The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) has signed a historic scientific cooperation agreement with The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities (IASH).
The purpose of the accord is to benefit outstanding scientists in both countries and to formalise cooperative relations between their scientific communities. Under the terms of the agreement, annual national scientific conferences with the participation of dozens of leading scientists will take place alternately in Israel and the US. The accord also provides for annual binational exchanges of eminent scientists and scholars, who will hold meetings and conduct seminars at local academic institutions and deliver public lectures.
The IASH has agreements with more than forty corresponding institutions around the world and has cooperation with the Royal Society and with several additional academies in Europe, North and South America, Asia, and the Far East. The NAS similarly collaborates with the academies of many other countries, including the Royal Society, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and French Academy of Sciences, as well as international networks of academies of science.
The cooperation agreement between the IASH and the NAS will be implemented with the support of the Blavatnik Family Foundation headed by the American businessman and philanthropist Len Blavatnik. The initial agreement will run for a five-year period, to the end of 2023.
Currently five NAS members work in Israel, in addition to fifteen Israeli researchers who are NAS foreign associates, twelve of whom work in Israel and three in the US.
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