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We are open for business! On Sunday October 10, 2021, Sapir, Israel largest public college, launched the new academic year. For the first time since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic, classes will be taking place on campus based on the Ministry of Health's Tav Yarok − Green Pass guidelines. Energized and excited to be back "live" on campus, Sapir students are experiencing a variety of festivities, including fairs with various pop-ups, food trucks and live music with leading Israeli artists.

Our society prides itself on tolerance, but people with mental disorders are rarely accepted – and seldom understood. Ella Luna Pleasance knows this first hand.  A third year computer science student at Sapir Academic College, Ella suffers from Complex Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, trying to cope on a daily basis with often debilitating fears and insecurities.

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.