– Carl Sagan. Are we not alone? Surely not. The possibility that intelligent life exists outside of planet earth is a reality. And, the Galileo Project, in honour of the Italian genius Galileo Galilei “father of modern astronomy”, who was unjustly sentenced by the perfidious Roman Inquisition, is led by Israeli professor Abraham “Avi” Loeb. He was born in the moshav Beit Hanan, growing up in the midst of an agricultural world, and is now the Frank B. Baird Jr. professor of science at the prestigious Harvard University. He is Jewish, he maintains the tradition, but he is not a practising Jew.