Professors, management, and other members of staff from the University of Strasbourg (Unistra), France, visited Bar-Ilan University in May 2022. The visit, which was hosted by the International School, was the first since BIU and Unistra signed an agreement in June last year to offer the first-ever joint MSc in Chemoinformatics between an Israeli and French university. This visit marked the official launch of the joint MSc, which now involves an agreement with a consortium of 10 universities (Bar-Ilan and nine from Europe), who together won the EU’s highly sought-after Erasmus Mundus Joint Master Degree (EMJMD) grant at the end...

Every month, Bar-Ilan University’s International School arranges various events for international students. Although there were no Jewish holidays in May, students were treated to an assortment of entertaining experiences this past month. These included an Israeli Night to celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israel’s Independence Day; an Open Stage Night; and a tour of Haifa in the north of Israel. Read about these exciting events here.

Final-year undergraduate students in Bar-Ilan University’s Communication and Politics program participated in an interesting course called “Politics, Leadership, and Strategy” this semester. The course was taught by Dr. David Leitner, who lectures on these subjects in Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Political Science. Part of the course is a group project and this year, one group of students decided to do something different. Read More.

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...

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.

Prof. Yehuda Lindell, a cryptographer and lecturer at Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Computer Science, participated in Israel’s recent inaugural event of Horizon Europe, the European Union’s key funding program for research and innovation. Read More.

King Herod the Great had his bathtubs made of alabaster quarried in Israel rather than Egypt, as has always been assumed, according to a research team at Bar-Ilan University. The ruthless first-century ruler brought Roman cultural norms – including bathing and architectural innovation – to Judea during his reign. Read More.

Dr. Dvir Raviv, an archaeologist with Israel’s Bar-Ilan University, spoke with i24NEWS on the history of the Tekoa Valley in the West Bank and the area’s ties to an ancient Jewish revolt. Raviv and his colleagues surveyed a collection of caves in the area back in 2019 and uncovered relics from the Bar Kokhba revolt – an ancient Jewish uprising against the Roman Empire. Read More.