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הקבוצה שהגיעה למקום ה-1 בהאקתון האקלאות על פיתוח של כפפה חכמה לדילול תמרים

Meet the winning team of the hackathon! 🏆

🏆1st Place! Congratulations to Yossi Kfir, Ohad Stern, Yael Pinto, and Shalem Cohen for winning...

Hackathon Hacklaut

The hackathon has officially kicked off 🚀🌱 48 hours of brainstorming and creative problem-solving start...

Orchard Growers Conference 🌳

Over 120 growers, researchers, and industry experts gathered to explore the future of the Western...

The Federation for Food & Agricultural Research Grant Awardees Dr. Ran Erel and Dr. Shahar Baram

Congratulations to Dr. Ran Erel and Dr. Shahar Baram for receiving the Foundation for Food & Agriculture Research Grant

"The goal is to improve nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer use efficiency across multi-crop field rotations...

Beating the Heat: Future-Proofing Our Food

Beating the Heat: Future-Proofing Our Food 🧪🔥

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Events

Aromatic and Medicinal Plants in Israel. Conference named after Prof. Eli Potivsky

16.04.2026 - 16.04.2026
09:00 - 14:00

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Sowing the Future: Women Leading Israeli Agriculture

13.05.2026 - 13.05.2026
07:45 - 16:00

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Lysimeters: Plant Phenotyping Platform Novel High Throughput plant physiology screening system

18.05.2026
10:00-11:30

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יום חשיפה חוקרות

Volcani Institute Introductory Day

28.05.2026
09:00-12:00

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EVtech

EVtech

01.06.2026 - 02.06.2026
No Times Available

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מחקרים בזית

Olive Research

23.06.2026
08:30 - 12:50

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Agricultural Engineering Society Conference 2026

The conference of the Israeli Society of Agricultural Engineering – 2026

29.06.2026 - 30.06.2026
No Times Available

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EVtech

EVtech

06.12.2026 - 07.12.2026
No Times Available

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Our Institutes

Institute of Animal Sciences

Institute of Plant Protection

Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences

Institute of Plant Sciences

Institute of Postharvest and Food Sciences

Gilat Research Center

Newe Ya’ar Research Center

Researchers Looking for Students

Roy Kaspi

Institute of Plant Protection

Rakefet David-Schwartz

Institute of Plant Sciences

Maya Kleiman

Institute of Plant Sciences

With background in biology, chemistry, mathematics and material sciences. In 2016 started her independent biomimetics lab in Volcani.

Eddie Cytryn

Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences

Yafit Cohen

Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Einat Zchori Fein

Newe Ya’ar Research Center

1985 - 1988 B.Sc. in Plant Protection at The Faculty of Agriculture, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem 1988

Avner Cnaani

Institute of Animal Sciences

Roni Rak

Institute of Animal Sciences

Yael Grunwald

Institute of Plant Sciences

Giorgi Shtenberg

Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Pazit Con

Institute of Animal Sciences

Helena Vitoshkin

Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Amnon Cochavi

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Yael Arien

Institute of Plant Protection

Asaf Sadeh

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Noam Alkan

Institute of Postharvest and Food Sciences

Anat Elmann

Institute of Postharvest and Food Sciences

I am the head of the laboratory for Bioactive Phytochemicals at the Volcani Center. I completed my PhD

Elena Poverenov

Institute of Postharvest and Food Sciences

Eyal Friedman

Institute of Plant Sciences

Michael Ben-yosef

Gilat Research Center

Moshe Zagouri

Newe Ya’ar Research Center

Yakir Preisler

Institute of Plant Sciences

Dr. Yakir Preisler is the PI of the Urban Forest Lab. Yakir is a plant eco-physiologist, studying trees’

Roi Ben David

Institute of Plant Sciences

Miri Cohen Zinder

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Guy Dovrat

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Simon Michaeli

Institute of Postharvest and Food Sciences

Simon obtained his Ph.D. at Tel-Aviv University, where he studied the cross-membrane transport of GABA in Arabidopsis. Simon

Ziv Spiegelman

Institute of Plant Protection

Our lab studies the complex interactions between plants and viruses. We are interested in the ways by which

Doron Teper

Institute of Plant Protection

Shiri Freilich

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Researcher at ARO since 2012 Education/short cv: Post-doctoral training 2007 – 2011 School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv

Yifat Brill-karniely

Institute of Animal Sciences

Alon Sela

Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

My research uses Complex Network and Machine Learning methods, to study large and complex data sets. I study

Daria Feldman

Institute of Plant Protection

Hagai Kohai

Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences

Ehud Strobach

Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences

Oz Barazani

Institute of Plant Sciences

Lior Blank

Institute of Plant Protection

Shahar Baram

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Dror Sagi

Institute of Animal Sciences

I have a Ph.D. in physics from the Weizmann Institute, and already my Ph.D. I started to study

Yiftach Vaknin

Institute of Plant Sciences

Offer Rozenstein

Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences

Oren Shelef

Institute of Plant Sciences

I'm interested in Agroecology, studying the interactions between agricultural and natural systems to maintain and improve their sustainability.

Ilan Ben Noah

Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences

Dana Ment

Institute of Plant Protection

Human, Mother, Scientist

Itay Gonda

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David Yalin

Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences

Though I grew up into the urban environment, agriculture has become my passion. After completing my PhD in

Nirit Bernstein

Associate Professor

Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences

Sefi Vernick

Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering

Daphna Gottlieb

Institute of Postharvest and Food Sciences

Elie Jami

Institute of Animal Sciences