“I grew up in Riverdale, and have been in Israel three years now. I served a year and a half in Mahal, a program in which Jewish youth from overseas volunteer for military service, in the Search and Rescue unit. It was meaningful, but hard physically, as I carried weight of around two thirds of my body; and mentally, as we had long guarding duties, and stayed on-base for long periods of time. It was the best way to learn Hebrew and ease into Israeli society. You don’t have time to think about things, and after a year and a half I suddenly realized I’d completed my service.

Bar-Ilan University students have developed a project named FreeTruth, which uses AI to transform anti-Israeli videos into pro-Israeli content within 90 seconds. The primary goal is to rally Israel supporters in the media awareness struggle with minimum effort. The students plan to expand their AI-generated content from English to Spanish, French, Chinese, and even Arabic, to spread the Israeli perspective worldwide.

Congratulations to Prof. Shlomo Havlin of the Physics department at Bar-Ilan University and a renowned expert in statistical physics, network science and phase transitions who has won the 2023 Bakhuis Roozeboom Medal. He received the medal for his groundbreaking theoretical contributions that yield the discovering of novel phases and phase transitions and predicting the behavior of complex materials in different states.

A group of researchers from Israel, Portugal, Belgium, and Italy, led by Prof. Lior Klein of the Department of Physics at Bar-Ilan University, has been awarded a research grant of over €3 million from the European Innovation Council (EIC).