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Students at Ben Gurion University, in Beer Sheba. November 04, 2025. (Liron Moldovan/Flash90)
October 12, 2026, 4:47 pm
Amid AI shifts and war, Israel sees drop in math and computer science student enrollment
Council for Higher Education numbers also show enrollment in social sciences surpassing engineering as the largest field of study
By ToI Staff
Canadian computer scientist Yoshua Bengio speaks during an interview with AFP in the offices of Law Zero in Montreal, Quebec, on September 15, 2026. (Andrej Ivanov/AFP)
September 17, 2026, 4:17 pm
‘We’re losing control,’ AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio urges public to be aware of risks
Acknowledging that artificial intelligence destroying humanity is an ‘extreme,’ Canadian Jewish prof nevertheless warns that AI agents could threaten democracies, says international community must cooperate
By Fanny Alarcon
Winners of the 2026 ERC starting grants, from left to right, top row: Dr. Sharon Fleischer, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Leeat Keren, the Weizmann Institute of Science, Dr. Reuma Gadassi-Polack, Bar-Ilan University, Dr. Hagai Maron, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Dr. Nir Hananya, the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology; bottom row, from left to right: Dr. Ran Finkelstein, Tel Aviv University, Dr Amit Vinograd, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Michael Chapman, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Or Zamir, Tel Aviv University, Dr. Arnold Filtser, Bar-Ilan University, Prof. Dean Doron of the Institute for the Theory of Computing in the Stein Faculty of Computer and Information Science at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. (Photo of Keren, courtesy/Itai Belson; photo of Vinograd, courtesy/Yael Tzur; photo of Filtser, courtesy/Gabe Gomez; all other photos, courtesy)
September 3, 2026, 2:35 pm
Eleven Israeli researchers awarded prestigious EU starting grants
Tel Aviv University, Bar-Ilan University, Weizmann Institute, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Technion scholars to receive over $18 million in total European Research Council funds
By Diana Bletter
Illustrative: A person uses AI on their device. (iStock/hirun)
December 10, 2025, 4:25 pm
ADL says bots can be tricked into antisemitism — if fed an elaborate prompt
To gauge how AI models respond to anti-Jewish racism and extremism, the watchdog group poses scenarios involving falling grandmothers and fictional 18th-century German authors
By Grace Gilson
An illustrative image of robot hackers; the use of artificial intellicence in cyber security (Iaremenko; iStock by Getty Images)
April 21, 2025, 9:53 pm
Israeli team uses tool that finds fake online profiles to detect abnormal protein activity
Ben-Gurion University scientists say their innovative algorithm, WGAND, can identify rogue protein behavior the same way investigators uncover suspicious social network patterns
By Diana Bletter
Prof. Asaf Madi, left, Prof. Roded Sharan and PhD student Ron Sheinin of Tel Aviv University. (Courtesy/Tel Aviv University)
April 4, 2025, 8:57 am
Israeli researchers develop AI tool to discover how cells react to drug treatment
Tel Aviv University team’s scNET algorithm combines data on cells with protein ‘social network’ to cut ‘high noise’ and shed light on immune cell behavior
By Diana Bletter
Composite image showing, from left to right, Prof. David Kazhdan, Prof. Maren R. Niehoff and Prof. Nathan Lineal of the Hebrew University. (courtesy)
April 11, 2024, 1:15 pm
Fourteen Israeli professors awarded top EU research grants
Researchers from the Hebrew University, the Technion, Tel Aviv University and the Weizmann Institute to each receive €2.5 million in funding from the European Research Council
By Gavriel Fiske
Lior Cole (Photo courtesy of IMG Models)
March 8, 2022, 4:09 pm
After walking high-fashion runways, model Lior Cole reads Torah with her rabbi bot
Scouted in summer 2021 and signed to major agency, 21-year-old Cornell student starts international modeling career while launching AI projects for spirituality and philanthropy
By Renee Ghert-Zand
Russell Kirsch, a computer scientist credited with inventing the pixel and scanning the world’s first digital photograph (Jamie Francis/The Oregonian via AP, File)
August 15, 2020, 3:07 pm
Pixel inventor, computer scientist Russell Kirsch dies at 91
Son of Jewish immigrants to US is credited with scanning the world’s first digital photograph in 1957
By AP
Larry Tesler on July 23, 2007. (Yahoo! Blog from Sunnyvale, California, USA/Wikipedia CC-BY-2.0)
February 21, 2020, 3:43 pm
US Jewish computer scientist who pioneered ‘copy’ and ‘paste’ dies aged 74
In 1970s, Larry Tesler invented concepts that made computers more user-friendly and are now used in everyday work
By AP
Illustrative: the Google logo at a gadgets show in Paris, on June 16, 2017. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)
October 24, 2019, 5:51 am
Google claims breakthrough in blazingly fast quantum computing
Tech giant says its system solves problem in minutes that would take supercomputers thousands of years; competitors, including IBM, dispute findings
By Rachel Lerman and Matt O'Brien
Prof Alex Lubotzky, winner of the Israel Prize for research in mathematics and computer science, 2018. (Courtesy)
February 21, 2018, 9:39 am
Former MK awarded Israel Prize for math and computer science
Alex Lubotzky, ex-lawmaker for now defunct Third Way party, cited as one of world’s most important researchers in group theory
By JTA
Regina Barzilay, 2017 MacArthur Fellow, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. on Sept. 20, 2017. (CC-BY: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.)
October 11, 2017, 12:44 pm
‘Genius grants’ to Israeli computer linguist, opera kingpin with Israeli parents
Regina Barzilay and Yuval Sharon are among 24 fellows awarded $625,000 each by Chicago’s MacArthur Foundation
By AP and ToI Staff
Renowned Israeli cryptographer Adi Shamir. (YouTube screen capture)
February 3, 2017, 12:58 am
Israeli scientist wins Japan Prize for cryptography work
Computer science professor Adi Shamir, of the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, recognized as pioneer in digital information security
By JTA
Israeli and Chinese Science Ministers Ofir Akunis and Wan Gang sign a joint research agreement in Beijing on Monday, December 14, 2015. (Science Technology and Space Ministry)
December 14, 2015, 1:30 pm
China and Israel sign multi-million dollar research deal
Joint scientific research to focus on areas ranging from nanotechnology to aging populations
By ToI Staff
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