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Beit HaRav Jakobovits - The Sami Shamoon Centre
Study of Ethics, Philosophy and Jewish Thought
We acknowledge the Patrons, Sponsors and all
participating members of the community, and in
particular Dr Sami Shamoon.
The 5 storey building houses the Gradel Wing
sponsored by the Gradel Family; a striking
entrance hall; a 126 seat auditorium that provides a
distinguished venue for prestigious national and
international forums; classrooms and faculty offices,
opened its doors at the beginning of this academic year.

Dangoor Scholarship Students Programmes
We are pleased to recognise and announce the
forthcoming establishment of this caring and unique
programme that will provide financial assistance for
some 500 students at the Graduate and Under-Graduate
levels in diverse fields of study.
The Dangoor Family continue their tradition of ensuring
that those less well off are able to enjoy the fruits of an
education they deserve.

Gradel Video Conferencing
In 2002 the Gradel Family launched an exciting new video
conferencing project designed to connect British 6th form
students with leading Israeli scholars.
The project, which harnesses the most advanced video
conferencing technology on the market, allows students
from Jewish Secondary Schools in Britain to study with
scholars who live in Israel in real time. Due to its success,
video conference classes also take place with students in
Argentina, the former Soviet Union and North America.

Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences
This highly regarded faculty currently numbers 1,300
Under-Graduate, Masters and Doctoral students.
The Goodman Family’s commitment will enable the
faculty’s frontier investigations that seek to eradicate
cancer and other diseases, probe the intricate workings
of the brain, and deepen our understanding of stem cells,
male fertility, ecology, cytopathology, nanotechnology
and structural biology.

Shamoon Professorship in the Multidisciplinary
Study of Brain Function
The holder of the Professorship is Professor Moshe Abeles,
the Director of the Brain Research Centre and under his
leadership new multidisciplinary programmes at the Centre
are starting to materialise in such areas as neurobiology and
psychology, psychology and mathematics, neurophysiology
and mathematics, and neurophysiology and linguistics.
The recruitment of three top young scientists will further
enhance the capabilities of the Centre significantly.

The Wolfson Charitable Foundation
The Foundation is a leading supporter of new technologies
that will eventually enhance the quality of life. Recognising
the value and relevance of nanotechnology they have enabled
the University to acquire powerful analytical equipment
in the fields of Electron Microscopy and Raman Spectroscopy,
among others. These sophisticated tools are critical for
chemists and physicists pursuing research at the Bar-Ilan
Centre for Nanotechnology.

Programme for the Research of the Moussaieff
Cuneiform Tablet Collection
In addition to Dr Shlomo Moussaieff’s Centre for Kabbalah,
which this year has grown to 13 semester-long courses,
Dr Shlomo Moussaieff with his programme for research of
his Cuneiform Tablet collection enables Bar-Ilan scholars to
study and research Babylonian tablets that date back to the
second millennium BCE. Once researchers decipher these
ancient Sumerian and Accadian documents, they hope to
translate them into English and publish them in a
special scientific edition.

The Wohl Centre
Dr Maurice Wohl’s vision and generosity has provided a
highly distinctive, state- of- the-art convention centre for
prestigious University and Community events. Designed by
the renowned architect Daniel Libeskind, who is also
designing the new World Trade Centre site, this signature
building on Bar-Ilan’s new North Campus will serve as a
lasting memorial to Vivienne Wohl z”l, who unfortunately
was not privileged to see the completion of this project that
was so close to her heart. Laden with symbolism and
spiritual significance, the body of the building resembles
“an open book”, the angled windows are the “labyrinth of letters”
and the building as a whole links the “dynamism of knowledge
and the unifying role of faith”. The 4,000 square metre complex
includes an auditorium, seminar rooms, a cafeteria, and a lobby.