Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Animal personality traits influence survival in wild ravens - study

A new study reveals how ravens' behavior impacts their survival. Risk-prone birds face higher mortality due to human activities, while cautious ones thrive.

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Fan Tailed Raven, Mitzpe Shalem, Dead Sea.
Israelis take cover around a small, overcrowded bomb shelter in a public park as sirens sound during Iranian missile attacks on April 6, 2026 in Hod Hasharon, central Israel.

Israelis suffer negative effects on health-related behavior due to Iran war - study

A Hebrew University study found that during the war, Israelis struggled with increased consumption of ultra-processed foods and a decrease in sleep and physical activity.

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People shop at the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem on April 15, 2026.

Despair rises, trust in leadership falls for most Israelis after US-Iran ceasefire agreement - poll

“The findings point to despair and pessimism as dominant sentiments, alongside high levels of fatigue and a clear expectation that the conflict is far from over,” the research team stated.

|ByDANYA SAPERSTEIN
Entrance to Auschwitz I, the main concentration camp, Poland, 1940-1945.

Memory depends on truth: Why post-truth culture endangers Holocaust remembrance - opinion

Why we must defend truth if we want to preserve the memory of the Holocaust.

|ByTOBIAS EBBRECHT-HARTMANN

‘It’s amazing to see what education can do’

The Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation has opened new vistas for Israeli students of Ethiopian descent at the Hebrew University.

JULY 9, 2025ByALAN ROSENBAUM
FROM L) Gideon Pollack, Jonathan Goodman, Finkelstein, and Jeff Hart at a Hebrew University event. The four were involved in fundraising for the Walk in their Shoes campaign.

Poor housing conditions linked to national health issues, Hebrew U. study reveals

The study links effects on both mental and physical health with the financial strain that housing represents for the majority of Israelis and its nationwide implications.

JULY 8, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
The public housing in Be'er Sheva.

'It’s amazing to see what education can do'

In the fourth episode of the 2025 season of ‘The Philanthropists,’ Maxyne Finkelstein, President of the Morris & Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation, speaks to Israeli writer and director Maor Zaguri.

JULY 6, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IN COLLABORATION WITH CANADIAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY
Maxyne Finkelstein President of the Morris and Rosalind Goodman Family Foundation

New Jerusalem research reveals why acute and chronic pain are so different

In acute pain, IA increases – acting like a natural sedative for the pain pathways – but in chronic pain, this current doesn’t cause them to rise, and the neurons become hyperactive.

JULY 6, 2025ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
A HEBREW UNIVERSITY team discovered that when one experiences acute pain, the brain has a built-in way to dial down pain signals – like pressing the brakes – to keep them from going into overdrive.

Why paracetamol – one of the world’s most common painkillers – works

A new Israeli study reveals that paracetamol doesn’t function only in the brain; it also blocks pain at its source by acting on nerve endings in the body.

JUNE 23, 2025ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
Boxes of paracetamol are pictured on the production line for UPSA brand of Bristol-Myers Squibb Group at the company's factory in Le Passage, near Agen, France March 29, 2018

June 22, 2025: Crisis response

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

JUNE 22, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
Israeli money bills.

Understanding the mind of Albert Einstein

Taran Davies’s upcoming IMAX film about Einstein will attempt to capture the imagination of one of the world’s greatest scientists and one of the founders of the Hebrew University.

JUNE 12, 2025ByALAN ROSENBAUM, IN COLLABORATION WITH CANADIAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY
PRODUCER-DIRECTOR Davies, whose current project is the film ‘Einstein’s Incredible Universe.’

'We’re going to actually live and be Einstein'

In the third episode of the 2025 season of ‘The Philanthropists,’ Taran Davies, a visionary producer and distributor of IMAX and Giant Screen films, speaks to Israeli writer and director Maor Zaguri

JUNE 9, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF, IN COLLABORATION WITH CANADIAN FRIENDS OF HEBREW UNIVERSITY
Taran Davies, a visionary producer and distributor of IMAX and Giant Screen films

The gatekeeping custodian: Why Stanley Fischer was Netanyahu's best-ever appointment - opinion

MIDDLE ISRAEL: Stanley Fischer became the gatekeeping custodian of governance that Netanyahu’s current government dreads.

JUNE 6, 2025ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
THEN-BANK of Israel Governor Stanley Fischer appears at a press conference in Jerusalem in 2013.

A century of vision: Renewing Israel’s commitment to higher education - opinion

Our predecessors built universities before there was a state. We, who have a state, must now ensure that we continue to deserve those universities.

JUNE 3, 2025ByDANIEL CHAMOVITZ
It should surprise no one that our most talented researchers are being recruited abroad, and that many of our best young scholars are reluctant to return home.’