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Acknowledgements
We wish to thank all who have contributed to this special issue, as well as the Israel Journal of Ecology & Evolution, for providing us the journal space and kind support for this enterprise. We would like to thank our fellow organizers who worked very hard to make the symposium such a success: Oded Berger-Tal, Avi Braun, Inbal Brickner-Braun, Shai Kinast, Yonathan Nathan, Itai Opatovsky, Maritt Saber, Manar Saria, and Yuval Zelnik. We wish to thank Prof. Boris Krasnov, the director of SIDEER, for his ongoing support of the graduate symposium initiative. We thank the Blaustein Center for Scientific Cooperation (BCSC) for providing funding for the symposium and Ella Nicolaevsky for logistic support. We wish to thank Dr Susan Blackmore and Adam Hart-Davies for making this a fun and enriching symposium and special acknowledgment for Prof. Sami M. Al-Jaber from An-Najah National University of Nablus, Palestine for making the communication over the border so pleasant. Last but not least, we wish also to thank Prof. Leon Blaustein and Prof. Burt Kotler for inviting us to edit this issue and for supporting us during the process. This is publication 818 of the Mitrani Department of Desert Ecology.