WE’VE BEEN AT IT A LONG TIME: Hebrew University Researchers Unveil Oldest Evidence of Human Activity in African Desert Cave

Tuesday, Apr 27, 2021

Few sites in the world preserve a continuous archaeological record spanning millions of years. Wonderwerk Cave, located in South Africa’s Kalahari Desert, is one of those rare sites. Meaning...

A 120,000 Year Old Message?

Wednesday, Feb 3, 2021

Israeli and French Researchers Uncover Prehistoric Bone With Etchings Believed to be one of the Oldest Evidence of Human Use of Symbols While scientists and historians have long surmised that...

Holocaust Memory in the Shadow of Pandemic; Hebrew University Study Analyzes How Corona Has Changed How We Remember

Tuesday, Jan 26, 2021

“This global crisis created a far more accepting culture for the role digital media must play in remembrance.” (JERUSALEM – January 26, 2021) As the world prepares to...

Alfred Landecker Foundation Announces $13 Million Dollar Grant to Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Wednesday, Sep 9, 2020

Largest-Ever German-Israeli Academic Grant to Promote Research on Human Rights and Minority Protection in Age of Rising Nationalism and Authoritarianism The Alfred Landecker Foundation has awarded...

HU demographics expert analyzes Western Europe’s Jewish “communities”

Wednesday, Aug 12, 2020

Hebrew University demographic expert Prof. Sergio Della Pergola The Heichal David u-Mordechai Synagogue in Milan AMSTERDAM (JTA) — In North America, when Jews say they...

Archaeologists Find Fishing Spot Used for 10,000 Years in Northern Israel

Sunday, Jul 12, 2020

Editor’s note: A team of archaeologists, doctors, natural historians, earth scientists, life scientists and anthropologists collaborated in this research and subsequent findings. Three of the 12...

HU archeologist examines evolution of dance from prehistory to the Bible

Sunday, Jun 28, 2020

Engraved dancing figures from Nevali Çori, Neolithic Near East. In the 1990s, leading Israeli scholar Yosef Garfinkel, head of the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew...

How to Manage the COVID-19 Pandemic without Destroying the Economy: A New Study by Hebrew University

Monday, Apr 27, 2020

In a new study published online on www.arxiv.com, Profs. David Gershon, Alexander Lipton and Hagai Levine show that based on real-life data, Israel and other countries could have controlled COVID-19...

Do You Ever Lie to Appear More Honest?

Monday, Feb 3, 2020

Hebrew U. Study Finds Lawyers, Employees Bend Truth to Avoid Appearing Dishonest, Even if it Costs Them Money Honesty is the best policy, or so the saying goes. But what if the truth seems less...

Connecting with the ancient world: HU prof on King Tut emoji and hieroglyph exhibit

Sunday, Feb 2, 2020

A chart, left, at an exhibition at the Israel Museum in Jerusalem compares the pictograms of ancient Egypt with their emoji equivalents. JERUSALEM — The sleek figures, kohl-rimmed eyes...

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