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As part of our series of dialogs between writers and scientists, author Yaniv Iczkovits (winner of the Agnon Prize, Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, Ramat Gan Prize and Jewish Quarterly-Wingate Prize) whose works have been translated to 18 languages and adapted for television series, in dialog with Professor Masha Niv, researcher of the chemistry and biology of the sense of taste from the Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment at the Hebrew University. A conversation about the five senses and also the sixth, on language and morality, and also about what is beyond good and evil, on the layers of place and body, and also of the soul that lies within them. 

With audience participation. Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo

As part of our series of dialogs between writers and scientists, Noa Yedlin, winner of the Sapir Prize and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works, and author of bestsellers ‘House Arrest’, ‘Stockholm’, People like us’ and ‘The wrong book’, which were adapted for television and theatre, in dialog with Professor Yifat Merbl from the Department of Immunology at the Weizmann Institute of Science. A conversation about truth and fiction, literary characters and real people, on imaginary boundaries and the origins of make-believe.

With audience participation. Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 

As part of our series of dialogs between writers and scientists, writer Zeruya Shalev (winner of the ACUM Prize, French Femina Prize, the German Die Welt award and others) whose books ('Love Life', 'Thera', ‘Wonder’ and more) have been translated into 28 languages and were bestsellers in Israel and around the world, in dialog with Professor Shafi Goldwasser, researcher in computer science and cryptography (2012 Turing Award winner) at the Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Weizmann Institute of Science.
A conversation about encryption and the secrets of the heart, discovery and inspiration, and what should be peeled off or discarded, in order to discover and to create. 

With audience participation. Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 

Part of a series that brings together literature experts and scientists, this session is a conversation with Almog Behar, writer, poet and cultural researcher, and recipient of the 2010 Prime Minister's Prize for Hebrew Literary Works. Behar’s books, including ‘Ana min El Yahud’, ‘Rachel and Ezekie’l, and ‘Tz’imon Barot’, are highly acclaimed and have won several awards. Some of his poems and stories have been adapted for the cinema. Behar’s works tackle Israeli cultural identity and the relationship between Hebrew and Arabic.

Almog Behar will be joined in conversation by Professor Tzachi Pilpel, geneticist and evolutionary researcher, Head of The Department of Molecular Genetics at the Weizmann Institute of Science, and Head of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities. The audience is invited to participate in the discussion, which will focus on language, culture, and their evolution. 

The session is sponsored by the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.
 

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo

As part of our series of dialogues between writers and scientists, we will host Roy Chen –author, translator and the Gesher Theater’s in-house playwright – who received the 2023 Agnon prize for his latest book 'Great Uproar', and who also received the Rosenblum award for Performing Arts, The Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works and the Yitzhak Navon Ministry of Culture and Sports Award for the Preservation and Cultivation of Israeli Cultures.

His latest book, 'Great Uproar' is currently being translated into Italian and Russian. His previous book, 'Souls', received high acclaim and is currently being translated into English. His plays include: 'Someone Like me', 'Floating Island', 'In the Tunnel', 'Alice', 'Anybody Here', 'the Odyssey', 'The Treasure Under the Bridge'. His play 'The Dropout' has been recently performed at the Beit Lesin Theater. His plays and adaptations have been performed around the world (the play 'Someone Like Me' was performed last January in Milano in Italian). He translates from Russian, English and French. His most recent translations include: Chekhov’s 'The Seagull' (Ho! Series 21, HaKibbutz HaMeuhad) and A.A. Milne’s 'Winnie-the-Pooh' (Keter Books).

Chen will join us for a dialogue with Dr. Leeat Keren from the Dept. of Molecular Cell Biology about ideas, research, discovery and the link between the mind and the soul. 

The audience is invited to participate. Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the interface between science and the Humanities

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo

As part of our series of dialogue between writers and scientists, Eshkol Nevo – whose books have been translated to 13 languages, have sold more than 1 million copies, have won literary awards in Israel and abroad (The Raymond Vallier Award in France, two Wdei Wizo awards in Italy, the Euskadi de Plata award in Spain, two Steimatzky awards in Israel and more) and have been adapted to theater, television and the cinema (Three Floors was adapted to a film directed by Nanni Moretti) – in a dialogue with Dr. Tal Ilani, a scientist in the Department of Structural Biology at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

Their dialogue will focus on the puzzles of chemistry and biology that link people and proteins and about what must be peeled away or removed in order to discover and invent.

The audience is invited to participate, Under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface Between Science and the Humanities.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 

As part of the series of dialogues between the literati and scientists, Prof. Haim Weiss, who teaches literature on the sages in the Department of Hebrew Literature at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, serves as co-editor of the review journal Pens, and whose first book of prose – Forgotton Books – was published about a year ago by Persimmon Books and edited by the writer Haim Be’er, will be hosted by Prof. Ehud Friedgut, a professor of Mathematics at the Weizmann Institute of Science. The conversation will cover discovery and inspiration, and what has to be peeled off or removed in order to discover and invent.

The audience is invited to participate. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface Between Science and the Humanities
 

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 

The first in a series of conversations between literary scholars and scientists will feature two writers with a background in science:
Tehila Hakimi, writer and poet, with a degree in mechanical engineering, won the Bernstein Literature Award for 2015 and the Prime Minister’s Prize for Hebrew Literary Works 2018, and whose latest book Shooting in America has been received critical acclaim, will be in conversation with Alex Ben-Ari, poet, translator and editor, graduate of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Bar Ilan, winner of the 2014 Ditzni Prize for Poetry, and whose latest book of poems, Tchi, was published a few months ago. They will discuss poetry and prose, discovery and inspiration, and what has to be peeled off or removed in order to discover and invent.

The audience is invited to participate. The meeting will be held under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface Between Science and the Humanities

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 

As part of the series In Conversations between Writers and Scientists,
Prof. Rafi Weichert, poet and translator whose poems and translations have won many awards, editor of Keshev LeShira (Listening to Poetry),
is conducting a dialogue with Prof. Yadin Dudai, Professor (Emeritus) of Brain Sciences at the Weizmann Institute of Science and Global
Distinguished Professor of Neural Science at New York University, who studies memory mechanisms in brain and in interacting brains in human
societies. They will discuss memory and imagination, veridical and false recollections, the uniqueness of mother tongues, the exact meaning of
words and its conversion from one language to another, advantages, and disadvantages of poets as translators, the importance of learning by
heart, and the future of fiction and poetry in the age of creative artificial intelligence.

The audience is invited to participate.

The event will be held under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 

The poet and author Agi Mishol is invited to participate in a dialogue with Prof. Roni Paz, Dean of the Faculty of Biology and Neuroscientists- They will talk about the role of emotions in poetry and in the brain, in the scientist and the poet, and about inspiration and creation through characters and memories.
The audience is invited to participate. 

The event will be held under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface
between Science and the Humanities.
 

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo

As part of the series of dialogues between the literati and scientists, the writer Assaf Inbari,
whose “ Home” , “The Tank” and “;The Red Book” bring to new life the core of the Israeli and Zionist narrative through an inspiring literary and historical work, will talk with Prof. Amos Tanai, a researcher in the Department for Computer Science and in the Department of Molecular Biology.
They will talk about the gap between facts and a good tale, Judaism versus Zionism and spirit versus science, and aging versus regeneration of cells, people and ideals.

With the participation of the audience.

The event will take place under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and Spirit.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 

Ronny Someck, a poet and artist whose poems have been translated into 44 languages and whose books “Hermes" and  "The Difference of Love" ; recently appeared, is invited to participate in a dialogue with Prof. Benny Geiger, a researcher in the Department of Immunology and Regenerative Biology at the Weizmann Institute, who researches the molecular language in which cells in the living body communicate with each other and share information with their environment. They will talk about the delivery room of songs, and the moment of birth of a scientific discovery. Also about the poet and the scientist as hunters
and on the gap being increasingly erased between life and the short, dotted lines.
 

The audience is invited to participate.
 

The event will be held under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 

The third in the series of dialogues between literati and scientists with Dorit Rabinyan, an author and screenwriter.  Her book ‘Persian Brides’ won her the Winner Award for Young Authors; her second book ‘Our Weddings’ was also very successful both in Israel and worldwide, and in London the book won the Charles Orde Wingate Award.  Her books have been translated into about 30 languages. Her last book ‘Hedgerow’ was at the center of a public scandal due to its being cancelled from the curriculum of the Ministry of Education.

Rabinyan has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Award for Hebrew writers, the Akum (Society of Authors, Composers and Music Publishers in Israel) award for the encouragement of creativity, and the Bernstein Award for Literature.

Rabinyan is invited to a dialogue with Dr. Meital Oren-Suissa, a researcher in the Brain Research Department of the Weizmann Institute of Science.  In her research, she focuses on the connection between genetic sex and the structure and function of the nervous system, in both ill and healthy states.
The discussion will be about the laboratory of literature, creation and creativity in science, about what was discovered and what had to be peeled off or removed, to find and invent and the place of gender identity in all of this.

The audience is invited to participate and the event will be held under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.
 

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo

The second in the series of discussions between authors or poets and scientists, hosting Etgar Keret - author, screen-writer, cartoonist and director. 
His books have received worldwide critical and commercial acclaim, with over 100 of his books having been adapted for the screen, and Prof. Roee Ozeri, a physicist in the Department of Complex Systems in the Faculty of Physics and who serves as Vice President for Resource Development and Communications at the Weizmann Institute of Science.

A discussion about artificial intelligence, quantum, time travel, parallel universes - what attracts them to such topics

With the participation of the audience, and under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the interface between science and spirit.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo
 

A series of meetings between authors or poets and scientists at the Weizmann Institute of Science who have chosen whom to ask and about what. A discussion about creation and creativity, discovery of concepts and inspiration, about what was revealed and what had to be peeled off or removed in order to find and invent. The audience is invited to participate.

Haim Be’er, the author of novels such as, "Feathers", "Et Hazamir", "The Pure Element of Time", "Upon a Certain Place", "Back from Heavenly Lake", "Their New Dreams", "Back from the Valley of Spirits", "The Shadow of his Hand", books of articles, essays, research and poetry.  Haim Be’er won the Bialik Prize, the Agnon Prize as well as a long list of other prizes.

Prof. Tzachi Pilpel is a geneticist and researcher of evolution. He is interested in the structure of the genome, its evolution and its control. Prof. Pilpel heads the Department of Molecular Genetics and the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities. His sins are writing, prose and poetry.

The event will be held under the auspices of the Braginsky Center for the Interface between Science and the Humanities.

Photography and editing Ziv Shilo