Israel To launch Mission to the Moon

Israel is set to embark on a historic mission to land a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon.

The unmanned Beresheet spacecraft will launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket later this week. Beresheet, which is the Hebrew word for “beginning,” is expected to expected to reach the Moon on April 4.

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By the way Beresheet (in Hebrew בראשית) is the name of the first Parshat in the Torah also known as Genesis “In the beginning”