Ilan Ramon

Jerusalem partners with NASA, looks forward to first Israeli woman in space

The deal will anchor joint projects with NASA until 2035, and is designed to expand already close cooperation on flagship projects.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Innovation, Science and Technology Minister Gila Gamliel shakes hands with Meredith McKay, NASA’s deputy administrator for international relations.
ILAN RAMON in front of an F16 aircraft.

This week in Jewish history: Israel's first astronaut, invention of cardioverter-defibrillator

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

|BySTEVEN DRUCKER
Ilan Ramon, official NASA portrait.

Astronaut Ilan Ramon’s space diary finds a home at Israel’s National Library

Ramon's mission on Columbia claimed the lives of all seven crew members, but many of his personal items survived, including diary entries as new additions to Israel's National Library.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
ILAN RAMON, the first Israeli astronaut, during training at the NASA space center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in 2002.

Grapevine June 4, 2023: Remembering Ilan Ramon

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

|ByGREER FAY CASHMAN

IDF releases new footage of Ilan Ramon discussing Operation Opera

The former fighter pilot and astronaut discussed the connection between the strike, his mother who survived the Holocaust and his mission to space.

JUNE 22, 2021ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Portait of Ilan Ramon standing in front of an F16 aircraft.

The dramatic diaries of Ilan and Asaf Ramon - book review

Once Ramon was in space, the impending disaster added pathos to the diary entries and emails, many of which expressed Ramon’s desire for his wife and his devoted and thoughtful fatherhood.

JUNE 10, 2021ByALAN ABBEY
saf and Ilan Ramon holding an astronaut’s helmet in a photo taken at NASA

Who is Israel’s next astronaut?

A colleague of Ilan Ramon, former IAF pilot Eytan Stibbe aims high.

JUNE 10, 2021ByYAFIT OVADIA
Eytan Stibbe shakes hands with Bob Cabana, director of NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center and a former astronaut

Grapevine May 12, 2021: Wars and conquests

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

MAY 11, 2021ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRESIDENT REUVEN RIVLIN greets Nadia Cohen, the widow of Israeli spy Eli Cohen, at the President’s Residence in 2018. On the left is former Mossad head Tamir Pardo.

Nasa, Israel's US Embassy hold memorial for Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon

"Research of the universe and trips through space are not only fascinating... but are opening doors - and universes -to help better humanity."

FEBRUARY 5, 2021ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Israel's Embassy in the United States and NASA held a virtual memorial event for Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon.

Israel’s second astronaut - the dawn of a new tomorrow

Astronaut Eytan Stibbe will fly to the International Space Station in 2021.

DECEMBER 22, 2020ByYAFIT OVADIA
Eytan Stibbe at the President’s Residence

From fighter pilot to astronaut, meet Eitan Stibbe

Stibbe was a close friend of the late Ilan Ramon, and was one of the founders of the Ramon Foundation in his honor.

NOVEMBER 19, 2020ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Eitan Stibbe

Jewish astronaut Jessica Meir talks about her experience with Ilan Ramon

Meir had just started her career when the Colombia Space Shuttle disaster occurred.

JUNE 5, 2020ByCELIA JEAN
NASA astronauts hold press conference from International Space Station

Grapevine February 5, 2020: She missed the party

A roundup of news from around Israel.

FEBRUARY 4, 2020ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, with Uganda Prime Minister Ruhakana Rugunda and his wife, Jocelyn.

Exclusive: Two iconic American astronauts talk Earth, Mars and outer space

Maariv reporter Stav Namer shares her exclusive interviews with Garrett Erin Reisman and Sandra Hall Magnus with The Jerusalem Post.

AUGUST 13, 2019ByMAAYAN JAFFE-HOFFMAN
Mission Specialist Sandra Magnus (L) and Mission Specialist Rex Waldheim of the Space Shuttle Atlantis STS-135 crew exit their quarters for travel to launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, July 8, 2011. The 12-day mission to the International Space Station is the last