Academic World

First-year students who have served more than 30 days in IDF reserves will be entitled to a 25% reduction in tuition fees.

Bar-Ilan University has received its largest donation ever. Its leaders must now decide how to use this money, balancing their agency for Jewish heritage and innovation.

Israel's universities and colleges lost students, faculties, and staff due to reserve duty for the Israel-Hamas War. This forced academic institutions to adapt on the fly.

Jewish students are being encouraged to study in Israel in light of increasingly hostile academic environments in the West.

The bill also gives a Knesset subcommittee the authority to slash funding from institutions who ignore the bill, as well as take "other enforcement measures."

The university will continue its research projects with six non-academic Israeli institutions, saying they could not find any links between them and human rights violations.

Worldwide, small cells of well-organized, well-funded haters crying “Globalize the intifada” demean academia, reducing a complex conflict to hate-filled slogans.

Faculty who attack Israel in the classroom, disrupt Israeli lecturers, and boycott Israeli scholars are the greater danger by far.  

Israel's overall university performance decreased by 21% in 2024, per QS World University Rankings. The Hebrew University's theology department dropped, while the Technion's mathematics improved.

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.