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USA House of Representatives' Majority Leader, the Hon. Steny Hoyer meets Sapir President Professor Shai Feldman The Hon. Steny Hoyer (D-Maryland) headed a 14-member delegation visiting the western Negev on Wednesday, February 23. In the framework of the visit, Leader Hoyer held a lengthy conversation at Kibbutz Alumim with Sapir College President, Prof. Shai Feldman. Their meeting covered a wide range of issues related to Sapir College, the security situation in the Gaza Envelope region and along Israel's other frontiers, U.S.-Israel relations including the prospects for U.S.

As companies scramble to recruit competent human resources, the value of engaged and motivated employees is ever more apparent. Now, Dr. Gil Bozer, has led a major international conference in Berlin on the subject of workplace coaching.

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.