Between March 2020 and September 2025, the Technion experienced an unprecedented sequence of crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, the October 7 attack, the “Iron Swords” war and Operation “Northern Arrows,” a large-scale cyberattack, and a tragic laboratory accident. Each of these constitutes a crisis by definition, as a sudden situation that poses a severe threat to organizational functioning (a disruption of routine).
This study re-examines these events through a strategic perspective, according to which every crisis, even after its formal conclusion, leaves behind “residues”, cultural, operational, and pedagogical traces. These residues accumulate and give rise to a complex “new routine” that is not a simple return to the past. Analyzing the events through this lens makes it possible to derive deep strategic insights that go beyond isolated operational solutions.