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Yifat Mandabi is a 46-year-old mother of three from Haifa. She moved there from Eilat during her army service in the Navy, fell in love with the city, and has lived there ever since.
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By being a pioneer in occupational therapy within the Israeli-Arab community and developing cutting-edge technology for assessment and accessibility, Dr. Alexandra Danial-Saad of University of Haifa’s Faculty of Social Welfare and Health Sciences is reshaping how people with disabilities access public, cultural, and educational spaces through advanced technology. She spoke with the American Friends of the University of Haifa (AFUH) about her journey, her innovative research, and her vision for inclusive, culturally grounded education.
One would be hard-pressed to find a career journey quite like that of American Friends of University of Haifa (AFUH) Board of Directors member Tom Levy. It spans his early adventures as a teenage archaeology volunteer, decades of groundbreaking excavation across Israel, Jordan, India, and beyond, and now a new chapter of American-Israeli academic collaboration driven by creativity and a bold vision for Israel’s future.
Prof. Sigal Zilcha-Mano of University of Haifa is at the forefront of transforming mental health care by moving beyond a one-size-fits-all approach to psychotherapy. Her work has helped shift the field from focusing on average treatment effects to understanding the dynamic, person-specific pathways of change. In a conversation with AFUH, she shared how her research focuses on understanding why individuals respond differently to therapy and how treatments can be tailored to each person’s unique needs.
Onn Yosef Kadosh grew up in a musical household in Tel Aviv, where his father placed an oud in his hands and set him on a path that would shape his life’s work. Today, as a doctoral researcher at the University of Haifa and recipient of the prestigious Prof. Emeritus Robert Elbaz Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students, Kadosh is developing a pioneering new compositional framework he calls “The Expanded Maqam” — an effort to bring the deep modal tradition of Arabic classical music into conversation with contemporary art music, without losing what makes it unique.
Bridging Worlds: University of Haifa Doctoral Student Reimagines Arabic Classical Music for the Modern Age
Onn Yosef Kadosh grew up in a musical household in Tel Aviv, where his father placed an oud in his hands and set him on a path that would shape his life’s work. Today, as a doctoral researcher at the University of Haifa and recipient of the prestigious Prof. Emeritus Robert Elbaz Scholarship for Outstanding Doctoral Students, Kadosh is developing a pioneering new compositional framework he calls “The Expanded Maqam” — an effort to bring the deep modal tradition of Arabic classical music into conversation with contemporary art music, without losing what makes it unique.
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Twenty-five graduating students presented their final collections in an event that was held on the university campus
In times of national uncertainty, it is easy to focus on the crises immediately before us. Far more difficult is investing in the future. Yet that is precisely what the University of Haifa’s Northern Lights Initiative seeks to do.
The region’s doctor shortage is worsening as demand rises and veteran physicians retire; a new medical school aims to keep doctors in the region by training them in the communities they may one day serve
Researchers, academics, and writers gathered in Haifa on Tuesday for the opening of a three-day conference examining the impact of rising antisemitism across Europe and the United States.
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Iran expert Dr. Thamar Eilam Gindin discusses the confusion Trump’s shifting policies have created among the Iranian people-and explains why it is regime supporters who are taking to the streets
The war in the Middle East has a new equation, and it runs straight through Lebanon. In Keren Setton’s report, the latest Israel-Iran exchange is not treated as a one-day flare-up but as a warning shot: Hezbollah, weakened but not broken, has become the tripwire between Jerusalem, Tehran, and Washington.
A Technion–University of Haifa project uses public architectural records to give rescuers structural layouts in under 30 seconds.
Dan Schueftan said that the agreement has surpassed Obama’s ‘high bar’ for bad diplomatic deals with Iran — undermining Israel and emboldening its enemies in the process
University of Haifa co-led study of Carmel Coast mud cores finds ancient Levantine communities adapted to drought rather than simply collapsing or moving away
Archaeologists working near the town of Fureidis, south of Haifa, have uncovered a prehistoric cave dating between 400,000 and 250,000 years ago. The site, located near the Zikhron Ya’akov interchange, offers a rare look at a period of human history for which archaeological evidence is scarce.
The team was originally slated to perform surveys over the course of six days, but instead were called to shore after one day due to Iranian missile strikes.
Iran expert Dr. Menahem Merhavy explains that Iran has created a “ring of fire” of terrorist proxies surrounding Israel that is “currently stuttering, but Iran won’t give up the idea and will not abandon Hezbollah.”
When the University of Haifa launched its Northern Lights Initiative this past April, it was addressing a gap that had been quietly widening for decades.
The Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies at the University of Haifa convened its annual conference last week at the Rabin Center in Tel Aviv, bringing together leading scholars, policy experts and public figures
