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How songs become memory: The role of music on Israel’s Memorial Day

“People need someone to resonate with what they feel. Songs help them not feel alone,” says Dr. Ayelet Dassa, a music therapist and researcher at Bar-Ilan University.

SGT. GADI Cotal.
Zoom school, March 12: ‘For young children, parents, and university stu dents, people are juggling many roles.’

Studying under fire: Israel's students navigate exams, sirens, daily life during Iran war

A YOUNG woman celebrates her birthday with a cake along the Tel Aviv beach promenade despite the ongoing war with Iran and missile fire toward Israel, March 5, 2026.

Israel ranks eighth in World Happiness Report despite war, young Israelis place third globally

View of the Nvidia Corporation offices at the Yokneam High-Tech Park, September 8, 2024.

Israeli team of BIU and NVIDIA researchers moves along with new AI technique


Say goodbye to spoiled fruits and vegetables and hello to edible and fresh produce

In a scientific breakthrough, Bar-Ilan University researchers coat produce with edible nanoparticles that extend the shelf life of strawberries by 15 days.

 PhD Student Belal Abu Salha February 2024

Grapevine February 14, 2024: Gender-based violence

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 BATIA OFER (center) in 2013.

Gut microbiome potential connection to autism revealed - study

Philadelphia Eagles football team foundation has named discovery among 34 projects specializing in cutting-edge autism research.

 The brain (illustrative).

Grapevine, January 24, 2024: An error of omission

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 JAPANESE AND Israelis join forces in the Japanese ‘Kakizome’ ceremony, in a Japanese gesture of solidarity with the hostages held in Gaza.

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.

Bar Ilan University, engineering department

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