Yafit Ovadia

Yafit Ovadia is a former contributing writer for The Jerusalem Post and has held various positions in the Israeli aerospace industry. Her articles have been in Calcalist, CTech, Ynet, The Algemeiner, Israel Hayom, and The Wall Street Journal, and she has appeared as a guest correspondent on ILTV. From Colorado, she holds a master's degree in international relations and strategic studies as well as a certificate in international communications and public diplomacy from Bar-Ilan University.


 An artist’s illustration of a NASA rover making its way to the Martian surface.

This Israeli firm helped NASA study Mars, will help study Jupiter's moon

 Porat (on far right) and a classmate build the nanosatellite.

Tevel program: Israeli Jewish Arab high schoolers launch nanosatellites

 An artist's illustration of the James-Webb Telescope.

The Israelis using NASA's James Webb to study the universe


Israel and France launch nanosatellite to monitor vegetation, predict weather

Meet the VENµS probe, which conducts routine flybys of the Earth, and attains high resolution, multispectral images of specific sites around the world.

 The VENµS satellite

The murder of a Denver yeshiva student could have been worse - opinion

Shmuel Silverberg, 19, was murdered in an antisemitic attack. Were it not for a twist of events that seem nothing short of a miracle and heroic, it could have ended a lot worse.

Police tape.

Parker Probe: Meet the spacecraft using Israeli tech to study the Sun

Using Israeli technology, the Parker Probe is enlightening our understanding of what transpires on the solar surface.

 An artist's rendition of the Parker Probe as it approaches the Sun.

Who is Israel’s next astronaut?

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

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

Beresheet 2: Israel's next mission to the Moon is set for 2024

The Beresheet 2 project, like its predecessor, is expected to cost some $100 million.

A model of the Beresheet 2 spacecraft.

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

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

Eytan Stibbe at the President’s Residence

Saturn, the jewel of the solar system

Israeli researchers, working with NASA, recently discovered some startling findings about the planet

A montage of Saturn and its moons as captured by the Voyager 1 probe

Remembering the Ramons: Space Week brings NASA astronauts to Israel

This year’s theme asked the decades-old question, “Why explore space?”

(From left) NASA astronauts Eric Boe, Donald Thomas and Mark Vande Hei participate in Israeli Space Week

The next stage of space exploration- Pluto

“Finding Earth-size planets gets us asking that question that we’ve all asked, ‘if there are other planets like ours out there, is there life there?’”

An image of Pluto captured by the New Horizons spacecraft in 2015

Technion scientists discover new 'antibiotic cocktails'

Researchers at the Faculties of Biology and Computer Science at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have engineered a new drug that combines several different strains of antibiotics.

Prof. Roy Kishony of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa