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Tel Aviv University (TAU), Israel's largest, has over 30,000 students studying in nine faculties and over 125 schools and departments across the sciences, humanities and the arts. Situated in Israel's cultural, economic and technological capital, TAU shares Tel Aviv's unshakable spirit of innovation and openness. Global in outlook and impact, TAU advances teaching and research that break down the

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On September 9, Falling Walls Lab comes to Tel Aviv University, bringing Israel’s emerging researchers, innovators, and ...
02/09/2026

On September 9, Falling Walls Lab comes to Tel Aviv University, bringing Israel’s emerging researchers, innovators, and changemakers to one stage.

The challenge?
⏱️ 3 minutes
💡 1 breakthrough idea
🌍 The potential to make an impact

From science and technology to health, sustainability and society, selected participants from leading Israeli universities will pitch ideas designed to break down the walls standing in the way of progress.

The winner will go on to the Falling Walls Lab Global Finale in Berlin this November, joining innovators from around the world.

Which wall will fall next? Come find out!
Wednesday, September 9 | 16:00 | Yaglom Auditorium, Tel Aviv University

The event is free and open to the public. Save your seat here > https://international.tau.ac.il/events/falling-walls-2026

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📚 It's September 1st — Back to School Day! But what if learning felt less like a lesson and more like solving a mystery?...
01/09/2026

📚 It's September 1st — Back to School Day!
But what if learning felt less like a lesson and more like solving a mystery?

In Israel, the Hebrew Language Youth Olympiad is inspiring thousands of students to rediscover the richness of Hebrew and find their love for learning the language.

Developed by TAU’s Department of Hebrew Language and Semitic Linguistics, the competition encourages creative thinking by asking students to solve language-based codes, explore word origins, and uncover the logic behind grammar and idioms. Since its launch in 2022, participation has grown nearly fivefold, from about 1,800 to more than 9,000 students.

The program now includes a special track for non-native speakers, attracting Druze and Arab students in Israel and hundreds of international participants. By turning language into a challenge and a game, The Olympiad is helping a new generation appreciate the depth and creativity of Hebrew.

🎓 As a new school year begins, the Olympiad offers a reminder: sometimes the best way to learn is to start playing. Happy learning!

30/08/2026

People with paralysis walking again?

Nas Daily just put a global spotlight on the groundbreaking work of Prof. Tal Dvir and his team at Tel Aviv University that is developing spinal cord implants that could reverse paralysis.

Sound like science fiction? It isn’t.

Thank you, Nuseir Yassin, for shining a light on the incredible science happening at TAU!

Watch. 👇

A technology developed at Tel Aviv University is moving closer to what could become the world’s first implantation of an...
21/08/2026

A technology developed at Tel Aviv University is moving closer to what could become the world’s first implantation of an engineered spinal cord.

Biotech company Matricelf has signed an agreement with Loewenstein Rehabilitation Medical Center to begin identifying and evaluating potential patients and collecting blood samples to produce personalized neural implants.

The technology, developed in Prof. Tal Dvir’s lab at TAU, uses a patient’s own cells and tissues to create a biological neural implant designed to replace damaged spinal cord tissue.

The goal: to test whether it can help people living with paralysis following spinal cord injury stand, walk, and regain greater independence.

If all scientific and regulatory milestones are completed as planned, Matricelf estimates that treatment of the first selected patient could begin in the first half of 2027.

Read the full story in the comments.

Congratulations to the graduates of the Azrieli School of Architecture!Recently we celebrated the opening of the graduat...
19/08/2026

Congratulations to the graduates of the Azrieli School of Architecture!

Recently we celebrated the opening of the graduate exhibition, called "Architecture in Transition,” showcasing their remarkable final projects.
It was deeply moving to see our graduates, together with their families, mark the end of this meaningful chapter at such a festive and special event and celebrate the beginning of a new journey.

The exhibition offered an opportunity to discover the ideas, questions, and perspectives they developed throughout their years of study, and to see how these have taken shape in their final projects.

Best of luck on the journey ahead!

Lifetime Achievement Award for Prof. Dina Porat for her Contribution to the Study of AntisemitismCongratulations to Prof...
16/08/2026

Lifetime Achievement Award for Prof. Dina Porat for her Contribution to the Study of Antisemitism

Congratulations to Prof. Dina Porat, Professor Emerita in the Department of Jewish History, on receiving a Lifetime Achievement Award from CASA, an association that brings together academic research centers in Israel and around the world dedicated to the study of contemporary antisemitism.

The award recognizes Prof. Porat’s “academic and public contribution to the study, documentation and definition of antisemitism as it manifests today.” It was presented during a recent conference hosted by the Comper Center in Haifa.

13/08/2026

How do you make a 2,500-year-old tragedy feel new? Sometimes, not by making it bigger, but by stripping it down.

In TAU Theatre’s new production of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, adapted and directed by Ariel N. Wolf, the entire tragedy is placed in the hands of just three performers: Rea Deshe, Hagar Zander and Amit Lasri.

Moving rapidly between characters, narrators and their own presence onstage, the actors operate as what Deshe calls a “three-headed monster”: three individuals sharing text, movement and responsibility for an entire dramatic world.

Oedipus the King is an inaugural production of The Lab, a new TAU Theatre framework that connects academic research, professional theatre-making, and education. Dedicated to the memory of Prof. Nurit Yaari, it brings together graduates, students, faculty, and theatre professionals to test how classical works can continue to speak to the present.

🎭 Performances at TAU Theatre: August 17–18
The production is in Hebrew.
🎟️ Tickets & more info: in the link

Tel Aviv University’s Conference on Innovation and Creativity in Teaching offered a compelling answer to a question many...
12/08/2026

Tel Aviv University’s Conference on Innovation and Creativity in Teaching offered a compelling answer to a question many young people are beginning to ask:

- If AI can teach me almost anything, why should I go to university?

The conference suggested that the future value of higher education may lie less in delivering information and more in creating experiences that are difficult to reproduce alone.

As access to explanations and established knowledge becomes easier, educators can devote more attention to mentorship, experimentation, intellectual friction, and meaningful human interaction. The question is no longer only what students should know, but what they should be able to do, and who they should become through the process.

Perhaps this is the opportunity AI creates for universities.

TAU’s conference showed that innovation is not simply about adding more technology. It is about redesigning learning around the things technology cannot easily replace: community, curiosity, responsibility, dialogue, and encounters with people and ideas we did not yet know to seek.

Learn more from the article in the comments.

A dream 60 years in the making: At 78 Yaakov Schreibman has just earned his PhD in Archaeology from Tel Aviv University,...
11/08/2026

A dream 60 years in the making: At 78 Yaakov Schreibman has just earned his PhD in Archaeology from Tel Aviv University, fulfilling a passion that began when he was a teenager.

More than 60 years ago, as a high school student, Yaakov joined the archaeological excavations at Masada led by legendary archaeologist Yigael Yadin. The experience sparked a lifelong fascination with the past. But life took him in other directions: he went on to build a long career as an engineer, senior healthcare executive, intelligence officer and lecturer.

Then, years later, he returned to the passion that had stayed with him all along.

At TAU’s Department of Archaeology and Ancient Near Eastern Cultures, Yaakov completed his master’s and doctoral degrees under the supervision of Prof. Oded Lipschits and Prof. Yuval Gadot. His doctoral research developed a new method for dating archaeological layers by analyzing soil originating from mud bricks, a technique that could open new avenues for research into archaeology, ancient climate and the study of destruction sites.

Reflecting on his years at TAU, Yaakov says:

"I met wonderful people, an endless range of courses and uncompromising excellence that lives here and keeps pushing forward, never giving up. Thank you for allowing me to be part of it."

For Prof. Oded Lipschits, Yaakov’s supervisor and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, the experience was a lesson in itself:

"Jacob reminded us again and again that research is not a question of age, but of passion, courage and perseverance."

At TAU, it’s never too late to return to a dream. And curiosity has no expiration date!

📬 Before we hit "Send"... are we still connected?Our next international TAU Alumni newsletter is almost here, and we'd l...
11/08/2026

📬 Before we hit "Send"... are we still connected?

Our next international TAU Alumni newsletter is almost here, and we'd love to make sure it reaches every member of our global alumni community—wherever life has taken you.

Whether you're building startups in New York, conducting research in London, creating in Paris, or making an impact here in Israel, you're always part of the Tel Aviv University family. 💙

If you've changed your email address, moved to a new country, or haven't received our newsletters lately, now is the perfect time to update your details.

👉 Update your information here: https://www.ims.tau.ac.il/Bogrim/Default_Eng.aspx

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