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A panel at the Contemporary Antisemitism conference at Haifa University, July 8, 2026 (Yaniv Kopel)
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'The actions against Jews after Oct. 7 weren’t spontaneous'
From AI to ideology, scholars look for answers to post-Oct. 7 antisemitism surge
By Zev Stub
Researchers gather in Haifa to offer insights into the fight against Jew-hatred, including how it's financed, the role of technology in its propagation - and when things will get even worse
Illustrative: Students at Bar Ilan University, November 21, 2024 (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 10, 2026, 9:46 am
Top universities come out against legislation to expand gender segregation in academia
Tel Aviv University head: ‘Real, tangible danger’; Hebrew University says legislation would cause ‘direct harm to academic freedom’; Bar Ilan says quality of research would be harmed
By ToI Staff
Left: Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara at her welcome ceremony in Jerusalem on February 8, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90); Right: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on January 11, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 7, 2026, 6:28 am
Knesset splits controversial bill to erode attorney general’s powers, easing path for key aspects to become law
Legislation now being advanced would still allow government to ignore AG’s rulings, but won’t divide role; media overhaul bill and bill to expand gender segregation in academia okayed for final votes
By Ariela Karmel and Jeremy Sharon
Passengers at Ben Gurion International Airport, August 1, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
December 1, 2025, 7:01 pm
Figures shows brain drain spiked in 2023-2024 as well-educated fled overhaul, war
More doctors, engineers, and high earners moved away during 20-month period, costing state some NIS 1.5 billion in lost taxes, Tel Aviv U. economists find, warning trend may be ongoing
By Sharon Wrobel
The University of Oregon in Eugene, Oregon. (Stock photo via JTA)
September 4, 2025, 4:23 pm
Jewish Studies faculty at U of Oregon rally to protect their jobs from feared budget cuts
Amid a tense atmosphere on US campuses after Oct. 7, many worry that broader reductions in humanities will find their way to professors teaching Judaic or Israeli courses
By Andrew Lapin
A relief sculpture rests on a gate to the entrance of Harvard University, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, March 13, 2016. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
May 23, 2025, 6:37 am
Trump administration bans Harvard from enrolling foreign students, citing antisemitism
Homeland security secretary says university ‘perpetuating an unsafe campus environment that is hostile to Jewish students, promotes pro-Hamas sympathies,’ has ‘racist’ DEI policies
By Gregory WALTON
Israeli artist Benzi Brofman poses with his mural 'The Process' at the Contemporary Antisemitism London 2025 conference in the city’s JW3 Jewish cultural center, held from March 29 to April 1, 2025. (Lakruwan Rajapaksha
April 1, 2025, 8:13 pm
Global academics converge in London ‘safe space’ to dissect post-Oct. 7 antisemitism
Four-day conference this week sees scholars, artists and activists from India to Finland come together to share findings about widespread shunning amid Gaza war
By Lianne Kolirin
Israelis attend a protest march against the firing of Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara in Jerusalem, March 23, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 23, 2025, 12:50 pm
Protesters march in Jerusalem as cabinet prepares for motion of no-confidence in AG
Dozens of professors cancel class to join protests in capital, as university presidents threaten to strike if government ignores High Court injunction on firing of Shin Bet chief
By ToI Staff
People inspect the damage following an Israeli strike on the UNRWA Al-Majda Wasila Governmental School housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza City after the IDF said it found Hamas operatives inside the building, on December 14, 2024. (Omar Al-Qattaa/AFP)
January 7, 2025, 2:41 am
American Historical Association resolution condemns Israeli ‘scholasticide’ in Gaza
Motion, opposed by some leading figures in the AHA, now goes to Council for approval or rejection
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Then-US secretary of state John Kerry, speaking at the Oxford Union at Oxford University, England, May 11, 2016. (Peter Nicholls/Pool Photo via AP)
November 25, 2024, 4:12 pm
Top UK university to debate if Israel is ‘an apartheid state responsible for genocide’
The exclusive Oxford Union society, which has hosted US presidents, celebrities and neo-Nazis, again courts controversy this week; its track record on Israel isn’t friendly
By Robert Philpot
Participants in Hebrew University's summer Ladino intensive program tour a Sephardic synagogue in Jerusalem's Old City, in an undated photo. (courtesy Hebrew University)
September 25, 2024, 6:34 am
Haberes buenos! Hebrew U initiates first Ladino intensive language program
Inaugural summer session attracted a diverse group of students, who took a deep dive into the living tradition of Judeo-Spanish and encountered native speakers
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative: A Palestinian flag is displayed outside a tent at an anti-Israel protest encampment on the UCLA campus, April 26, 2024, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes)
August 8, 2024, 11:52 pm
University of Georgia panel upholds sanctions for 6 students over Gaza war protest
US students to remain suspended through fall semester, on probation until graduation; protesters ‘chose to be arrested’ by breaking the rules, admins said in May, drawing backlash
By AP
From left to right: Professors Ruth Heller, Yoav Benjamini and Daniel Yekutieli of Tel Aviv University's Department of Statistics and Operations Research, in an image released August 6, 2024. (courtesy)
August 7, 2024, 1:24 pm
Tel Aviv University team wins international $1 million statistics prize
Professors Yoav Benjamini, Daniel Yekutieli, Ruth Heller awarded prestigious Rousseeuw Prize for Statistics for their work on methodology for discovering errors in large datasets
By Gavriel Fiske
Prof. Barbara Risman (Courtesy)
May 21, 2024, 12:45 am
Retiring early due to antisemitism, a professor paints a dire picture of US academia
Barbara J. Risman felt that the atmosphere among University of Illinois faculty after October 7 was too much for her to bear as a Jew. Her colleagues secretly tell her she’s right
By Cathryn J. Prince
Students and teachers protest against government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, on February 5, 2023. The sign reads: "Without democracy there is no academia" (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 1, 2023, 6:03 pm
Academics and scientists warn damage from overhaul may be ‘irreversible’
In a letter to Netanyahu and to ministers of education and science, university heads and researchers outline ‘tangible risks’ to the tech industry
By ToI Staff
Students at Hebrew University's Mount Scopus campus on the first day of the school year, October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
June 5, 2023, 9:11 am
University staff end 2-week strike after wage deal reached with Finance Ministry
New collective deal, achieved after 18 months of talks, includes salary hike, ‘promotion of excellence in research,’ and consensus to keep system ‘stable’ until at least 2027
By ToI Staff
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