The University of Haifa is proud to announce the appointment of Prof. Mouna Maroun as Rector. Prof. Maroun, currently the […]

Dr Efrat Sopher, Co-Chair of the University of Haifa UK’s Board of Trustees, and Chair of the Board of Advisors

Our end-of-year fundraising efforts are aimed at addressing the continued urgent humanitarian needs in Israel in the aftermath of the

Dear alumni, friends and supporters in the UK, It is with a heavy heart that I write to you following a day of heavy fighting in the South and rockets launched at civilian populations in the South and Central Israel. As you are undoubtedly aware, our nation finds itself in a state of war.86 A…

UofH Proudly Confers Honorary Degrees on President William J. Clinton andProf. John E. Sexton In a moving ceremony attended by over 500 people, former U.S. President Bill Clinton and President Emeritus of New York University, Prof. John Sexton received honorary doctorates from the University of Haifa. The gala event was attended by the University’s senior…

A biopharmaceutical company called ProteKt Therapeutics is currently aiming to develop a drug for treating early stages of Alzheimer’s disease based on the research of the university’s professor Kobi Rosenblum. His findings indicate that inhibiting an enzyme believed to play an important role in the development of the disease, in partnership with pharma, may give hope…

It is with great honour that we share the excitement of our Trustee, Simon Baron-Cohen, professor of autism research at the University of Cambridge, as he is knighted for services to people with autism. From the press- He said: “This honour came as a complete surprise, and I accept it on behalf of the talented team…

Rear Admiral (Ret.) Shaul Chorev, a political science expert renowned in his field had been appointed as the new Director of the university’s Ezri Centre for Iran and Persian Gulf Studies. He has recently given a private briefing to the American Society of the University of Haifa about the aftermath of the Soleimani assassination which we invite…

Archaeologists at the University of Haifa have recently revealed that hundreds of basalt vessels unearthed in the Levant and dating to the Chalcolithic period, contain strange markings, which appear to have meant something to people at the time. Professor Danny Rosenberg of the Zinman Institute of Archaeology said, “there were rules, and they were not just aesthetic rules.…

The assumption that salmon would have been crucial to the early diet of ancient Arctic inhabitants has finally been proven thanks to the Department of Marine Civilizations at the University of Haifa, which developed a new method for identifying salmon remains. “The new method, using mineral markers to identify salmon remains, will enable researchers to better…