kindergartens and schools It should also reserve a portion for business so that the city can function and not go bankrupt Every residential plan also has to provide business; otherwise Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on September 1 Site developed by     Copyright © Yedioth Internet Coming across a live statue is always a fascinating experience that raises truly philosophical ponderings: How do they stay so still How long does it take to get into full costume These burning questions must have been on the minds of visitors to the 10th International Live Statues Festival in the central Israeli city of Rehovot which took place on the first week of July and was expected to draw over 100,000 visitors the Netherlands and other countries joined Israeli artists for the festival which saw daily circus shows and more than 100 live statues test their makeup in the sweltering heat with performance artists vying to be chosen as this year’s best live statue First place went to a real-life “Picasso painting,” while second and third place were awarded to live statues of a dreamcatcher and still nature we’ve turned the festival into a leading cultural brand in Israel and abroad The festival and its special spirit attract over 100,000 visitors annually Each year we added more statues and did everything possible to bring over the best and most inspiring art in the field for the visitors’ enjoyment,” Rehovot Mayor Rahamim Malul said of the event This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks The action you just performed triggered the security solution There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase You can email the site owner to let them know you were blocked Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page "\/sugar-coated-memories-of-rehovot\/?__cf_chl_rt_tk=jTHqNAoaZ5MelPsfIZ8HVB8..xjkSS_uKRBs9Vj2ExA-1746534609-1.0.1.1-CITaJgY4uQAsIPSuWTauFII0Fm.SArSczxj4oyJBfZU" + window._cf_chl_opt.cOgUHash);cpo.onload = function() {history.replaceState(null the Center for Innovation is partnering Davidson tracks with Weizmann scientists and the Israel Nature and Parks Authority to study and preserve the only vernal pool in Rehovot—a seasonal wetland that provides a natural habitat for distinct flora and fauna in the winter Local high school students will take samples and raise awareness to prevent this unique wetland from being developed Central Israeli cities Rehovot and Ramle are under attack from Gaza, at least one person was killed in a direct rocket hit on a four story building in Rehovot. Full Story Rocket warning sirens sound in Rehovot and Ramle as cities in central Israel are under attack today in the ongoing rocket attacks from Gaza aimed at Israel Medics are responding to reports of a direct rocket hit on a four story building in the central city of Rehovot Sirens sounded in the city following a rocket barrage launched from the Gaza Strip Footage from the scene shows extensive damage to a parking lot United Hatzalah Rehovot branch head Yoni Rottenberg said: “It was a very difficult scene with a lot of destruction the death of one of the injured was pronounced at the scene as a result of the rocket hit we provided initial treatment to eight people who sustained moderate and light injuries United Hatzalah’s Psychotrauma and Crisis Response Unit also treated numerous people for emotional shock.” eliminating three senior members of Islamic Jihad who had been responsible for numerous rocket attacks on Israel last week codenamed “Operation Shield and Arrow,” targeted Khalil Bahtini the Islamic Jihad commander for northern Gaza Strip; Tareq Izzeldeen the group’s intermediary between its Gaza and West Bank members; and Jehad Ghanam the secretary of the Islamic Jihad’s military council Islamic Jihad responded with hundreds of rockets fired into Israel on Wednesday and Thursday Sign up for the COLlive Daily News Roundup and never miss a story Δdocument.getElementById("ak_js_1").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()) Δdocument.getElementById("ak_js_2").setAttribute("value",(new Date()).getTime()) Does anyone know what street the building was on that got hit in Rehovot Applied Materials Israel president and general manager Ofer Greenberger has told "Globes" that the company is hiring 200 more employees in addition to the more than 100 it has already recruited here in the past 18 months The company is also building a new 3,200 square meter clean room which will increase Applied Materials Israel's production capacity by 50% Asked how he plans finding so many employees when rivals like Intel and Nvidia are also seeking hundreds of new employees in Israel "Since Applied Materials is an independent business division manufactures and markets cutting-edge machine learning and computer vision-based metrology and inspection products that are essential elements in wafer fabrication the company has been operating in Israel since 1991 and has 1,750 employees as well as 800 employed as contractors Greenberger said that Applied Materials planned the current major expansion of operations back in 2019 even before the Covid-19 crisis boosted demand for its products "I felt that the market was getting ready for a major upscale and that the market was heading for something big As it takes about a year for our industry to prepare I set let's get ready because if a large wave comes along and we aren't prepared In the worst case scenario we would have got it wrong." Published by Globes, Israel business news - en.globes.co.il - on June 15 The scene of Thursday's missile hit in Rehovot | Photo: Liron Moldovan  Israeli airstrikes in the Gaza Strip continued into the night early Friday as Operation Shield and Arrow entered its 4th day Follow Israel Hayom on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram both offensive and defensive," Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in a videotaped statement issued during a visit to an air base on Thursday "Whoever comes to harm us – his blood is forfeit." but it was expected more projectiles would be in the morning or early noon which led to several direct hits in southern towns as well as one fatality and over 10 injured More than 500 rockets have been fired on Israel so far in this round of fighting although the vast majority have been either successfully intercepted or fallen in open areas that did not threaten Israelis an Israeli man was killed when a rocket fire struck a four-story building in Rehobot The unidentified man's body was reportedly found under the rubble the Iron Dome failed to intercept the missile due to a malfunction It was the first Israeli fatality since the start of Operation Shield and Arrow against the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in Gaza Five other people were wounded in the rocket attack Police officers were searching the site and sappers were removing parts of the rocket Authorities reiterated calls for civilians to follow the relevant safety guidelines Video: Free usage under Israeli copyright law (Section 27A) Palestinian terrorists fired hundreds of rockets from the Gaza Strip into Israel while Israel pressed ahead with a series of airstrikes with the IDF announcing another high-profile assassination and rocket fire resumed on Israeli towns A state-run Egyptian TV station announced that Egypt But the truce efforts appeared to falter as fighting intensified late Wednesday and early Thursday with neither side showing any sign of backing down Rocket fire set off air-raid sirens throughout southern and central Israel Residents had been bracing for an attack since Israel launched its first airstrikes early Tuesday It was the heaviest fighting between the sides in months pushing the region closer toward a full-blown war But in signs that both sides were trying to show restraint Israel avoided attacks on the ruling Hamas terrorist group targeting only the smaller and more terrorist PIJ faction 🔴 OPERATIONAL UPDATE: We just targeted Ali Ghali the commander of Islamic Jihad's Rocket Launching Force as well as two other Islamic Jihad operatives in Gaza Ghali was a central figure in IJ, as well as responsible for the recent rocket barrages launched against Israel. pic.twitter.com/GToj67UjTT — Israel Defense Forces (@IDF) May 11, 2023 the IDF said it targeted the commander of Palestinian Islamic Jihad's rocket squad in an airstrike on a building in southern Gaza The military said Ali Ghali was hiding in an apartment and that two additional terrorists from the group were killed alongside him in the airstrike at a Qatari-built residential complex in Khan Younis Ghali instructed and took part in rocket attacks against Israel in recent months sires were heard in Israel's south as PIJ resumed its indiscriminate fire on residents Israel said it killed another PIJ commander who was meant to replace Ghali in southern Gaza Israel and Hamas have fought four wars since the Islamic terrorist group took control of Gaza in 2007 which has close ties to Egyptian security agencies Egyptian intelligence frequently mediates between Israel and Palestinian terrorists Israeli officials confirmed that Egypt was trying to facilitate a ceasefire Speaking on condition of anonymity to discuss behind-the-scenes diplomacy they said Israel would evaluate the situation based on actions on the ground Palestinian Islamic Jihad said it would continue firing rockets said a sticking point in the talks was that the Palestinians wanted an Israeli commitment to stop targeted killing operations such as the ones that killed three top Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders early Tuesday Israeli TV stations showed air defense systems intercepting rockets above the skies of Tel Aviv people lay face-down on the ground as they took cover The Israeli military said that for the first time an air-defense system known as David's Sling intercepted a rocket developed with the US is meant to intercept medium-range threats and is part of a multi-layered air defense that also includes the better-known Iron Dome anti-rocket system Israeli media said a previous attempt to use the system several years ago had failed In a move that could further raise tensions Israeli police said they would permit a Jewish ultranationalist parade to take place next week The parade meant to celebrate Israel's capture of east Jerusalem and its Jewish holy sites marches through the heart of the Old City's Muslim Quarter and often leads to friction with local Palestinians Israeli officials said over 400 rockets had been fired as of Wednesday evening but Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said about one-quarter had been misfired and fallen inside Gaza Israeli rescuers said three people were hurt running for shelter and four homes in southern Israel were damaged by rocket strikes The army said that schools would remain closed and restrictions on large gatherings would remain in place in southern Israel until at least Friday Residents were instructed to stay near bomb shelters a 26-year-old resident of the southern Israeli town of Sderot described the 24 hours since Israel launched airstrikes on Gaza as terrifying "We are all traumatized from this routine – the waiting Israeli aircraft hit targets in Gaza for the second straight day The Israeli military said its warplanes targeted dozens of rocket launchers The Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said four of the dead were terrorists A 10-year-old Palestinian girl named Layan Mdoukh was killed in a blast at her home in Gaza City in unclear circumstances on Wednesday The initial Israeli airstrikes on Tuesday that set off the exchange of fire killed three senior Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists Israel says the airstrikes are a response to a barrage of rocket fire launched last week by Palestinian Islamic Jihad in response to the death of one of its members from a hunger strike while in Israeli custody Subscribe to Israel Hayom's daily newsletter and never miss our top stories Israel says it is trying to avoid conflict with Hamas the more powerful terrorist group that rules Gaza and limit the fighting to Palestinian Islamic Jihad "Our actions are meant to prevent further escalation," said Rear Adm an umbrella organization of Palestinian factions in Gaza said the campaign against Israel involved firing hundreds of rockets in retaliation for Israel's killing of the three Palestinian Islamic Jihad commanders as well as several civilians "The resistance is ready for all options," the factions said "If (Israel) persists in its aggression and arrogance it remained unclear whether Hamas had joined the fray If the ruling terrorist group enters the fighting the risk of a full-blown conflict would increase JNS.org contributed to this report each frontline operative now receives about $61 monthly The Wall Street Journal reports the terror organization was mainly dependent on humanitarian aid sold for cash The Lebanese President announced that in 2025 weapons would be concentrated exclusively in state hands maintaining that Hezbollah's disarmament "will.. 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