With the World Health Organization ranking cancer as the second most common cause of death in the Western world, World Cancer Day, on February 4, marks an opportunity to seek hope in the emerging fields of immunotherapy and personalized medicine. Prof. Cyrille Cohen, who directs the Tumor Immunology and Immunotherapy Laboratory at BIU’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, explains how white blood cells, called T-lymphocytes, are harnessed for the "targeted killing" of cancerous cells.

Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is an opportune time to think about time! Time is everywhere, but it’s not just a natural, uniform and absolute entity that we measure. The thousands of calendars in the world indicate that time has cultural dimensions – it is flexible and may be manipulated. Prof. Ely Merzbach of the Department of Mathematics at Bar-Ilan University discusses the calculations and considerations that have shaped the Hebrew calendar for some 1,100 years.

On August 15, 1945, the voice of Japanese Emperor Hirohito was broadcast for the first time on national radio across the devastated country. Imperial Japan was surrendering after a long and vicious war against the Allied Forces, and after the United States dropped two atomic bombs: on Hiroshima, on August 6, and on Nagasaki, on August 9. Looking back 77 years after the bombings and the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender on September 2, 1945, Dr.

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Prof. Hizky Shoham, of the Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, has been awarded Best Article Prize from the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth for his article "Small Sales Agents (of Nationalism) Inside the House": Childhood, Consumer Culture, and Nationalism in the Jewish Yishuv of Interwar Palestine," 12.1 (Winter 2019).

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Established by the Azrieli Faculty of Medicine of Bar-Ilan University, this novel 'social incubator' creates academic-community partnerships to define and address the most pressing health needs in Israel's Galilee region.

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Uniquely positioned within the Galilee healthcare ecosystem, Bar-Ilan University’s Azrieli Faculty of Medicine earlier this year created, together with its affiliated hospitals, primary care clinics, local NGOs, and with the support of The Russell Berrie Foundation, a new bio-psycho-social-health platform to address the unique needs of the region during COVID-19, while teaching and training its students.  

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Each year, Bar-Ilan University conducts a teaching survey that allows students to evaluate their lecturers, and the university to recognize excellence in teaching.

The outstanding lecturers are those who demonstrate professionalism, innovation and creativity in teaching, challenging students to deepen their knowledge and conduct independent research studies.  

Introducing the outstanding lecturers of Academic Year 2019-2020: