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Hackathon Hacklaut
The hackathon has officially kicked off 🚀🌱 48 hours of brainstorming and creative problem-solving start...
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Orchard Growers Conference 🌳
Over 120 growers, researchers, and industry experts gathered to explore the future of the Western...
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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...
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Beating the Heat: Future-Proofing Our Food 🧪🔥
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A recent study by Dr. Itay Maoz & Dr. Nir Dai, using high-resolution mass spectrometry identified 35 distinct anthocyanin pigments
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Hacklaut Hackathon
27.04.2026 - 28.04.2026
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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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The conference of the Israeli Society of Agricultural Engineering – 2026
19.05.2026 - 20.05.2026
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EVtech
01.06.2026 - 02.06.2026
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Researchers Looking for Students
Rakefet David-Schwartz
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
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Roy Kaspi
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Protection
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Zipora Tietel
Ph.D.
Newe Ya’ar Research Center
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Eddie Cytryn
Ph.D.
Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
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Maya Kleiman
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
With background in biology, chemistry, mathematics and material sciences. In 2016 started her independent biomimetics lab in Volcani.
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Giorgi Shtenberg
Ph.D.
Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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Yael Grunwald
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
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Pazit Con
Ph.D.
Institute of Animal Sciences
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Helena Vitoshkin
Ph.D.
Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
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Yiftach Vaknin
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
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Uri Hochberg
Ph.D.
Newe Ya’ar Research Center
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Nicolas Brukman
Ph.D.
Institute of Animal Sciences
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Corinne Best
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
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Marina de Leeuw
Ph.D.
Institute of Postharvest and Food Sciences
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David Yalin
Ph.D.
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
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Offer Rozenstein
Ph.D.
Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
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Hagai Kohai
Ph.D.
Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
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Dror Sagi
Ph.D.
Institute of Animal Sciences
I have a Ph.D. in physics from the Weizmann Institute, and already my Ph.D. I started to study
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Itay Gonda
Ph.D.
Newe Ya’ar Research Center
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Dana Ment
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Protection
Human, Mother, Scientist
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Eyal Friedman
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
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Ehud Strobach
Ph.D.
Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
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Ziv Spiegelman
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Protection
Our lab studies the complex interactions between plants and viruses. We are interested in the ways by which
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Shiri Freilich
Ph.D.
Newe Ya’ar Research Center
Researcher at ARO since 2012 Education/short cv: Post-doctoral training 2007 – 2011 School of Computer Science, Tel Aviv
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Elena Poverenov
Ph.D.
Institute of Postharvest and Food Sciences
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Doron Teper
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Protection
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Oz Barazani
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
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Alon Sela
Ph.D.
Institute of Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering
My research uses Complex Network and Machine Learning methods, to study large and complex data sets. I study
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Ilan Ben Noah
Ph.D.
Institute of Soil, Water and Environmental Sciences
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Oren Shelef
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
I'm interested in Agroecology, studying the interactions between agricultural and natural systems to maintain and improve their sustainability.
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Simon Michaeli
Ph.D.
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
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Miri Cohen Zinder
Ph.D.
Newe Ya’ar Research Center
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Moshe Zagouri
Ph.D.
Newe Ya’ar Research Center
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Michael Ben-yosef
Ph.D.
Gilat Research Center
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Guy Dovrat
Ph.D.
Newe Ya’ar Research Center
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Roi Ben David
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
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Yakir Preisler
Ph.D.
Institute of Plant Sciences
Dr. Yakir Preisler is the PI of the Urban Forest Lab. Yakir is a plant eco-physiologist, studying trees’
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