Bob Jones University Selects Interactive Distance Learning System From Arel; University Uses IDEAL System to Facilitate Nationwide High School Program.

ATLANTA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 28, 1999--

Bob Jones University, a non-denominational liberal arts Christian institution located in Greenville, S.C., has selected an interactive distance learning network from Arel Communications & Software, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ARLCF).

The University is using Arel's IDEAL (Interactive Distance Education and Learning) system to facilitate its interactive distance learning (IDL) network, known as BJLINC, which broadcasts 12 high school classes 17 hours per day five days per week on two channels. The classes are broadcast to high schools nationwide; subjects range from biology and physics to algebra, Spanish and French.

Bob Jones University is a pioneer in distance learning and the leader in the educational distance learning market.

IDEAL is a one-to-many system which enables an instructor to broadcast, control and conduct a fully interactive session from one center to a large number of participants in remote locations in real time. Participants in "virtual classrooms" can actively participate in the lecture and interact with the instructor by using personal interactive response units (IRUs) connected to a PC-based site control unit.

IDEAL is a software-based, open architecture platform, which operates in Windows 95/98 and NT environments. The interactive distance learning session includes broadcasting live video and two-way audio and data.

"We were looking for a reliable solution for our distance learning application," said Jeff Hargraves, director, Bob Jones University. "The BJLINC program includes multiple sites with a large student population and a great deal of interactivity. The simplicity of the equipment operation, the ability to manage the database to meet our needs, and the IDEAL system's features, functionality and flexibility were what drew us to Arel."

"The Arel IDEAL system provides an effective, easy-to-use and real-time way for educational institutions like Bob Jones University to provide information beyond the campus environment to students scattered across a wide geographic region," said Ben Yishai, president & C.E.O, Arel Communications and Software, Inc. "We are pleased to have been selected as the preferred technology for the BJLINC network and Bob Jones University. We look forward to the program's continued growth as well as its future expansion directly to the home with the Arel desktop solution."

Arel Communications & Software, Ltd. (NASDAQ: ARLCF), Yavne, Israel, and its Atlanta-based U.S. subsidiary, Arel Communications & Software, Inc., market the IDEAL (Interactive Distance and Education Learning) family of interactive distance learning products. The Company's ArelNet Ltd. subsidiary designs, develops, produces and markets value-added communication and IP telephony products for telephone carriers, Internet service providers (ISPs) and other network operators worldwide.

For more information about Arel Communications and Software and the IDEAL system, please call Ben Yishai at [phone], ext. 201 or visit the Arel website at www.arel.net.

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