A Light for Science, and Cooperation, in the Middle East

The New York Times's Dennis Overbye writes about the origins and purpose of Sesame (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East), a project spearheaded by former Member Eliezer Rabinovici, a theoretical physicist at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem who has been pursuing a dream of Arab-Israeli cooperation, walking a political and technical tightrope past wars, treaties, negotiations, ultimatums, assassinations, and other crises with his friends and collaborators for more than twenty years. Read more about the international effort to build the synchrotron, an accelerator that can be useful across chemistry, biology, materials science, and archeology, at the New York Times.