Bar-Ilan's student dormitories aren’t just a place to sleep—they’re designed to help you thrive. Located right on campus, just steps from your classrooms, the Park HaMe’a and Ilanot residential complexes offer modern, fully furnished apartments that strike the perfect balance between comfort, convenience, and community.
Bar-Ilan Launches a Groundbreaking International Master’s Program in Neuroscience and Data Science
As we approach the 2025–2026 academic year, the Dr. Yair Tzadok Weil Unit for Social Impact Projects continues to support volunteer-based initiatives within the university. The unit backs projects that benefit marginalized and at-risk communities across Israel, including residents of the periphery, the elderly, survivors of domestic violence, people with disabilities, individuals coping with mental health challenges, children with special needs, and those facing economic hardship.
When Leora Lerer volunteered at Shaarei Tzedek Hospital during her gap year, something clicked. She hadn’t gone to Jerusalem looking for a new direction—but there it was, unfolding quietly between hospital corridors and conversations with medical staff.
“It was the first time I saw medicine up close,” she says. “The people, the stories, the commitment—it all made a deep impression on me.” That’s when biology stopped being just a subject. It became personal.
Her interest in science grew alongside something else: a connection to the country she’d come to for a short stay.
Bar-Ilan University’s Cancer, AIDS and Immunology Research (CAIR) Institute has proudly awarded the prestigious Tovi Comet-Walerstein Science Award to Prof. Michael Heneka, a world-renowned expert in dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. Presented by David Walerstein, Vice Chair of the Canadian Friends of Bar-Ilan University, during a moving ceremony that underscored the life-saving power of science, the prize honours the legacy of a remarkable clinician and researcher.
In a milestone event for Israeli innovation, Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Eli Cohen and Bar-Ilan University President Prof. Arie Zaban officially inaugurated the National Institute for Electrochemical Energy Storage, established at Bar-Ilan University in collaboration with the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
The spark that started it all
Aaron Cohen grew up marvelling at the microscopic world. “The idea that entire multicellular organisms like humans develop from a single cell has always amazed me,” he says. That early fascination led him from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Princeton University, where he earned his degree in Molecular Biology and conducted stem cell research for his senior thesis.
