In the world of historical document research, automatic reading of handwritten manuscripts and textual search of their contents has remained an unattainable dream. While optical character recognition (OCR) of printed material is today commonplace, deciphering and transcribing individual Medieval handwritings has remained out of reach, especially for less common alphabets like Hebrew.

Bar-Ilan University alumna Dr. Dalia Fadila is the recipient of the Israeli Presidential Medal of Honor from President Isaac Herzog.

While the production of COVID vaccines could have been the “light at the end of the pandemic tunnel”, this outcome was hampered at critical stages by vaccine hesitancy, defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “the reluctance or refusal to vaccinate despite the availability of vaccines”.

Prof. Doron Aurbach, of Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Chemistry, is among the scientists most cited in academic journals in 2022. This according to a comprehensive analysis conducted by Clarivate, the research company, which calculates the impact factor, using data from its Web of Science platform.

In his two-year-long study, Dr. David Engelberg, of Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Education, notes a relationship between a feeling of optimism or pessimism and adaptation, psychological wellbeing, and life satisfaction of students at the outset of their junior high school studies. In his conclusions he suggests implementing programs to promote optimism among students and teachers.

A four-legged robot capable of navigating complex terrain is used in the laboratory of Dr. Reuth Mirsky, of Bar-Ilan University’s Department of Computer Science, for research on promoting interactions between people and artificial intelligence.