Bar-Ilan University experts weighed in on Israel’s fourth elections in two years. Moments before Israelis cast their ballots in last month’s elections, The Jerusalem Press Club, Israel Government Press Office, and Bar-Ilan University hosted a special webinar briefing featuring analysts commenting on a broad range of issues. Read More.

Prof. Shulamit Michaeli, vice president for research and a faculty member of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences at Bar-Ilan University, has made significant strides in understanding the internal functions of trypanosomatids. Now, she and a team of scientists have identified a non-coding RNA (ncRNA) molecule that regulates protein translation in the parasite. Read More.

What began as continuous professional development while pursuing an undergraduate degree at Bar-Ilan University evolved into significant career moves, which even included “wandering” in the desert. Meet BIU alumnus Matan Abramovitz, Deputy CEO of StepUp, a leading marketing agency for B2B brands. Matan, who heads digital marketing for the agency’s clients from leading Israeli industries, holds a Bachelor’s degree with Honors from Bar-Ilan University’s Communication and Political Studies program in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Read More.

Bar-Ilan University is developing a novel hearing aid that will utilize input from the brain to allow users to focus on a specific sound source within a cacophony of stimuli. Modern living is full of stimuli competing for our attention. Focusing attention on a single speaker while ignoring various disruptions is not easy, particularly for people with hearing impairments. But what happens in a “cocktail party” scenario with several speakers in one room? For people with normal hearing, the brain helps direct attention to the right speaker. But what about people with hearing impairments who use technological aids? Read More

Following the civil war outbreak in Syria nearly 10 years ago, Israel began admitting wounded Syrians into the country for humanitarian medical treatment. Most of the wounded were brought to the Galilee Medical Center (GMC) in northern Israel. Some were admitted within 24 hours of injury. For others, it took as long as 14-28 days to reach Israel from the combat zone. The delay in the commencement of treatment provided medical professionals and researchers from GMC’s Ear, Nose, and Throat Ward and Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery with a rare window of opportunity to observe and evaluate how this...

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

Bar-Ilan University’s International School has been an active partner in Erasmus+ since 2014. This program is the European Union’s premier initiative to support education and training through various projects between the universities in partner countries. These include the Erasmus+ International Credit Mobility (ICM) or Student Mobility (exchange) program, Capacity-Building Projects (CBP), Strategic Partnerships, and more. Erasmus+ programs offer students and staff the opportunity to study and teach in higher education institutions abroad. Over the past seven years, Bar-Ilan University has sent or received more than 1500 participants to or from partner institutions across Europe, with an emphasis on those with...

A complex algorithm, maintained in part by Bar-Ilan University epidemiologist, uses popular Google searches to predict which English towns are headed for outbreaks — 17 days ahead. According to Bar-Ilan University’s Prof. Michael Edelstein, who co-authored the research, the best chance of tackling health emergencies such as the Covid-19 pandemic is to detect them early in order to act early. “Using innovative approaches to disease detection such as analyzing internet search activity to complement established approaches is the best way to identify outbreaks early,” he said. 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...

As usual, February was a busy month with some exciting events taking place. We can’t tell you about everything, so we’ll just talk about two of the larger and more entertaining ones. Read More