BIU’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine complex in Tzfat was transformed into a mock hospital, with X-ray rooms, blood-test facilities, an ambulance, a cardiac room, and more. The annual communal-educational activity aims to alleviate the anxiety that children may experience towards medical professionals, medical care, and hospitalization. Read More.

Signing the Convention will bring Israel a major step closer to eradicating gender violence and will protect thousands of women and children. This opinion piece was written by Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, founding academic director of Bar-Ilan University’s Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women, and Leah Goeppinger-Levy, a staff member at the center. Read More.

Bar-Ilan University’s Yael Sherer and Dr. Simcha Gathon will light torches on the eve of Israel’s Independence Day on Wednesday, May 4, 2022. The torch-lighting ceremony is the official ceremony that marks the closure of the Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for Israel’s fallen soldiers) commemorations and the opening of Israel’s Independence Day celebrations. This honor is given to people who are seen to have made an outstanding contribution to society and is the ceremony’s highlight. Read More.

The Sir Naim Dangoor Centre for Universal Monotheism in BIU’s Faculty of Humanities hosted a festive conference marking 60 years of diplomatic relations between South Korea and Israel in April. Read More.

If you were one of the 32 people who traveled with Rabbi Dr. Joshua Berman, professor of Bible Studies at Bar-Ilan University, to Egypt in January, it’s a fact that you can’t read the Haggadah the same way this year. Because what you saw and heard there downloaded brand-new, three-dimensional multi-sensory images into your mind. Read More.

Can we find order in chaos? Bar–Ilan University physicists have shown, for the first time that chaotic systems can synchronize due to stable structures that emerge from chaotic activity. These structures are known as fractals, shapes with patterns that repeat over and over again in different scales of the shape. Read More.

Researchers conducting the first Israeli biomedical research on the International Space Station believe that Stibbe’s vision will not deteriorate during his short space flight. The study was supervised from the Rakia ground control center in Tel Aviv by Prof. Uri Polat, head of the School of Optometry and Visual Sciences; Prof. Yossi Mandel, head of the Science and Ophthalmology Engineering Laboratory at Bar-Ilan University in Ramat Gan; and Dr. Eran Schenker, a space physician and medical director of the Israel Aerospace Medicine Institute. Read More.

Saving coral reefs just went high-tech. A 3D-printing method to preserve the reefs has been developed by researchers from four of Israel’s leading universities. The researchers are currently installing several 3D-printed reefs in the Gulf of Eilat. The artificial reefs are expected to attract corals, fish, and invertebrates that support the regrowth of natural coral reefs. The joint research was led by Prof. Oren Levy and PhD student Natalie Levy of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan. Read More.

On April 6, the “Rakia” mission will head for space with technology to test vision in microgravity. A digital vision test designed by Bar-Ilan University researchers Prof. Uri Polat and Prof. Yossi Mandel, together with Dr. Eran Schenker, Chief Medical Innovation Officer at the Israel Aerospace Medicine Institute, will be one of the scientific experiments to be conducted at the International Space Station as part of the “Rakia” mission with Israel’s second astronaut, Eytan Stibbe. Read More.

Bar-Ilan University Prof. Rachela Popovtzer is a recipient of the prestigious Consolidator Grant from the EU’s European Research Council (ERC). These grants are awarded to outstanding researchers with a scientific track record showing great promise. The grant will help her in her quest to develop a cure for rare genetic brain diseases. Read More.