By Karin Kloosterman
A super-sexed fruit fly. Credit: Roi Caspi for Hebrew University.
The Canadian Forest Service knows all too well the problems that come along with imported, uninvited insect pests. The Asian long-horned beetle is devastating our country’s national symbol, the Maple Tree, faster than we can say Oh Canada! There is also the damaging Apple [...]

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By Karin Kloosterman
Growing up a Catholic in Newmarket, Ontario, part of our “education” was to see the Shroud of Turin, making the rounds from its home in Rome. Some people believed at the time (and still do) that it was the burial shroud of Jesus, the Christian messiah, offering tangible proof for the crucifixion/resurrection story. [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
A Canadian-born doctor who moved to Israel in 1995, was in Montreal recently to discuss his research. Dr. Karl Skorecki has so many titles they need a line of their own. He’s director of medical and research development at the Rambam Health Care Campus in Haifa, and professor of medicine at the Rappaport [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
Last month the province of Manitoba announced it would commit $100,000 a year for three years toward collaborative research with Israel on HIV/AIDS, influenza and swine flu. The research will be conducted by scientists in Manitoba and Jerusalem under the Global Research Exchange Program, a project initiated by Canadian Friends of Hebrew University.
This [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
It’s estimated there are some 45,000 Israelis in Canada, a number that piqued the interest of Brent Harris a few years ago, when he first heard the number. “Although I had grown up in the Canadian Jewish community, I had never encountered too many Israelis, and this led me to wonder how much [...]

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By Staff
Canada’s Israel would like to congratulate Professor Ada Yonath who has won this year’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

Yonath is the first Israeli woman to win a Nobel, and she shares the prize with two other scientists for “mapping the ribosome - one of the cell’s most complex machineries,” according the Nobel jury.
Yonath is only [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
A Torontonian will receive an honourary doctorate from the University of Haifa November 15, at a tribute dinner in Toronto. Dr. Michael Dan, the recipient, is the former CEO of the drug firm Novopharm Biotech, and is being feted for his commitment to human rights, philanthropy in Canada and Israel, and his support [...]

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By Lauren Kramer
A student at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Neurobiochemistry has developed what is possibly the first tablet-based treatment for kids and adults with Type 1 Diabetes. Adi Mor’s early results in animals show that the compound is effective in restoring insulin production.
Mor works under Professor Yoel Kloog, the dean of the Faculty of [...]

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By Lauren Kramer

Be’er Sheva is on the brink of change, according to Ron Folman, head of the nanotechnology department at Ben-Gurion University in Be’er Sheva. Folman addressed a crowd last month at Winnipeg’s Shaarey Zedek Synagogue, in a visit sponsored by the Winnipeg chapter of the Canadian Associates of BGU.
The change he referred to involves [...]

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By Adam Michael Segal
 
With an abundance of lakes, rivers and marshes, Canada is blessed with a bounty of water and could very well take this precious resource for granted.
 
On the contrary, Israel is quite limited in the amount of water at its disposal and dutifully does everything it can to innovate when it comes to [...]

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