Bar-Ilan University

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

Israeli students juggle Zoom classes, sirens, and exams while navigating life during war with Iran.

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

Close-up of the Merenptah Stele, mentioning Israel on line 27.

Echoes of Egypt: Haggadah that brings ancient Egypt to your seder


Prof. Ed Greenstein: Helping better understand the Bible

Greenstein has given humanity a great gift, the translation of the Book of Job in a manner in which we can better understand this important book of the Bible.

 Prof. Ed Greenstein holding his book, ‘Job’

Enjoy Charlie Chaplin, comedy films? Israeli research uncovers why

Since humor plays a prominent role in our lives, understanding the cognitive and neural mechanisms of humor is regarded as very important.

 Charlie Chaplin

University-based program raises IQ of adults with intellectual disability - study

The findings revealed significant IQ improvement among the 12 adults after four-and-a-half years of participation in post-secondary education.

 BA students in the Empowerment Project at Bar-Ilan University.

Two-thirds of Israeli universities drop in global academic rankings

Institutions of higher learning in the West are being overshadowed by those in China, which is investing huge sums in teaching and research.

 Israelis walking in front of the entrance to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

What causes electricity breakdowns? BIU physicists find the cause in new study

The dependency between the power network and its communication system led to cascading failures and abrupt collapse.

An electrical substation.

Zehu Ze! comedy group set to receive honorary doctorate from Bar-Ilan U

The members of Zehu Ze! began performing together on the government broadcasting channel in 1978 and continued until 1998, then returning during the pandemic.

 ‘ZEHU ZE!’ actors Moni Moshonov, Dov Glickman, Shlomo Bar-Aba, Avi Kushnir and Gidi Gov appear earlier this year.

Academic faculty announce warning strike in universities across Israel

The strike on Monday will be followed by similar strikes in two or three universities per day throughout the rest of the week.

 Israelis walking in front of the entrance to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The famed Dershowitz family and a story of aliyah to Israel

Rabbi Prof. Zecharia Dor-Shav (Dershowitz) is a retired professor from Bar-Ilan University, an author and speaker, uncle to renowned US lawyer Alan Dershowitz.

 Zecharia Dor-Shav (Dershowitz) From New York to Jerusalem, 1969

The diversity-stability paradox: Israeli researchers solve 50-year-old puzzle

When the BIU team did the math, they found that this heterogeneity can fundamentally change the behavior of the system. Quite surprisingly, it actually enhances stability.

Bar Ilan University, engineering department

Israel judicial reform: Bar-Ilan University shamefully takes sides - opinion

The universities choosing sides in a political debate has the potential to be harmful to the faculty. We are in the throes of a labor dispute, our contract expired several years ago.

 Im Tirtzu student activists are seen waving Israeli flags in protest at Bar-Ilan University.