Prof. Halperin-Kaddari is a member of Bar-Ilan’s Faculty of Law and founding academic director of the University’s Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women. She is a family law expert in both the civil legal system and traditional Jewish law and has served three terms as a member (twice vice president) of the UN Committee on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW).

A novel approach in the field of Alzheimer’s research is emerging that could potentially transform how we tackle this debilitating disease. Recent studies have revealed a paradigm shift in understanding Alzheimer’s pathology, emphasizing the importance of targeting the early-stage aggregation of the pathogenic amyloid beta (A-beta) protein, specifically focusing on its soluble oligomeric form.

A new podcast focusing on the challenges facing Arab communities in Israel.

Initiatives to ease linguistic difficulties faced by immigrant students in Israeli middle schools and high schools and facilitate absorption of French immigrants into the Givat Shmuel community in central Israel.

Image classification is a complex task which deep learning architectures perform successfully. Those deep architectures are usually comprised of many layers, with each layer consisting of many filters. The common understanding is that as the image progresses through the layers more enhanced features, and features of features, of the image are revealed. Yet those features and features of features are not quantifiable, and thus how machine learning works remains a puzzle.