Good morning. Welcome to the lecture here today.

I believe everybody may know or hear about nuclear power. Regarded as a source of power, nuclear power is an important element of a diverse, clean energy and an important source of low-carbon electricity. Increasing the amount of electricity generated by nuclear power is critical to move toward a more sustainable and securer energy in the future.

According to statistics, nuclear power is the second largest source of domestic electricity in America, and the country is expanding nuclear power as a key energy source for long-term energy security. Regardless of what the U.S. does, the world is increasingly turning to nuclear power as a low-carbon electricity source. All in all, nuclear power plays a significant role in cutting air pollution, and protecting national security.

Although nuclear power plays a growing role in meeting the world’s energy needs, nuclear power dangers will remain. The disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan, which led to the nuclear accidents at the Fukushima reactor, have brought safety to the forefront of the discussion on nuclear power. At the same time, terrorism is another threat to the development of nuclear power. Once the nuclear power plant encounters terrorist attacks, the consequences would be disastrous. We have known for years that a nuclear accident anywhere is a nuclear accident everywhere, which leave us many inspirations and questions worthy of consideration: what is the trend for the development of nuclear power in the future, and how rational to carry on the utilization of nuclear power?

We know that the nuclear accident in Japan has raised questions about the development of nuclear power plant in countries around the world. Some EU countries have announced the suspension of nuclear power facilities projects, particularly in Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel intimated that Germany would not prepare to establish nuclear power plants. It should be said, however, that every choice is both narrow and wide, so in nuclear power. We must recognize that there is no major energy source that can be exploited without risk. As long as we prohibit the abuse of nuclear power, and improve security to make use of its favorable factors, nuclear power will take more active part in improving living conditions and the ecological environment rather than destroying our home.

In my view, given the world's fast-growing energy needs, nuclear power should be properly developed due to its specialty in energy shortage supplement and environmental pollution reduction. Under the safe and security premise, site selection of nuclear power plant should be places away from the population centre and where there are few or no natural geological hazards, such as earthquakes. In the transition of energy utilization, nuclear power can assume a major role to supply the power generation, and its development can be constrained after the technology maturity of wind power, solar power and other new energy power generation.

While working to encourage the peaceful use of nuclear power, we must seek the security of a world without nuclear weapons and a peaceful expansion of nuclear power. Working cooperatively and with a shared sense of commitment and obligation, we can succeed in building a clean and safer energy future, and without this support, nuclear power will not be able to play the right kind of role which it can and should play in the global energy future. I look forward to working with all of you gathered here today to turn this vision into a reality, and ultimately leave our children with a stronger, better country than when we found it.

Thank you and I’m happy to take some questions.

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Cultural Diversity – Cultural Integration

Presenters

Dr. Naomi Jaffe, National Superintendent for Art & Theatre Studies, Ministry of Education Culture & Sport, State of Israel

Dr. Yael Shai, National Superintendent for Music Education, Ministry of Education Culture & Sport, State of Israel

Since many centuries Jews immigrated to the Land of Israel. This trend increased considerable in the second part of the 20th Century when groups from all over the world, West and East settled in Israel. Each of these ethnic groups carried a rich cultural inheritance that includes the arts, which appeared in everyday life. The result is a diversity and rich mosaic of cultures, including art, music, theatre, film and dance. One of the questions to be discussed in this presentation is, how the educational system in Israel deals with the fascinating encounter between the cultural and artistic capacity that the student brought from home, including the exposure to the mass media and between the subjects studied in the schools formal curricula. Another question is what and even whether there is a cultural outcome that crystallizes among the students who are the future generation. The answers to these questions will be given through the various art domains and mainly music and art. These answers attribute also to the understanding of the local culture that inevitably is developing in the school system.

The classes in Israeli schools are generally heterorganic and represent the diversity society in Israel. The curricula in the mandatory subject matters try to give proper answers to national and international standards. Among the optional subject matters the arts play an important role and examples will be presented in this paper, mainly from the domain of art and music.

Art

An artwork is one of the human communication forms that are

performed through a structure of visual signs and images organized in a composition on a surface. The display of the artworks in museums galleries by curators is another way of creating composition. The aesthetic experience and the aesthetic response are the core point to establish recognition and meaning of the of visual signs and images. The

understanding of the observed artwork requires reference to each of the different components and at the same time to create connection among components in order to analyze, explain the meaning of the visual signs and images composition in the work of art. The integration of art history with aesthetic, criticism and production provides us with the opportunity to study art from more viewpoints.

Dewey (1934) in his book “Art as Experience” presented the

importance of the observation in the thinking process. The observation from different angles and different points of view is a significant stage in the process of research. In this process, the observer makes a

significant acquaintance with concepts such as images, symbols, metaphors, compositions, style, tradition and innovation. As a result he enlarges his experience and his ability to analyze, comment, criticize and express his individual point of view relating to the artwork. It is important to indicate that the context in the artwork involves the senses, emotions and values that are originated and motivated by the personal potential that exists in each of us. In spite of being subjective they have something in common due to the cultural conditioning that exist in each group of the society. For example the symbol of the “Menorah” is an icon in the Jewish – Israeli culture. This icon consists of the seven candles that were situated in the Holy Temple. It symbolized the bond between the Jewish people and God, a bond of cultural unity among the Jewish people in Israel and in the Diaspora. The integration of the Menorah symbol in art works of different compositions can express different meanings and commentaries, but the Menorah in any compositional context will always symbolize the Jewish – Israeli culture.

In order to establish learning environment for creating bridge between cultures we should allow the students to recognize, identify, learn and make research about their own culture through art making. Creating dialog between students and artworks raise a new possibility for bridging the gaps between generations and cultures.

Music

The music artwork that are the result of students who study

composition exposes the components originating in the western music and are accompanied by components that originate in the eastern tradition. The result is an interesting diversified combination of the prominent musical features such as: Sound - western form of performance together with an eastern overlap or the use of western violin and the UD, an eastern string instrument; melody – modal melodic line (from eastern origin) supported by traditional western harmony or the use of a melody motive based on eastern flourish; rhythm – a combination of a measured rhythm with an unmeasured rhythm. This musical web exists in the middle –east countries but is especially visible in Israel and it reveals correctly the knowledge acquired in the school together with the culture that the student brings from his home, from his natural environment.

The different works of art, including music styles that are created by students and adults reveal an interesting combination of different music styles that form the developing multicultural creation that is a result of an ecocultural process that is experienced by all of us, including the school students.

Summery

This presentation raises a discussion that refers to the fact that the diversity society in Israel promotes on one hand the tradition and culture from West and East and on the other hand integrates multicultural forms of artworks. An interdisciplinary curriculum should promote issues of cultural diversity and cultural integration that will open alternative and variety of interpretation and interrelationships