Category: op-ed

  907 applicants enrolled within two and half hours and hundreds of others requested that their names be included on the waiting list. The breakdown of enrollees indicates that they belong to all disciplines on campus, including Chemistry, Medicine, Theater, Computer Science, Literature, Biology, etc. The course: “Arabic for Beginners” by the Department of Arabic and […]

Two-year-old Eli Reich suffers from the rare neurological syndrome FOXG1 that stems his brain’s development, and his window of opportunity is closing fast. Eli’s parents refuse to give up hope. In their effort to save their son they journeyed as far as Israel, to the BLAVATNIK CENTER for Drug Discovery (BCDD) at Tel Aviv University, […]

A comprehensive study by the School of Dental Medicine at Tel Aviv University: The overuse of smartphones and social media may lead to fatigue and drowsiness during the day, teeth-grinding, and pain in the jaw and mouth muscles A new study carried out at Tel Aviv University’s Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine […]

Ø About 1.8 million envenoming snakebites occur around the world annually, killing about 94,000 people. In tropical areas snakebites are a major cause of death, especially among farmers, who encounter snakes in their fields. Ø The researchers focused on Sri Lanka, a snakebite hotspot, and developed a model for predicting snakebites based on the behavior patterns of both […]

A new paper by Dr. Miki Ben-Dor and Prof. Ran Barkai from the Jacob M. Alkow Department of Archaeology at Tel Aviv University proposes an original unifying explanation for the physiological, behavioral and cultural evolution of the human species, from its first appearance about two million years ago, to the agricultural revolution (around 10,000 BCE). […]

Tel Aviv University researchers have developed a biological substitute for the treatment of tuberculosis, which in the future could serve as an alternative for the traditional “chemical” antibiotic therapy. Dr. Freund: “Advances in molecular medicine enable us to develop new tools to rout microbes, which can also solve the problem of drug-resistant germs”. This groundbreaking […]

Tomorrow (Wednesday) Tel Aviv University will launch the new Multidisciplinary Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Data Science (DS), headed by Prof. Meir Feder of the Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering. The Center will enhance basic research in these areas, encourage multidisciplinary research that uses the most advanced methods of AI and DS, […]

There is no one characteristic “Jewish family” in Israel. Secular, traditional, religious and ultra-orthodox families are very different in their values and praxis. Notwithstanding, Israel is still a very familial society – with high marriage rates, low divorce rates, the very high childbirth rates compared to other developed countries. There are two gaps I wish […]