Israel is set to join the prestigious list of nations who have sent spacecraft to the moon. Following extensive eight years of planning and preparation, the unmanned spacecraft was recently shipped from Tel Aviv to the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida for a launch during the middle of February.
The space craft is called “Beresheet,” which is Hebrew for the first word in the Book of Genesis, meaning, “in the beginning.”
Israel continues to demonstrate it is one of the leading nations in the world with scientific and high-tech innovations and creations. As one would expect, this is creating a lot of excitement in Israel. It is also sending a very strong signal to the other nations in the Middle East concerning the advanced high-tech expertise of the nation of Israel.
On December 31, the political party Prime Minister Netanyahu unanimously voted to annex parts of Judea and Samaria, called the “West Bank” by most of the world. This would end the possibility of a Palestinian State in this area. The party said that it was time to make this bold and necessary move in light of the overwhelming support of the Trump administration and the recent announcement to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. “Now is the time to strengthen the Jewish state’s hold over all parts of the land and to prevent the destruction of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, they said.”-