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Tel Aviv University (TAU) (Hebrew: אוניברסיטת תל־אביב Universitat Tel Aviv) is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Israel.[1] In 2006, it had 29,000 students.
History
Located in Israel's cultural, financial and industrial center, Tel Aviv University is Israel's largest university. It is a major center of teaching and research, comprising nine faculties, 106 departments, and 90 research institutes. Its origins go back to 1956, when three research institutes - the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, the Institute of Natural Sciences, and the Institute of Jewish Studies - joined together to form the University of Tel Aviv. Initially operated by the Tel Aviv municipality, the university was granted autonomy in 1963. The Ramat Aviv campus covering an area of 170-acre (0.69 km2) was established that same year.
The university also maintains academic supervision over the Center for Technological Design in Holon, the New Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, and the Afeka College of Engineering in Tel Aviv. The Wise Observatory is located in Mitzpe Ramon.
Part of the Tel Aviv campus was built on lands previously inhabited by the Arab village Al-Shaykh Muwannis, whose residents fled prior to the outbreak of the Israeli-Arab war of 1948.[2]
Ramat Aviv campus
TAU received its autonomy from the Tel Aviv municipality in 1963, when its campus, in the northern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Ramat Aviv was established.
Buildings on the Ramat Aviv campus include:
Other university schools and programs include:
- Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
- Constantiner School of Education
- Porter School of Environmental Studies
- Shapell School of Social Work
- The School for Overseas Students
- The Unit of Culture Research
- Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
- Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
- Joseph Kelman School of Education
Relations with other universities
Tel Aviv University offers special programs of Jewish studies to teachers and students from the United States, France, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. The programs are in English.
The School for Overseas Students gives young people from different countries the opportunity to study at Tel Aviv University. The program is in English and also offers the opportunity to live and study in a kibbutz.
The Tel Aviv University Law Faculty currently has exchange programs from thirteen overseas universities. Namely: Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Virginia, Cornell, Boston University, Temple, Cardozo, Toronto, Bucerius (Hamburg), Monash (Melbourne), Milan, and Seoul National University [3] The university offers about 20 courses a year in English, recruiting many top lecturers from overseas to teach.
Other study opportunities for students from abroad are:
- Master's Program in Middle Eastern Studies
- Master's Program in Biblical Archaeology
- Summer Law Program co-sponsored by Temple University Law School
- Sackler School of Medicine New York State/American Program
- Wharton-Recanati-INSEAD-York Project in Management
- International Executive MBA Program with the Kellogg School, Northwestern University
- Spring Engineering Program with Boston University's College of Engineering
- High-Tech Management School
In May 2007, New York University and Tel Aviv University approved a plan to establish an NYU Study Abroad Campus in Israel based at Tel Aviv University[4]
Faculty
Notable faculty members (past and present) include:
- Yakir Aharonov, physicist
- Noga Alon, mathematician
- Yitzhak Arad, historian
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Joseph Bernstein, mathematician
- Guy Deutscher, physicist
- Uzi Even, chemist and political activist for LGBT rights
- Israel Finkelstein, archaeologist
- Joshua Jortner, physical chemist
- Asa Kasher, philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct
- Etgar Keret, author
- Zvi Laron, paediatric endocrinologist
- Amnon Jackont, author
- Shoshana Kamin, mathematician
- Fred Landman, semanticist
- Orna Lin, lawyer
- Vitali Milman, mathematician
- Yuval Ne'eman (deceased), physicist, former minister of Science and Technology
- Baruch Modan, oncologist
- Aviad Raz, sociologist
- Tanya Reinhart, linguist
- Amnon Rubinstein, former Dean of Law, also former Education minister
- Ariel Rubinstein, economist
- Pnina Salzman, pianist and piano pedagogue
- Anita Shapira, historian
- Micha Sharir, mathematician
- Edna Shavit, drama
- Boris Tsirelson, mathematician
- Lev Vaidman, physicist
- Moshe Wolman, neuropathologist
- Amotz Zahavi, biologist
Notable alumni
- Dan Ariely[5]
- Benjamin Gantz, Commander of the GOC Army Headquarters
- Arie Eldad, member of Knesset
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Alon Bar, award winning filmmaker
- Yochai Benkler, law professor at Yale
- Mohammad Barakeh, member of parliament and party leader
- Ran Cohen, former minister of Housing
- Ari Folman, Cinematographer (Director of "Waltz with Bashir")
- Dan Gillerman, Vice-President of the UN General Assembly
- Tzachi Hanegbi, former minister of Internal Security
- Zvi Heifetz, Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom
- Ron Huldai, current mayor of Tel Aviv
- Moshe Kaplinsky, Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff
- Efraim Karsh, historian
- Dov Khenin, political scientist and member of Knesset
- Yosef Lapid, former vice premier and Justice minister
- Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former Chief of Staff and minister of Tourism and Transportation
- Yitzhak Mordechai, former Minister of Defense and Transportation
- Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, author
- Ophir Pines-Paz, Interrior Minister
- Haim Ramon, former minister of Health and Justice
- Ilan Ramon, The first Israeli astronaut
- Gideon Sa'ar, member of Knesset
- Adi Shamir, inventor of the RSA algorithm
- Simon Shaheen, musician
- Silvan Shalom, former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs
- Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
- Ronnie Weinstein, CEO of Wissotzky Tea Company
- Bat-Sheva Zeisler, singer and actress
- Abdel Rahman Zuabi, Arab Israeli judge
- Amir Gal-Or, founder of the Infinity Group
See also
References
External links
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