The “Israel Albums” project is designed to extract old albums from oblivion and present them to the public in new and intriguing ways. The aim is to provide an overall picture of the challenges of the period and the cultural and ideological perceptions of the State of Israel. The project, which recently won first place in the Digital Humanities Hackathon 2022 at the University of Haifa, was led by Prof. Galia Yanoshevsky of the Department of French Studies, Dr. Gila Prebor of the Department of Information Studies, and Efrat Miller Rotem, also of the Department of Information Studies at Bar-Ilan...

To help protect older adults from financial exploitation, researchers are working to understand who is most at risk. New findings from a study conducted by the Keck School of Medicine of USC and Bar Ilan University, recently published in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease (Increased Financial Altruism is Associated with Alzheimer’s Disease Neurocognitive Profile in Older Adults), suggest that willingness to give away money could be linked to the earliest stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Read More.

The Knight of the Order of the Star of Italy for 2021 has been conferred on Prof. Gilbert Daniel Nessim by Italy’s president “for his remarkable contribution to the development of scientific and technological innovation and for his significant role in promoting academic cooperation between Italy and Israel.” Read More.

Bar-Ilan University announced this week the launch of its new campus research facility, the Center for Energy and Sustainability, and its Multidisciplinary School for Sustainability and the Environment in the presence of Energy Minister Karine Elharrar, and officials from the Israel Electric Company (IEC) and the Doral Group. The university will invest hundreds of millions of shekels over the next ten years into training and technological research projects in and outside of Israel. Read More.

BIU’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine complex in Tzfat was transformed into a mock hospital, with X-ray rooms, blood-test facilities, an ambulance, a cardiac room, and more. The annual communal-educational activity aims to alleviate the anxiety that children may experience towards medical professionals, medical care, and hospitalization. Read More.

Signing the Convention will bring Israel a major step closer to eradicating gender violence and will protect thousands of women and children. This opinion piece was written by Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, founding academic director of Bar-Ilan University’s Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women, and Leah Goeppinger-Levy, a staff member at the center. Read More.

Meet Maayan Nakash, an information researcher and a Presidential Doctoral Fellow. Her research explores the broad implications of the COVID-19 pandemic on intellectual capital resources in the workplace. Read More.

Two Bar-Ilan University alumni, Eden Bizman and Keren Hajioff, have been appointed to senior roles in the Prime Minister’s Office. Read More.

Meet Dr. Nirit Ofir, a graduate of Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Middle Eastern Studies, who serves as the CEO of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Israel-Gulf Countries. She recently represented the State of Israel at an international conference of government officials, held in Abu Dhabi in May, on the subject of rail transportation in smart cities. In this context, she spoke about Israeli developments that address cybersecurity in smart cities. Read More.

Meet Mariam Hannoun, a professional player in both the Israeli Basketball Premier League and Israel’s national team, and a student in Bar-Ilan University’s MBA program with a specialization in management. Read More.