Prof. Emeritus Moshe Kaveh, former BIU President, for winning the Prize for Higher Education granted by the Israel Council for Higher Education for “heading an academic institution and causing a significant change that has led to the extraordinary development of the institution.”
Prof. Emeritus Rami Benbenishty, Louis and Gabi Weisfeld School of Social Work, on his election as a Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare.
Dr. Ittai Bar-Siman-Tov, Faculty of Law, on his appointment as general editor of the leading publication in the world in the field of legislation, Theory and Practice of Legislation; and as co-chairman of the Israel Legislation Association, a branch of the International Association of Legislation.
Prof. Kimmy Caplan, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, on winning the Shapiro Prize for Best Book in Israel Studies in 2018 for his biography, Amram Blau: The World of Neturei Karta’s Leader.
Prof. Avraham (Avi) Faust, Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, on his appointment as a member of the Executive Committee of the Israel Exploration Society.
Prof. Emeritus Aaron Gedanken, Department of Chemistry, for his research in developing minoxidil nanoparticles based anti-baldness technology distinguished as one the top 100 scientific discoveries, which is among the two percent of 5,000 scientific discoveries in the criterion of technological uniqueness, high commercial potential and positive impact for the wellbeing of humankind.
Prof. Zehavit Gross, School of Education, on her appointment as a member of the Public Advisory Council for Civil Service, under the Civil Service Law 5777 – 2017.
Prof. Beena Kalisky, Department of Physics and the Nanotechnology Institute, for being selected by Globes, a daily evening financial newspaper in Israel, as one of the 50 most influential women in 2018, and for being elected to the Israel Young Academy.
Prof. Sarit Kraus, Department of Computer Science, for being selected- by Israel’s daily business newspaper, The Marker, as one of 21 women who have led a significant change to Israel’s high-tech industry.
Prof. Ramit Mehr, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, on being named a 2018 Fellow of the Society for Mathematical Biology for being a distinguished contributor to the discipline and to the Society.
Dr. Nahshon Perez, Department of Political Studies, for his book, Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in Sacred Sites (Oxford University Press, 2017) being awarded the Outstanding Book Award for 2017 by the Israeli Political Science Association.
Prof. Marcela Sulak, Department of English Literature and Linguistics, for winning a fellowship in Literature Translation from the National Endowments for the Arts.
Dr. Noam Yoran, Program for Science, Technology and Society, for being elected as a member of the Israel Young Academy in Humanities and Social Sciences of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities of 2018.
Prof. Avi Zadok, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for being elected as a member of the Executive Committee of the Israel Young Academy and for his article being selected for publication on opto-mechanical time-domain reflectometry in the prestigious Nature Communications journal (The article was written in collaboration with research students in his laboratory: Gil Bashan, Hagai Diamandi, Yosef London and Eyal Preter).
Prof. Doron Aurbach, Department of Chemistry, 2019 recipient of the Eric and Sheila Samson Prime Minister's Prize for Innovation in Alternative Fuels for Transportation (together with Dr. Lars Peter from the NESTE Company in Finland) in recognition of his recent contribution to the breakthrough development of a new type of magnesium battery. Prof. Aurbach is the first Israeli winner in the history of this prize.
Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan, Department of Information Science, on her winning the Award for Information Sciences in 2018 from the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).
Prof. Dror Fixler, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, on receiving honorary membership from the International Society for Optics and Photonics (SPIE) for his significant contribution to this field.
Prof. Yehuda Lindell, Department of Computer Science, on the occasion of his winning the Prime Minister's Award for Israeli Innovation for his breakthrough technology in the field of defense in the online world, and on the development of privacy protection technology.
Prof. Aren Maeir, Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, for winning the ASOR Prize for 2018 for a special contribution to the area of Field Archeology.
Prof. Michal Alberstein, Faculty of Law, on her appointment as a member of the ERC starting grant evaluation panel of 2018.
Prof. Joshua Schwartz, Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, on the occasion of his appointment as Chairman of the Israel Antiquities Authority.
Prof. Avi Weiss, Department of Economics, on the occasion of his election as a member of the academic staff of the appeals committee for the Supervision of Prices of Commodities and Services Law, 1996.
Prof. Avinatan Hassidim, Department of Computer Science, for being selected by The Marker as one of the 40 most promising young scientists under the age of 40 for 2018.
Prof. Adam Ferziger, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, on his election to the Board of Directors of the American Association of Jewish Studies (AJS) for a three-year term.
Prof. Ido Kanter, Department of Physics, for the inclusion of his research paper as one of the top 25 articles for 2018 in Medical Express.
Dr. Yoel Greenberg, Department of Music, for winning the David Kraehenbuehl Prize for 2016-17 for his article, Of Beginnings and Ends: A Corpus-Based Inquiry into the Rise of the Recapitulation.
Dr. Manal Totry-Jubran, Faculty of Law, on the occasion of her winning the Gorny Award for Young Researchers in Public Law.
Dr. Nomy Dickman, Head of the Unit for Evaluation and Advancement of Education at the Faculty of Medicine, on her election as the Israeli representative of the European Community of Team-Based Learning.
Dr. Benjamin Zaidel, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for receiving Third Place in the Bell Labs Award for 2018.
The Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for being ranked first among all the universities in Israel by Times Higher Education (THE).
Prof. Ofer Amir, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, was elected Head of the Israeli Association of Cardiologists.
Dr. Dotan Arad, Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, won the Shlomo and Bella Bertel "Nation and World" Prize for his article "Destruction and Remembrance: The Destruction of the Damascus Synagogue."
Prof. Nimer Assy, Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, was listed as one of the 10 most inspiring lecturers in Israel.
Dr. Vadim Axelrod, Leslie and Susan Gonda Goldschmied Multidiciplinary Brain Research Center, was awarded the title of APS Rising Star.
Prof. Moshe Bar, Leslie and Susan Gonda Goldschmied Multidiciplinary Brain Research Center, was appointed a Fellow of the Association for Psychological Science.
Dr. Baruch Barzel, Department of Mathematics, and Dr. Malachi Noked, Department of Chemistry, won the 2019 Krill Prize.
Prof. Yuval Feldman, Faculty of Law, won the 2019 Cheshin Prize for Senior Researchers.
Prof. Miron Isaacson, Jewish Literature, was appointed as a member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
Prof. Danny Kaplan, Department of Sociology, was awarded the Louis Gutman Prize for outstanding article by the Sociology Association.
Prof. Michael Lasker, Middle East Studies, was appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Sussex (UK) Academic Press.
Dr. Limor Lavie, Department of Arabic, won an Alon Fellowship in Humanities.
Dr. Hillel Mali, Naftal-Yaffe Department of Talmud, won a Fulbright Scholarship for Better Doctors.
Profs. Gary Mole and Silvia Adler, Department of French Studies, were awarded "Chevaliers dans l'Ordre des Palms Académiques/Knights of the Order of Academic Palms."
Dr. Jonathan Ruhman, Department of Physics, won an Alon Fellowship for Exact Sciences.
Dr. Ayelet Sela, Facutly of Law, won a prize from the international Institute for Conflict Prevention and Resolution for her article entitled "Can Computers be Fair?"
Prof. Tamar Wolf-Monson, Jewish Literature, was elected to the Azrieli Foundation for support of excellent doctoral students in the Humanities.
Prof. Jeffrey Woolf, Naftal-Yaffe Department of Talmud, was appointed to the executive council of the Museum of Italian Jewry, Jerusalem.
Dr. Omry Koren and Dr. Ayal Hendel, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, were elected to the Forum for Young Biuotechnology Researchers of the Natural Sciences Division of the Israel Academy of Sciences for the years 2018-19.
Prof. Eliezer Tauber, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, for winning the 2019 Jabotinsky Prize for Literature and Research for his book, Deir Yassin: The End of the Myth.
Prof. Dror Fixler, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), was appointed as an associate editor of the IEEE Photonics Journal.
Prof. Moshe Deutsch, Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), was appointed as Israel's representative in the European Strategy Forum on Research Infrastructures (ESFRI), an advisory body to the EU on science policy-making and infrastructure.
Prof. Eli Barkai, Department of Physics and a member of BINA, received the Alexander von Humboldt Research award for scientific collaboration with German scientists.
Dr. Adi Salomon, Department of Chemistry and a member of BINA, received the 2018 Krill award of the Wolff Foundation for young scientists.
Dr. Beena Kalisky, Department of Physics and a member of BINA, received the 2017 Nathan Rosen Memorial Prize in Experimental Physics for a Young Faculty Member, given by the IPS (Israel Physics Society).
Prof. Zeev Zalevsky, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and director of BINA’s Nano Photonics Center, received the Asian Advanced Materials Award for 2018 given by IAAM (International Association of Advanced Materials) for his outstanding contribution in the field of Advanced Materials and Technology. He also received the 2018 BIG (Business Intelligence Group) Innovation Award, amongst other awards and prizes.
Prof. Emmanuel Friedheim, Israel & Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, was recently appointed editor of the prestigious European publication La Revue des Études Juives (The Jewish Studies Review), published by The Société des Études Juives (The Society of Jewish Studies).
Prof. Dov Ber Kotlerman, Joseph and Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People, won the Dr. Hirsh and Dvora Rosenfeld Award for Yiddish Literature for his collection of novellas "Der Sod fun Vayse Bern" (The Secret of Polar Bears).
Prof. Shlomo Havlin, Department of Physics, has won the 2018 Israel Prize in Physics and Chemistry in recognition of his being a trailblazer in multiple areas of statistical physics and its implications for complex systems.
Prof. Doron Aurbach, Department of Chemistry and the BIU Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), has been bestowed with an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, for his "Development of electrochemical power sources as an excellent platform for promoting basic materials and surface science".
Prof. Zeev Zalevsky Alexander Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and the BIU Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), was named Fellow of The National Academy of Inventors (NAI), an exclusive honor reserved for world renowned, trailblazing academic inventors.
Dr. Gur Yaari, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, has been appointed Member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Prof. Zeev Zalevsky, Head of the Electro-Optics study track at the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and Senior Researcher at BIU Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), has been awarded a Fellow status at IS&T (Society for Imaging Science and Technology) for his outstanding achievement in imaging engineering.
Michal Bouhnik-Marcus, doctoral candidate at the Neuro Engineering Research lab led by Prof. Orit Shefi at the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering has won the prestigious Rappaport Prize for Excelling Students of Biomedical Engineering.
Dr. Eyal Avraham, a postdoctorall researcher at the Department of Psychology, and Dr. Rinat Meir, a postdoctoral researcher at the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, have been awarded the prestigious Fulbright Scholarship for 2018-9 for outstanding postdoctoral researchers.
Prof. Zeev Zalevsky, head of the Electro-Optics Program at the Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and director of Bar-Ilan University's Nano-Photonics Center, has won the Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Lasers in Medicine and Surgery (ASLMS).
Prof. Yaakov Kaduri, Zalman Shamir Department of Bible, was one of six scientists to be awarded a life membership in the prestigious Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem.
Prof. Benjamin Sredni, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, has been appointed a lifetime member of the National Academy of Medicine in Mexico.
Prof. Rachela Popovtzer, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering and the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials (BINA), is the recipient of the Leon and Maria Taubenblatt Prize for Excellence in Medical Research. Prof. Popovtzer earned the award for her research on Theranostic Nanoparticles for Future Personalized Medicine.
Bar-Ilan University is proud of its students who have received external, competitively awarded scholarships and prizes in 2018 and 2019
Oshra Batzar, Nanotechnology and Biology; Meir Rinat, Bioengineering; Nava Leibowitz, Physics; and Danan Guthold, Computational Biology; for winning fellowships for outstanding postdoctoral students for the 2018-2019 academic year.
Eyal Wallach, Department of Physics, on his winning the gold medal at the International Physics Olympiad (IPhO).
Lior Hadassi, Departments of Mathematics and Physics; and Itai Yehuda, Department of Computer Science; on their winning bronze medals in the International Mathematics Competition for High School Students (IMO).
Yoav Avidan and Ohad Sheinfeld, Department of Mathematics, for winning First Prizes in the International Mathematics Competition for University Students (IMC).
David Mass, Department of Computer Science, for winning the Adams Scholarship.
Herut Uzan, Department of Physics; Efrat Roth, Department of Physics; Sylvia Fox-Zvia, Department of Computer Science; for winning the scholarship for outstanding doctoral students in the high-tech field.
Or Shemesh, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for winning the MA Scholarship for Women's Studies in the High-Tech Sector, 2019.
Abadi Omri Yitzhak, Martin (Szusz) Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology; Michael Daniels, Linguistics and English Literature; David Michal, Martin (Szusz) Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology; Niran Gerstein, Jewish Thought, Asaf Saadon, Commentary and Culture, on their winning Rottenstreich Fellowships.
Nisan Ozana, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering; Bracha Laufer, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering; Amir Goldental, Department of Physics, for winning the Wolf Prize for Academic Year 2017-2018.
Tomer Iluz, Brain Sciences and Racheli Ron, Department of Chemistry, for winning the Clore Scholarship for the year 2018.
Shilat Haim-Nahum, School of Education, Vanessa Workman, Martin (Szusz) Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, and Hallel Hagai Diamandi, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, for winning the Azrieli Fellowship for Doctoral Students 2018/19.
Naseer Yara, Hanan Abu Hassan, Shaimaa Masarwa Nasser Yarra, Department of Psychology, Abu Hassan Hanan, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, Masaru Shimaa, Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, for winning the PBC scholarship for graduate students Research for the Arab Society.
Nasser Moolham, Department of Chemistry, for winning a scholarship for outstanding doctoral students in the Arab society.
Rami Abu Hamad, PhD student in the Arabic Department, for winning a scholarship on a competitive basis from the Academy of Arabic Language in Israel.
Yiftach Frankel and Herut Uzan, Department of Physics, were selected to participate in an exclusive meeting with Nobel Prize Laureates in the field of Physics.
Yaron Laufer, Kofkin Faculty of Engineering, won an Adams scholarship for 2019.
Danny Adamso, Program for Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, for winning the "President of the State of Israel” scholarship for excellence and scientific innovation in the field of 70 years of independence.
Dr. Ayal Hendel, who heads the Genome Editing & Gene Therapy Laboratory in BIU’s Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, has received an ERC grant for his lab’s novel research in gene correction and treatments for genetic diseases. Dr. Hendel is working to develop the innovative CRISPR technology – which employs a miniscule tool, a RNA molecule to help repair broken genes – thus leading the way to better treatment options for children suffering from such illnesses as sickle-cell anemia and cancer, and immune diseases like the “bubble boy” syndrome.
Prof. Nathan Keller, of the Department of Mathematics and the BIU-partnered National Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security, has received an ERC grant for his cryptanalysis project which deals with the security of Internet-of- Things devices (e.g. smart cars, smart homes, medical implants). Many classical encryption methods cannot be used since these devices are too small to support classical ciphers (algorithms for performing encryption or decryption), and since cyber- attackers have become more sophisticated. Dr. Keller’s lab is developing new classes of ciphers, which will enable society to use billions of devices more securely.
Dr. Yossi Mandel, a certified ophthalmic surgeon who holds a PhD in Bioengineering and heads BIU’s Ophthalmic Science and Engineering Lab (and has co-founded the university’s new School of Optometry and Vision Science at the Mina & Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences), examines methods for vision restoration in patients suffering from retinal degeneration. With the ERC award, his lab aims to develop a breakthrough in retinal prosthesis technology by devising a hybrid retinal implant composed of neurons integrated within a high density electrode array. In this unconventional approach, the goal is to restore vision to blind patients to an almost natural visual acuity and quality.
Dr. Sharon Ruthstein, of the Department of Chemistry, focuses on various electronic magnetic resonance imaging methods which examine chemical and biological processes. Her laboratory has received an ERC grant for its three-phase research method for her innovative work with copper ions which will help create biomarkers for oxygen-deficient cells and ultimately small molecules that will provide exciting new treatment modes for copper-ion heavy diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease.
Prof. Yehuda Lindell of the Department of Computer Science has won the Best Paper Award in the 24th ACM CCS 2017 for his research done in the BIU Center for Research in Applied Cryptography and Cyber Security.
Prof. Eli Vakil, of the Department of Psychology, is to receive the Distinguished Career Award from the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) in the US, for his contribution to the field of neuropsychology.
Prof. Evan Fallenberg, of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics, and coordinator of the fiction track, at the creative writing program has been appointed as Co-Director of a new international Master's program in Creative Writing and Literary Translation at Vermont College in the United States.
Dr. Shlomo Guzmen-Carmeli, of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, has been awarded the Bahat Prize for his thesis entitled "Encounters around the Text, An Ethnographic Study of Jewish Textuality".
Prof. Rami Benbenishty of the School of Social Work has been selected as a SSWR (Society for Social Work and Research) Fellow.
Prof. Mira Barda-Saad, of the Faculty of Life Sciences, has been elected as President of the Israel Immunological Society.
Prof. Even Fallenberg, of the Department of Linguistics and English Literature, is one of eight international writers to receive a one-month long writing residency Sun Yat-sen University in China.
Prof. Shmuel Feiner, of the Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, has been reelected for a second term as Vice President of the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem.
Prof. Judit Bar-Ilan, of the Department of Information Science, has been awarded the De-Solla Price Award, which is bestowed biannually upon scientists with significant contirugion to the field of quantitative studies of science.
Prof. (Emeritus) Jacob Klein, of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, has been elected as honorary member of the International Society for Assyriology.
Prof. (Emeritus) Yaacov Katz of the School of Education has been selected as a member of the IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) International Task Force, which includes 13 members from 9 European countries.
Prof. Zeev Zalevsky of the Faculty of Engineering has been awarded the Dr. Horace Furumoto Innovations Professional – Young Investigator Prize by the American Society for Laser Medicine & Surgery, Inc.
Ofer Schwartz, a PhD candidate in Prof. Sharon Gannot's group in the Faculty of Engineering, has won the Best Paper Award at the 2017 WASPAA conference (IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics) held in New York earlier this month. The paper, titled "Blind Microphone Geometry Calibration Using One Reverberant Speech Event" was co written with Axel Plinge, of TU Dortmund Universit, who also presented the article during the conference.
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities has announced the addition of four Bar-Ilan University researchers to its ranks. Dr. Omry Koren, of the Azrieli School of Medicine of Bar-Ilan, Dr. Ayal Hendel, of the Mina and Everard Goodman Faculty of Life Sciences, and Dr. Gur Yaari, of the Faculty of Engineering, were selected for the Academy`s Forum for Young Scientists in natural sciences. In addition, Dr. Dotan Arad, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, was selected for the Academy's Young Scholars Forum in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Dr. Ori Schwartz of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology has been awarded the prestigious SAGE Prize for Innovation and Excellence 2017 for his journal on Cultural Sociology entitled "The Sociology of Fancy-Schmancy: The Notion of ‘Farterism’ and Cultural Evaluation Under the Regime of Radical Suspicion".
Prof. Rachel Weissbrod, Head of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies has been elected a member of the Board of Directors of the Doctoral Studies Committee founded by the European Society for Translation Studies.
Prof. Hamutal Slovin of the Leslie and Susan Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center and Dr. Adi Solomon of the Department of Chemistry have been chosen as two of Globes "Women of the Year 2017".
Prof. Shlomo Shpiro of the Department of Political Science has been awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Award in Intelligence Studies by The Netherlands Intelligence Studies Association (NISA).
Prof. Doron Aurbach of the Department of Chemistry and the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials has won the Frumkin Memorial Medal, in recognition of his achievements across fundamental aspects of electrochemistry, especially in the area of batteries, where he is recognized as the founder of the field of rechargeable Mg batteries.
Michal Marcus, a PhD candidate in Prof. Orit Shefi's laboratory at the Faculty of Engineering, has been awarded the Academic-Business Sector Scholarship for the Advancement of Women in Science from the Ministry of Science, Technology and Space. The scholarship was awarded for her research on magnetic control of cellular and drug delivery for local treatment.
Prof. Eli Vakil of the Department of Psychology has been awarded the Distinguished Career Award by the International Neuropsychological Society (INS) for his contribution to neuropsychology.
Prof. Rachela Popovtzer of the Faculty of Engineering and Prof. Gal Yadid of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at BIU have been awarded the INA research grant for their study on the use of gold nanoparticles to track stem cells used to treat drug addiction.
Prof. Dror Fixler of the Faculty of Engineering was chosen as one of 10 foreign researchers to receive the annual award bestowed by the President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Fixler, an expert in electro optics, was honored for his work in Nano photonics. The award includes a research grant for a joint study with a Chinese scientist.
Prof. Sharon Gannot Head of the Speech and Signal Processing laboratories and the Director of the Signal Processing study track at the Faculty of Engineering, was appointed Chairman of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee.
Dr. Adi Salomon of the Department of Chemistry won the 2015 GIF (German-Israeli Foundation for scientific research and development) Award for Young scientists.
Prof. Dror Fixler of the Faculty of Engineering and a BINA faculty memeber,was recently awarded the honorary status of Senior Member of SPIE (International Society for Optical Engineering) for his contribution to the optics community, by applying nanoparticles in biomedical imaging and sensing, and for his overall career achievements. Additionally, he was appointed editor of the Cytometry Part-A Wily Journal.
Prof. Zeev Zalevsky director of BINA’s Nano-Photonics Center was recently awarded a Guest Professorship Fellowship as an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Physics, Faculty of Science at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. Additionally, he received the Fellow of the IET (Institution of Engineering and Technology) Award, and the Professorship Program Award at ITMO University in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Prof. Rachela Popovtzer of the Faculty of Engineering and a member of BINA, was chosen by Globes financial magazine as one of the 50 most influential women in Israel in 2015.
Prof. Avi Zadok of the Faculty of Engineering and BINA faculty member, was recently appointed a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanity.
Prof. Rami Benbenishty of the School of Social Work was won the 2016 EMET Prize in Social Sciences for Social Work.
Prof. Arie Zaban, from the Department of Chemistry, was awarded the Kolthoff prize for years 2016-2017 of the Department of Chemistry.
Prof. Emeritus David Schaps of the Department of Classical Studies, has been elected as president of Association for Classical Studies for three years.
Prof. Zohar Amar of The Martin (Szusz) Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology won the Rav Kook prize for his book "HaTzomeach Ve'HaChai B'Mishnat Ha'Rambam".
Prof. Shmuel Rafael of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People has been elected as an advising member of the Royal Academy of the Spanish language.
Prof. Jonathan Fox of the Department of Political Sciences was appointed outstanding researcher of the World International Studies Association in the field of religion and international studies.
Professor Moshe Rosman, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, was bestowed an Honorary Doctorate by Wroclaw Univesrity in Poland, for his contribution to the study of the Polish Jewry.
Prof. Chaim Milikowsky, of the School of Basic Jewish Studies won a "Rabbi Kook" prize for religious literature in 2016.
Prof. Johnathan Rynhold, of the Department of Political Sciences won the Outstanding Book award this year of the Israeli Political Science Association (ISPSA) 2016 on his book: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture, (Cambridge University Press, 2015)
Prof. Nir Lev, of the Department of Mathematics, won the Computational Methods and Function Theory (CMFT) Young Researcher Award.
Prof. Izhar Bar-Gad and Dr. Dana Cohen, of the Gonda Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center, won the (MAFAT) Prize for Creative Thinking, named after Gen. Yaakov Toren (deceased).
Dr. Erez Levanon, of the Faculty of Life Sciences and Dr. Omry Koren, of the Faculty of Medicine won a German Israeli Award for Research Cooperation and Highest Excellence in Science (ARCHES).
Prof. Yuval Feldman, of the Faculty of Law and Prof. Avi Zadok of the Faculty of Engineering were appointed as memebers of the Israel Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Prof. Haim Taitelbaum, of the Department of Physics, has been appointed as a member of the Council for Higher Education.
Dr. Noga Ayali Darshan, of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, has won a very prestigious award in Semitic studies from the American Oriental Society, a very large and important professional organization.
Dr. Lisa Maurice, of the Department of Classical Studies, won a group research grant given by the ERC (European Research Council), for a 5-year research proposal titled “Our Mythical Childhood: Classic culture in today’s youth culture as a response to local and global challenges.”
Prof. Emeritus Jacob Kaduri (James Kugel), of the Department of Jewish Studies, won the Rothschild Prize for Jewish Studies.
Prof. Emerita Ora Schwarzwald, of the Department of Hebrew and Semitic Languages, has won the The Landau Arts and Sciences Lottery prize, and was elected as a member of the Spanish Royal Academy.
Prof. Moshe Orfali, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, has been elected as a member of the Spanish Royal Academy.
Gideon Lewensohn, of the Department of Music, received the honorable Creation Award for Composer of the Year by the Prime Minister's Office.
Dr. Avi Picard, of the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, won the Shazar Prize for Research in Jewish History.
Prof. Haim Teitelbaum, of the Department of Physics, was elected Chairman of the Inter-University Compulation Center (IUCC) Board.
Dr. Assaf Rinot, of the Department of Mathematics, was awarded the Krill Prize for Excellence in Scientific Research.
Prof. Aharon Meir, of the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, was appointed to be a member of The Israel Nature and Parks Authority (INPA).
2015
Prof. Adam Ferziger, of the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry will receive the prestigious 2015 National Jewish Book Award for Beyond Sectarianism: The Realignment of American Orthodox Judaism (Wayne State University Press). Prof. Ferziger's book was selected for the Award in the American Jewish Studies category.
The research conducted by Prof. Ehud Weiss, of the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology, was termed as one of the hundred most significant studies of 2015 by the American Association of Science Magazine, Discover.
Prof. Sharon Gannot, Head of the Speech and Signal Processing laboratories at the Faculty of Engineering, was elected Deputy of signal processing and acoustics to IEEE Chairman.
Prof. Alon Korngreen won the prestigious NSF-BSF (National Science Foundation - Binational US Israel Science Foundation) award, together with his collaborators, Prof. Nathan Urban and Prof. Rob Kass of Carnegie Mellon University
Dr. Hadar Dancig-Rosenberg, for BIU's Faculty of Law, was awarded the 2014 Shneior Zalman Heshin Prize for Academic Excellence in Law, given annually by the Hebrew University in Jerusalem.
Prof. Doron A. Peled, of BIU's Department of Computer Science, won the prestigious 2014 CAV (Computer-Aided Verification) Award, for the development of partial-order reduction algorithms for efficient state-space exploration of concurrent systems.
Sanna Lonnfors, a student at the Shaindy Rudoff Graduate Program in Creative Writing, has been awarded a research grant by Yad Vashem for research on her thesis, titled: Meine geliebten, goldenen Kinderer: Silenced Voices from the Holocaust. Lonnfors, who's personal mentor in the Creative Writing program is Prof. Evan Fallenberg, has also received funding from the Chydenius Foundation, a Finnish organization.
Prof. Gershon Bacon, of the Department of Jewish History, together with Dr. Mirjam Rajner of the Program for Jewish Art, won an ISF grant for the purpose of holding an international research workshop to investigate the Holocaust in Yugoslavia. The workshop is partly sponsored by Yad Vashem.
Prof. Louis Rowen of the Department of Mathematics was named Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), For contributions to noncommutative algebra, and for service to the mathematical community.
Prof. Yair Goldreich of The Department of Geography and Environment won the Luke Howard Award, offered annually by the International Association for Urban Climate.
Prof. (Emeritus) Shlomo Havlin of the Department of Physics won the Rothchild award for Chemistry and Physics for the year 2014, for his exceptional contribution in the field of statistical physics of complex systems and its substantive affect on such fields as mathematics, computer sciences and biology.
Dr. Yael Bloch-Elkon of the School of Communication was honored with the prestigious Bruce E. Gronbeck Political Communication Research Award
Prof. Yehuda Lindell of the Department of Computer Science was awarded yet another ERC research grant.
Dr. Galia Yanoshevsky of the Department of French Studies, was knighted by the French Board of Education.
Prof. Susan Rothstein of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics was appointed member of the prestigious Academic Europaea
Prof. Eliezer Schlossberg, Lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Deputy Dean of the School of Graduate Studies, was appointed Chairman of the Committee of Teaching Arabic, Arab Studies and Islam at the Israel Board of Education.
Dr. Itamar Drori of the Department of Literature of the Jewish People (Hebrew Literature and the Literature of Jewish Languages) won the Gershon Shaked Award for Exception Doctoral Dissertation.
2013
Medicine: Prof. Israel Amirav, of BIU's Faculty of Medicine in the Galilee and a pediatric pulmonologist at the Ziv Medical Center in Safed, was awarded the top prize for research at the CIPP International Congress on Pediatric Pulmonologist in Bangkok, Thailand.
Appointments: Prof. Jeffrey Perl, of BIU's Department of English Literature and Linguistics, was appointed as member of the New Center for Humanities Innovation at the University of Durham in England.
Academia Europaea: Bar Ilan University’s Linguistic scholar Prof. Susan Rothstein of the Department of English Literature and Linguistics was elected to the Academy of Europe, a non-governmental association of scientists and scholars aimed at promoting learning, education and research.