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VOLUME 72
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DECEMBER 15,1994
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ISRAEL/COMMUNITY FEATURE
Search for extraterrestrial intelligence goes to Israel
By Dr. Stuart A. Kingsley
I recently visited Israel to
present a scientific paper on
the Optical Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI),
otherwise referred to as "Optical SETI" (see page 13 ofthe
Oct. 6 OJC for further details).
The paper on the Design for
an Optical SETI Observatory
was presented at the prestigious 45th International Astronautical Congress. The observatory, which is built at the
rear of my home and place of
business, is only the second
such observatory on this planet today. It includes a 240 sq.
ft. high-tech control/conference room addition, and a 10
ft. diameter fiber-glass dome
which houses the observatory's
2S.4 cm aperture Schmidt-Cas-
segrain Telescope.
Last winter, I was invited by
the then chief of NASA's SETI
Office, Dr. John Billingham,
to present a paper on this research activity, which looks
for ultra-fast laser pulses coming from nearby stars. The aim
is to undertake an optical version of the microwave SETI
work that has been previously
carried out by NASA. Both
Microwave and Optical SETI
seek to detect artificial beacon
signals that provide the. answer to that age-old-question
"Are we alone in the universe?"
When I heard that this year
the venue for the Congress
would be Jerusalem (last year
it was Craz, Austria, and next
year it will be Oslo, Norway), I
jumped at the opportunity to
participate as a speaker at the
23rd Review Meeting of the
Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence. The Congress was
held in the International Conference Center attached to the
Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza
Hotel, located near the central
bus station. The Congress consisted of many separate conferences or meetings on a variety of space-related topics.
The first guest speaker at
the opening session on Monday, Oct. 10, was the president
of the State of Israel and former defense minister, Ezer
Weizman. This was the first
time that the head of state of
the host country had addressed the Congress. Astronautics is a subject of particular interest to Weizman because of his pioneering role in
Israel's Air Force arid formation of the Israel Aircraft Industry. The keynote speaker
was  Moshe  Arens,  deputy
the conferences, with interests
in space science and technologies, space stations, satellites,
launchers, transportation, earth
resources, space law and space
education, represented many
nations, including Russia, China, United Kingdom, France,
Germany, Japan, India, Argentina, Brazil and Egypt, with
the greatest representation
from the United States.
Israel had been trying for
over 20 years to host the Astronautical Congress, and now
with the recent peace breakthroughs, was deemed by the
conference organizers, the International Astronautical Federation (IAF), to be a worthy
The Jerome Schottenstein School of Torah Heritage is located near the Zion Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem. Photo by Dr.
Stuart Kingsley.
chairman of the Board, Israel
Corporation Ltd., who is a former ambassador lo Ihe United
States and also a former de-
fense minister and aeronautical engineer.
For Israel, which has a high-
tech economy the envy of
many small nations, this was
an opportunity to boost its international image by hosting
the Congress and to help Israeli industry with the associated
exhibition. Those attending
and "safe" venue. The IAF
has its headquarters in Paris,
France. The terrorist activity
in the Nahalat Shiva section
near Ben Yahuda street and
Zion Square, the previous
night, shortly after the Congress's welcome reception, may
have given the IAF pause to
think that perhaps they had
made a mistake. Weizman
apologized for the previous
night's events and hoped that
it would not cause the Con
gress participants to be worried about their safety while in
Jerusalem. The Mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, was also
to have spoken at the opening
session, but excused himself to
deal with the aftermath of the
shootings.
The Sunday night's terrorists shootings took place at
11:32 p.m., just a few hundred
yards from the guest house
where I was staying in B'nai
B'rith Street and just half an
hour after my return from the
reception at the conference
center. This terrorist incident
necessitated a call to my mother in London, England. Only a
few days earlier, as I passed
through Heathrow Airport for
the connecting flight to Israel,
I had spoken to my mother on
the phone and reassured her
that it was "far safer in Israel
than in London!"
It took about half a minute
for us to realize that the loud
"popping" sound we could
hear outside our guest house
was not that of fire-crackers —-
but semi-automatic gunfire.
An Israeli, staying in the guest
house on a short vacation,
took out his 9 mm pistol to
defend us, just in case the terrorists should come up the
road. He admitted later, that
his pistol wouldn't be much of
a match for Kalashriikov assault rifles. We took the pre-'
caution of turning off the
lights and keeping away from
the windows in case of stray
bullets. The shooting went on
sporadically for about 15 to 20v
minutes, though the press later
reported that the gunfire towards the end of the incident
was caused by Israelis getting a
bit excited and firing their;
guns into the air. In the still of
the night, we could hear members of the IDF shouting orders to each other and some
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