Ben Gurion University closed the Bible department this academic year without making a public announcement.
(JPost.)
The situation is a bit better than I thought in other Halls of Higher Heresy, as well.
From the article:
Several decades ago the [Tel Aviv] university decided to combine its small Department of Bible with other fields of study that were on the verge of closure in a new unit: Hebrew Culture; in this way, the Bible was saved from the sword. Of interest, is that two years ago, the Department of Bible was resuscitated in Tel Aviv as an independent department. A different combination was created at the University of Haifa so that today the Bible is studied together with the History of Israel (that includes the biblical period).