King Herod the Great had his bathtubs made of alabaster quarried in Israel rather than Egypt, as has always been assumed, according to a research team at Bar-Ilan University. The ruthless first-century ruler brought Roman cultural norms – including bathing and architectural innovation – to Judea during his reign. Read More.

“Not overly concerned”: Prof. Cyrille Cohen, immunotherapy expert at Bar-Ilan University, explains what is known so far about the disease that has begun to spread across the globe. Watch the Video.

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.

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 from CATRIN at Palacký University Olomouc, in cooperation with colleagues from Bar-Ilan University in Israel and the Italian company ITELCOND, are working to develop high-capacity, safe, and environmentally-friendly supercapacitors based on a graphene-derived material developed in Olomouc, which is already protected by a European patent. Read More.

Bar-Ilan University will present students commencing their studies in the Academic Year 2022-2023 with a special gift: an NFT, a unique and tradable digital work of art, based on figures inspired by the university’s diverse community. Read More.