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Professor Ron Folman leads me down a few staircases of the science building of Ben Gurion University (BGU) in the southern Israeli city of Be\’er Sheva to show me his million-dollar, state-of-the-art nanotech laboratory.
It feels like we\’re descending to some basement bomb shelter of an old Israeli building. Actually, we are. Very recently, the laboratory was a bomb shelter. And despite the double doors leading to a white, clean room with an air-pressurized system to keep the expensive equipment immaculate, there is still a feel of the makeshift here, in the wall coverings, in the tiled ceilings, in the fact that it was formerly a bomb shelter before Folman came along.
\”Building a lab was the condition for me to do my high-tech here,\” said Folman, a scientist in his 40s who is darkly handsome in a 1970s professorial way. Sometimes it\’s \”frustrating,\” added the head of the Atom Chip Laboratory, to make do with a lab that\’s been improvised into a basement bomb shelter, \”but in the big picture we\’re doing more than science. We\’re helping the Negev and making a difference. These are not just words for me.\”
For the last several years I have had a relationship with a man in prison, and I have seen how his soul has become anguished and diminished by sitting in that cell.
I met William after he was released from prison the first time, and I helped him get back on his feet. Now I write him words of comfort from the Psalms, from the Torah and from meditations that I have found to enhance an ailing spirit.
Jana Rosenblatt\’s founding partners in Five Chicks Unlimited are four local businesswomen who have been touched by cancer. They bring expertise in finance, product research, Web design and customer service to the site.
The new Toys for Chanukah campaign comes hot on the heels of IESF\’s Rosh Hashana Honey campaign — when you, dear readers, sent honey for a sweet new year to Israeli victims of terror, IDF soldiers and friends and family in Israel.
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