June 2021
Read this highlight package of all the many milestones and achievements generated at Bar-Ilan over the past year. We found innovative methods to keep our students educated and to continue with remarkable breakthroughs in our laboratories.
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December 2020
The Israeli government awarded a Certificate of Appreciation to Keilim Shluvim, Bar-Ilan’s extraordinary program that uses music to foster communication between music students and autistic kids, at-risk teens, and other marginalized populations.
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October 18, 2020
A team at BIU has obtained approval for a clinical trial to mitigate lung injury and the need for artificial respiration & ventilator support in COVID-19 patients.
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June 2, 2020
The tunnel is equipped with an automated aerosol spray system which quickly disinfects individuals, clothes and potentially contaminated belongings.
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JUNE 6, 2020
Ensuring that our students know more about the Jewish nation is part of our DNA and it is not about the religious aspect, but about knowledge.
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June 1, 2020
American Friends of Bar-Ilan University (AFBIU) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Nina Hanan as its new Chief Executive Officer (CEO).
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May 27, 2020
For many Jewish day schools across America, the transition from educating our children in physical classrooms to virtual ones has been seamless due to the Lookstein Virtual Jewish Academy at Bar-Ilan.
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March 2020
[VIDEO] Dr. Baruch Barzel, Network Scientist at Bar-Ilan, talks about mitigating the spread of Coronavirus.
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March 2020
“It is reason for cautious optimism,” Cyrille Cohen, head of the immunotherapy laboratory at Bar-Ilan University told The Times of Israel, commenting on recent trends.
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March 2020
Ran Kremer, a Master’s student in electrical engineering at Bar-Ilan University, shows how the Kalman filter can accurately predict the worldwide spread of coronavirus.
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March 2020
An Israeli startup will donate around 120,000 masks made with an anti-pathogen, anti-bacterial fabric
that could help stop the spread of coronavirus.
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February 2020
Using a new technology developed by Dr. Amos Danielli, of the Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, saliva tests can be analyzed within 15 minutes.
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March 19, 2020
A letter from Prof. Arie Zaban, President of Bar-Ilan University, about the Coronavirus and the status of the University at this time.
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September 2019
A daughter of a Holocaust survivor, Prof. Judith Tydor Schwartz, who directs Holocaust research at Bar-Ilan, has brought forward a ram’s horn trumpet and her father’s account of the power of belief amid death.
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August 2019
Five years after the Yazidi genocide in August 2014, when ISIS captured thousands of Yazidi women and children and sold them into sexual slavery, Israel has not forgotten, and Bar-Ilan University researchers are trying to find ways to help.
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October 2019
Prof. Moshe Bar, head of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University, has ADHD and is proud of it. “I don’t see ADHD as a disorder,” he explains. “It confers advantages. It’s nature’s way of enriching diversity, so that not everyone thinks the same way.”
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April 12, 2019
Since 1996, Prof. Aren Maeir of Bar Ilan University has been the director of the Tell es-Safi/Gath excavation. Among the remarkable findings dug up by Professor Maeir and his team are a Philistine Temple, the remains of a Crusader-era castle, and myriad ritual items dating back to the Iron Age.
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February 21, 2019
The Wall Street Journal reports on a study led by Amit Shrira, a professor at Bar Ilan University, of children of Rwandan genocide survivors. The study has uncovered intergenerational effects similar to those of adult children of Holocaust survivors, who themselves suffered from PTSD as a result of their parents’ traumas.
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November 2018
New BIU Impact Center will address differences in Israeli and North American Judaism, bringing together divergent voices to propose innovative ideas for the future.
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November 2018
Distinguished Bar-Ilan University Professor Schlomo Havlin has been awarded the prestigious Israel Prize In Physics. The prize committee noted that “of all Israeli scientists, Prof. Havlin is the most cited by scientists around the world.”
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