Bar-Ilan University

Grapevine, January 22, 2026: Who’s the real president?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

Michal Herzog speaks at the Center for Family Medicine.
Graduates celebrate at a commencement ceremony at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, which is fielding a growing number of inquiries from Americans interested in enrolling for college at the university in Beersheva, Israel.

Ben-Gurion University tops list of on-time graduates in Israel, new ranking reveals

Prof. Arie Zaban ,President Bar-Ilan University

Bar-Ilan President unveils vision to make Israel a global ''Health Nation' through innovation

US Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff speaks at the weekly rally at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv, October 11, 2025.

Bar-Ilan University to confer honorary doctorate to Witkoff over hostages' release, peace efforts


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.

 clock

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

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.

 phone center

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.

Israel's Declaration of Independence is a worthy document, not a billboard - opinion

On Israel’s Declaration of Independence

A copy of the Declaration of Independence hangs from the Brain Research Building on the Bar-Ilan University campus.