The suspension of face-to-face studies at Ben Gurion University will continue until further notice

However, the spokesperson of Ben Gurion University stated that the university continues its research and administrative activities

Due to the security situation and out of concern for the safety of the students at the university, the suspension of studies at the institution will continue next week, subject to developments related to the "Cast Lead" operation in the Gaza Strip. This is what the university management said yesterday. However, Ben-Gurion University emphasizes that with the exception of the absence of studies and what is implied by this, the university continues its research and administrative activities. It will be emphasized that the university is well protected and prepared for the current security circumstances. It was also reported that the university is preparing to complete the study material for students due to the security situation.

Many of the approximately 17 students studying at Ben Gurion University fought on Tuesday for every bus and taxi train that made its way north, following the decision to cancel classes until Friday following the fall of a Grad missile that hit a kindergarten on Tuesday night. However, these students, as well as those who stayed in the protected rooms on campus, will be able to continue to do assignments within their courses using the ICT system. This is what Shmuel Gruber, head of the computing department at Ben Gurion University, says in a conversation with me published in the Daily Mail.

"Only face-to-face teaching has been canceled. The university's Internet system is working, and so are all the computing, IT, and e-mail systems. All the sites that support learning are working, and all the employees are at their workplaces, including the clerks and library workers. The courses that can be studied remotely throughout the year, although there are not many, continue as usual."

Grover further added that most of the computer classrooms, at least the public classrooms operated by the university's computing system, live in shelters all year round, and this time it is extremely important. In addition, there are also classrooms that are inside concrete buildings, and even there there is no fear of being found when missiles fall."

"Back on Tuesday, following the escalation of rocket fire from the Gaza Strip and the warning that the city of Be'er Sheva was in missile range, Ben-Gurion University prepared accordingly and activated the wartime emergency procedure that exists at the institution, in coordination with the Home Front Command. Among other things, the shelters and shelters on the campuses were controlled, specifying the number of people that each of these shelters contains."

It should be noted that the war occupies Ben Gurion University in the middle of the winter semester, which is one of the two main semesters. This is compared to the Second Lebanon War which took the The Technion and Haifa University in the summer semester.