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What Boycott? The UK-Israel Science Partnership Is Booming


(Ha'aretz) Sir Mark Walport - A breath test for Parkinson's disease, artificial egg and sperm systems that revolutionize fertility treatments, shared efforts on problems from desertification to Ebola - these joint British-Israeli projects are my answer to claims that UK scientists are boycotting Israel. In the last year we have launched major collaborations in stem cells, neuroscience, nanoscience and water science. We have seen scholarship programs set up to send Israelis to Oxford and Cambridge. In 2015, hundreds of Israeli researchers will work in UK universities due to our new programs, and hundreds of their British colleagues will experience first-hand what Israeli science has to offer. The British Government is completely opposed to boycotts of Israel. And not a single UK academic university has adopted such a policy. On the contrary, British businesses and universities are keen to collaborate, with 2014 being a record year for trade between the two countries. The writer is chief scientific adviser to the British Government.
2015-03-11 00:00:00
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