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To Enjoy Social Contact, Choice Matters

March 2022

People who don’t choose to be social but end up surrounded by other people rate themselves as unhappiest. Folks who opt to be social and then find themselves in the company of others were ecstatic.

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2021 Bar-Ilan University Annual President's Report

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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Keilim Shluvim Program Receives Gov't Award

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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A Shofar That Defied the Nazis

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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Israel Helps Yazidi Women Heal From ISIS Trauma

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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Raising The Bar

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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