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4 unusual facts about Rehovot


Gonzalo Aguirre Villafán

A company administrator by profession, Aguirre Villafán obtained post-graduate degrees in Integral Development Planification (Rehovot, Israel) and Agrarian Administration (Kibbutz Shefayim).

Israeli Football League

The league expanded to 11 teams as the Rehovot Silverbacks became the newest expansion franchise.

Nili Abramski

Nili Abramski (born January 14, 1970, Rehovot, Israel) is an Israeli female long-distance runner.

Shosh Atari

Shosh Atari (November 24, 1950 – April 1, 2008) was an Israeli actress, born in Rehovot.


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Boycott from Within

Another Boycott from Within activist, Kobi Snitz, is a mathematician employed by the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot.

Charles D. Coryell

In 1954 he received the Louis Lipsky Fellowship at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel.

Hillel Oppenheimer

From 1933 to 1941, Oppenheimer headed the Department of Physiology and Genetics of the Agricultural Research Station in Rehovot.

Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation

There are also awards for early career scientists: International Astronomical Union Fellowships, Society for Neuroscience Fellowships, the Rosalind Franklin Young Investigator Award to a young woman geneticist given in cooperation with the Genetics Society of America and the American Society for Human Genetics, and the Peter and Patricia Gruber Awards at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, Israel for scientists there.

Rehovot Railway Station

Following the June 21, 2005 railway disaster near Kibbutz Revadim, trains from Be'er Sheva were diverted through the Kiryat Gat – Ashkelon line and non-stop through Rehovot for a day.

Theodore K. Lawless

He created the Lawless Department of Dermatology in Beilison Hospital, Tel-Aviv, Israel; the T. K. Lawless Student Summer Program at the Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel; the Lawless Clinical and Research Laboratory in Dermatology of the Hebrew Medical School, Jerusalem; Roosevelt University's Chemical Laboratory and Lecture Auditorium, Chicago; and Lawless Memorial Chapel, Dillard University, New Orleans.

Weizmann

Weizmann Institute of Science, a world-renowned institute of higher learning and research in Rehovot, Israel


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