Haifa University

Major Israeli universities will allow students, faculty to join hostage families strike next week

Israel’s Bar Association and the Hi-Tech Forum announced their intentions to join the Sunday strike in support of reaching a deal to free the hostages.

 Hostage families and supporters rally, calling for the return of the remaining 50 hostages in Hamas captivity, June 28, 2025.
Shay Manspeizer Levin – Fashion Department show at the University of Haifa

From "gender trauma" to "way of life" – 11 young designers reveal a new visual language

 SHARON HESKIA and Avi Levi.

Grapevine, May 16, 2025: Generous gift to the University of Haifa

A joint study conducted by Dr. Ziv Ben-Zion has discovered that it’s possible to predict the severity of PTSD by analyzing brain connectivity patterns as early as one month after a traumatic event.

How to predict PTSD severity by brain connectivity patterns: University of Haifa researcher


IN PICTURES: Fire ravages Israel

Photos illuminate the struggle against fires raging across Israel.

A firefighting plane drops fire retardant during a wildfire, near the communal settlement of Nataf, close to Jerusalem November 23, 2016.

Anxiety treatments can calm patients’ fears of surgery

Prof. Lital Keinan-Boker of the University of Haifa said the combined technique has “real potential to alleviate fears of patients and improve the results of the operation.

Haifa University

Police find evidence of systematic falsifications by Haifa Rabbinate

The police said on Wednesday that it had investigated two Haifa Rabbinate employees, one of them a senior figure, on suspicion of fraud and breach of trust.

Aerial view of Haifa

Israeli universities take seven of top 100 global rankings

The ranking was a decrease from 11 in 2015.

Einstien statue Hebrew University

Bennett and university heads reach agreement over candidates for top board

Last month, six members of the Council for Higher Education announced their resignation in the wake of a growing rift between members of academia and Bennett.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett with his family on the first day of school, September 1, 2015

Haifa has several disease ‘hot spots,’ says researcher

University of Haifa’s Portnov: I’m not trying to hide anything, but the report isn’t finished.

Usines polluantes à Haifa

All eyes on Haifa after damning study results leaked

U. of Haifa: Women exposed to petrochemical pollution have babies with smaller heads.

Usines polluantes à Haifa

Unpleasant images can be less so with brief computer training

Researchers from Ben-Gurion University and the University of Haifa found that simple computer training can alter the brain's sensitivity to certain images.

An image of the human brain

UK academics participate in Haifa U conference, rejecting calls for academic boycott of Israel

Thirteen academics from several leading universities in the UK participated in a conference over the course of the weekend on quantitative studies of conflict in international relations.

Haifa University conference with Israeli and UK academics.

Chickens first commercialized in Israel 2,300 years ago, researchers say

Poultry farms did not reach Europe until 200 years later.

Cooking pot with chicken wings bones.