Keren Hajioff, who holds a bachelor's degree in political science and a master's degree in political communications from Bar-Ilan University, was appointed as Special Advisor to Israel’s Prime Minister for Foreign Affairs & Communications.

She previously served as the International Spokeswoman for the Prime Minister and in an array of senior positions in the IDF, including Spokesperson of the Northern Command, Head of Social Media, and Head of Public Diplomacy.

Meet Maayan Nakash, a PhD candidate and a teaching assistant in the Department of Information Science, who is a Presidential Fellow at Bar-Ilan. During the 2022 academic year, Maayan, along with other doctoral students, will also receive the President’s Award for publishing articles in international scientific journals. She is a graduate (summa cum laude) of the Department of Information Science and specializes in WEB technologies and information technologies.

On May 31, Bar-Ilan University held its annual Presidential Award ceremony during which 53 doctoral students in the field of humanities received awards in recognition of publishing academic articles in scholarly journals. 

A new collaboration between Bar-Ilan University's School of Optometry and Vision Science and the Association for the Blind and Prevention of Blindness will help visually impaired individuals improve their chances of preventing blindness.

Generous funding from the Association enabled Bar-Ilan to purchase a state-of-the-art optical coherence tomography (OCT) machine. Only a handful of OCT machines are available in Israel and they are primarily found in large hospitals.  

In the early 20th century scientists began to record brain activity using electrodes attached to the scalp. To their surprise, they saw that brain activity is characterized by slow and rapid ascending and descending signals which were subsequently called "brain waves".

A rare silver coin was recently discovered along with other findings during an archeological survey conducted by a group of researchers from the Institute of Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University and the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University, led by Dr. Dvir Raviv, Prof. Amos Frumkin and Prof. Boaz Zissu.

Bar-Ilan University has inaugurated a Center for Energy and Sustainability, in the presence of Energy Minister Karine Elharrar, and launched a Multidisciplinary School for Sustainability and the Environment. Over the next decade, Bar-Ilan will invest hundreds of millions of shekels in research and environmental projects in Israel and around the world.

From the Middle Bronze Age, Egypt played a crucial role in the appearance of calcite-alabaster artifacts in Israel, and the development of the local gypsum-alabaster industry. The absence of ancient calcite-alabaster quarries in the Southern Levant (modern day Israel and Palestine) led to the assumption that all calcite-alabaster vessels found in the Levant originated from Egypt, while poorer quality vessels made of gypsum were local products.