Bar-Ilan University’s International School creates and hosts a variety of social and learning activities for international students throughout the academic year. These include celebrating religious and cultural holidays in all faiths, holding memorial events, and teaching students about Israeli holidays and Jewish customs. The past month has seen various student activities taking place around campus – a Hanukah party, Diwali celebration, Sigd market and fun day, and a Halloween party. Students from China, Denmark, the USA, France, Kazakhstan, Germany, the Netherlands, India, Israel, and more, attended these events. Upcoming events include Christmas celebrations, a New Year’s Eve party, and a...

Bar-Ilan University is part of a consortium of 10 universities – nine in Europe and one in Israel – to win a €4.5m Erasmus+ grant for the prestigious Erasmus Mundus Joint Master’s Degree in Chemoinformatics. The EU’s highly sought-after Erasmus Mundus Joint Master (EMJM) grant will be spread over a six-year period, providing scholarships to hundreds of students from all over Europe and Israel for the international program. This is the first time since 2012 that an Israeli university has been included in an EMJMD grant. Read More.    

Bar-Ilan University’s International School creates and hosts a variety of social and learning activities for international students throughout the academic year. These include celebrating religious and cultural holidays in all faiths, holding memorial events, and teaching students about Israeli holidays and Jewish customs. Read More.    

Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine and The Russell Berrie Foundation have launched The Russell Berrie Galilee Diabetes SPHERE, a comprehensive program designed to transform diabetes care in Israel’s socioeconomically disadvantaged northern Galilee region while simultaneously spurring innovations in diabetes treatment and prevention that can be applied around the world. Read More.    

Bar-Ilan University (BIU) hosted a delegation from Morocco for an event titled “Culture and Hebrew Law in Morocco”. During this event, a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed between BIU’s Aharon and Rachel Dahan Center for Culture, Society and Education in the Sephardic Heritage and the Center for Studies and Research on Hebraic Law in Essaouira, Morocco. This collaboration was made possible by the realization of the historic Abraham Accords. Read More.    

Dr. Evan Elliott was one of the first faculty members to join Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine in Safed (Tsfat) in 2011. Armed with a PhD and postdoctoral research in Neuroscience from the Weizmann Institute of Science in the center of Israel, he moved north to share in the dream of building a new, innovative, much-needed medical school in the Galilee. Read More.      

This year, Bar-Ilan University celebrates 10 years since the official opening of its Faculty of Medicine on October 30, 2011. The words of then Israeli President Shimon Peres z”l at the historic opening couldn’t have been more prophetic… Read More.        

Prof. Moshe Lewenstein, Deputy President of Bar-Ilan University, was one of a skeleton staff who came to work every day for the past 18 months, a time when there were often very few people on campus. He opened the International School’s Red Carpet Orientation Day with a popular sentiment. “For me, it’s a wonderful day, and it’s a wonderful day because it’s the first time in a long time that I’ve come to campus and it’s full of students.” Read More    

Bar-Ilan University’s International School would like to wish all its Jewish readers a Shana Tovah u’Metuka (a good, sweet year), well over the Fast, and Chag Sameach (happy holidays) for Sukkot and Simchat Torah. Read More         Unique Joint Master’s in Brain and Data Science Launched

Every summer, for the past 25 years, a large group of students, researchers, and volunteers from Israel and abroad has been excavating at the archaeological site of Tell-es-Safi/Gath, situated between the Israeli cities of Ashkelon and Beit Shemesh. This summer, the team, led by Prof. Aren Maeir, director of the Institute of Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University and a professor in the Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, held the project’s last excavation season. Research at the site will continue in the coming years, but if further excavations are carried out, the scope will be limited. To...