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Congratulations to Dr. Sagit Kedem Yamini of Sapir Academic College and Dr.

Dr. Sagit Azari Wiesel from Sapir Academic College's Department of Public Administration and Policy and the Department of Economics and Accounting, together with Dr. Sharon Hadad, Head of the Department of Economics, have been awarded an inter institutional grant to establish an Applied Regional Development Research Institute. Over the past six months, Dr. Azari Wiesel and Dr. Hadad have led the initiative to establish the institute.

Prof. Lihi Lahat, Associate Professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at Sapir Academic College, has been awarded a prestigious research grant from the German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF).

Congratulations to Prof. Ronen Arbel, Associate Professor in the Department of Technological Marketing and the M.A. Program in Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Organizations at Sapir Academic College, who, together with a team of researchers from Clalit Health Services, has been awarded the prestigious Horizon Europe grant, the European Union’s flagship program for research and innovation. Prof. Arbel’s research group, which focuses on health outcomes research within Clalit’s Community Division, is a partner in an international project aimed at predicting future pandemics.

Sapir Law School is proud to announce that the Honorable President (retired) Justice Esther Hayut will teach a unique workshop on "Law and the Holocaust" in the summer semester (2026) at Sapir Law School. Honorable President Hayut began her judicial career in 1990 as a Magistrate's Court judge in Tel Aviv. In 1997, she was appointed to the District Court, and in 2004, she was appointed to the Supreme Court. Judge Hayut served as chairwoman of the Central Elections Committee and chairwoman of the Judges' Ethics Committee.

Recently, we had the honor of hosting at the College the leadership of the German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), one of the most important and prominent foundations working to strengthen academic and scientific ties between Germany and Israel. The special visit of Verena Shifferman, CEO of the GIF, and Mirit Liran, Director of Research, was dedicated to the Western Negev region and to the College in particular, and concluded successfully. As part of the visit, a moving tour was held at the “Ketav VaShem” memorial site near Kibbutz Kfar Aza, guided by Dr.