Oxford University

Clalit Health Services to join European AI research project predicting, managing pandemics

Clalit Health Services will join an international consortium of health authorities to create an AI research platform to predict and manage pandemics in advance.

|ByRUBY SADIKMAN
Israel's Clalit during Covid-19 global pandemic.
In her Tel Aviv bookshop.

Aliyah in wartime Israel: Building a new home, opening an English bookstore

From London curator to Tel Aviv entrepreneur, Michal Goldschmidt turned uncertainty into opportunity, opening Bookhaus during wartime and building a new community space for English readers.

|ByABIGAIL KLEIN LEICHMAN
BRITISH AUTHOR and conservative political commentator Douglas Murray gestures as he speaks on stage during an evening against the rise of anti-semitism in Europe, at the Theatre Antoine, in Paris on June 3, 2024.

Conservative British pro-Israel commentator Douglas Murray joins Yeshiva University

Murray, who is not Jewish, was appointed as the inaugural President’s Professor of Practice, a role the university billed as bringing “a leading public intellectual into the academic setting."

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
People attend an anti-Israeli protest after Friday prayers in Tehran, Iran, June 20, 2025

Drunk on Jew-hatred, Iran’s horrors go unmentioned - opinion

Western outrage over Israel contrasts sharply with silence on Iran’s mass killings, exposing ideological bias and moral blindness.

|ByDAVID M. WEINBERG

Oxford University college launches £5k Tikvah Scholarships for Jewish, Israeli undergraduates

The Tikvah Scholarships will provide a total of four Jewish and/or Israeli (of any or no faith) undergraduates studying at the college with £5,000 for the year.

AUGUST 5, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
Students queue to sit a university degree finals examination at Oxford University in Oxford, Britain, June 6, 2025.

Oxford team finally opens Paestum tomb jars, confirming 2,500-year-old sacred honey inside

Reanalysis led by da Costa Carvalho used gas chromatography and mass spectrometry to detect royal jelly proteins and intact hexose sugars, settling a decades-old debate.

JULY 31, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Oxford team finally opens Paestum tomb jars, confirming 2,500-year-old sacred honey inside.

Struggling with numbers? Oxford scientists discover brain-boosting technique

Low-performing students improved arithmetic scores by up to 29% with mild electrical brain stimulation.

JULY 5, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Oxford scientists discover math proficiency technique. Illustration.

Oxford study finds 9,000 daily steps cut cancer risk by 16%

While brisk walking is usually associated with better health outcomes, the study found that the number of steps is more important than walking speed in reducing cancer risk.

MAY 19, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Oxford study finds 9,000 daily steps cut cancer risk by 16%.

Oxford academics used a human skull cup at official dinners until 2015

Professor believes the skull belonged to an enslaved woman from the Caribbean.

APRIL 23, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Main entrance of the Worcester college in Oxford, UK.

Anti-Israel vandalism group defaces Cambridge, Oxford universities

"They can try to stop the student intifada, but they will never succeed," Palestine Action said on Instagram. "Resistance until victory!"

MARCH 5, 2025ByMICHAEL STARR, MATHILDA HELLER
TENTS ARE pitched outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, as students occupy parts of British campuses in support of Palestinians in Gaza, this week. Supporters of genocidal jihadist groups are spreading mayhem across the Western world, says the writer.

Oxford researcher discovers new super-Earth HD 20794 d just 19.7 light-years away

Researchers hail HD 20794 d as an 'invaluable test case' for detecting signs of life.

JANUARY 30, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
A super-earth planet. Illustration.

Oxford University announces Rhodes 2025 Israel scholarship winners

Up to $320,000 is awarded to Israeli students as part of the Rhodes Scholarship, the oldest and most prestigious scholarship in the world.

JANUARY 21, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Left to right: Noam Morris, National Secretary of the Rhodes Scholarship in Israel Doron Weber, and Hen Davidov.

'The fall of the Oxford Union': The debased debate on Israel and apartheid - opinion

The November 28 debate on Israel and apartheid is likely to be counted among the more notorious episodes in the records of the Oxford Union.

JANUARY 5, 2025ByNEVILLE TELLER
Students and speakers prepare to start an Oxford Union debate.

Oxford Union criticized for censorship, altering videos after Israel debate

The Oxford Union didn't publish two of the debate videos until Friday and reuploaded the others after they had been edited.

DECEMBER 15, 2024ByMICHAEL STARR
TENTS ARE pitched outside the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, as students occupy parts of British campuses in support of Palestinians in Gaza, this week. Supporters of genocidal jihadist groups are spreading mayhem across the Western world, says the writer.