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UC Berkeley offers Israeli dance scholar position after legal settlement over denied job

UC Berkeley said it will offer Israeli dance scholar Yael Nativ a teaching position after a legal settlement over a university finding that she was denied a role because of her Israeli identity.

|ByJTA/NIVA ASHKENAZI
The University of California, Berkeley
TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, is shown in this conceptual illustration obtained by Reuters on March 28, 2018.

Scientists identify nearby 'super-Earth' as promising candidate in search for alien life - study

NASA plans to launch the Habitable Worlds Observatory in the 2040s, a mission whose goal is “to image Earth-like planets around other sun-like stars,” according to NASA’s website.

|ByEITAN ELIAS
A man walks through the campus of the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) in Los Angeles, California, US, August 11, 2025.

UCLA, student president distance themselves from student gov't that condemned former Gaza hostage

USAC had argued that the Nazarian Center's sponsorship of the April 14 event reflected a disregard for Palestinian life and made the university complicit in amplifying one sided narratives.

|ByMICHAEL STARR
Israa al-Jaabis (L), a 32-year-old Palestinian woman who detonated a small bomb on October 11, 2015 on the highway leading from the Jewish settlement of Maale Adumim to Jerusalem, arrives for her sentencing hearing at the District Court in Jerusalem on November 7, 2016.

Failed car bomber released in October 7 deal gave video speech at Berkeley classroom

Jaabis was released in November 2023 as part of a ransom for 26 hostages captured by Gazans during the October 7 Massacre, according to the BBC.

|ByMICHAEL STARR

UC Berkeley student gov't does not condemn pro-Palestinian display

Many of the Jewish students who attended the meeting to support Bears for Palestine called out “You don’t speak for us” to Nathan Bentolila, who said the university is "not united against hate."

FEBRUARY 13, 2020ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California May 12, 2014

Israel and Palestinian backers scuffle at student government meeting

The meeting was moved to a larger venue to accommodate the 110 students who signed up to comment and observers, The Daily Californian student newspaper reported.

FEBRUARY 6, 2020ByMARCY OSTER/JTA
Sather Tower rises above the University of California at Berkeley campus in Berkeley, California May 12, 2014

BGU and UC Davis researchers use AI to grow more resistant crops

The experts have focused on using artificial intelligence techniques to help identify cellular reactions that indicate how tomatoes and other crops handle different climate conditions.

JULY 2, 2019ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Tomatoes