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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 476

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People inspect the damage following an Israeli strike on the UNWRA 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
Prof. Michal Lotem, head of Hadassah Cancer Research Institute (HCRI), left, and Inna Ben David, HCRI's head lab technician. (Credit: HCRI/courtesy)
April 23, 2023, 9:38 pm
Israeli universities churn out startups as ties with tech industry grow
Data shows rise of over 120% in startups set up yearly by academic institutions, from 34 in 2016 to 75 in 2020, accounting for 13% of total new startups established in Israel
By Shoshanna Solomon
Students participate in a Nazi book burning in Frankfurt's Opernplatz, May 1933. (Bundesarchiv)
March 25, 2023, 9:21 am
How Nazi-sympathizing scholars prepared the ideological groundwork for genocide
‘Betrayal of the Humanities’ anthology examines ‘self-coordination’ of German academicians in advancing Third Reich’s ‘racial’ policies — before, during and even after the war
By Matt Lebovic
Demonstrators block a road and clash with police as they protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
March 2, 2023, 5:22 pm
120 Israeli academics express support for government’s judicial overhaul plan
Public letter by professors from various fields, including Nobelist, argues judiciary took excessive power from legislative, executive branches, calls for ‘broad agreement’
By Jeremy Sharon
A CMOS silicon photonics chip. (Courtesy: IBM Research/AP)
December 22, 2022, 4:38 pm
Israel’s new tech focus areas: Silicon photonics, metamaterials, black soldier flies
Israel Innovation Authority earmarks $43m for 3 new consortiums to advance solutions in 2023
By Sharon Wrobel
An elderly Israeli man receives a fourth coronavirus vaccine dose in Ashkelon on January 3, 2022. (Flash90)
December 16, 2022, 12:12 am
Israelis produced some 15% of world’s top COVID vaccine studies, analysis shows
Jewish state ranks 3rd in quantity of vaccine research in the New England Journal of Medicine; across journals, Israeli scientists produced 536 studies, averaging four per week
By Nathan Jeffay
Ofek Preis and Cassie Blotner of SUNY New Paltz said they have faced antisemitism at the school. (Courtesy: Ofek Preis)
October 24, 2022, 4:36 am
US students report jump in mental scarring from campus antisemitism, but see no end
From a Jewish sexual assault survivor targeted by her support group, to a pupil afraid to wear a Star of David, young Jews say they walk on campuses in fear of hate crimes
By Cathryn J. Prince
Illustrative: Teenage girls from the Atlanta Jewish community. (Courtesy of JumpSpark)
May 9, 2022, 3:48 am
Yentl’s revenge: Young American-Jewish women outperform all others academically
Tulane University professor Ilana Horwitz’s research points to religious culture as reason for why Jewish girls surpass educational attainment of non-Jewish girls – and Jewish boys
By Renee Ghert-Zand
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