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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 559

University of Haifa

Screen capture from video of a murex mollusk. (YouTube)
Made from snails and fit for kings: First biblical-era dye factory found on Israel’s coast
Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly supplying First Temple in Jerusalem
Screen capture from video of a murex mollusk. (YouTube)
April 17, 2025, 9:37 pm
Made from snails and fit for kings: First biblical-era dye factory found on Israel’s coast
Ancient Tel Shiqmona site yields first evidence of large-scale purple dye production centuries before Roman times, possibly supplying First Temple in Jerusalem
Shye Klein-Weinstein, a 28-year-old survivor of the October 7, 2023, massacre by Palestinian terrorists, poses for a picture at a memorial to the victims of the Nova Musical Festival in Kibbutz Re'im in southern Israel on March 30, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
April 14, 2025, 6:28 pm
Nova survivors who took MDMA at festival are coping better with trauma, study finds
Researcher says revelers who were under influence of drug before Oct. 7 massacre still exhibit high levels of trauma, but feel more supported, sleep better than those who weren’t
By Ruth Eglash
Left: Meir Orbach from the the Zinman Institute of Archaeology – University of Haifa holding the Extinct rhino jaw from Nesher Ramla site. (Prof. Reuven Yeshurun). Right: Auroch skeleton. (Wikipedia)
March 7, 2025, 4:04 pm
Early humans in Israel really liked their steaks, new study shows
While the region offered a great diversity of fauna, Middle Paleolithic humans favored hunting the ancestor of cows, archaeological remains from the Nesher Ramla site have revealed
By Rossella Tercatin
A portrait of Arab and Jewish doctors is part of 'Hamsa Aleinu,' a new exhibit at Ben Gurion Airport (Courtesy Eldad Refaeli)
February 13, 2025, 12:59 am
With physician shortage ‘urgent,’ 2 new medical schools to open in Israel
University of Haifa’s medical school aims to strengthen healthcare in the north; Weizmann Institute’s school is tuition-free, combining scientific research and medicine
By Diana Bletter
In 2016, archaeologists discovered parts of two 4th-century-BCE amphoras unearthed off the coast of Tel Achziv. One of them carried an inscription that was first deciphered and published in 2025. (Jonathan Gotlieb)
February 7, 2025, 9:09 am
Did a daring semiliterate sailor wreck a ship off the Israeli coast 2,400 years ago?
Parts of two double-handled jugs were found in the waters near Tel Achziv in 2016. Scholars recently deciphered the etched writing on one of them
By Rossella Tercatin
People at the 40th Havana Biennale in Havana, Cuba, February 2025 (Courtesy Belu-Simion Fainaru)
February 4, 2025, 1:32 am
Haifa artists exhibit in Cuba, despite its non-recognition of Israel
Veteran artists Belu-Simion Fainaru and Avital Bar-Shay participate in Havana Biennale
By Jessica Steinberg
Some of a cache of newly discovered Maccabi-era coins, in an image released on December 29, 2024. (Dr. Shai Bar/ Zinman Institute of Archaeology at the University of Haifa)
December 29, 2024, 9:08 pm
‘Miracle’ hoard of Hasmonean coins discovered during Hanukkah in Jordan Valley dig
Haifa University team finds cache of 160 extremely rare coins – dated to 80/79 BCE, during the reign of Judah Maccabee’s grand-nephew – near Alexandrion Fortress, north of Jericho
By Gavriel Fiske
The shattered 3,500-year old jar at the Hecht Museum in Haifa, in an image released on August 27, 2024. (courtesy Hecht Museum)
August 28, 2024, 11:04 am
Kid shatters 3,500-year-old jar in Haifa museum, gets invited back
The Hecht Museum says it has no plans to change its long-held policy of displaying certain items ‘without barriers or glass walls’
By Gavriel Fiske
Relatives of Israelis held hostage by Hamas terrorists in Gaza march with their supporters, demanding a hostage deal and the return of their loved ones outside the Hebrew University Givat Ram campus in Jerusalem, July 16, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 16, 2024, 7:15 pm
Israeli college students urge hostage deal and end to war in nationwide protests
Protesters demand deal before semester ends; young hostage family members organize human chain outside Netanyahu’s office while students in Tel Aviv block university entrance
By Charlie Summers
Students at Hebrew University on the first day of the academic year on October 23, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 14, 2024, 12:52 am
Amid war, five Israeli universities ascend in international rankings
UAW-based report on top 2,000 universities places majority of Israeli research universities among the top 3 percent worldwide
By Gavriel Fiske
Stone sinkers likely used to weigh down fishing nets, found at the 'Habonim North' martime archaeological site, off the coast of northern Israel. (courtesy Cambridge University Press/CC BY)
May 2, 2024, 5:24 pm
Neolithic site shows how villagers weathered drought, climate change 8,000 years ago
At a submerged village off Israel’s northern coast, archaeologists discover a trove of artifacts showing how the settlement lived and survived during the global 8.2ka climatic event
By Gavriel Fiske
File - The site of the Supernova music festival near the border with the Gaza Strip in southern Israel is seen on October 12, 2023. At least 360 Israeli festival-goers were killed during the assault by Hamas terrorists on October 7. (Ohad Zwigenberg/ AP)
From the WebApril 12, 2024, 8:14 am
Haifa U scientists use Nova rave massacre to study affects of psychedelics on trauma
With drugs like LSD, MDMA and ketamine on cusp of entering psychiatric mainstream, tragedy provides rare opportunity to gauge their effects at moment of extreme distress, NYT reports
By Natan Odenheimer, Aaron Boxerman and Gal Koplewitz
The university administration handed out materials with the slogan 'Continuing to study together' in order to cool tensions. (Eliyahu Freedman/ JTA)
January 30, 2024, 7:12 am
US campuses aren’t the only ones erupting over Gaza: Welcome to University of Haifa
The Oct. 7 massacre and Gaza war have roiled tensions in an educational oasis of coexistence, where students, both Jewish and Arab, have diverse predictions on what comes next
By JTA and ToI Staff
Aerial view of the Haifa University. September 20, 2018. (Matanya Tausig/FLASH90)
January 7, 2024, 7:11 pm
8 Haifa University students suspended for incitement have punishment repealed
At Ben-Gurion University, administration seeks suspension in a similar case after disciplinary committee hands out community service
By Gavriel Fiske and Michael Horovitz
Aerial view of the Haifa University. September 20, 2018. (Matanya Tausig/FLASH90)
January 2, 2024, 1:53 am
University of Haifa suspends 8 Arab students for alleged praise of Oct. 7 massacre
Rector says students hailed incursion, posted images of Hamas onslaught; students to be barred from campus until end of hearings as rights group decries ‘selective enforcement’
By Michael Horovitz
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