A recruitment cell on Telegram.
A logistics handler on WhatsApp.
A financier on Signal.
They never message each other.
They don’t appear in the same networks.
They might not even know each other’s names.
But if you look closely enough—if you track when they act—you might still spot a pattern.
Jessica Bachar was 17 when she left Turkey. She didn’t know Hebrew, nor did she have a plan. But something in her needed a change.
Bar-Ilan University has received two prestigious Proof of Concept (PoC) grants from the European Research Council (ERC)—an achievement that highlights the university’s growing global impact at the intersection of science, technology, and policy.
The awarded projects come from two very different fields but share a common mission: turning academic discoveries into practical solutions that can improve lives.
A new study from Bar-Ilan University, in collaboration with Rutgers University, has shed light on a surprising and little-known player in the global carbon cycle: RNA viruses in the ocean.
Israel is facing a serious environmental crisis: some of the highest landfill rates in the Western world, no climate law, and major disparities between cities and towns when it comes to environmental protection and enforcement. These gaps are especially pronounced in disadvantaged neighborhoods and peripheral communities, where infrastructure investment is sorely lacking.
A comprehensive new Israeli study is challenging one of the most explosive accusations of the Gaza war—claims of genocide—and is urging the global community to rethink the way conflicts are analyzed and reported.
When you speak with Shimon Dayan, now Dr. Dayan, you quickly understand that beneath his quiet humility lies a force of nature.
At 35, he’s a husband to Shani, a father to little Yarden (almost two) and newborn Amit (just two months old), a deputy company commander in one of the IDF’s toughest medical units, and—starting today—a doctor.
As a teenager in a peripheral high school that didn’t offer advanced-level matriculation exams, no one could have predicted what would come next for Ray Bitton. No one except her.
Ray Bitton wasn’t born with a springboard. She built one with her bare hands.
Today, she’s Dr. Ray Bitton: a nephrology specialist, department head at Barzilai Medical Center, social justice advocate, IDF officer, mother of three daughters and one of the clearest voices shaping a more equitable future for Israeli healthcare.
A Long Road to Fulfillment
