A year in ongoing trauma is difficult to explain, but it’s difficult for me to concentrate on anything else. Sorry for the long long post.
This year, I’ve dealt with traumas on multiple levels.
It's time to stand up and be counted. The Council of Heads of Israeli Research Universities, which I chair, decided to shut down all universities in Israel tomorrow for 24 hours. Bringing hostages home is more important than any piece of land.
The bodies of Carmel Gat, Eden Yerushalmi, Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Alexander Lobanov, Almog Sarusi, and Master Sergeant Ori Danino were found and recovered yesterday.
They were all taken hostage on October 7 and were murdered by the Hamas terrorist organization while in captivity in Gaza.
The IDF and ISA send their heartfelt condolences to the families. Israeli security forces are operating with all means to bring home all the hostages as fast as possible.
Sarah Reisman, the Bren Professor of Chemistry and a leader in the area of natural product synthesis has been selected as the new chair of Caltech's Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering (CCE).
https://t.co/1YKjwC4wqH
Thanks to everyone who attended the C-CAS NSF site visit! Shoutout to our trainees for their amazing presentations. Your hard work and dedication are truly inspiring. Now, let's get back to work transforming the way we do chemistry! #NSF#Chemistry#Innovation#STEM#Research
📢 Exciting news! 📷 Our latest paper from the Doyle group, is now out in @Nature! 📷📷 Dive into "Identifying general reaction conditions by bandit optimization" and explore advancements in chemical synthesis! Read it here: https://t.co/ERiq62ztH8… #Chemistry#Innovation#NSF
Had an amazing time at CalTech the past few days. It was awesome to share the stage with my postdoc advisor, Richmond Sarpong, and such an honor to be invited by @CaltechDICI to speak at their first Day of Inclusion.
@StopAntisemites The blue hair lady is soo freaking stressed!! Look at the body language! I wanna see those three step in Gaza for one min! Stupid uneducatated assholes. Shame on you!!
A fact that goes missed:
In the Palestinian state in Gaza there was no Israeli “occupation” whatsoever.
Not one inch.
Not one Israeli soldier or civilian.
In 2005 Israel officially left the entire Gaza Strip to the very last inch.
We pulled out ALL Israelis and ALL IDF soldiers.
We pulled back to the 1949 borders.
At first, we applied no blockade or siege.
We handed the keys over to the Palestinian authority.
At that point they had an opportunity to turn Gaza into an amazing and beautiful state.
A Singapore with beautiful beaches, hotels, tourism, business and culture.
They chose otherwise.
A majority of Palestinians voted Hamas whose explicit goal is to destroy Israel.
Hamas won both in Gaza and in Judea and Samaria (aka “the West Bank”).
They began shooting rockets from their new state into Israel.
Tens of thousands of rockets killed children and citizens of Israel, ever since.
THEY CHOSE DEATH FOR JEWS OVER LIFE FOR PALESTINIANS.
Their goal has never been to live side-by-side Israel, but to destroy Israel.
For the past 20 years Israelis hoped again and again that our neighbours seek happiness for their families and this will ultimately moderate them.
We Israelis believe in the inherent goodness of humans.
We were wrong.
Dead wrong.
This is the tough reality we’re facing.
This is a battle between an ideology of life and one of death.
We say “le-Haim” - to life.
We say “Shalom” - peace.
They say “itbach el yahud” - slaughter the Jews.
This is our reality of 2023.
Let me be clear: all Israelis, wall-to-wall are now united to bring total defeat to the terrorists agents of death.
Life will prevail over death.
Please don’t try to stop us, because we won’t until we win.
Am Yisrael Chai🇮🇱
Dear non-Israeli friends and colleagues,
I know you would rather look away from our situation, don't read or watch what I tweet. I see the trend of unfollowing.
But this is us fighting for our lives, our kids, our security.
She was a 16-year-old girl with muscular dystrophy and cerebral palsy who fought to live life to the fullest despite everything. Her loving father, Arik, took her to a party. The music, the people, the energy always made her soul gleam. But Hamas terrorists took that soul away. Today, 11 days after the massacre at the Nova party, the bodies of Ruth and her father were discovered. Ruth will never dance again. Please share in her memory. #HamasisISIS