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| Social Action Unit Assists Struggling Soldier to Enter University Ranks
 Itamar, 24, is in his first semester of study for a BA in Computer Science at Bar-Ilan. A native of Beit Shean, he served in the Golani Brigade -- one of the most highly decorated infantry units in the IDF - in Jenin and Ramallah. Just last August, in the midst of applying to university, he and his comrades were being fired upon while on reserve duty in Nablus.
Itamar is the youngest of three sons. His father, who immigrated to Israel in 1957 from Morocco, was unemployed for four years before finally finding employment a little over a year ago as a maintenance worker in Tel Aviv. Itamar is just one of many students the Social Action Unit at Bar-Ilan University has sought to advance through specialized programs - since entrance requirements at universities in Israel often deter students from poorer socio-economic populations from applying. Read more...
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| BIU Gender Experts Examine Affects of "Societal Norms" on Israeli Mothers
 Dr. Omi Leissner and Dr. Anat Herbst recently made presentations on the "Business of Being Born" and "the social welfare policy as grace or social rights for single mothers" at an international conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association. Each examined how societal norms and state laws have affected, even limited, mothers's rights in Israel.
Dr. Leissner
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| Strategy to Stop a Pandemic
 Prof. Shlomo Havlin of BIU's Dept. of Physics has coauthored a study presenting a new approach for effective use of scarce vaccine supplies. Computer simulations demonstrate that targeting vaccinations to selected people could block a pandemic from spreading along the network of social interactions while using up to 50 percent fewer doses than existing approaches.
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| "For HRW, Israel is Always Guilty"
by Professor Gerald Steinberg: A reply to Ken Roth in the Jerusalem Post
 For many years, Ken Roth and Human Rights Watch have been at the forefront of the campaign to criminalize self-defense against terrorism and to brand Israel as the primary perpetrator of war crimes. Emotional outbursts, convoluted pseudo-legal language and post-colonial bias have contributed to the ideological destruction of human rights principles. Prof. Steinberg
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Recent BESA Headlines & Publications
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Visiting Scholar
Dr. Elisheva Baumgarten, the first recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award from the Association of Jewish Studies, and a Professor of Gender Studies at Bar-Ilan, will be visiting Montreal March 16th, 2009.
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Prof. Inbar
The Rise & Demise of the Two-State Paradigm
by Prof. Efraim Inbar,
Director of the BESA Center at Bar-Ilan University
The Arab-Jewish or the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over Palestine (The Land of Israel) has evolved over the past hundred years. Nowadays, most attempts to solve this simmering ethnic conflict in Palestine revolve around the two-state paradigm. This conventional wisdom recommends the division of the territory of Palestine that was under British rule (1917-1948), into Jewish and Arab states that will coexist peacefully.
While this paradigm has a long pedigree and current popularity in contemporary academic and diplomatic circles, it needs rethinking.
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