"Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." - Albert Einstein Team Space IL was started by three young Israeli scientists, and we take inspiration from our country's first leaders, who recognized the importance of building our modern state on the foundation of science. Our first President Chaim Weizmann was a renowned scientist, and Einstein himself was reported to have turned down the offer of succeeding Weizmann as Israel's second president in 1952. Perhaps the scientific tradition of our "Start-up Nation" is based on ancient Jewish values, as in the Talmud where the question was always more important than the answer. We see Team Space IL's participation in this competition as a national mission, one that will help contribute in some small way to Israel's growing reputation for the excellence of its space industry and promote scientific awareness among our youth, as well as children around the world. Indeed, education is very important to all of Team Space IL (which is why we decided to contribute profits - if any- from this venture to educational purposes) and why Yonatan (our Chief Technical Officer and one of the 3 founding members of the team), in addition to his day job at the Israel Aerospace Industries, has for the past several years taught in a high school science program. In coming blogs we hope to say a bit about the rest of our team members. For now, we hope that we will be able to take advantage of the enormous enthusiasm that the Google Lunar X Competition has generated within our academic communities and space industries and allow us to utilize local expertise in developing small satellites and other technologies, to help us reach our goal. We were awed by the offers of assistance that have poured in from all corners and hope to repay these votes of confidence as we set forth on our journey. We are honored that Team Space IL's inclusion by Google as an official entrant in the Lunar X Prize Competition will be announced today at Tel Aviv University's Yuval Neeman Workshop for Science, Technology and Security (named for Israel's late Minister of Science and Technology) in the presence of Prof. Isaac Ben Israel (Head of the Ne'eman Workshop at TAU and Chairman of the Israeli Space Agency) and a line-up of speakers that includes NASA Deputy Administrator Lori B. Garver; NASA Astronaut Colonel Timothy J. (TJ) Creamer; European Space Agency's Director of Science and Robotic Exploration Prof. David Southwood; and other luminaries like Prof. Chaim Eshed, Head of Defense Space Programs; TAU President Prof. Joseph (Yossi) Klafter and Prof. Hagai Netzer. We are humbled to see our effort being mentioned at such a gathering of members from an international community that is set on pushing back the final frontier. No less meaningfully, our announcement coincides with the 6th Ilan Ramon International Space Conference - a worldwide exhibition on Space Research arranged by Fisher Brothers Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies – honoring the crew of space shuttle Columbia and Israel’s first astronaut, the late Colonel Ilan Ramon. Just as Einstein's above-mention quote on "Imagination" lives on, we are still inspired by Ilan's pioneering example as our nation's first astronaut and remember how he proudly carried Israel's flag into space while teaching us the universal meaning of his role when he chose to play John Lennon's "Imagine" during his mission.