REHOVOT, ISRAEL—January 5, 2009—The Weizmann Institute of Science and its Davidson Institute of Science Education have proposed a variety of free-of-charge scientific and educational activities to residents of southern Israel and those residing in settlements just outside the Gaza Strip. The activities include visits to the Weizmann Institute's Visitors' Center, the Chaim Weizmann House, and the Clore Garden of Science, as well as lectures, scientific experiments, presentations, and online quizzes and competitions. The activities are open to families and groups, and the visitors can stay in the Youth Village on the Institute campus.
In addition, the Science Mobile, a teaching lab-in-a-van, is available to residents of the south free of charge. Its team can be invited to conduct entertaining and enjoyable science activities in southern Israel, in facilities protected from rocket attacks.
Click here to link to a brief video describing the Institute's efforts to reach as many children as possible from the cities under attack, by bringing children to its Rehovot campus and also by dispatching a science mobile (a science lab-in-a-van) to locations in the south where children are spending innumerable hours in bomb shelters.
The Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel, is one of the world's top-ranking multidisciplinary research institutions. Noted for its wide-ranging exploration of the natural and exact sciences, the Institute is home to 2,600 scientists, students, technicians, and supporting staff. Institute research efforts include the search for new ways of fighting disease and hunger, examining leading questions in mathematics and computer science, probing the physics of matter and the universe, creating novel materials, and developing new strategies for protecting the environment.
