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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


Can they tax the moon?

Is Israel’s worldwide taxation system space-wide too?

Beresheet takes a selfie minutes before touching down on the moon

My Word: Reaching for the Moon and freedom to choose

Like many in Israel and around the world, I held my breath on Thursday, April 11, as I watched what I hoped would be the successful landing of the SpaceIL lunar probe Beresheet on the Moon.

The Israeli spacecraft Beresheet takes a selfie 37,600 km from Earth.

SpaceIL reveals preliminary reasons behind Beresheet crash

"I am proud of SpaceIL's team of engineers for their wonderful work and dedication," said SpaceIL President Morris Kahn.

Far side of the moon by Beresheet, April 10, 2019

Beresheet was the Start-Up Nation at its best

Yes, the spacecraft reached the Moon, but it crash-landed, ending any contact with its handlers and any ability to have it serve experimental purposes from the Moon’s surface.

THE SURFACE of the moon as seen from Beresheet

Looking at the Moon from Jerusalem on April 11

Was the SpaceIL Beresheet Moon mission a success? Yes. On a scale of 1-10, we would give it an eight.

Beresheet takes a selfie minutes before touching down on the moon

Spirit of unity

While Beresheet was a private project, financed mostly by philanthropists like Kahn, its achievements nonetheless became a matter of national pride.

Beresheet takes a selfie minutes before touching down on the moon

The lounge

Translated by Hannah Hochner.

Morris Khan

Beresheet funder and initiator tapped to light torch on Independence Day

While Israel didn't become the fourth country to land on the moon, it did make it into an exclusive club of seven that achieved a moon orbit.

President of SpaceIL Morris Kahn with Canadian-Israeli businessman Sylvan Adams at IAI's MBT Space Divisio

April 15, 2019: The winner is... us

Readers of the Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

SpaceIL to create and launch second Beresheet spacecraft

The first Beresheet spacecraft was largely successful, despite not having landed on the moon. Beresheet 2.0 is expected to complete the task.

ISRAEL HOPES the Beresheet project will showcase the country’s achievements