ISRAEL - ‘Nobel Prize’ for Engineering
Professor Hagit Messer-Yaron from Tel Aviv University (TAU) recently won the prestigious 2024 IEEE Medal for Environmental and Safety Technologies, considered to be the “Nobel Prize” of the engineering world.
The award is handed out by the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), the world’s largest international professional association with about 450,000 members worldwide. The IEEE strives to advance technological innovation and entrepreneurship for the benefit of humanity.
Messer-Yaron, from TAU’s Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, won the award for her outstanding contributions to “sensing of the environment using wireless communication networks.”
“Current challenges have generated considerable interest worldwide in this technology, including the establishment of a cohort of over 100 researchers working to implement it with EU funding, an initiative for promoting it in Africa, and more.”
In 2009 Messer-Yaron and her team won the Best Inventor Award from the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) for proving the use of cellular networks to predict floods.
-www.israel21c.org, 4 December 2024
Arno's Commentary
While this is not THE Nobel Prize, it is significant that Israel, with approximately 10 million in population, continues to produce intellectual achievements incomparable with any other state.
Speaking of the Nobel Prize, from 1901 to 2023, at least 216 recipients were Jews, representing 22% of all awarded, yet Jews only make up 0.2% of the world’s population.
Furthermore, of all six Nobel Foundation award categories, Jews received the following: chemistry 19%, economics 38%, literature 16%, peace 9%, physics 56%, and medicine 26%. The distinct difference from all other people in the world was declared by the heathen prophet Balaam, stating: “the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations” (Numbers 23:9b).
Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.
