Bismarck famously said that “politics is not an exact science” – but what if exact sciences were determined by politics? Prof. Ute Deichmann, a historian of science at Ben Gurion University of the Negev, tells host Gilad Halpern about the exchanges between Israeli and German scientists in the early years.
The two countries have marked 50 years since the full normalization of diplomatic relations between them, and we enquire to what extent scientists paved the way.
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