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Smart cities employ digital technology to make municipal services more efficient and sustainable. Local governments increasingly use smart city methodologies in everything from transportation infrastructure to water supply. But how do they affect interactions between people on a daily basis?   Drs. Regev Nathansohn and Lihi Lahat of Sapir College decided to find out, and now the Harry S. Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace has granted them a prestigious research prize to do it.

In the framework of the Erasmus+ IFI Capacity Building Project, Mr. Amiad Gurewitz (CPA, Department of Economics and Head of the Financial Clinic at the Sapir eXlab) and Dr.

Representations of the Holocaust in Graphic Novels July 2021 Sapir's first student cohort has just completed our online international course Representations of the Holocaust in Graphic Novels.

Integrating social workers, graduates of Arab universities, into social services in the State of Israel Social workers are an essential resource for underserved communities in Israel’s periphery. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Bedouin towns and villages, the poorest communities in the country. Qualified Israeli professionals, however, are in short supply. A pioneering initiative at the Sapir College School of Social Work seeks to change the equation – using a very unconventional approach. Many of Israel’s Arab citizens study social work at universities in the Palestinian Authority.

July 13-29, 2021 Curator Smadar Levy The year is not yet over, but looking back, we can safely say it has been uniquely challenging. As last year, in 2021, we once again experienced lockdowns and social distancing due to COVID-19.  For good measure, we also spent time sheltering from the recent hostilities and rocket fire from the nearby Gaza Strip.  Life, it seems, has receded to the threshold of our safe rooms. On July 13, 2021, the Art School opened the annual Graduates’ Exhibition.

New Children's Book: In the Forest, by Dr. Idit Raz Kalisher All too often, economics gets a bad rap. Think of grey suited wonks discussing interest rates or bond yields. In fact, economics is much more basic to the way we – and our children – live our daily lives. Now, Dr. Idit Kalisher has authored In the Forest, a marvelously accessible anthology of children’s’ stories illustrating how we face rational, economic decisions in almost everything we do. Human beings learn early on that resources are finite. Time, money, attention span, cookies – everything has its limits.

Sapir's School of Audio and Visual Arts congratulates alumnus Omer Daida who won on July 8, 2021 First Place in Docaviv's Student Film Competition, for her film, "Herd"! For the past three years, Sapir's students have won First Place at Docaviv's Student Competition Award! Omer joins Smadar Plagi, with her film "Home" in 2020 and Shir Hori with her film "Shira Tama" in 2019. Docaviv is Israel's leading annual international documentary film festival. "Herd" is a documentary about ten-year-old Na'ama and her father Itamar who owns a farm raising cattle for meat.