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Bar Ilan University

News Briefs / Islamists / On Campus / Education / Israeli Arabs

Bar-Ilan University Bars Student Wearing Niqab from Campus

By Etgar Lefkovits - JNS

"It was made clear to you that this is not acceptable" on school grounds, the university's rector wrote the young woman.

Science and Tech

Israeli Breakthrough in Optical Sensing Could Mean Miniature Spectrometers for All

By Pesach Benson / TPS

“We can find out what’s in our glass, the percentage of fat in our milk, or whether the olive oil, honey, or juice we’re considering buying has been adulterated with scent extract.”

Israel / Ukraine / On Campus / Education

Ten Ukrainian Math Geniuses to Study in Bar-Ilan U.

By Jewish Press News Desk

Some are in their early teens, and away from home for the first time.

Sponsored Article

Bar Ilan University Coming to New York

By Sponsored Post

Learn all about the program, courses, undergraduate and post-graduate degrees, student life on campus, tuition, scholarship opportunities and more at the Great Israeli Real Estate Event on Sunday November 14.

Featured / Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Bar-Ilan U Study of 625,000 Births: Exposure Extreme Temperatures May Slash Fetal Growth

By Jewish Press News Desk

With extreme temperatures resulting from climate change, identifying windows of vulnerability can assist clinicians in refining their recommendations to pregnant women.

Israel / Health and Medicine

Israeli Scientists Devise Novel Method for Rapid Repair of Peripheral Nerve Injuries

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

The researchers are now exploring commercialization options and hope that will help functional recovery and accelerate nerve repair following injury.

Featured / Druze / US / Politics / On Campus / Education

Former Druze MK to Represent Israel as Senior Emissary on North American Colleges

By Jewish Press News Desk

"In the name of pluralism and diversity, we will work to connect, bridge, and emphasize what we have in common, for our country and our future.”

Featured / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Bar-Ilan U. Technology to Be Tested in Israeli Astronaut's 2022 Space Trip

By Jewish Press News Desk

In early 2022, the second Israeli astronaut, Eytan Stibbe, will cross the atmosphere on his way to the International Space Station.

Travel / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

100 Doctoral Students from India Arrive in Israel on Bar-Ilan U, Israir Special Flight

By Jewish Press News Desk

The students will be absorbed in labs at all Israeli universities, including those researching coronavirus.

Featured / Archaeology

Grape Pips Reveal Collapse of Ancient Economy in the Grip of Plague and Climate Change

By Jewish Press News Desk

Israeli archaeologists discovered new and compelling evidence for a significant economic downturn on the fringe of the Byzantine Empire in the aftermath of a major pandemic in the mid-6th century CE.

Diaspora / On Campus / Education / Coronavirus

Bar-Ilan Befriends Diaspora Jewish Communities Coping with Coronavirus

By Jewish Press News Desk

In the US alone, more than one hundred people from the Halabi Jewish community died in one month.

Featured / US / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education

Bar-Ilan Neuroscientists Win Michael J. Fox Foundation Parkinson's Research Competition

By Jewish Press News Desk

A team of neuroscientists from Bar-Ilan University is one of four winners of The Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research (MJFF).

Featured / Science and Tech

Israeli Tech Consortium to Use Artificial Intelligence in Genome Editing

By Jewish Press News Desk

“The CRISPR-IL consortium will enable Israeli industry to be at the forefront of genome editing worldwide."

Israel / Health and Medicine / Science and Tech

Israeli Researchers Convert Tap Water into Powerful Disinfectant Against Viruses

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

Researchers from Bar-Ilan University have developed new methodologies to produce powerful, environmentally-friendly disinfectants, based on tap water, that can eliminate bacteria and kill viruses, including microbes from the coronavirus family.

Featured / Israel / Archaeology

Researchers Discover Earliest Evidence of Blood Vengeance

By JNi.Media

A skull slashed by a sword and palm bones from approximately 1,000 years ago discovered in a cave in the Jerusalem hills.

Featured / History

New Book: Irgun and Arab Propaganda Inflated Deir Yassin Casualty Figures

By JNi.Media

"For reasons of psychological warfare, the Irgun reported that 200 Arabs had been killed, double the real number."

Featured / Israel / Archaeology

One Thousand Year Old Eggplant Discovered in Israel

By JNi.Media

The earliest evidence of the arrival of eggplants in this Israel has come to light in the City of David, the archeological site of ancient Jerusalem: A 1,100-year-old refuse pit found in Israel Antiquities Authority excavations in the Jerusalem Walls National Park reveals dietary habits in the Early Islamic period.

Featured / Israel / History / Archaeology

Evidence of Plant Dyes Found in King Solomon Era Textiles

By JNi.Media

The textiles date to King Solomon’s reign, in the Iron Age (eleventh–tenth centuries BCE), and some are decorated with a red-and-blue bands pattern.

Government / Jordan / Saudi Arabia / Science and Tech / On Campus / Education / Egypt

Could Gulf of Eilat’s Super Corals Save Reefs Worldwide?

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Saudi Arabia must create a joint protection program to remove all anthropogenic stressful conditions."

Featured / Jewish / US / Politics / Government / Business and Economy / Judea & Samaria / On Campus / Education / Settlements

Bennett Doubles Ariel University's Size, Adelson Pays for New Medical School

By JNi.Media

With a $20 million donation from the Adelsons, Ariel will become home to Israel's sixth medical school.

Rejuvenation with Eve Harow

Rejuvenation: How about an 8 State Solution?

By The Land of Israel

He has a plan that works with the culture of the Middle East and not the unnatural will of the West. Eve Harow interviews Dr. Mordechai Kedar, one of Israel’s premier Arab experts, about his very original plan to solve the Israeli and Palestinian issue on today's Rejuvenation.

Featured / Jewish / Government / History / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / On Campus / Education / Archaeology

Innovative Temple Mount Sifting Project Facing Termination over Funding

By JNi.Media

The Temple Mount Sifting Project was established following the illegal removal of 9,000 tons of earth from the Temple Mount by Israel's Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement and the Waqf.

Jewish / Government / History / News Briefs / Jerusalem / Archaeology

Hasmonean Period Stone Bowl Engraved with Rare Hebrew Inscription 'Hyrcanus' Discovered

By JNi.Media

Who was Hyrcanus, whose name is engraved in Hebrew on a 2,100-year-old stone bowl from Jerusalem?

Terrorism / IDF & Security / Politics / Palestinian Authority / Media / Anti-Israel NGOs / Judea & Samaria / On Campus / Education / Judaism

Breaking the Silence: Teaching Hebron's Real Jewish History to Young Israelis

By JNi.Media

If students on the tour encounter foreign journalists, European MPs, or anti-Israel propaganda tours led by radical Left NGOs, they will be permitted to educate them, politely, about the hypocrisy of the delegitimization campaign against Israel.

Jewish / US / Politics / Government / History / News Briefs / Media / Science and Tech / Religion / Archaeology

American, Israeli Archaeologists Attack Authenticity of 'Jerusalem Papyrus'

By JNi.Media

"The money that modern forgers and dealers can make on modern forgeries is astronomical, consistently in the five and six figure range. The motivation is strong."

Jewish / News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Religion / Archaeology

Archaeologists Restore Second Temple Courtyard Flooring with Help from Mathematician

By JNi.Media

Frankie Snyder said he succeeded in restoring the ornate tile patterns “using geometric principles, and through similarities found in tile design used by Herod at other sites.”

Politics / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

Massive Traffic Jams Collateral Damage of Internal War in Likud

By JNi.Media

The daily Yated Ne'eman cited MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) who accused Katz of acting out of revenge rather than caring for the services of his ministry.

Jewish / News Briefs / Jerusalem / The Temple Mount / Religion / Archaeology

Egyptian Amulet Bearing Name of Pharaoh Found in Soil from Temple Mount

By JNi.Media

The Temple Mount Sifting Project was initiated in response to the illegal removal of tons of earth from the Temple Mount by the Waqf in 1999.

IDF & Security / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / Europe / Media / Intifada

CoP Leaders Hear About Media Coverage of Israel, Strategic Challenges, and from Rivlin

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Journalist defended to the CoP the use of the term "settler" to describe Dafna Meir, the mother of six who was murdered by an Arab terrorist.

The Yishai Fleisher Show on JewishPress.com

When the Middle East Creates Strange Bedfellows

By Moshe Herman

Mideast expert Mordechai Kedar joins Yishai to talk about some odd political developments and alliances in the region. Dr. Kedar, research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies and lecturer in the department of Arabic at Bar-Ilan University, offers his insights about Russia’s talks with Syria, Israel’s and Hezbollah’s shared interest in stopping ISIS and the nuclear deal’s unexpectedly negative ramifications for Iran.

Israel / History / News Briefs / Archaeology

Germany To Fund Joint Bar-Ilan, Leipzig Universities Research Center

By JBN / Jewish Business News

The Minerva Center for the Relations between Israel and Aram in Biblical Times: The Construct of Autonomous Decision Making and Interdependencies” the Minerva Center is being awarded by the Minerva Foundation.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / Palestinian Authority / "Peace" Process / Normalization / Abraham Accords / Islamists / Judea & Samaria / ISIS

Bibi: 'ISIS Would Devour Palestinian State, We Cannot Help Create That'

By Lori Lowenthal Marcus

Bibi recognizes the Two State idea will mean not only the end of Israel, but also the enslaving of the Palestinian Arabs.

Op-Eds

The New Israel Fund, Jewish Values And Atonement

By Gerald Steinberg

In its September newsletter, the New Israel Fund (NIF) urged Israelis to examine their behavior (“cheshbon nefesh”), declaring “We have been telling you for some time about the upsurge in hatred and incitement in Israel…”

Israel / Politics / News Briefs

Bar Ilan Breaks Rank, Quitting High Court Petition to Kill Ariel University

By Jacob Edelist

Monday night, Bar Ilan University president Professor Moshe Kaveh informed lawyers representing the committee of heads of Israeli universities that he is withdrawing Bar Ilan University from the petition to the Supreme Court to annul Ariel University's accreditation.

Moshe Feiglin

A Salute To Migron

By Moshe Feiglin

I do not like to give advice to people in times of distress. Every time a settlement facing destruction begins to debate whether to take the “offer” (in other words, the extortion) to leave or to cling to its principles and its place, I adopt our Sages’ advice to not judge others until I am in their place.

Serials

Getzlight - Chapter I

By Ruchama Feuerman

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