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Based on the latest global rankings as of December 2025, I have compiled an aggregated Top 20 university ranking. This is a synthesis of the three leading ranking systems: Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings 2025 QS World University Rankings 2025 ShanghaiRanking’s Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) 2025 These rankings evaluate criteria such … Continue reading Unified World University Ranking 2025: Israel notable
In a major breakthrough for virus detection technology, Prof. Dr. Eitan Lerner and the PhD candidate, Mrs. Paz Drori from the Hebrew University and their team together with their colleagues in the research group of Prof. Dr. Thorben Cordes from Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich and the Technical University Dortmund have developed a new method for quickly and accurately detecting nanoparticles … Continue reading Hebrew University: Fast and Accurate Virus Detection
An international team led by Professor Hagai Levine of Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s Hadassah Braun School of Public Health, with Prof. Shanna Swan at the Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, along with researchers in Denmark, Brazil, Spain, Israel and the USA, published the first meta-analysis to demonstrate declining sperm counts among men … Continue reading GLOBAL CRISIS: Decline in Sperm Counts. Humans Survival in Jeopardy (D/E)
PitchBook delivers each year their various rankings of Universities worldwide and the Tel Aviv University has always a safe place under the Top 10. This year the Tel Aviv University reached the whooping 7th place in global entrepreneurship ranking. And, not enough, TAU is the only non-US-University under the TOP 10. With other words: USA … Continue reading Global Entrepreneurship Ranking of Universities: USA and Israel are League on their own (D/E)
Today, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HU)’s School of Engineering and Computer Science and Yissum, HU’s technology transfer company announced a new research partnership with Meta AI. Professor Sara Cohen, Dean of the Rachel and Selim Benin School of Computer Science and Engineering at the Hebrew University: “This partnership offers our students a unique opportunity … Continue reading Silicon Wadi meets Silicon Valley: META and Hebrew University ink Research Partnership (D/E)
It has always been a dream of mankind to visit distant planets which, ideally, may be Earth-like.Today it is close to feasibility and has become an imperative of sustainability. Why? Because humanity, if it wants to survive, will have to conquer space. Not only new resources and growth, but also to defend the earth against … Continue reading Innovation&Sustainability: Searching for ‘Second Earth’ fit for Settlements (D/E)
The Technion and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem have signed a partnership agreement with IBM Research to advance artificial intelligence capabilities and applications in Israel. In light of the fact that Israel has a severe shortage of people with advanced degrees in computer science, and given higher education’s need for funding and skills from the … Continue reading Israel & Artificial Intelligence (AI): Co-operation Hebrew University, Technion and IBM to Advance AI
Three selected news about business, innovation and sustainability from Israel. Today the three fields are: Innovation: Platform for Sensors, Sustainability: Platform Against Cancer powered by AI, Business: Platform Against Virus Selected and brought to you by Naftali - doing business and searching for innovation and sustainability for 40 years. You think you are relevant too? … Continue reading Raise of Platform-Economy: Platform for Sensors, Platform Against Virus, Platform Against Cancer
Three selected news about business, innovation and sustainability from Israel. Today the three fields are: Innovation: Sales powered by Artificial Intelligence, Sustainability: Superfood with Fungis&AI, Business: Health, Investment & AI Selected and brought to you by Naftali - doing business and searching for innovation and sustainability for 40 years. You think you are relevant too? … Continue reading More Sales by Artificial Intelligence (AI), Investment in Health&AI, Superfood powered by Fungis&AI
Three selected news about business, innovation and sustainability from Israel. Today the three fields are: Electronic Warfare, Cannabis:Enhencement for more Sustainability, Capital Market: New Bond Indices in Israel. Selected and brought to you by Naftali - doing business and searching for innovation and sustainability for 40 years. You think you are relevant too? Send your … Continue reading Electronic Warfare, Cannabis and Capital Market in Israel
Die Innovationszentren der Hebräischen Universität (Israel) und der Ben-Gurion-Universität in der Negev (Israel) haben der Tage zwei der weltweit renommiertesten Preise für Hochschulunternehmertum errungen. Das ' Asper-HUJI Innovate, das Zentrum für Innovation und Unternehmertum' der Hebräischen Universität, hat kürzlich die Auszeichnung "Outstanding Emerging Entrepreneurship Center" erhalten. Die Auszeichnung wurde auf der GCEC-Konferenz bekannt gegeben. Diese … Continue reading Israel: Hebrew University und Ben-Gurion University als globale Leader für Entrepreneurship und Innovation ausgezeichnet // Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University Named Global Leaders in Entrepreneurship and Innovation