A student at Haifa’s Technion won a contest when he dropped an egg intact to the ground from 100 feet in the air in 3.2 seconds. Yai Solomon packed his raw egg in a jar of apricot jelly, placed it a plastic tube and sealed it with a water balloon. He then shot it to the ground using a homemade rocket engine.
The Archive of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency includes articles published from 1923 to 2008. Archive stories reflect the journalistic standards and practices of the time they were published.
