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Jerusalem-based university founded in 1918 by Einstein and Chaim Weizmann

 Israelis walking in front of the entrance to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Grapevine February 23, 2025: Kudos to Hebrew University faculty members

 An aerial view of Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Mount Scopus campus.

Phage virus discovered at Hebrew University named after fallen soldier

 Hostage posters at Hostage Square in Tel Aviv

Grapevine February 12, 2025: Not forgotten

(L-R) In green - herpes virus proteins. In red - Alzheimer’s tau. In orange - a merge of the two.

Alzheimer's covertly linked to Herpes Simplex virus

By Ben Edidin
 METAFAT in the Hebrew University labs.

Moove over, cows: Hebrew U researchers craft perfect bite of meat by designing plant-based steaks

 EYAL BEN SIMON (left) and Benny Gabbay.

Grapevine January 15, 2025: In their own words

 HEBREW UNIVERSITY’S Mount Scopus campus. President Isaac Herzog called the institution a ‘beacon of academic and research brilliance, driven by extraordinary talent, tireless dedication, openness, curiosity, and a relentless pursuit of excellence.’

Grapevine January 12, 2025: A time to remember

 An aerial view shows the Dome of the Rock in front and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Jerusalem, April 26, 2023.

Hebrew University offers female students year of free study on select courses

 KALANDIYA CROSSING, the main point of entry into the Ramallah area from east Jerusalem.

Between two narratives: A candid conversation with a Palestinian-Israeli

Paraguay's president Santiago Pena speaks at the Knesset. December 11, 2024.

Grapevine: Hello, Paraguay!

 Illustrative image of a circuit board

Israel launches first domestically-built quantum computer

By GLOBES/TNS
 An aerial view of Hebrew University of Jerusalem's Mount Scopus campus.

Grapevine: Life science leaders

 The cast of the Beit Hillel Theater Workshop in ‘Guys and Dolls,” set to be performed over Hannukah.

‘Guys and Dolls’ musical on its way to Hebrew University for Hanukkah

By Amalia Hess
 A NEW STUDY by psychologists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem highlights the link between inflammation and depression.

An immune system imbalance can be a trigger for depression

 CROSS-SECTIONAL T1-weighted MRI of a healthy human brain.

Israeli scientists reconstruct DNA control systems of ancient human brains

By THE MEDIA LINE STAFF
 PROF. ALON SAMACH of the Hebrew University’s  Agriculture Faculty examines passion fruit plants at the campus greenhouse, in Rehovot, 2017. The faculty discovered that a species of the fruit can help cure Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease.

How gut health and lifestyle habits could prevent Parkinson’s disease

 A row of stores and cars in Jerusalem's French Hill neighborhood.

French Hill: Jerusalem's evolving neighborhood from battlefields to high-rise towers

 THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY of Jerusalem’s mapping of gravitational ‘basins of attraction.’

Jerusalem scientists help shed light on large-scale cosmic structures