Dear [reviewer title] [reviewer name], 

I am approaching you on behalf of the Israeli Pazy Foundation, requesting your assistance in reviewing the research proposal [proposal title] which was submitted to the Pazy Foundation (https://www.pazyfoundation.org.il/).

The Pazy Foundation is a joint venture of the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) of the Israeli Higher Education Committee and of the Israeli Atomic Energy Commission (IAEC). The foundation's goal is to promote and support high quality open scientific research carried out in collaboration between researchers at the Israeli Research Universities and researchers at the R&D centers, which are recognized as part of the Israeli national science and technology infrastructure. The research carried out at these research centers is a purely open and non-commercial scientific research. The foundation allocates grants in a wide range of fields. Grants are awarded on the basis of scientific merit. The funding decisions are based on the evaluation of scientific panels of leading university researchers, who use detailed written peer reviews as their main evaluation tool. 
 

We believe that your broad knowledge and expertise in the field of the proposal will be of great value to the review process, and we would very much appreciate your assistance. We are aware that sometimes some part of a given proposal is outside the expertise of the reviewer. Nevertheless, your review of the part that is within your area of expertise will be most helpful. We understand that evaluating the proposal could be time consuming and we thus do not ask for a lengthy written report. But we do appreciate your candid opinion on the scientific merits of the proposal.

To accept or decline our request for the proposal’s evaluation, please log into the Pazy Foundation webpage (www.pazyfoundation.org.il), using your email as username and your personal password. If you forgot your password or if you don't have one, please click 'reset password' when trying to login. After you login please indicate 'yes' or 'no' and then save your choice, according to your decision. By accepting our request you will obtain access to the full details of the proposal. Please follow the instructions on the webpage for the evaluation process, you can save a draft and keep editing your review until the deadline. Submit your final review by pressing 'save'. For your convenience, detailed instructions are attached to this email.

Alternatively, you can use the following links to quickly accept or decline without logging into the Pazy Foundation system:

To accept this invitation, please click here: [hyperlink for acceptance]

To decline this invitation, click here: [hyperlink for decline]

We very much hope that you’ll accept this review request and would appreciate receiving your report by the deadline indicated on our website. Relevant parts of your review will be shared with the applicant, removing any identifying marks to ensure your full anonymity. We thank you in advance for your cooperation. This is a no-reply E-mail address, please send any questions to pazi@iaec.gov.il 
 

Sincerely,
Prof. E. Waxman, Chair of the Pazy foundation board
Particle physics and Astrophysics dept.
Weizmann Institute of Science.


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