What Kind of Future
Is Taking Shape in Haifa?

Despite continued rocket attacks, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
has reopened. That means that a community of 16,000 Jews, Arabs, Christians,
Druze are working side by side to make the world a better place.

The Technion needs your help to educate the scientists,

engineers and high-tech entrepreneurs whose work impacts

Technion scientists are working on:

billions around the world.

Life-saving technologies
• The latest Parkinson's and cancer drugs
• The most cost-effective water recycling and
desalination systems
• Replacement heart muscle and blood vessels

The Technion needs your help to show the world that

peaceful and productive collaboration is still possible in the
Middle East.

Today at the Technion, 1,700 scientists and their students

are in their laboratories continuing their work.

The people of the Technion are determined to keep the

university open. They believe the world needs the Technion.

At the heart of the Technion are its brilliant students, many

of whom are serving as soldiers and officers (the highest

percentage among Israeli

engineered from stem cells

• Robotic surgeons that are steadier than the most
skillful humans

Anti-terror technologies
• Nano-sized parachutes, modeled on dandelion
seeds, that detect biological and chemical
agents in air
• A device that detects TATP, the easily prepared

explosive used in the London bombings

• Ultra-strong concrete for shelters and personal
armor.

universities). These

students need our support as never before.

Please help provide these deserving students with financial,

academic and trauma support through the "Emergency Fund for

Technion Students."

Help us make sure that people throughout the world continue to benefit

from Technion research and education—long after the Last rocket has
been fired.

V TECHNION

AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR

To make a gift, email detroit@ats.org , or call: 248.737.1990
or visit www.ats.org

ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY

Scott Leemaster, President • Jo Strausz Rosen, Detroit Chapter Director

Matt Engelbert, East Central. Regional Director

32506 Northwestern Highway, Farmington Hills, Michigan 48334

August 3 . 2006

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