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Brain Drain: Existential Threat For Israel

After Israelis Michael Levitt  and Arieh Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, their decisions to emigrate from Israel to the United States provoked a discussion about the academic "brain drain" Israel has been experiencing.

Photos of Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, the three laureates of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is seen on a screen during the announcement of the winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm October 9, 2013. Karplus, Levitt and Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency  (SWEDEN - Tags: MEDIA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)
Photos of Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, the three laureates of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, are seen on a screen during the announcement of the winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm, October 9, 2013. — REUTERS/Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency

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