Howard Jacobson was a close friend of Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks zt”l and, during the evening, recounted the many conversations they had together on a whole host of different topics. To the audience’s delight, he went on to share the story of Rabbi Sacks officiating his wedding - and dancing with his best man, Melvyn Bragg.
Mor Shapira has been a lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Bar Ilan University, and a researcher at MEMRI (Middle East Media Research Institute) since 2019. She speaks 10 languages (Hebrew, English, Arabic, Persian, French, Italian, Spanish, Turkish, Portuguese and Swedish). Previously, she served in the 8200 IDF special intelligence unit, and later held a classified position at the Israeli Prime Minister's Office for a decade.
Dr. Yoni Slater, a socio-organizational psychologist and post-doctoral researcher at Maastricht University in the Netherlands and at Bar-Ilan University (as part of an interdisciplinary research group on voluntary compliance led by Prof. Yuval Feldman), serves as a lecturer at the ultra-orthodox campus of BIU.
"I believe there is no field with greater impact on our social environment than social-organizational psychology," says Slater. “This field deals with life itself, which is why its potential impact is so great."
Revital Peled is an outstanding 2012 graduate of Bar-Ilan University's Graduate Program in Organizational Consulting. In recent years, Revital has returned to the Department of Sociology and Anthropology as a lecturer in organizational consulting and social psychology.
Revital also serves as the Co-CEO of Shorashim, a company focusing on consulting and organizational development. Shorashim supports change and growth processes for business, social and public organizations, in fields as education, health, finance, high-tech, and more.
For the first time since Israel teams began participating in the International Olympiad in Informatics, the Israeli delegation won three gold medals and an honorable mention. Members of the delegation members received their training for the Olympiad at the Bar-Ilan University Youth Center.
Former US Secretary of State Prof. Condoleezza Rice, Director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University, has appointed Bar-Ilan University Prof. Joshua Teitelbaum as a Visiting Fellow for the 2023-2024 academic year.
Until recently, only professional researchers were familiar with artificial intelligence (AI). Today, AI technologies, featuring automatic analysis of enormous amounts of data, are no longer confined to labs and research institutes, but are being integrated in widely available applications.
Two outstanding Bar-Ilan University researchers - Dr. Assaf Ben-Moshe, of the Department of Chemistry, and Dr. Shahar Alon, from the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering - are the recipients of European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grants totaling 14 million NIS for their groundbreaking research, the ERC has announced.
