September 16 marks International Day for the Preservation of the Ozone Layer, which was first proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly in 1994, commemorating the date, in 1987, of the signing of the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer. The purpose of marking this date is to limit the production and use of anthropogenic (man-made) chemical substances that caused the ozone hole.
On October 30, 1957, the draining of the Hula lake and swamp by the Jewish National Fund (JNF) was completed. The processes that have taken place since then are an important lesson in nature conservation. Dotan Rotem, a doctoral student in Bar-Ilan’s Department of Geography and Environment and a landscape ecologist at the Israel Nature and Parks Authority, briefly presents the story of the rare habitat.
At a ceremony celebrating ten years since its establishment in the heart of the northern Israeli city of Safed, the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University this week awarded MD degrees to 92 new physicians.
Bar-Ilan University has been awarded the 2025 Minister of Defense’s Award of Recognition for its exceptional support of reservist students during a challenging academic year. The prestigious national award was granted by a committee composed of representatives from the IDF, the Ministry of Defense, the business sector, and local government, placing Bar-Ilan among only 20 organizations and employers to receive the award.
"There is anger that consumes, and there is anger that propels. I chose to let my anger propel me," says Jenny Savidia, who survived the October 7 massacre at the Nova music festival but lost her brother Shlomi in the attack.
When NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang stood on stage and said, “Kids shouldn't learn to code,” the internet predictably lost its mind. Why invest years in studying syntax and algorithms, he argued, when AI can now generate software from plain English? According to Huang, “the programming language is human.” Just tell the machine what you want, and it builds it.
