BGU&U | SPRING 2022

27 SPOTLIGHT Powered by People Farewell to David Bareket 28 Zooming Out Webinars that brought BGU to the world

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SPOTLIGHT Science for a Food-Secure World Michael Mirilashvili founds a center for food security in the desert

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SPOTLIGHT Building Bridges Across Deserts BGU signs research agreements with Moroccan universities

FEATURE Discovering the Marcuses A new documentary about the remarkable BGU donors

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33 Notable Contributions 36 BGUAssociates Organizations 38 InMemoriam

22 South Shall We Go Notable visitors to BGU this year

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FEATURE Modern Day Ben-Gurions The 2021 Ben-Gurion Awards and more

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