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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.

Smart Specialization – The Process that is Transforming the Negev Israel’s Negev is thousands of kilometers away from North London, but Dr. Dan Kaufman of Sapir Academic College exemplifies the historic epigram on one of England’s most controversial statues. To paraphrase a quote beneath Karl Marx’s imposing bust, “Change the world, don’t describe it.”  Admittedly, reading Marx is not on the top of Kaufman’s ambitious “to do” list. But he is making academia a tool for real world social transformation.

Nir Kedar of Sapir Academic College made Full Professor Nir Kedar was promoted to Full Professor by Israel’s Council for Higher Education.

It was a team that could only have met at Sapir Academic College: four women – one a secular Jew, another strictly Orthodox, and two Arab sisters of Arab Bedouin background. Meital Bergman, Yovel Cohen, and Sondos and Dalal Sraiaa come from entirely different worlds.

Our College President, Professor Shai Feldman, was recently interviewed by the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Brandeis University as part of their  “Crown Conversation” series. These focus on recent developments in the Middle East providing insights into the wider regional and global implications of the news. Professor Feldman’s expertise includes Israel-Palestinian negotiations, nuclear proliferation, U.S. policy in the Middle East, and Israel foreign policy.

The Cinema South International Film Festival, founded by Sapir College's School of Audio and Visual Arts operating in collaboration with the Sderot Municipality, Sha'ar Hanegev Regional Council and Cellcom, opened this week at the Sderot Cinematheque.  This past Sunday (17/10), the Festival opened with a special ceremony, naming the street adjacent to the Sderot Cinematheque after the actress and filmmaker Ronit Elkabetz.