ISRAEL'S VOICE OF SCIENCE

T

he Weizmann Institute of Science does basic research to enhance human life
everywhere and to strengthen the economy of Israel. Only the financial commit-
ment and informed support of opinion leaders can assure continued progress
through science.

THE WATERS OFPEACE

the
Middle
East and
e lsewher
e
co ntroversie
s
often center on
the control of scarce
supplies of water. That's
why the work of
scientists
engaged in water-related research
may hold the key to prospective
arid agreements seeking peace and prosperit
resourc e and
semi-arid regions. Water is the y in
of life.
4.
basic
The Weizmann Institut
Rehovot, Israel, is proud of its "natural" e of Science
ac in
hievement
s
has stimulated water research. No other region
place on
and
its
earth
doc umentatio in its
n
scientists
with and
comparable historical
of water
abundance

millennia.
Today,
research scarcity
teams at through
Weizmann
are
developing
new interdisciplinary
method
the
s of clouds
loud
seeding,
sun-based water purification and many other water
water detoxification,
of world-wide effort of modern

scienc

projects.

of
water knows no national boundaries. e Whereve
deserves
to expand the blessings
r it occurs, it
priority from government and private sources.

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The Weizmann Institute, founded in 1934, is a community of 2,300
scientists, engineers and scientists-in-training engaged in a fidl agenda
of 800 research projects ranging from environmental research,
chemistry, physics and comp
uter scienc e
research in neuroscences,
cancer, to basic medical
i
and childhood diseases. AIDS,

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