TINY ISRAEL IS WORLD LEADER IN SCIENCE

WHILE ARAB GOVERNMENTS CRACK DOWN ON THE INTERNET, ISRAEL IS A WORLD LEADER IN TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATION AND RESEARCH.

Israel One of World's Great Producers of Basic Research - Shlomo MaitalAccording to a Technion study by Gideon Czapski and Yael Ilan on the "International Status of Israeli Research," in computer science, Israel ranks second in the world in "productivity" (scientific publications per capita) and third in the world in "quality" (the frequency with which other scholars cite publications in their own articles). In chemistry, Israel ranks 4th and 5th, respectively; in molecular biology, 3rd and 4th; in biology and biochemistry, 5th and 10th; and in physics, 2nd and 9th. Israel ranks first in research "productivity" in economics and business, mathematics, psychology, and psychiatry. (Globes)

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Professors Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover will receive the Nobel Prize for chemistry at a ceremony Friday in Sweden. (Ha'aretz)