As scientists gradually discover evidence that people who feel younger than their chronological age are typically healthier and more psychologically resilient, the saying "you're only as old as you feel" rings increasingly true.

One hundred students received awards of excellence from the rector of Bar-Ilan University on June 13. The awardees included 58 undergraduate students and 42 graduate and doctoral students.

The largest number of awardees were from the Faculty of Social Sciences, followed by the Faculty of Exact Sciences with 15 and the Faculty of Humanities with 14.

This week more than 500 scholars from four continents are arriving in Israel to participate in the Association for Israel Studies' (AIS) annual conference, taking place this year at Bar-Ilan University.

The AIS is an international scholarly society devoted to the academic and professional study of Israel. Its annual meeting is taking place on site – rather than online – for the first time in three years. 

In light of the recently passed “From Uniform to Studies" legislation, which grants a 75% scholarship of tuition fees to veteran Israel Defense Forces combat soldiers, Bar-Ilan University decided to increase the scholarship to 100% and grant free undergraduate studies to the first 100 veterans from elite units who enroll in the university.

On the morning of June 30, 1908, an asteroid hit the banks of the Tunguska River in the forests of eastern Siberia. The blast released 1,000 times more energy than the atom bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, flattening trees within a 25-kilometer radius.

The First World War and its aftermath created turmoil not only in the material world of Eastern European Jewry, with its changing boundaries; it also left a deep impression on its spiritual world and on the developing Yiddish modern culture. Out of the ruins of the war arose the avant-garde of Yiddish literature and art.