Eran Kolirin to adapt Kashua’s 'Let It Be Morning'

Edit Screen Daily 08 Jul 2016
EXCLUSIVE. Director of The Band’s Visit to explore dilemma of being a Palestinian with Israeli citizenship. Eran Kolirin is gearing up to shoot an adaptation of Palestinian writer Sayed Kashua’s 2006 tragi-comic novel Let It Be Morning in early 2017 ... The company is preparing to shoot Amikan Kovner and Assaf Snir’s Echoes about a man who goes in search of his wife’s lover following her death, which is due to shoot in November ... ....

Monday Letters: Rauner is driving faculty, students from Illinois

Edit Chicago Sun-Times 26 Jun 2016
A recent op-ed in the New York Times [“Higher Education in Illinois is Dying,” June 3] has brought national attention to the shameful budget stalemate in Illinois, and its resulting devastation of our public universities. By failing to secure a budget, Gov ... Education is the engine of economic growth in our state ... Inaction is not benign ... Kerry O ... J.M ... Marc Snir, College of Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign....

As attacks subside, Jerusalem tries to return to normal

Edit Springfield News-Sun 12 Apr 2016
One of Jerusalem's most popular Palestinian hummus joints, Lina, used to serve about 100 Israeli diners a day — the majority of its clientele ... "It's been hard," said Ghaleb Zahadeh, Lina's manager. "It's getting better a little bit." ... Bars are abuzz ... Israel denied the accusations ... "All it takes is for someone to light a match," said Hagai Amnon Snir, the Israeli director of the Jerusalem Intercultural Center, which promotes co-existence ... ....

Crowdsource: How do we make computers faster? (Argonne National Laboratory)

Edit Public Technologies 07 Mar 2016
(Source. Argonne National Laboratory). This article was originally published in the spring 2016 issue of Argonne Now, the laboratory's science magazine. CROWDSOURCE asks Argonne scientists from different disciplines to each provide a perspective on a complex question facing society. Today we're asking.. 'How do we make computers faster?'. Marc Snir. Director, Mathematics & Computer Science division ... I'd say 8-10 years ... Anand Bhattacharya....

The Ministry of Agriculture launches a new initiative: A "Heritage Trees" website with the stories, ...

Edit Public Technologies 01 Feb 2016
(Source ... This interactive site includes the stories of some 1,500 trees which illustrate the story of the State of Israel and which are of cultural, Jewish and historic significance. The trees appear overlaid on a map of Israel and are sorted according cities and other categories that will help the user in finding the tree ... The Forestry Officer in the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Hagai Snir, commented ... Snir added....

Maccabi opens 2016 with a bang in 2-0 win (Maccabi Tel-Aviv)

Edit Public Technologies 02 Jan 2016
(Source. Maccabi Tel-Aviv). The Yellow-and-Blue made sure to begin 2016 just as they ended 2015 with a win this time 2.0 over Hapoel Raanana at the Netanya Stadium ... However, Zahavi didn't have to wait much longer to score his first goal of 2016 when he pounced on Snir Shocker's error and put the ball into the Raanana goal to give Maccabi a 24th minute 1.0 lead ... Distributed by Public, unedited and unaltered, on 2016-01-02 18.34.25 UTC....

Playtech licensees win big at prestigious eGR Operator Awards (Playtech plc)

Edit Public Technologies 26 Nov 2015
(Source. Playtech plc). London. November 24th 2015 - Gala Coral has won the coveted eGaming Review Operator of the Year award following its adoption of Playtech's pioneering omni-channel Connect system that enables players to play any product, across any channel and any device across its 1800 UK stores, online and on mobile ... Liron Snir, Playtech's VP Product Strategy who handed Gala Coral the prestigious title, said ... www.playtech.com....

One Hundred Million Buys Much More in Berlin Than Silicon Valley

Edit Bloomberg 18 Nov 2015
For years, the venture capital industry has lavished money on Silicon Valley and Asia. Now, Europe is getting some love. Salesforce.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Intel Corp ... But much has changed in recent years ... As a result, U.S ... “In the majority of cases buying a company in Western Europe would be cheaper than doing it in the Bay Area,” said Yair Snir, Microsoft’s director of M&A and business development for Europe.Google Ventures ... ....

Rebecca Angel releases one sweet holiday single

Edit The Examiner 12 Nov 2015
She’ll also introduce a few other original specials, as well as standards when she appears with her dad on flugelhorn and trumpet, Jon Werking on piano, Gottfried Stoger on sax and flute, drummer Nadav Snir ......

High Performance Computing Leaders Unite to Develop Open Source Framework (The Linux Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 12 Nov 2015
(Source. The Linux Foundation). Companies and HPC centers invest in open source framework for developers, system administrators, and users of high performance computing environments ... This project will provide a new, open source framework to support the world's most sophisticated High Performance Computing environments ... Reduce Costs ... ANSYS ... Marc Snir, Director of the Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory....

Israeli Musician Snir Yamin, Releases Music Video in Honor of Prime...

Edit Topix 08 Nov 2015
Israeli musician, Snir Yamin, releases his music video, "Taking," on the 20th anniversary of the assassination of Rabin to promote a message of peace. The video presents footage that depicts violence and public rallies spurred by the Israeli/Palestinian conflict, followed by scenes of peace ... ....

Could mandatory Arabic lessons for Israeli kids foster tolerance?

Edit Yahoo Daily News 26 Oct 2015
Israel’s Ministerial Committee for Legislation on Sunday approved a bill to make Arabic education mandatory for Israeli schoolchildren beginning in first grade ... “For years the educational system has focused on training ‘intelligence fodder’ for the IDF,” Reuven Snir, dean of humanities at the University of Haifa and a professor of Arabic language and literature told Haaretz ... Snir, “in ‘know your enemy’ and in ‘know your neighbor’ ......

At Jerusalem landmark, Palestinians, Jews and a kitchen full of knives

Edit Stars and Stripes 16 Oct 2015
“We are under occupation. It’s not normal,” said Abu Sbitan, 17, a baby-faced Palestinian from the Mount of Olives neighborhood near Jerusalem’s Old City ... Hagai Agmon-Snir, director of the Jerusalem Intercultural Center, which promotes civic engagement, said Israeli employers rely on Palestinians for inexpensive labor ... Agmon-Snir recalled an Arab bus driver strike in 2014 sparked by a mysterious hanging of a Palestinian driver ...   ... ....
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