VIDEO - Renowned physicist Stephen Hawking has arrived this weekend for an eight-day visit in Israel and the Palestinian Authority, during which he will meet with outstanding physics, math and astronomy high school students at the Bloomfield Museum of Science in Jerusalem.
The meeting and lecture will be broadcast live on Ynet.
Hawking will give a lecture before the students and then answer their questions.
Hawking, a math professor at the University of Cambridge and best-selling author of A Brief History of Time and other science books, is considered to be one of the most popular and world-famous scientists of our time.
The event has been organized by the British Council in Israel, and is aimed at encouraging teenagers to pursue a scientific and research career, by initiating various projects and setting up meetings with renowned scientists from across the world.