Last month, BFBIU Chairman, Romie Tager KC, and his wife Esther, visited Bar-Ilan to learn more about the war's impact on the university. President Zaban warmly welcomed Romie and Esther back on to...
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Immanuel College Student presented Bar-Ilan Award
Immanuel College student, Sigal Nachshen, has been presented with a Bar-Ilan Award at last month’s Immanuel College awards ceremony. The award was presented to Sigal for excelling in music and...
Helping Children Traumatized by the War
Bar-Ilan has established a travelling Teddy Bear Resilience Centre to help the traumatized children who were evacuated from the South. To date, the Centre has treated almost 300 children and their...
Supporting Evacuees from the South
Since 7th October, Bar-Ilan's mobile eye clinic has been visiting locations across Israel providing eye tests and glasses to evacuees from the South. Students and faculty have visited 13 centres for...
Prof Halperin-Kaddari calls on UN bodies to acknowledge gender-based violence on 7th October
Founding Head of Bar-Ilan's Rackman Center, Prof. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, has spoken out about the delay from UN bodies, and international women's organisations, to publicly acknowledge gender-based...
Faculty work with released hostages
Many of the hostages taken on 7th October have been released in the past week, and Bar-Ilan faculty members are leading the teams that are accompanying them as they come home. As the first faces the...
Supporting Communities in Need
Since the outbreak of the war, the Bar-Ilan community has come together to support those most in need. Community initiatives include setting up: an emergency hotline to provide emotional support for...
The 7th October: Where We Stand – An Academic Overview
Watch this online event with leading Bar-Ilan experts discussing the atrocities and aftermath of the 7th October. The event features four short talks about: - The Geopolitics of the Israel-Gaza War...
Bar-Ilan’s Community Initiatives
During the first month of the war, Bar-Ilan has set up a hotline for emotional support, a school for evacuee children, free vision tests and glasses, an emergency fund to assist students, and much...
Elyashiv Nativ
Elyashiv Nativ, a 3rd-year medical student at Bar-Ilan's Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, is currently a combat soldier serving in Northern Israel. Elyashiv lives in the Lower Galilee with his wife,...
Support Our Students On The Frontline
Watch Bar-Ilan's Political Communications student, Gil Mentzer, send a message of hope and strength from the frontline. SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS ON THE FRONTLINE - DONATE HERE
“Deep Concern Over the Discourse Emanating from Global Academia”
Following Hamas's attack, Israeli University Heads request global colleagues’ support, express concern over antisemitic sentiment and call for inclusivity, respect and protection for Jewish members...
Elisha Loev
A 31-year-old medical student serving as a combat medic in the war, Elisha Loev is about to complete his studies at Bar-Ilan's Faculty of Medicine. On October 7th, Elisha Loev, along with his...
Bar-Ilan University Will Provide Grants of 1,000-5,000 NIS to All Students at the Front
To provide these grants, the University has set up a 12M NIS emergency fund for scholarships & benefits to students called up for IDF reserve duty. An additional 4M NIS fund has also been set up...
Bar-Ilan in Yom Kippur War, 1973
During this horrific time, we reflect on the Yom Kippur War and the impact it had at Bar-Ilan. When war broke out in October 1973, 30 Bar-Ilan students and faculty members were called to the front...
Rackman Centre Speaks Out
Bar-Ilan's Rackman Center has been working endlessly to help release the Israeli hostages held in Gaza and to raise awareness and document the atrocities committed by Hamas against Israeli women,...
Teddy Bear Resilience Centres
To help children and their families deal with the current situation, Bar-Ilan is creating six Teddy Bear Resilience Centres, located throughout Israel. The Centres are based on Bar-Ilan’s hugely...
Free Translation & Interpretation Services
Bar-Ilan's Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies has opened a free telephone translation service for non-Hebrew speaking individuals trying to reach public institutions, emergency...