On Feb. 22, the Council of the European Union recommended member nations open more broadly to travelers from outside of the EU as well — with the caveat that they have been vaccinated or have recently recovered. Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the Immunotherapy Laboratory at Bar-Ilan University shared his views. Read More.

Bar-Ilan University and The Zuckerman Institute are calling for nominations for postdoctoral scholars from North America for the Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program for 2022-2023. The deadline is March 31, 2022, so don’t delay your application! The Zuckerman STEM Leadership Program attracts high-achieving postdoctoral scholars from premier universities in the United States and Canada to do research in STEM areas and interdisciplinary topics relating to STEM in Israel. Once they complete their research, many Zuckerman postdocs are expected to accept faculty positions at top North American universities, weaving a network of academic collaboration and goodwill that will greatly benefit US-Israeli scientific...

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.      

Two new, state-of-the-art dormitory towers on Bar-Ilan University’s Ramat Gan campus were officially opened at an event marking the occasion during the university’s orientation week in October. Bar-Ilan’s dorms are highly in demand each year, so the new towers are a welcome addition to campus. Currently, there are 1,720 students from about 60 countries living in our dorms. Read More.    

Will the third booster shot be our last? Prof. Meital Gal Tanamy, head of the Molecular Virology Lab at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Medicine, is one of the Israeli doctors who explains the science behind it in this article. Read More.