Edmond Safra

Leading a personal tour around his beloved Beit Hatfutsot, CEO Avinoam Armoni stopped in front of his favorite exhibit, a collection of model…

Israeli Arab children find it easier to learn to read Hebrew and English than Arabic texts, as the graphic complexity makes it more difficult for the…

ONE CAN’T ACCUSE IDAN Segev, professor of computational neuroscience at the Hebrew University, of not thinking big. He compares the Blue Brain…

Eight Israelis will be honored on Wednesday night by the Edmond J. Safra-funded International Sephardic Education Foundation for their outstanding…

To understand exactly how the human brain – the most complex machine in the universe – actually works, takes more than ordinary brain power. A team…

A four-day seminar this week at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem hopes to prove that there is more to Yiddish than the "oy veys" and "kvelling," of…

Sparks. That's what fly out of Prof. Boris Rubinsky's mouth when he talks about his Center for Bioengineering in the Service of Humanity and Society…

The Jerusalem Post was somewhat dismayed on Monday to discover that it was involved in the indictment against former prime minister Ehud Olmert - and…

Jerusalem's Hebrew University is using a $50 million gift from the foundation of a donor who was killed in 1999 to launch a new brain research…

The Israel Museum in Jerusalem received a $12 million gift from the Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation in order to renovate its Edmond and Lily…

Sunday, March 29CONTESTED SPACES: Legal and Cultural Practices in Eastern Europe and Palestine/Israel after World War II is the subject of an…

n AMONG THE many congratulatory messages that US President Barack Obama received this week was one from Tebeka, the Israel Association for Ethiopian…

In 1983, Isaac Arazi and his wife were caught in sectarian fighting during Lebanon's 15-year civil war. A Shi'ite militiaman helped the couple…