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‘Healing through restoration’: How Israel’s hidden dig site builds community out of archaeology

“Our job is to tell the story of these people, because we are here and we can learn a lot from them," Dagan told The Jerusalem Post.

Excavations at the Tell Qana archaeological site in Hod Hasharon, on behalf of Bar-Ilan University and the Israel Antiquities Authority, August 30, 2026.
Israelis seen walking down Mahane Yehuda market, in Jerusalem, April 9, 2026

Moovit unveils new function to maximize walking, 'biohacks' based on Bar-Ilan University research

A pregnant woman is seen holding her stomach in front of foliage (illustrative)

Living near green spaces can reduce long-term stress during pregnancy, Israeli-led study finds

 Hebrew Typewriter

What Tisha B’Av can teach about the silencing, and creative defiance, of Jewish writers - opinion


Bar-Ilan distributes NIS 13 million to 2,700 students affected by the war

The university raised over 20 million shekels to help students displaced from their homes or called up for reserve duty.

 University president Prof. Arie Zaban visits students serving as reserve soldiers

Traumatic events disrupt our perception of time, BIU study finds

“Time perception changes as a result of exposure to trauma and, since October 7, it is being experienced not only on a personal level but also on a collective level," suggested the researchers.

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Many students fighting in Gaza in dire economic situation – survey

Almost half of the university students from Israel’s periphery (46%) cannot afford to pay tuition for their academic studies, a new survey by Israeli Channel 13 has found.

 University president Prof. Arie Zaban visits students serving as reserve soldiers

Israelis' consumption of war-related news varies by demographic

Bar-Ilan poll illustrates that a third of Israeli Arabs see social media as their most reliable source for war-related information, while most Israeli Jews see the IDF spokesman as most reliable.

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Israeli research could save people in Africa from deadly disease

Israeli breakthrough made in the development of a drug to treat sleeping sickness that could also work against the Leishmania parasite that affects Israel.

 The Cryo-EM structure of the T. brucei ribosomes showing the position of H69 where the Pseudouridine modification was deleted, and the position of the ribosomal protein eS12 that was dislodged as a result of this perturbation.

Bar-Ilan students are on the front line. Here’s how the university has their backs

University launches fundraising campaign to help support student soldiers.

 University president Prof. Arie Zaban visits students serving as reserve soldiers

Israeli IDF reservists handed NIS 2,000 university scholarships

The University of Haifa joins two others in awarding scholarships to students who went on reserve duty.

 University of Haifa

Bar-Ilan U. grants students who are in IDF reserve duty emergency funds

A NIS16 million emergency fund was announced to assist a third of the 20,000 students who've been drafted into reserve duty.

 Israeli reserve soldiers seen during a military training in the Golan Heights, northern Israel, on October 29, 2023

Dozens of interpreters assisting Israeli citizens, residents to overcome language barrier

The Emergency Interpreting Call Center at Bar-Ilan University is providing language interpreting in 10 languages.

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Two Bar-Ilan University researchers receive NIS 14m. in grants

Chirality is fundamental across many different hierarchies of nature and is studied in different fields of biology, chemistry, physics, and engineering.

 Dr. Shahar Alon.