A first for BIU’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine – an international forum convening some 50 physicians and researchers from the United Arab Emirates, Israel, and the United States. The online inaugural meeting of the Bar-Ilan University/Galilee Medical Center and Gulf Medical University departments of surgery held on February 17, featured a talk by Dr. Terrah Paul Olsen of Emory University School of Medicine on surgical management of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Read More

Prof. Simon Raymond Schwarzfuchs, a Bar-Ilan University emeritus professor who rescued Jews and fought the Nazis as a member of the Jewish underground in France, has been recognized by B’nai B’rith International for human rights efforts during World War II. Schwarzfuchs was one of 18 heroes who received a Jewish Rescuers Citation from B’nai B’rith this year. Read More

A rare coin bearing the head of the Roman Emperor Antonius Pius and dating from 158–159 C.E. was found during a training exercise by an Israel Defense Forces soldier on the southern end of Mount Carmel. “The coin discovered is one of the municipal coins minted in the city of Geva Philippi, also known as Geva Parashim,” said Dr. Avner Ecker, a lecturer in classical archaeology at Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology. In the Roman period, cities (poleis) were granted the right to mint their own coins. The year marked on the coin is the...

Prof. Doron Aurbach from Bar-Ilan University’s Institute of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials and the Department of Chemistry is among the top 500 scientists in the world, according to a ranking recently published by Stanford University in the journal, PLOS Biology. Prof. Aurbach is ranked second among Israeli scientists. Eighty Bar-Ilan University faculty members are included in this year’s list of the world’s leading researchers. The outstanding researchers were selected based on the number of citations taken from the articles they published. This measure is affected by both the quantity and quality of their research publications. The 80 Bar-Ilan researchers included...

Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the Immunotherapy Laboratory at Bar-Ilan University and a member of the Advisory Committee for Clinical Trials of Coronavirus Vaccines at the Ministry of Health, says Israel’s success is simple and lies within its “impressive network of health maintenance organizations” (HMOs). Read More  

Prof. (Emeritus) Edward L. Greenstein, of Bar-Ilan’s Zalman Shamir Bible Department, has been awarded the prestigious Jordan Schnitzer Book Award for 2020 in the category of Biblical Studies, Rabbinics, and Jewish History and Culture in Antiquity. Prof. Greenstein has been recognized for his much-acclaimed annotated English translation of the Book of Job, titled Job: A New Translation. Read More.

Prof. Omry Koren and Prof. Avi Zadok, two of Bar-Ilan University’s most prolific researchers, are recipients of prestigious Consolidator Grants from the EU’s European Research Council (ERC). ERC Consolidator Grants are awarded to outstanding researchers with a scientific track record showing great promise. Read More.

Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are becoming increasingly important for both basic and translational chemistry research. The Advanced Learning for Innovative Drug Discovery (AIDD) project, a new initiative based at the Helmholtz Zentrum München in Germany and funded by the European Union, will train PhD students in translational research for drug discovery and chemoinformatics. Prof. Hanoch Senderowitz, a leading expert in this expanding field from Bar-Ilan University, will take part in this novel project. Read More  

Recent behind-the-scenes developments between Israel and Arab countries in the Middle East once again demonstrate how diplomacy and secret negotiations have characterized relations between Israel and her neighbors… This article was penned by Dr. Nir Levitan, a PhD from Bar-Ilan University’s Graduate Program in Conflict Resolution, Management and Negotiation. Read Article

Prof. Shlomo Havlin, a physicist in the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University, is making headlines once again. This time with regard to immunization strategies to curb the spread of COVID-19. When a vaccine becomes available, he and colleagues recommend an acquaintance immunization strategy to reach the super-spreaders and to stop the spread of the disease – by vaccinating just 10 or 20 percent of the population. Prof. Havlin, who was the top-cited scientist in Israel in 2019, has received prestigious awards, including the Israel Prize in Physics (2018), the Order of the Star of Italy from the President of...