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'When I grow up, I want to be like you': remembering Morris Kahn's most productive years - opinion

Founder of the Genesis Prize Stan Polovets on why your seventies and eighties – and even nineties – can be your most impactful years.

FOUNDER OF the Genesis Prize Stan Polovets, New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft, and Morris Kahn in 2019.
Morris Kahn attends a ceremony at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 6, 2019

Morris Kahn, Jewish billionaire owner of Amdocs and SpaceIL founder, dead at 96

Beresheet takes a selfie minutes before touching down on the moon

Italy to collaborate with SpaceIL on Beresheet 2 moonshot

 David, Laura, and Jonathan Mirage and the management of SpaceIL

Jonathan Merage joins donors for the Beresheet2 Moon mission


Beresheet 2 sets sights on return to moon

Its predecessor, Beresheet 1, reached the moon in April 2019, but crash-landed due to what appeared to be engine trouble, moments before touchdown.

Israeli scientists inspect Beresheet in Yehud

Genesis reminds us that God chose to make humans despite their fallibility

In one of the many passages addressing the creation of Adam, God wonders pre-creation how to proceed since both wicked and righteous will be brought into the world.

Over and over, the midrash recognises the equal potential for good.

Bereshit: Repairing Humpty Dumpty

Was man created primarily good and virtuous or fundamentally evil and immoral?

At our core, we still possess majestic potential to affect our world and author history

Parashat Bereishit: Different and together

The solution to loneliness is the relationship between man and woman, the “helpmate opposite him” that God creates.

MAN WAS not created for himself

Goats drink from pool water of southern Israel spa

This sight was caught on camera by one of the visitors to the hotel who then tweeted the video.

RELAX ON a raft at the edge of the Ramon Crater, at Beresheet.

How Israel almost landed on the Moon

Using the story of Beresheet as its background, To the Moon on a Plastic Bottle traces how Israel’s unique cultural style has made the country a world leader in technology.

THE ISRAELI spacecraft ‘Beresheet’ takes a selfie 37,600 km. from Earth.

Jerusalem, the city of magnets

The electrifying reports of the return to Yerushalayim reinvigorated Jewish identity across the boulevards of Moscow and tundras of Siberia.

A PARATROOPER who took part in the battle for Jerusalem’s Old City celebrates his wedding in front of the Western Wall on June 9, 1967.

SpaceIL announces new CEO Shimon Sarid to lead Beresheet 2 project

Sarid gained experience in engineering, command and management during his 28-year tenure with the Israeli Air Force (IAF).

SpaceIL

SpaceIL receives $1m. grant to land Beresheet 2 on the moon

Beresheet 1 made Israel the seventh country in the world to reach the moon’s orbit, but failed to land.

SpaceIL founders.

SpaceIL heading back to space, mission to Mars on the horizon

"Despite the fact that Beresheet crashed, hundreds of kids wrote to us saying we inspired them to become engineers and scientists," co-founder Damari said. "If they can dream it, they can do it."

SpaceIL co-founders Kfir Damari (L), Yonatan Weintraub (C) and Yariv Bash (R) take a selfie in front of a model of the Beresheet spacecraft, near the control room, in Yahud, Israel, April 11, 2019