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Sapir in the Washington Post: Cyber Security and Privacy Dr. Michael Dahan, faculty member of the Departments' of Public Policy and Communications at Sapir may not wield a lance, but the dragon he’s been fighting should be of concern to us all. The Washington Post and the Times of Israel quoted him extensively over the recent NSO scandal. Technology has developed “faster than the public’s ability to comprehend the degree of invasion of privacy,” he warned, after journalists revealed that Pegasus, the NSO’s powerful cyber surveillance program, had been used to spy on Israeli citizens.

Sapir faculty member, Dr. Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler awarded First Annual Best Book in Israel Studies by Concordia University Library - Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies Last week, senior lecturer of Architecture and Visual Culture, Dr. Inbal Ben-Asher Gitler's book, Architectural Culture in British Mandate Jerusalem, 1917-1948*, (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) won the First Annual Prize Best Book in Israel Studies. Her book won along with with Haggai Ram, author of Intoxicating Zion: A Social History of Hashish in Mandatory Palestine and Israel (Stanford University Press, 2020). Dr.

The Israel National Defense College (INDC) Visits Sapir College On Tuesday, January 11, 2022, The Israel National Defense College (INDC) came to Sapir. The group included high ranking officers from the IDF, government and foreign services, as part of their two day research visit to Israel's south.  The INDC's prestigious program offers Israel's senior national security leadership and their peers in foreign services, advanced and intensive training, along with a M.A.

Equipping the Negev's Next Generation with Digital Broadcasting Skills. Radio and broadcasting? Tel Aviv, Neve Ilan, and Herzliya are the places that come to mind. Israel’s communications industry is based largely in the center of the country, with Negev communities relegated to the periphery, where the promise of economic mobility is woefully out of reach. At Sapir, our mission is to change that. For six years running, we’ve been taking our academic knowhow to the southern town of Ofakim, opening new educational horizons for young people.

Schools should be crucibles of tomorrow’s society, safe spaces where children learn the social skills and empathy that make democratic life possible. COVID-19, unfortunately, has wreaked havoc on the behavioral codes of classroom interaction. A recent Washington Post article calls this “toxic stress”. After months of remote learning, children need to “relearn how to be in school.” Can technology help undo what technology has wrought? Researchers at Sapir College think it can, and they’ve built an app to make it happen. SeeMe, is a simple but powerful idea, developed by Dr.

Sapir lecturer's research recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine Back in August 2021, Israel took a calculated risk to stem the fourth wave of COVID-19 infections. With no substantiating data to go by, the country rapidly deployed a third, booster shot of Pfizer’s Corona vaccine, a campaign that has since reached over 4 million people. Did it work? Now the results are in – and they’re striking. Dr. Ronen Arbel of Sapir Academic College, has just published convincing scientific evidence in the New England Journal of Medicine that the booster really saves lives.

Finally, art comes to life once again at the College's Art School. As public gatherings following COVID-19 protocols are now approved, Sapir’s art gallery is open to visitors with a striking new exhibition called On the Seam, featuring the works of Mai Daas, an aspiring artist from the City of Tira. Mai’s photomontage brings home the perpetual sense of living on the threshold between multiple aspects of her identity – as an Arab woman and a mother, a spouse and a feminist, a Moslem and a Palestinian, and an individual with a powerful sense of self and the will to assert it.