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Topic: Bar-Ilan University

April 24, 2013
1:42 am

Nobel Prize award ceremony for physicist Yoichiro Nambu, 2008 (CC BY SA, by Quinn Dombrowski, Wikimedia Commons)

Man claims key to winning Nobel Prize

Yossi Keren says he has discovered the secret of awareness – and is looking for connections to gain prestigious recognition

By Asher Zeiger

March 14, 2013
3:06 am

Outgoing defense minister Ehud Barak attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee meeting in the Knesset earlier this month (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Barak says ‘good-bye,’ for now

Outgoing defense minister and Netanyahu lavish praise on each other at Bar-Ilan send-off

By Yoel Goldman

February 14, 2013
12:30 am

Records at Haifa's Rambam Hospital reveal discrepancies in the accounts of her sister's birth, Sonia Lifschitz believes. (Photo credit: CC BY/david55king via Flickr.com)

Did immigrants’ newborn die, or was she abducted?

Israeli woman suspects Haifa hospital lied about the whereabouts of her sister, believes she is alive and in the US

By Hillel Kuttler

February 6, 2013
7:34 am

The bombed Israeli tour bus in Burgas, Bulgaria, July 2012 (photo credit: Dano Monkotovic/Flash90)

Israel unlikely to retaliate after Bulgaria report

Netanyahu signals he will step up efforts to press EU to designate Hezbollah a terrorist group rather than take military action

By Tia Goldenberg

January 21, 2013
1:05 pm

Demonstrators wave the Jordanian flag during a protest by the Muslim Brotherhood movement and other opposition parties against the upcoming parliamentary elections, in Amman, Jordan, Friday, Jan. 18, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Islamists set to lose in Jordanian elections

Apathy, fear of instability characterize mood of Jordanian voters; Arab paper calls out Likud for running with no platform

By Michael Bassin

January 11, 2013
12:01 pm

Tzipi Livni, the leader of the Hatnua party (photo credit: Flash90)

Netanyahu bringing about ‘the demise of the Jewish state,’ Livni charges

Hatnua party leader says Israeli voters must choose Palestinian independence over a single state where Jews are in the minority

By Elie Leshem

January 6, 2013
12:14 pm

Former foreign minister Avigdor Liberman October 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch / FLASH90)

Avigdor Liberman: Next government will continue to seek two-state solution

Yisrael Beytenu head says Israel does not have ‘imperialistic ambitions’; comments rejected as disingenuous by left-wing leaders

By Ron Friedman

January 3, 2013
8:32 pm

Meretz party member Nitzan Horowitz (center) conducts a gay marriage ceremony outside the rabbinical court in Tel Aviv, Thursday, January 3, 2013 (photo credit: Flash90)

Political party weds gay couples

Meretz holds nuptials on steps of Tel Aviv rabbinical court to protest Jewish Home candidate who dissed same-sex marriage

By Adiv Sterman

January 1, 2013
11:04 am

WUJS's leading form at the 2011 congress (photo credit: courtesy of WUJS)

World Union of Jewish Students to choose new leader and direction — backed by a long tradition

Two Israelis are competing for the presidency of WUJS, aiming to follow in the footsteps of Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann

By Aaron Kalman

December 31, 2012
11:30 pm

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (photo credit: Alex Kolomoisky/Flash90)

Amid uproar, Netanyahu reportedly reaffirms commitment to two-state solution

PM’s statement comes after Likud MK says his 2009 Bar-Ilan speech in support of Palestinian state was just a ‘tactical’ move

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 31, 2012
9:44 pm

Basil plants (photo credit: Wikipedia Commons, Castielli)

Researchers battle pesto pestilence

Biologists at Bar-Ilan University work to breed fungus-resistant basil plants

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 31, 2012
7:51 pm

Arab Israeli parliament member Ahmad Tibi (left) and right-wing parliament member Aryeh Eldad of the Power to Israel (Otzma l'Yisrael) party at a panel debate at Bar-Ilan University on Sunday (photo credit: Markowicz/Flash90)

Girl who spat at Tibi: He deserves a death sentence

From the web Ynet: Alleged assailant, associated with ‘Hilltop youth,’ says Arab-Israeli MK incites to murder Jews; police launch investigation

December 31, 2012
7:32 pm

Likud MK Tzipi Hotovely (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Likud opposes a Palestinian state, says party hardliner

MK Tzipi Hotovely calls Netanyahu’s 2009 speech calling for a two-state solution a ‘tactical’ move

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 31, 2012
3:08 am

MK Ahmad Tibi (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flash90)

Girl spits at MK Tibi during university debate

From the web Ynet News: Guards escort Arab-Israeli lawmaker to side room amid verbal assaults from Bar Ilan students

December 30, 2012
8:09 pm

Hanin Zoabi (photo credit: Flash90)

High Court was right to let controversial Arab MK run, legal experts say

Strict interpretation of the law would lead to numerous political bans, scholars say, and Israel is plenty strong enough to allow Hanin Zoabi’s radical parliamentary dissent

By Raphael Ahren

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