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BGU PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2020

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Three graduates of the Creative Writing Program in BGU’s Dept. of Hebrew Literature received the Minister of Education and Culture Prize in Literature for their debut books: Roni Eldad ’s Any Day Now ; Tali Shamir Werzberger ’s Smooth as Water ; and Adam Ratzon ’s A Need to Fight the Obvious . Prof. Jonatan Meir  from the Goldstein Goren Dept. of Jewish Thought was elected a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities . Three members of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology now lead their professional organizations: Prof. Lev Grinberg was elected president of the Israeli Sociological Society ; Prof. Yael Hashiloni Dolev was elected joint president of the Israeli Society for the History & Philosophy of Science ; and Prof. Pnina Motzafi Haller was elected president of the Israeli Anthropological Society .

Cambium, a software development company and hi-tech entrepreneur in Yeruham; and Moshe Vigdor , Director General of the Jack, Joseph, and Morton Mandel Foundation-Israel, former director general of the Council for Higher Education, the Jewish Agency for Israel and former VP and Director General of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. EXCELLENCE RECOGNIZED “Fake news on Twitter during the 2016 U.S. presidential election” by Dr. Nir Grinberg of the Dept. of Software and Information Systems Engineering ranked number 58 on Altmetric’s Top 100 list of the most-discussed and shared pieces of research published in the past year.

 Alumni Recognition Awards honorees with VP and Director General David Bareket, Rector Hames and President Chamovitz