Agriculture educational project in GIlat

Hi, Last Wednesday I visited a very exciting project held in ARO-Gilat. I met 20 Bedouin pupils (10th grade) from the Negev who study agriculture and make scientific experiments. The project is in its second year and there are 40 pupils who come every week for one day in Gilat. The…

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Innovation in agriculture

About one hundred students and twenty teachers participated in the Agricultural innovation seminar in Ein Shemer on January 18 th (some schools were absent due to various reasons). The students presented diverse ideas such as robotic systems for planting vegetables, systems for advanced hydroponics, a system for detecting diseases from…

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The Eilot Regional Conservatory – a musical family

On August 17, 2022, a representative orchestra of the Hevel Eilot Music Center went to play at the Southern District Managers’ Conference of the Ministry of Education in Be’er Sheva. An orchestra of twenty children with their instrument teachers decided together on the creation, the arrangement, and the nature of…

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The inauguration of a robotic observatory at Kinneret College

Recently, an advanced and innovative robotic and automatic observatory was inaugurated. The observatory was established at Kinneret College with the support of ICA in Israel and JNF. The observatory will enable educational and astronomical experience for adults and students in the Galilee and the Jordan Valley. The uniqueness of this…

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Nof Edom Elementary School: Pupils at Archeological Dig

Nof Edom Elementary School, located in the Southern Arava near Kibbutz Yotvata, has 630 pupils from grades 1-6. Its uniqueness lies in the diverse study programs. Every village in the Eilot region uses electricity from its own sources (clean solar energy). The school, not connected to the national electricity grid,…

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A Visit to Kibbutz Neot Semadar

For those members unfamiliar with Kibbutz Neot Semadar, I would like to point out that this unique kibbutz in the southern Arava is very isolated from urban settlement. Its solitude has created excellent astronomical conditions for the establishment of the largest scientific Telescopic Center in Israel, built by the Weizmann…

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