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10/20/2021 - 11:29
Cinema South International Film Festival October 17-21
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. -
10/14/2021 - 09:18
Back On Campus - Live
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. -
10/06/2021 - 09:34
Gaming for Good
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. -
08/30/2021 - 14:23
Can Smart Cities promote Shared Society?
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. -
08/11/2021 - 14:12
Sapir faculty visit to Deusto University in Spain – Erasmus+ IFI Project
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. -
07/28/2021 - 09:26
First Student Cohort Completes Sapir's Online International Course
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. -
07/22/2021 - 14:11
A Groundbreaking Program at Sapir College
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.