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...

Israeli Researchers Uncover King David’s Biblical Town of Ziklag

Monday, Jul 22, 2019

Researchers from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, the Israel Antiquities Authority and Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia, believe they have discovered Ziklag, a Philistine city where...

New findings on Neanderthals discovered in Ein Qashish archeological site

Tuesday, Jul 2, 2019

The Neanderthal man who lived in the Ein Qashish archeological site, 10 kilometers southeast of Haifa, lived a long time in the same open-air location in order to maintain a wide range of...

Year-End Bonus Time? Better Hope the Boss is NOT Your Friend, New Study Finds

Monday, Dec 3, 2018

A manager has to give a bonus to one of two equally deserving employees, one of whom is his friend. A judge in a high school debating competition has to decide which of two finalists to vote for, one...

Just in Time for Passover: Dozens of “Freedom Coins” from Jewish Revolt against Rome (66-70 C.E.) Discovered in Cave near Jerusalem Temple Mount

Monday, Mar 26, 2018

Bronze coins, the last remnants of a four-year Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire were found near the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. These bronze coins were discovered by Hebrew University...

Archaeologists uncover bittersweet end of 1,800-year-old Tiberias menorah

Tuesday, Dec 26, 2017

Why would Crusaders decorate a staircase with the carving of a menorah? This archaeological mystery — almost two millennia in the making — was recently solved, seven years after the Jewish symbol...

Martin Buber Supported MLK In Letter To LBJ

Tuesday, Dec 26, 2017

Just before Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the National Library of Israel has unveiled a timely letter from its Martin Buber Archive. In 1965 Buber, just before his death, joined a group of Hebrew...

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