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Astronaut Ilan Ramon’s Space Diary Arrives at the National Library of Israel

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- The National Library of Israel is proud to announce it has received the space diary of Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, on long-term loan from the Ramon family. On Saturday, February 1, 2003,...
A color schematic of the Osirak nuclear facility in Iraq, from an Israeli intelligence file, released for publication on June 22, 2021. Credit: Israeli Defense Ministry.

40 years after Osirak raid, Israel reveals Ilan Ramon interview, rare intelligence sketches

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On the 40th anniversary of “Operation Opera”—the Israeli Air Force’s attack on the nuclear reactor in Iraq—the Israeli Defense Ministry on Tuesday published a series of classified documents about the daring raid, along with...

February 1, 2003: Ilan Ramon, the nation’s first Israeli astronaut for NASA, died

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Israel celebrates and then mourns when Ilan Ramon, the nation’s first Israeli astronaut for NASA, takes part in the STS-107 Columbia space mission. Ramon, an Israeli fighter pilot, was the space shuttle payload specialist. He...
Israeli President Reuven Rivlin with Rona Ramon, the wife of the late Ilan Ramon, who died in the 2003 “Columbia” space shuttle explosion. She died in December 2018 after a long battle with cancer. Credit: Haim Zach/GPO.

Israel’s highest cultural honor to be awarded posthumously to Rona Ramon

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Rona Ramon will be posthumously awarded the Israel Prize, the country’s highest cultural honor, announced Education Minister Naftali Bennett on Tuesday. Ramon, the wife of the late Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon, who perished in the Columbia space...