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Friends! The first Israeli moonlight will go to the Moon. In Israel, at the aircraft industry, they have already started to collect the skeleton of the newest spacecraft in the form of a cone.

The non-profit organization SpaceIL will play a major role in the development of the moonlight. Three engineers - Yar Bash, Kfir Damari, and Jonathan Weintraub created it in 2011 with the sole aim of sending a space ship from Israel to the Moon. The company has already entered the final of the international competition "Google Lunar X PRIZE", where five teams from the leading countries compete. Now their moonlight has to become the first to sit on the satellite, walk along the surface of at least 500 meters and send a photo to Earth from there. If the Israeli spacecraft wins, the company will receive $ 20 million for further development.

The spacecraft was named "Integration". It has already installed 8 engines. Soon tests will take place, and in the end of 2017 - in 2018 they plan to launch a moonlight in space.

But the main thing for the founders of SpaceIL is not a victory and not even participation. The main goal is educational. Young people should get acquainted with the initiatives to explore space, they must inspire them, and due to this – the will become interested in science, studying mathematics and engineering art in depth. What, if not a living example of achievements can awaken the boom of curiosity?

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Friends! Today, Sergey Loznitsya celebrates his birthday. He is a well-known Ukrainian director of documentary and feature films, among which are such famous as "Maidan", "In the Fog", "My Happiness" and "Soft".

Sergiy was born on September 5, 1964 in the city of Baranovichi in Belarus. But later he moved to Kiev. There he graduated from high school and entered the Kiev Polytechnic in 1981. There he studied applied mathematics, became an engineer-mathematician. After graduation, Loznytsia worked at the Institute of Cybernetics on problems of artificial intelligence, was fond of photography. But at the age of 27 he decided to change everything and tried himself in the cinema. In 1991-1997 Sergey studied at VGIK in the department of directing the play cinema (workshop of Nani Gioradze), graduated with honors.

A few years after completing his studies, Loznytsia moved with his family to Germany. For many years, he filmed documentaries, then went to the game. The first Ukrainian film nominated for the Cannes festival was "My Happiness" by Loznitsya. Films of the famous director have received numerous awards at festivals in different parts of the world.

A special for all was Sergey's film "Maidan". Which, without a single word, carries everyone into the atmosphere of those extremely important events. The film is striking. Especially strong is final, in it the audience is not shown the euphoria of victory. There is silence, pain and candles. Woe to the loss of people who have been fighting side by side for the future of the nation.

When in an interview Sergey was asked if there has been a risk that the Ukrainian revolution will deceive people's expectations, he replied: "The path to a thousand le begins with the first step. The revolution must take place in the minds of most people; what happened on the Maidan, told us: this process has already started. People are ready to make their own decisions, take responsibility for themselves. Compared with Russia, this is done not by the separate leaders of the opposition, but by thousands of people who are thoughtful, wise, responsible. Any authority will have to take into consideration of such citizens. "

From my heart, I congratulate Sergey on his birthday! I wish him inspiration, new wonderful films, strengths and personal happiness. Thank you for the creativity and immeasurable atmosphere that is presented in his wonderful films.

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Friends! Ukrainian boxer Olexander Khizhnyak became the world champion in boxing. I sincerely congratulate him with such an important victory! Khizhnyak is the only Ukrainian boxer who won the medal in the 2017 World Championship in Hamburg. In addition, this year, 22-year-old Olexander Khizhnyak has already won the European Championship.

In the final match of the category up to 75 kg, Ukrainian won Kazakh boxer Abilkhan Amankulov. Alexander Khizhnyak had a great advantage during the entire battle, and in the end all five judges gave him a 5-0 victory.

The talented Ukrainian boxer was born on August 3, 1995 in Poltava. The boy's coach is his father, who is also called Olexander Oleksandrovych Khizhnyak. He is a well-deserved trainer of Ukraine, and because of his instructions, Khizhnyak Jr. began boxing. Now father spends 24 hours a day with his son: he teaches, coaches, supports. The young athlete loves his parents extremely and appreciates their support, as well as the support of spectators and box fans.

The secret to the success of Olexander Khizhnyak is simple - hard work. He never gets lazy, even when he has time to rest, because exercises are an important part of every day. From the boxing Alexander rests by doing other sports, for example, riding a bike or swimming.

Friends! Such talented, purposeful, hardworking people as Alexander Khizhnyak are the future of the Ukrainian nation. I wish the young boxer to conquer new heights, gain news victories, have a lot of strengths and good health!