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Deborah Lipstadt, United States Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, attends a press conference during a meeting of Special Envoys and Coordinators to Combat Anti-Semitism. Credit: John Macdougall/AFP/POOL/dpa/Alamy Live News
February 2, 2026, 11:56 am
Deborah Lipstadt awarded Jonathan Sacks Institute Prize from Bar-Ilan University
Former US antisemitism envoy 'humbled' to be recognised for extraordinary intellectual leadership in the fight against antisemitism
By Michelle Rosenberg
A jellyfish species studied by Bar-Ilan University researchers shows sleep helps protect neurons from DNA damage, offering clues to sleep’s ancient origins. Photo: Wikipedia
January 7, 2026, 12:19 pm
Ancient jellyfish offer Israeli breakthrough on why sleep is essential for the brain
Bar-Ilan University study traces sleep’s core protective role back hundreds of millions of years
By Annabel Sinclair
02.08.2013 © BLAKE-EZRA PHOTOGRAPHY LTD Images of Chief Rabbi, Lord Sacks.
November 10, 2025, 11:55 am
Bar-Ilan University launches new online course exploring philosophy of Rabbi Sacks
Marking the fifth yahrzeit of Jewish community's intellectual giant, the free initiative is open to all and available in multiple languages
By Michelle Rosenberg
Professor Robert Putnam, Sacks prize winner
May 6, 2025, 4:23 pm
US academic is first winner of prize in honour of Rabbi Sacks
Professor Robert Putnam of Harvard will receive prestigious £20,000 award at Bar-Ilan University
By Jenni Frazer
From left to right): Prof. Arie Zaban, President, Bar-Ilan University, Eliot Sacks Lady Elaine Sacks, Brian Sacks Prof. Jonathan Rynhold, head of BIU's Department of Political Studies, Prof. Hanoch Ben-Pazi, head of the Department of Jewish Philosophy at Bar-Ilan, Dr. Miriam Feldmann-Kaye, Dept of Jewish Philosophy, Bar-Ilan, Joanna Benarroch, The Sacks Legacy
January 18, 2023, 10:57 am
Bar Ilan University hosts major conference celebrating Rabbi Sacks’ academic legacy
The university also announced the establishment of "The Jonathan Sacks Institute of Bar Ilan University", to ensure his teachings are recognised in academia
By Jotam Confino in Israel
Old retired men playing chess at the Jardins du Luxembourg, Paris
July 4, 2022, 3:32 pm
Israeli Alzheimer’s study links altruism with first signs of disease
Researchers at Bar Ilan University found an association between giving money away and early onset
By Jewish News Reporter
IsraAid is a non-profit organisation helping the world's crisis hotspots
March 11, 2021, 4:19 pm
Meet the Brit sharing Israel’s vax skills in the developing world
IsraAID's Tamar Kosky Lazarus is directing a team helping in crisis and post-crisis spots
By Nathan Jeffay
A nurse holds a phial containing the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19.
February 17, 2021, 9:23 am
UK-Israeli scientist’s algorithm can predict Covid outbreaks 17 days in advance
Prof. Michael Edelstein's complex technology involves the monitoring of Google searches to forecast where and when coronavirus cases will flare up more than two weeks in advance
By Ellie Jacobs
Opening of the Dangoor Centre
May 22, 2020, 9:47 am
How Israeli algorithms spot signs of depression
Researchers are developing high-tech solutions to treat complex psychological conditions
By Stephen Oryszczuk
Israeli scientists at Hebrew University have been busy researching to find a cure for Covid-19
April 1, 2020, 5:05 pm
How Israeli universities are at the forefront of defeating coronavirus
Scientists and researchers at Israel's top institutions are using modelling and AI to better understand the virus, how it spreads, finding a vaccine and how best to recover
By Jonathan Shamir
Kippah
October 24, 2019, 3:34 pm
Israeli uni says modest dress and kippot no longer required in religion classes
 Bar-Ilan will no longer ask for strict dress code for women or kippot for men amid a decline in observant students
By JTA
Part of Bar-Ilan University campus
July 31, 2019, 10:04 am
Parents who show children who’s boss on right track, Israeli uni study shows
Study which took place across Bar-Ilan and the University of Illinois a finds that toddlers have a well-developed understanding of social hierarchies and power dynamics.
By Jewish News Reporter
Technion - Israel Institute of Technology (Technion's Flickr)
June 23, 2019, 12:25 am
Six Israeli universities ranked among the world’s top 1,000
Technion-Israel Institute of Technology falls 10 places while Ben-Gurion University dropped to 419, in the QS World University Rankings for 2020
By JTA
Bar-Ilan University President Prof. Arie Zaban, former Prime Minister Blair, Judy Dangoor and David Dangoor, founders of the Sir Naim Dangoor Centre for Universal Monotheism at Bar-Ilan University and Dr. Danielle Gurevitch, Director of the Dangoor Centre at the gala event. (photo credit: Gilad Artzie)
June 5, 2019, 4:10 pm
Blair: Some Corbyn comments can’t be seen as anything other than antisemitic
Former prime minister says the current Labour leader's antisemitism crisis could 'imperil' the party, as he addressed Israeli audience at Bar-Ilan University
By Jewish News Reporter
Diving in red sea by the Coral. (Wikipedia/Lehava Center Dimona)
February 20, 2019, 11:06 am
Israeli scientists hope Red Sea discovery gives hope for world’s coral reefs
Despite reefs declining over the world, experts from the Jewish state say they "have not witnessed a single bleaching event in the Gulf of Aqaba" by Eilat
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