Hebrew U student, Alyssa Roger, posted this great video showing the dramatic skills of the students at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in the recent production of Beauty and the Beast that played to packed audiences. It’s a great show with some exceptional talent!

A new type of nanoparticle  resembling the six-pointed Star of David (Magen David) that is the symbol on the flag of Israel has been discovered by researchers at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (One nanometer is a billionth of a meter.) The discovery, the researchers say, may lead to new ways for sensing of glucose [...]

Israel is filled with incredible history and culture and is an archeologist’s dream, not to mention curious history nuts like myself. That’s why the recent excavation of Prof. Ehud Netzer of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Institute of Archaeology caught my attention. His dig uncovered a “royal box” built at the upper level of King [...]

Leftovers from last night’s dinner are ok …but imagine 12,000 year old leftovers! Archaeologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have unearthed the leftovers of the world’s first known funerary feast, which took place around 12,000 years ago at a burial site in northern Israel. The team of archaeologists, headed by Dr. Leore Grosman, have [...]

Prof. Elon Lindenstrauss of the Einstein Institute of Mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem recently received the Fields Medal for 2010 – a prize regarded as the “Nobel Prize” in mathematics that is awarded once in four years. He was the first Israeli to be awarded the medal. The Fields Prize is given to [...]