The Expert Committee on Educational Indicators in Israel, invites scientific surveys

The committee operating as part of the Initiative for Applied Research in Education has published its report.

The deadline for submission is January 15, 2007.

Challenging the Top Quintile of Students in Schools”

The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities is to begin awarding the Adams Fellowships for Research Students in the Natural and Mathematical Sciences at Israel’s Universities

Grants totaling $1 million annually will be allocated,

starting in the 2005/2006 academic year

The Academy's website is presently being upgraded and updated.

Thanks for your patience.

In the issue: Nili Shupak on using Egyptian elements in the Bible to solve the problem of the origins of the people of Israel; Pnina Galpaz-Feller on the embalmment of Jacob; Amalia Levanoni on food and cooking in the Mamluk era; David Kushner on Egypt as seen by the Arab community of Palestine in the late Ottoman period; and Victor Nahmias on Al-Shams, an Egyptian-Jewish newspaper (1934--1948).

Editor: David Kushner, emeritus director of the Israeli Academic Center in Cairo