Nadene Goldfoot
We need to talk to this pair about their work .
- Work of Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem explaining irrational human economic choices. This is due to a variety of factors, including cognitive biases, emotions, and social influences, as described by behavioral economics. Instead of making purely logical decisions, people often rely on heuristics, shortcuts, and biases to make choices. The work led Daniel to receive the 2002 Nobel Prize in Economics. Daniel Kahneman (March 5, 1934 – March 27, 2024) was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences together with Vernon L. Smith. Kahneman's published empirical findings challenge the assumption of human rationality prevailing in modern economic theory. Kahneman became known as the "grandfather of behavioral economics." Kahneman wrote of his experience in Nazi-occupied France, explaining in part why he entered the field of psychology: It must have been late 1941 or early 1942. Jews were required to wear the Star of David and to obey a 6 p.m. curfew....see references .
The list is tremendous! I'll point out a few more that caught my eye.
Medicine was a topic Israelis worked on:
- The flexible stent, also known as NIR Stent or EluNIR. Developed by Israeli company Medinol, which is headquartered in Tel Aviv- for the heart.The "EluNIR" stent, also referred to as the NIR stent, is a flexible, drug-eluting coronary stent. It's a thin-strut stent coated with a polymer and a drug (ridaforolimus) to help prevent in-stent restenosis (re-narrowing of the artery after stenting). The NIR stent is a legacy of Medinol's first stent, which was also known for its flexibility and ability to treat longer lesions
- Bernard Natan with his bandage
- The pressure bandage - known widely as the Israeli Bandage is a specially designed, first-aid device that is used to stop bleeding from hemorrhagic wounds caused by traumatic injuries in pre-hospital emergency situations. First used for saving lives during a NATO peacekeeping operation in Bosnia and Herzegovina, by inventor, Israeli military medic, Bernard Bar-Natan. The bandage was successfully used during operations Enduring Freedom (Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) was a U.S.-led military operation primarily in Afghanistan, beginning on October 7, 2001, in response to the 9/11 terrorist attacks) and Iraqi Freedom and is widely used today, across the world. Before the Israeli emergency bandage was invented in 1998, wounded soldiers were told to find a rock and wrap it on top of hemorrhaging wounds in order to hold direct pressure. Bar-Natan sold his company to PerSys Medical Inc in Houston, Texas, the company that first introduced the bandage to the US military.Moussa B. H. Youdim is a world-famous Israeli neuroscientist specializing in neurochemistry and neuropharmacology. He is the discoverer of both monoamine oxidase (MAO) B inhibitors l-deprenyl (Selegiline) and rasagiline (Azilect) as anti-Parkinson drugs which possess neuroprotective activities. He is currently professor emeritus at Technion - Faculty of Medicine and President of Youdim Pharmaceuticals...Co-inventor and developer of the drug rasagiline for Parkinson's disease
120 peer-reviewed articles in scientific pressJohn Finberg-17 publications
A child of Holocaust survivors from Poland who grew up in New York, Bernard Bar-Natan made aliya in 1979 (move to Israel). He had a variety of jobs – sold jewelry, worked as a freelance photographer, ran a photography store in Jerusalem’s Plaza Hotel, joined the Tourist Police in the Old City – while also doing immigrants’ “Phase Two” IDF service and subsequent reserve duty.He didn’t have any medical background, but two days before the end of his IDF basic training in 1984, the recruits were offered the opportunity to become combat medics, and Bar-Natan thought to himself, why not? It was to prove a propitious decision.When he was drafted, he had noticed that the “personal bandage” he, like all other recruits, was given – a rudimentary field dressing in a small, rectangular green wrapping – happened to be dated 1942.
- Development of Azilect, a drug for Parkinson's disease, by Moussa Youdim and John Finberg from the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and commercialized by Teva Pharmaceutical Industries. Rasagiline (Azilect) is a drug for Parkinsons, a disease that is believed to increase the amount of a natural chemical called dopamine in the brain, which helps alleviate the movement-related symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. We have friends with Parkinsons; 3 cases right here in assisted living.
Israel has many defense systems they've had to come up with: this one is old hat now., the 1st of many upgrades.... 
Iron Dome – a mobile air defense system in development by Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and Israel Aircraft Industries designed to intercept short-range rockets and artillery shells. On April 7, 2011, the system successfully intercepted a Grad rocket launched from Gaza, marking the first time in history a short-range rocket was ever intercepted.
Agriculture of veggies- or are they fruits:
The Tomaccio cherry tomato was developed by several Israeli laboratories, the dominant ones being those led by Professor Nahum Keidar and Professor Chaim Rabinovitch from the Agriculture Faculty of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Rehovot Campus. While it's common to hear the cherry tomato attributed to Israel, that's not strictly true. Israeli scientists and seed companies played a significant role in developing and popularizing the cherry tomato, especially varieties suitable for cultivation in hot climates and with long shelf lives. They also developed strains like the Tomaccio for the sun-dried market. The Kedma farmers say they have developed a second tomato, which they lovingly call the “Bon Bon” because of its very sweet taste, higher than anything known in the market. “We missed the sweet taste that tomatoes once had, the taste of our childhood,” Degai told the Israeli news agency Tazpit. He says the customer buying this tomato knows exactly what kind of taste and high quality to expect, compared with the more regular-sized cherry tomato.“We have achieved a sweet and unique taste with a different aroma than the standard [cherry] tomato, using the world’s leading technology…It has achieved a sweetness that is 30 percent higher than any other tomato in the market,” he said.
Physics is another area I know nothing about but who hasn't heard of Black holes today in science fiction and reality? 
Jacob David Bekenstein (Hebrew: יעקב דוד בקנשטיין; May 1, 1947 – August 16, 2015) was a Mexican-born American-Israeli theoretical physicist who made fundamental contributions to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between information and gravitation; Jacob Bekenstein was the first to propose Black holes also have Entropy while working in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Entropy is a scientific concept, most commonly associated with states of disorder, randomness, or uncertainty. The term and the concept are used in diverse fields, from classical thermodynamics, where it was first recognized, to the microscopic description of nature in statistical physics, and to the principles of information theory. It has found far-ranging applications in chemistry and physics, in biological systems and their relation to life, in cosmology, economics, sociology, weather science, climate change and information systems including the transmission of information in telecommunication.
There's lots more up-to-date- important finds other than our first; Moses' 613 laws found in the Tanakh dictated to him by G-d, the unseen force of creation (Old Testament).
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