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- Italian historian Carlo Vecce set out to debunk rumors of Leonardo da Vinci’s foreign origins, but a newly discovered document changed his mind
- Harvard has adopted race-conscious hiring policies, potentially in violation of civil rights law.
- What six years of ‘reset’ have wrought
- Dore Gold resigns: "The role of director-general of the foreign ministry was a professional and personal peak in all the years that I served on the diplomatic front"
- "On its face, Trump’s announcement that he is pulling US forces out of Syria seems like an unfriendly act toward Israel. But it isn’t"
- "Health Ministry to file police complaint against passenger who flew United from Newark to Israel knowing he’d tested positive, didn’t notify crew"
- Hamas holds conference to plan for which Jews they will murder once Israel is destroyed; entrapping others to prevent a “brain-drain”
- Could Obama be ready to stop blaming Israel ?
Tag Archives: Beresheet
Beresheet human error “led to the failure of the nearly $100 million lunar mission”
GEEK WIRE Beresheet bummer: Investigation of Israeli lunar lander’s crash points to human factor by Alan Boyle April 17, 2019 A manually entered command apparently set off a chain reaction of events that led to last week’s crash of an … Continue reading
Beresheet 2.0 is coming
SPACE.COM Israel Will Build Another Moon Lander by Mike Wall April 13, 2019 Israel will keep shooting for the moon. The team behind the nation’s Beresheet probe, which crashed during its historic lunar-landing attempt Thursday (April 11), will take another crack … Continue reading
“A tiny robotic spacecraft from Israel just inserted itself into orbit around the Moon in a critical maneuver that sets the vehicle up for a landing on the lunar surface next week”
SPACE.COM Pioneering Israeli Lunar Lander Arrives in Orbit Around the Moon by Mike Wall April 4, 2019 Israel just became the seventh nation to orbit the moon. After slowly spiraling away from Earth for the past six weeks, an Israeli … Continue reading