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Prof. Menachem Magidor

Dear Governor

The past two years have been extremely difficult for the Hebrew University — and higher education in Israel in general — as the result of budget cuts, lack of clear government policy, political intervention and rising costs. Furthermore, the 2006/2007 academic year was marred by the student strike in the second semester. This academic year too has been severely disrupted, in this case by the faculty members’ lengthy strike in support of their union’s just demand for compensation for the attrition of their salaries in comparison to employees in similar sectors of the economy. While understanding their grievances, the University administration did have reservations about some of the protest measures taken by faculty members.

The 90-day strike ended with a settlement that provided substantial salary increases for the faculty. The school year resumed, but with a major disruption to its schedule that required extending the second semester well into the summer. This rescheduling has created severe financial hardship for many students who usually work during the summer in order to cover their tuition fees and other expenses. Clearly, this means that we must increase student assistance. We are focusing much effort on raising additional funds for this purpose and turn to our friends for their support.

Notwithstanding these difficulties, it is imperative that the Hebrew University not abandon its commitment to its long-term goals. The Hebrew University is well-placed among the leading universities in the world, but it must strive to be on the shortlist of the very best. I believe that despite the limitations of Israel’s size and resources we have the ability to meet this goal. I firmly believe that, provided we maintain our commitment and given the appropriate resources, the Hebrew University could be one of the 20 best universities in the world. We have the talent of our faculty, which includes some of the world’s most original and creative minds. We are able to attract — as

witnessed by the many visitors to our campuses — an outstanding group of students. We also enjoy the unwavering support of our worldwide network of friends and donors who fully identify with our mission. Moreover, in many areas of our academic endeavors, we have demonstrated the flexibility to think out-of-the-box and to create important and solid connections between seemingly disparate disciplines. Indeed, although we are a relatively young university — this year marks the 90th anniversary of the cornerstone-laying — I believe that we can become one of the very best in a matter of decades.

This year, we celebrate Israel’s 60th anniversary. Though it faces complex challenges, Israel is indisputably a great success story — and the Hebrew University is proud to have been a major contributor to its success. The Hebrew University educated the leadership of the various facets of Israeli society, be it the three branches of government, the health and education systems, the economy, culture, the media, civil society, diplomacy, the environment, the defense services or high-tech. No less important, the Hebrew University provided these sectors with the standards, the know-how and sometimes even the answers to the essential questions underlying their development. In this year’s President’s Report, you will meet some of these impressive people, all of them alumni of the Hebrew University and all testifying — as do I, a fellow alumnus — that the University was the starting point of their paths to achievement. Each alumnus is accompanied by a student in the same field they studied — for while we are proud of our past achievements, we must always look forward to the future.

Indeed, we are confident that our students of today will go on to set new standards of leadership. Based on its past experience and though facing many challenges and difficulties in the present, the Hebrew University can look confidently into a brilliant future.

Professor Menachem MagidorPresident

2-3 / From the President

“I firmly believe that, provided we maintain our commitment and given the appropriate resources, the Hebrew University could be one of the best 20 universities in the world.”

President, The Hebrew University of JerusalemB.Sc., Mathematics & Physics, 1965M.Sc., Mathematics, 1967 | Ph.D., Mathematics, 1972

Hebrew University alumni have had a major influence on all areas of Israeli society. In these pages, a selection of leading alumni reflect on the Hebrew University’s impact on Israel and on their own lives, and share their hopes and aspirations for the University in the future.

Impacting Our Reality

Jerusalemite Gal Bligh enrolled at the Hebrew University following five years’ military service as an IDF intelligence officer. He par-ticipates in a joint project of the Department of Psychology and the Child Psychological Services, working with children from families in crisis. “It’s a big brother program with a psychological orientation that gives me invaluable hands-on experience,” says 28-year-old Bligh, who previously taught philosophy to third graders through the Philosophy for Children joint program of the School of Education and the Department of Philosophy. “Studying philosophy as well as psychology has exposed me to a humanistic approach that enriches me as a person and — I hope — as a future therapist.”

Third-year undergraduate, Psychology & Philosophy

Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

6-7 / The Executive

Prime Minister of IsraelB.A., Psychology & Philosophy, 1968 | LL.B., 1974

“There is no university in the world like the Hebrew University. There is only one Hebrew University, and it is here in Jerusalem. The finest minds have been cultivated on its campuses, and the abilities that led this country to success and prosperity were nurtured there.”

Applying to the Hebrew University and being accepted by the Department of Psychology was a profoundly moving experience for me. I came from Binyamina, a provincial town in the 1960s, and I was a “country boy”.

Although Jerusalem was also quite provincial at that time, the Givat Ram campus was an oasis — magical, exciting, and enlightening. I discovered a new world to which I had never been exposed, neither through the sporadic radio news broadcasts nor the stolid newspapers dealing with global issues and national politics.

At the University, I met people who would become an inseparable part of my life, including my wife of 38 years. I met people from foreign countries, I was exposed to new challenges and I learned to confront tasks that required me to develop analytical abilities and quickness of thought.

The magic of this experience has not faded. Givat Ram was not just a place to learn: it was the starting point for a new lifestyle featuring an openness to new ideas, opinions and patterns of thinking, and a code of behavior that was not the norm back home. I will never forget the excitement of my first lecture by Professor Nathan Rotenstreich of the Department of Philosophy, nor my nervousness during my first lecture by Professor Yeshaiahu Leibowitz, who taught a physiology course in the Department of Psychology.

I spent a lot of time at the University. During my undergraduate studies, I attended lectures in many departments — education, political science, even economics — and later completed my legal studies there. Indeed, my subsequent career was shaped and cemented at the University.

There is no university in the world like the Hebrew University. There is only one Hebrew University, and it is here in Jerusalem. The finest minds have been cultivated on its campuses, and the abilities that led this country to success and prosperity were nurtured there. The University is a hothouse for excellence, and plays a crucial role in the development of an open, tolerant culture. It is the basis for the growth, development and achievement on which the future of the State of Israel depends.

Gal Bligh

A student in the LL.B. / M.B.A. joint program who served as an officer in the Israel Air Force, Shay Yanovsky received his LL.B. last year, is currently completing his M.B.A. and recently began his master’s in law, specializing in high-tech intellectual property. He is a coordinator and teaching assistant at the University’s Clinical Legal Education Center, which runs 11 clinics for disadvantaged sectors of the community. “My work with disaffected youth through the Center’s courses has changed my entire learning experience and perspective,” says 28-year-old Yanovsky. “I can’t think of anything more powerful and satisfying than using the knowledge and tools I have acquired in academia to advance social justice.”

Master’s student, Law

Justice Dorit Beinisch

8-9 / The Judiciary

President of the Supreme CourtLL.B., 1966 | LL.M., 1968

“The unique character of the Hebrew University and its central importance to the State of Israel and to Jerusalem is a living legacy that has inspired and guided the many generations of its alumni.”

For my generation, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was the most respected and prestigious institution of higher learning where we could aspire to obtain an academic education. We, who grew up during the period of the establishment and the early years of the State of Israel, saw the University as more than just a source of knowledge and a professional education. It was a vibrant cultural, spiritual and educational center that nurtured a generation to assume the leadership of their country in all areas. This is what attracted so many young people of that time to the Hebrew University.

The University did not rest on the laurels of its impressive scholarly achievements or the cadres of those of its scientists and scholars who created the infrastructure for the vigorous academic life that today characterizes Israel’s universities and institutions of higher education. Indeed, it went on to train a generation of activists, many of whom breached the walls of academia and, through their influential leadership, have left their mark on Israel — in the judiciary, in the military and security services, in medicine, in economics and, indeed, in all spheres of society.

For the students of my generation at the Hebrew University, Jewish and universal values were not taught as ephemeral and abstract concepts. Rather, they constituted a statement of responsibility and purpose that served to imbue an entire generation of students with a sense of mission that influenced their chosen paths long after graduation. The unique character of the Hebrew University and its central importance to the State of Israel and to Jerusalem is a living legacy that has inspired and guided the many generations of its alumni.

The importance of the Hebrew University does not only relate to our personal history, but also to that of the State of Israel. The University has contributed significantly to the values and achievements that have propelled Israel into the forefront of the academic world; furthermore, it continues to play a central role in maintaining Israel — and particularly Jerusalem — as a worldwide center of culture and enlightenment.

I wish the Hebrew University many more years of success in fulfilling its time-honored aims and goals.

Shay Yanovsky

M.K. Dr. Yuval Steinitz

10-11 / The Legislature

Studying philosophy at the Hebrew University in the 1980s was an amazing intellectual adventure. Not only was I privileged to have wonderful teachers, including the late Professor Yeshaiahu Leibowitz, but I also benefited from their wisdom in welcoming my tendency to debate them incessantly at every turn. During my master’s studies, some of them even encouraged me to publish my first academic articles and my first book, Invitation to Philosophy, which immediately became a bestseller. That I finally learned how to learn — having been thrown out of high school by teachers who were intolerant of my endless philosophical debates — was mainly thanks to these Hebrew University teachers. I completed my B.A. and M.A. degrees (with honors) during the 1980s, and then earned my Ph.D. in Philosophy at Tel Aviv University.

My life and that of my extended family are inextricably tied to the Hebrew University. As a student, I taught philosophy at the University’s Joseph Meyerhoff Youth Center for Advanced Studies. Good fortune led me to meet Gila Kanfi, my future wife, who was then a student at the University’s Faculty of Law and today is a judge in the Jerusalem District Court. My aunts, two of my sisters and my late mother count among University alumnae, and Professor Noam Nisan of the Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science is my brother-in-law. Several Steinitz family members were among the first researchers at the Faculty of Science — the University’s H. Steinitz Marine Biological Laboratory in Eilat, today part of the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences, was named after one of them.

Our first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, noted presciently in the 1950s that Israel must compensate for its enormous quantitative inferiority vis-à-vis its hostile neighborhood by means of a significant qualitative edge. Clearly this edge is needed today — not just in order to enhance Israel’s national security, but also to bolster its economic growth and to attract Jewish immigration. It is time to understand that there can be no qualitative superiority without an excellent system of higher education as exemplified by the continuation of the Hebrew University’s pivotal role in Israel’s scientific and intellectual life.

“That I finally learned how to learn — having been thrown out of high school by teachers who were intolerant of my endless philosophical debates — was mainly thanks to these Hebrew University teachers.”

Born in Jerusalem, Mordechai Applebaum moved to Canada at age 13, returning to Israel after high school to combine yeshiva studies with military service in the paratroopers. He enrolled at the Hebrew University, earning a B.Sc. in biology, a B.A. in philosophy, and an M.Sc. in medical sciences specializing in cancer research. Applebaum, 31, has volunteered with the elderly and taught junior high school science. He also performs Shakespeare and writes poetry. “I can’t see separating science and the humanities,” he says. “Philosophy enables me to think more conceptually and abstractly, while science brings a down-to-earth attitude to philosophy.”

Mordechai ApplebaumMaster’s student, Philosophy

Member of KnessetB.A., Philosophy, 1984 | M.A., Philosophy, 1988

The son of mathematics teachers — one American and one British — Gavriel Smith was born in Jerusalem and grew up in Rehovot. Although his choice of studies seems natural, he did his matriculation in English and music as well as math and physics. After serving in military intelligence, he was attracted to the Hebrew University by its reputation for excellence. Smith, 24, who works part-time in high-tech, won a merit-based scholarship and is a winner of the Rector’s prize. “I have enjoyed the challenges offered by my studies at the University,” he says. “I anticipate continuing my education for a master’s degree in either math or computer science.”

Second-year undergraduate, Computer Science & Mathematics and Amirim honors program

Gavriel Smith

Major-General Ido Nehushtan

12-13 / Defense

Commander-in-Chief, Israel Air ForceB.Sc., Mathematics & Computer Science, 1990

“Today, as I assume command of the IAF, I view my time at the University not only as an intellectual exercise focused on short-term achievements, but primarily as shaping my personal development.”

I was born, raised and educated in Jerusalem so my choice of the Hebrew University was a given. In fact, I knew the Givat Ram campus from my school days at the Hebrew University Secondary School, so it was like coming home.

I began my degree studies in 1986 after several years of experience as a pilot and officer in the Israel Air Force (IAF); my last position was second-in-command of an F-16 squadron. Although my 11 years of military service included a highly intensive and demanding professional education, it had been a long time since I was in a classroom. Thus, as a 29-year-old father of two, I became a mathematics and computer science student.

Today, as I assume command of the IAF, I view my time at the University not only as an intellectual exercise focused on short-term achievements, but primarily as shaping my personal development. I may well have forgotten specific formulae and proofs, but the personal “toolbox” of skills I acquired at the University remains — a serious approach, always getting to the root of a problem, the ability to analyze complex issues, a comprehensive overview, appreciating the importance of exact data, and high norms and standards.

As one whose concerns include national security, I believe that higher education is vital to the State of Israel. Since its establishment, Israel has had a clear advantage: its human capital. This wealth of brainpower can flourish only under optimal conditions: a world-class scientific infrastructure, academic institutions that set and implement high standards, and an education system that provides the basic tools. Indeed, the IAF too has adopted this approach by including full academic studies within the framework of its flight school.

As the first university of the Yishuv, the Hebrew University has played a vital role in maintaining and developing this key national resource. Indeed, it has proven its capabilities; it counts many officers among its alumni and it is a leader in special programs in cooperation with the defense establishment. Foremost among these is the flagship Talpiot IDF cadets program at the Hebrew University which educates especially talented students — their contribution to the state’s security is priceless.

Jerusalem-born Daphna Gross-Manos grew up in Tivon. Following high school, she participated in a leadership development program and then served as a social welfare officer in the IDF. Voluntary work with at-risk girls, she says, “reinforced my decision to study social work.” A winner of the Rector’s and Dean’s prizes, 25-year-old Gross-Manos was awarded the University’s Lachman-Davis Prize for Social Work for her community organization project with downtown Jerusalem merchants. She currently heads the social work students’ student council, which is active in the campaign for refugees from Darfur. “I plan on continuing my work for social change,” she says. “Continuing for a master’s degree would definitely advance my goals.”

Third-year undergraduate, Social Work

Daphna Gross-Manos

Dr. Yitzhak Kadman

14-15 / Civil Society

Founder & Executive Director, The National Council for the ChildB.A., Social Work, 1972 | M.A., Mass Communication, 1982 Former Faculty Member, Baerwald School of Social Work & Social Welfare

“My experience at the Hebrew University taught me to appreciate knowledge, information, data and research as tools for social change and as a foundation for power in the positive sense.”

My choice of social work stemmed from the perception that it was the right approach to effect social change and achieve social justice — perhaps even to attain tikkun olam (repairing the world). As a student, I valued the Baerwald School’s integration of knowledge and theoretical studies with practical work, and the direct encounter with the real world through trying to solve social problems. I was profoundly influenced by professors Jona Rosenfeld and Abraham Doron, both Israel Prize laureates, whom I consider to be mentors and colleagues. Beyond the educational experience, I had the opportunity to become personally involved in social change, the highpoint being our (successful) student-led “revolution” to introduce a practical training program in social policy. Also involved in the School’s student council, which I chaired during my second year, I initiated the first association of all social work students at Israeli universities, an organization with a deep commitment to social issues. I held several positions in the Ministry of Social Welfare and served as President and Secretary-General (elect) of the Israeli Association of Social Workers before doing my Ph.D. in Social Policy at Brandeis University. On returning to Israel, I taught social work at the Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. As Executive Director of the National Council for the Child for the past two decades, I have worked to bring the issue of children, their rights and their wellbeing to the fore of Israel’s public, media and political agendas. My experience at the Hebrew University taught me to appreciate knowledge, information, data and research as tools for social change and as a foundation for power in the positive sense. I believe that the University’s primary contributions to date are in enhancing knowledge, research, publications, the training of professionals and academic prestige in Israel and abroad.

There remains, however, a great divide between these accom-plishments and active involvement and influence in policy and practice, particularly in the social domain. My vision for the Hebrew University is for its increased social involvement through research or practice; through influencing national and local government policy; and through a greater openness towards providing opportunities for Israel’s distressed and excluded populations.

Dafna Dolinko, 22, immigrated to Israel from New York as a child and attended Jerusalem’s Pelech Religious High School for Girls. She spent one year of her national service working with new immigrants, and a second year in Kiev, teaching Hebrew and Jewish studies. Dolinko is a Dean’s List student, a winner of the Rector’s and Dean’s prizes and was awarded the Prof. Stern Prize for students of history of the Jewish people. “My studies allow me to integrate my two interests — Jewish education in Israel and the Diaspora and research on the Jews of the USSR,” she says. “I am continuing to learn Russian towards this end.”

Third-year undergraduate, History of the Jewish People & History

Dafna Dolinko

Ambassador Sallai Meridor

16-17 / Diplomacy & the Jewish World

Israel Ambassador to the United StatesFormer Chairman of the Jewish Agency for IsraelB.A., History of the Jewish People & Islamic Studies, 1985

“My choice of studies reflected my interest in the Jewish people and my desire to better understand the region surrounding the Jewish State.”

Studying at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was not just a privilege for me but also the most natural course due to my family’s personal connection to the University. My mother, Ra’anana, was a professor in the Department of Classics and, from an early age, I understood the special value my family placed on the institution. I followed my three siblings and their spouses when I began my studies, together with my wife, at the Hebrew University. My choice of studies reflected my interest in the Jewish people and my desire to better understand the region surrounding the Jewish State. It appears that my work experience has been the logical outcome of these studies. From Jewish education through service in the Israeli government to my work at the Jewish Agency for Israel and on to Washington, D.C. as Israel’s Ambassador to the United States — I have continued on the path that I began at the Hebrew University.

Born in a divided Jerusalem to a family of lovers of and fighters for Jerusalem, no gift could have been more valuable to me than to be one of the first students to return to the Hebrew University’s historic campus on Mount Scopus.

One cannot speak of Israel’s achievements without thinking of the Hebrew University. It was this University that laid the foundation for Israel’s entire academic development, its scientific knowledge and research capacity. Every aspect of Israel’s growth has benefited from the University’s immense contribution. Indeed, the University’s decision to teach only in Hebrew played a vital role in the most fascinating revolution — that of transforming the ancient language of the Bible into the living mother tongue of millions of Jews in Israel.

Israel needs the Hebrew University to continue to contribute both its soul and its brainpower to the advancement of the State and its people. The Hebrew University can and should continue to grow and serve as an engine of excellence for Israel and as the academic center for the Jewish people.

I wish the Hebrew University mazal tov on the 90th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stones on Mount Scopus.

Concerned about peace since her childhood, Haifa-born Rotem Tal, 24, chose her majors at the Hebrew University accordingly. “I have a strong feeling of vocation, of a first priority mission,” says Tal, a Dean’s List student who has participated in Jewish-Arab encounter projects. “I believe in a better future for the Middle East and forthis, education is essential: we have to know the ‘other’. Until now, I have been working on the personal, micro, level. The tools I am acquiring at the University — critical thinking, theory, historical perspective — will help me to work for these goals on the macro level as well.”

Second-year undergraduate, International Relations & Middle Eastern Studies

Rotem Tal

David Horovitz

18-19 / The Media

Editor-in-Chief, The Jerusalem PostMechina, Rothberg International School, 1983 B.A., International Relations & English Literature, 1986

“The Hebrew University was central to my making a life in Israel because it was my landing point here, and that landing was soft and nurturing.”

I had only been living in Israel for a few months, my Hebrew was far from impressive, and I was having a hard time understanding an international relations course being taught by the legendary ex-military intelligence chief Professor Yehoshofat Harkabi. To my immense good fortune, however, I noticed a beautiful, flame-haired young American student near the front of the room who was effortlessly noting down the key points. That was 25 years and three magnificent children ago; so the greatest debt I owe the Hebrew University, and its greatest impact on my life, is that it was the place where I met my wife Lisa.

The Hebrew University was central to my making a life in Israel because it was my landing point here, and that landing was soft and nurturing: I immigrated to Israel from England as a relatively clueless, 20-year-old Zionist, and the Mount Scopus campus was my first home, where I learned the language, made my first friends and, prompted by my teachers, began to properly use my brain. It was my introduction to the entire complex Israeli experience — to our politics and history, coexistence with Arabs and among different streams of Judaism, culture, even bureaucracy. It served as my initial survival guide for the career in Israeli journalism that I began while still at the University.

For me at the time, and in my intermittent interactions since, the Hebrew University has symbolized a striving for excellence and a commitment to the maximizing of its students’ potential. As a consequence, it continues to produce national leaders in almost every field. It needs to keep doing so — to attract and retain the best and the brightest from Israel and the Diaspora — for we can thrive as a nation only if we can make the most of our prime natural resource: brainpower.

As a university, it has always been committed to furthering the frontiers of human knowledge. But the Hebrew University also must continue to serve as a national moral compass, setting standards of propriety and emphasizing and cherishing exemplary values — a centerpiece of our ever-more challenging aspiration to serve as a light unto the nations.

Born in Israel, 24-year-old Yeela Porat grew up in California and returned to Israel in the realization that this is her home. As a lieutenant in the IDF’s Education Corps, she created and applied leadership development programs for commanders. Porat’s decision to study political science stems from her vision of “Israel’s potential, as a young democracy, to create a more just and tolerant society. Political science offers both the philosophic background for exploring desirable futures and the practical aspects of politics and global contexts,” she says. “I plan to continue my studies at the Hebrew University in the field of conflict management and mediation, in order to strengthen social solidarity in Israel.”

Third-year undergraduate, Political Science & International Relations

Yeela Porat

Shlomit Amichai

20-21 / Education

Director-General, Ministry of EducationB.A., History of the Jewish People & Political Science, 1979

“Undoubtedly, my own experiences as a student — the inspiring faculty and the wonderful atmosphere that pervaded the lawns and classrooms of the Givat Ram campus — have influenced my work.”

I grew up in Jerusalem and, shortly after completing my military service in 1964, enrolled in Jewish history studies at the Hebrew University. I was familiar with various aspects of Jewish history due to my experience as a youth movement counselor so this seemed the natural choice. However, for balance, I also studied international relations and political science. My teachers included leading scholars, among them this year’s Israel Prize winner, Professor Zeev Sternhell. These teachers inspired in me a love of knowledge and equipped me with the skills required for objective study and analysis.

I married during my first year of studies but actually completed my B.A. degree — thanks to the understanding shown towards me by the University — only after my four children had grown. After the Yom Kippur War, my belief in the importance of student volunteerism led me to head the student counselors’ team at the Dean of Students Office, juggling my time between meeting students’ needs and raising my family. Undoubtedly, my own experiences as a student — the inspiring faculty and the wonderful atmosphere that pervaded the lawns and classrooms of the Givat Ram campus — have influenced my work.

In 1977, I joined the Ministry of Education, working in a number of positions that capitalized on the skills I had gained at the Dean of Students Office, and leading up to my appointment as Director-General in 1999. Two years later I left the Ministry for a senior position at JDC-Israel; in 2007 I was asked to return to my former position.

As Director-General of the Ministry of Education, I am deeply concerned about the repercussions of the shrinking number of University faculty positions and lack of research funds — I am likewise concerned that the Hebrew University will find it difficult to instill in its students the all-important values and tools that I was so fortunate to receive. I hope and believe that despite these difficulties, the University will continue in the path it has created during its 90 years, conducting itself with integrity and pride, maintaining its high levels of creativity and innovative research and serving as a light unto institutions across Israel.

After graduating from high school in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Stas Sokolinski immigrated to Israel on his own and served three years in an IDF combat unit. He has been on the Dean’s List of both the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Jerusalem School of Business Administration and has won scholarships for honors students in accounting, including one from the Harry Simons’ Endowment Foundation. Sokolinski, 25, has worked throughout his studies and is now a teaching assistant in economics. “I see my future in finance and plan to continue for my master’s degree at the Hebrew University,” he says. “The Department of Economics here is one of the best in the world.”

Third-year undergraduate, Economics & Accounting

Stas Sokolinski

Eitan Raff

22-23 / Finance

Chairman, Bank Leumi le-Israel B.M.Chairman, Board of Managers of the Hebrew UniversityB.A., Economics, 1965 | B.A., Political Science, 1966 M.B.A., 1968

“What I gained from my studies at the Hebrew University was the ability to analyze subjects from a broad perspective and to examine the whole picture — not just the individual components — before making a decision.”

As a Jerusalemite, it was only natural for me to choose to enroll at the Hebrew University. I decided to study economics and business administration as I thought these were the fields most suited to me — and, looking back over my career, it appears that it was the correct choice.

I was particularly influenced during my undergraduate studies by the late Professor Dan Patinkin, and by professors Nissan Liviatan and Michael Bruno, all of the Department of Economics; and, during my M.B.A. studies, by Professor Haim Ben-Shahar. What I gained from my studies at the Hebrew University was the ability to analyze subjects from a broad perspective and to examine the whole picture — not just the individual components — before making a decision.

During my years at the Givat Ram campus, I was a member of the University’s basketball team. However, between my studies and working as a truck driver to pay for my education, I had little time for extracurricular student activities.

After I completed my M.B.A. degree, I found work at the Israel Ministry of Finance, serving in a number of positions. These included Economic Advisor at the Israel Embassy in Washington, D.C. in the 1970s during the period leading up to the Camp David Accords, and Accountant-General from 1979-1983. Following my employment in the public sector, I served as chairman of Paz Oil Company and as chairman and/or director of several other major Israeli industrial and commercial corporations. Since 1995, I have been Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Leumi le-Israel B.M. and its major subsidiaries in the United States, the United Kingdom and Israel. Within my various public activities, I am a Governor of the Hebrew University and serve as Chairman of its Board of Managers.

In my view, the graduates of the Hebrew University have made, and continue to make, major contributions to the State of Israel in many fields, including state-building, the economy, politics, diplomacy, the law and science. The Hebrew University’s role in the future is, I believe, to actively pursue excellence, and serve as a center of excellence in teaching and research across a broad range of fields.

Yuval Simons of Karmiel has been interested in science since childhood. This led him to attend the Israel Arts and Science Academy high school in Jerusalem, where he studied physics, computer science and history. After his military service, during which he won an award for building a software system, 24-year-old Simons studied Mandarin Chinese and toured China. Currently a research assistant and the physics students’ representative in the Student Union, Simons is not yet sure about future specialization. “A B.Sc. in physics is like reading a Chinese menu,” he says. “You study for three years just to understand your choices. Only then can you choose.”

Second-year undergraduate, Physics and Amirim Honors Program

Yuval Simons

Dr. Giora Yaron

24-25 / High-Tech

Founder of Several Multinational High-Tech Companies & Company ChairmanChairman, Yissum Technology Transfer Company of the Hebrew UniversityB.Sc., Physics & Mathematics, 1973 | M.Sc., Materials Science, 1975 Ph.D., Applied Physics, 1978

“The drive for excellence, which is integral to the Hebrew University’s DNA, has given us the tools that are essential for competing in today’s markets.”

I was born at Kibbutz Manara and raised in Rehovot. After serving three intensive years in the IDF’s Golani Brigade, I registered in 1969 for my bachelor’s degree studies in physics and mathematics at the Hebrew University. This, in retrospect, was a life-changing event for me. While the courses were extremely demanding, they provided a solid understanding of the physics and mathematics that are the essential “toolbox” for solving the new challenges in today’s fast-developing, increasingly competitive, global technological environment.

Following my graduation, I was accepted to work at Hughes Aircraft Research Laboratories, one of the more prestigious industrial research labs in the US. This paved the way for my entrée into the high-tech industrial world. Later, while working at National Semiconductors, a leading company in the field at the time, I was influential in the establishment by the company of a significant facility in Israel which focused on designing and manufacturing the world’s first 64-bit microprocessor — at its peak, the company employed some 1,500 staff. The presence of National Semiconductors and a few other large multinational American corporations provided the infrastructure for the development of Israel’s high-tech industry.

Indeed, it enabled my colleagues in the high-tech industry and me to participate in founding several thousand startups. I was fortunate to be a founder of more than a handful, three of which were sold to multinational corporations. This same infrastructure provided the foundation for companies such as Mercury Interactive which I served as Chairman and which was acquired by HP for $4.5 billion.

The Hebrew University has played a pivotal role in my own education as well as that of many other leaders in today’s high-tech industry. The drive for excellence, which is integral to the Hebrew University’s DNA, has given us the tools that are essential for competing in today’s markets.

It is this industrial backbone that has enabled Israel’s economy to prosper in good as well as in difficult economic times. As manufacturing and high-tech jobs migrate to Asia, it is essential that the Hebrew University — along with its new graduates entering our industry — continues to strive for excellence.

As a child, Montreal-born Jonathan Isenberg dreamed of becoming a doctor. He immigrated to Israel with his family at age four, and excelled in math and sciences at school in Karmiel in northern Israel. He received his B.Med.Sc. in 2006 and, as a participant in the IDF’s Atidim academic reserve program, he completed — with distinction — the IDF officers’ course last October. “I am particularly interested in nephrology and endocrinology,” says 23-year-old Isenberg, who has consistently made Dean’s List. “I hope to apply my serious attitude and ‘open heart and mind’ for learning to become an important contributor in my field.”

Fifth-year medical student

Jonathan Isenberg

Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef

26-27 / Healthcare

Director-General, Hadassah University Medical CenterM.D., 1980 | Former Member, Faculty of Medicine

“I have become increasingly aware — and appreciative — of the importance of thecollaboration between Hadassah and the Hebrew University, which is essential for the future of both institutions and especially for the future of Jerusalem.”

I grew up in Jerusalem’s Katamon neighborhood, one of four children of a Moroccan-born father and an Israeli-born mother. After military service, I chose to study medicine at the Hebrew University, knowing that it would lead to a profession that suited my personality and would allow me to help people.

During the Yom Kippur War, in which I fought and my brother was killed, the Hebrew University offered endless assistance to student soldiers. I especially remember the late Professor Rami Rahamimoff traveling to Sinai weekly to lecture medical students serving there. During my clinical rotations, I was exposed to a variety of specialties and physicians, with professors Marcel Eliakim, Nathan Saltz and Joseph Schenker playing an important role in my future decisions.

The Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical School — the best medical school in Israel — gave me excellent tools which enabled me to choose a specialization and gain acceptance at the prestigious residency program in obstetrics and gynecology at Hadassah-Ein Kerem. I subsequently worked there as a senior physician in gynecological oncology and also taught at the Faculty of Medicine, reaching the rank of associate professor.

I switched to medical administration some 15 years ago and have served as Director-General of the Hadassah University Medical Center since 2001. During this time I have become increasingly aware — and appreciative — of the importance of the collaboration between Hadassah and the Hebrew University, which is essential for the future of both institutions and especially for the future of Jerusalem. Together, we are building Jerusalem’s first biotechnology park on the Ein Kerem campus, and also promoting the establishment of a national center for brain imaging, which we hope will lay the foundation for a joint Hebrew University-Hadassah research center.

The Hebrew University is one of Jerusalem’s most important assets. It plays a vital role in attracting young and educated people to Jerusalem, thus developing and strengthening the city. I am convinced that just as the University advanced higher education and Israel’s scientific infrastructure even before the founding of the State, it will continue to set the standards for excellence and lead Israeli scientific endeavors to new heights. As the Director-General of Hadassah, I am proud to be a partner of the Hebrew University.

British-born Ravit Shaw, 24, grew up in Rosh Pina, served in the Education Corps during her military service and also volunteered preparing learning-disabled teens for matriculation exams. Shaw’s busy schedule includes extra-curricular work in the laboratory of Dr. Eran Meshorer of the Department of Genetics. “Working with Dr. Meshorer has given me the opportunity to do cutting-edge stem cell research,” says Shaw, who was awarded the Dean’s prize this year. “While we learn theory in the classroom, I gain practical experience and exposure to research techniques in the lab. I am very interested in clinical research and see my future in either brain research or genetic therapy.”

Second-year undergraduate, Chemistry & Biology and Amirim Honors Program

Ravit Shaw

Dr. Miriam Haran

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Lecturer, Ono Academic CollegeFormer Director-General, Ministry of the EnvironmentB.Sc., Chemistry, 1972

“The Hebrew University should continue to promote excellence by accepting highly qualified and motivated students and educating them to take part in shaping Israeli society.”

My years at the Hebrew University had a significant impact on my professional life, motivating me to expand my areas of interest, piquing my curiosity about new ideas and technologies and spurring me to strive for excellence and contribute to society. I was greatly influenced by Professor Israel Agranat of the Institute of Chemistry — teacher, research advisor and mentor, he has been a role model throughout my career.

After completing my undergraduate degree, I earned my Ph.D. at Brandeis University and returned to lecture at the Hebrew University. I went back to the US to pursue my research at Rutgers University and became involved in the then relatively new field of environmental studies as an assistant to the director of the Center for Applied Studies of the Environment at Hunter College (CUNY). On returning to Israel, I was appointed Deputy Chief Scientist of the Ministry of the Environment, going on to serve as its Chief Scientist, Deputy Director-General and Director-General. Currently I head the Ono Academic College’s M.B.A. environmental management track. I also serve as Chair of the Environmental Committee of the UJC Tel Aviv-Los Angeles Partnership and as a member of the Israeli Presidential Task Force for Promoting the Environment in Israel.

The Hebrew University traditionally encourages its graduates to be active in shaping Israeli society; many are leading scientists or serve in significant public positions, influencing the realms of politics, the economy, science, diplomacy, law and education. My fellow alumni in chemistry are at the forefront of academic research; in top positions at companies such as the Israel Electric Corporation, Teva Pharmaceuticals and Intel; and leaders of the public sector in crucial areas such as improving Israel’s science education.

The Hebrew University must maintain its position as the best in Israel and as a world leader. It should continue to promote excellence by accepting highly qualified and motivated students and educating them to take part in shaping Israeli society. Effective government is essential for Israel’s future; it requires competent, dedicated, professional executives and managers. I believe that the Hebrew University is the best-suited academic institute to provide Israel’s future leadership.

Jerusalemite Hanna Tzuker-Seltzer, 32, wrote and directed her first film in high school. After military service, she studied film and television at Hadassah College Jerusalem, winning two prizes for her film Tamarie’s Wedding Gown. “I was attracted to literature because it allows greater depth than a film script. I am particularly interested in how relationships between center and periphery are reflected in Israeli poetry and prose,” she says. While at the Hebrew University, Tzuker-Seltzer has published two short stories and won the Harry Hershon Literary Prize. Next year, she will begin the joint doctoral program in Hebrew Literature at the University of California, Berkeley and the Graduate Theological Union.

Third-year undergraduate, Hebrew Literature (Creative Writing track)

Hanna Tzuker-Seltzer

Aharon Appelfeld

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WriterB.A., Hebrew Literature & Yiddish, 1957Doctor Philosophiae Honoris Causa, 2000

“It was hard for me to connect the world from which I came — the ghetto, the camps and the forests — with the young world pulsing with activity, and not only in the large halls of Terra Sancta.”

In the early 1950s the Hebrew University was identified with the monumental, Catholic building called Terra Sancta whose broad steps teemed with students, lecturers and auditors. The recently arrived survivors were easily identifiable. They were conspicuous in their dress, posture and gaze.

On those steps I first met the poet Dan Pagis, later a professor of Medieval Hebrew poetry, and Benjamin Hrushovski (Harshav), then a teaching assistant and later a professor of literature. The survivors brought harsh life experience with them, many languages, bourgeois manners and apprehension about the future. They were ambitious and diligent in their studies.

Among my teachers were Dov Sadan (Yiddish), Hugo Bergman (philosophy), Gershom Scholem (Jewish mysticism), Simon Halkin (Hebrew literature) and Leah Goldberg (comparative literature). All had an active affinity with literary activity. I was at the start of my path as a writer — groping, testing my voice, stumbling, trying to stand on my own feet. It was hard for me to connect the world from which I came — the ghetto, the camps and the forests — with the young world pulsing with activity, and not only in the large halls of Terra Sancta.

Leah Goldberg was first to notice my writing, and conversations with her in Rehavia, in Café Hermon, were illuminating. Hugo Bergmann, Kafka’s friend, opened the gates of Prague and Kafka to me. Thirstily I drank in his “From Kierkegaard to Buber” lectures.

All my Terra Sancta years were a desperate effort to bond with Hebrew literature. Leah Goldberg, knowing in her soul the sorrow of two homelands, encouraged me to retain my own world and not explore alien regions. Once, after reading a short story I had written about my army service, she stared at me with her big eyes, and said nothing. I understood and remained silent.

In time my teachers became friends. Dov Sadan’s comments were always indirect, perhaps to avoid injuring me. Gershom Scholem formulated his words directly and with measured sympathy. Leah Goldberg spoke to me as a poet.

My struggles to express myself in those years were difficult, and my failures many. My teachers’ demands were severe. A single misplaced word would receive comment, though always accompanied by knowledge, enlightening examples and warmth. Rarely does a young writer encounter such teachers.

Leaders & Laureates

We salute our faculty and alumni for their leadership and achievements

9 Supreme Court Justices // 25 Members of Knesset & 6 Cabinet Ministers // 6 Nobel Laureates // 12 Wolf Prize Laureates // 237 Israel Prize Laureates

Leaders & Laureates

The Supreme Court *

Justice Dorit BeinischPresident

LL.B., LL.M.

Justice Eliezer RivlinDeputy President

LL.B.

Justice Edmond LevyLL.B.

Justice Salim JoubranLL.B.

Justice Ayala ProcacciaLL.B., LL.M.

Justice Edna ArbelLL.B.

Justice Asher Dan GrunisLL.B.

Justice Elyakim RubinsteinB.A., Hebrew Language & Literature,

LL.B., M.A., Contemporary Jewry

Justice Miriam NaorLL.B.

Justice Yigal MerselRegistrar

LL.B., LL.M., LL.D.

Geula LevinRegistrar

LL.B., LL.M.

*Currently serving

Members of the 17th Knesset & Cabinet Ministers

M.K. Colette Avital B.A., Political Science

Ehud BarakMinister of Defense & Deputy Prime Minister

B.Sc., Physics & Mathematics

M.K. Ronnie Bar-OnMinister of Finance

LL.B.

M.K. Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson B.A., History & Philosophy

Ph.D., History of the Jewish People

Faculty member

M.K. Ze’ev Boim Minister of Housing & Construction

B.A., History & Hebrew Literature

M.K. Zeev Elkin B.A., History & Mathematics

M.A., History of the Jewish People

M.K. Talab El-Sana LL.B.

Prof. Daniel FriedmannMinister of Justice

LL.B., LL.D.

M.K. Tzachi Hanegbi B.A., International Relations, LL.B.

M.K. Shai Hermesh B.A., Economics & Sociology, M.B.A.

M.K. Dalia Itzik Speaker of the Knesset

B.A., Literature & History

M.K. Yisrael Katz B.A., International Relations

M.K. Dov KheninLL.B.

M.K. Avigdor Liberman B.A., International Relations,

Russian & Slavic Studies

M.K. Orit Noked LL.B.

M.K. Ehud Olmert Prime Minister

B.A., Psychology & Philosophy, LL.B.

M.K. Ophir Pines-Paz B.A., International Relations

M.K. Yohanan Plesner B.A., Economics

M.K. Reuven Rivlin LL.B.

M.K. David Rotem LL.B.

M.K. Dr. Yuval Steinitz B.A. & M.A., Philosophy

M.K. Prof. Yuli Tamir Minister of Education

B.Sc., Biology

M.A., Political Science

M.K. Dr. Ahmad Tibi M.D.

M.K. Avshalom Vilan B.A., Economics & Philosophy

M.K. Majalli Whbee Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs

B.A., History

M.K. Dani Yatom B.Sc., Mathematics, Physics

& Computer Science

M.K. Dr. Jamal Zahalka B.Sc., M.Sc., Ph.D., Pharmacy

Nobel Prize

Prof. Daniel KahnemanB.Sc., Psychology

Former Faculty Member

Nobel Prize in Economics, 2002

Prof. David J. GrossB.Sc., Physics & Mathematics

Nobel Prize in Physics, 2004

Prof. Aaron CiechanoverM.Sc., Medicine, M.D.

Nobel Prize in Chemistry, 2004

Prof. Avram HershkoM.D., Ph.D., Medicine


Prof. Robert J. AumannFaculty Member

Nobel Prize in Economics, 2005

Prof. Roger KornbergVisiting Professor


Wolf Prize

1982

Prof. Josef Tal, Arts

Emeritus Faculty Member

1988

Prof. Joshua Jortner, ChemistryAlumnus & Former Faculty Member

Prof. Raphael D. Levine, ChemistryAlumnus & Emeritus Faculty Member

1991

Prof. Alexander Pines, ChemistryAlumnus

1998

Prof. Ruth Arnon, MedicineAlumnus

Prof. Ilan Chet, AgricultureAlumnus & Emeritus Faculty Member

2001

Prof. Saharon Shelah, MathematicsAlumnus & Faculty Member

Prof. Avram Hershko, MedicineAlumnus

2005

Prof. Alexander Levitzki, MedicineAlumnus & Faculty Member

2006

Prof. Harry Furstenberg, MathematicsEmeritus Faculty Member

2008

Prof. Howard Cedar, MedicineFaculty Member

Prof. Aharon Razin, MedicineAlumnus & Emeritus Faculty Member

Israel Prize

1953Gedalia Allon, Jewish StudiesProf. Shimshon Amitsur, Exact SciencesProf. Dina Feitelson, EducationProf. Lipman Halpern, MedicineProf. Jacob Levitzki, Exact Sciences

1954Prof. Hugo Shmuel Bergman, HumanitiesProf. Frederick Simon Bodenheimer, AgricultureProf. Moses Hirsch Segal, Jewish StudiesProf. Guido (Gad) Tedeschi, LawProf. Michael Zohary, Life Sciences

1955Prof. Yaacov Bentor, Life SciencesProf. Michael Fekete, Exact SciencesProf. Sarah Hestrin-Lerner, Medical SciencesProf. Israel Reichert, Life SciencesProf. Binyamin Shapiro, Medical SciencesProf. Ephraim Elimelech Urbach, Jewish Studies

1956Prof. Manfred Aschner, Life SciencesProf. Avraham Halevi Fraenkel, Exact SciencesProf. Jacob Laib Talmon, Social SciencesProf. Naphtali Tur-Sinai, Jewish StudiesProf. Haim Ernst Wertheimer, MedicineProf. Yigael Yadin, Jewish Studies

1957Prof. Saul Adler, MedicineProf. Gad Avigad, Exact SciencesProf. David Feingold, Exact SciencesProf. Shlomo Hestrin, Exact SciencesProf. Shmuel Hurwitz, AgricultureProf. Hans-Johanan Lewy, HumanitiesProf. Hayyim Schirmann, Jewish Studies

1958Prof. Yitzhak Baer, Jewish StudiesProf. Martin Buber, HumanitiesProf. Benzion Dinur, Jewish StudiesProf. Joseph Klausner, Jewish StudiesProf. Yehezkel Kaufman, Jewish StudiesProf. Leo Picard, Life SciencesProf. Giulio Racah, Exact SciencesProf. Gershom Scholem, Jewish StudiesProf. Bernard Zondek, Medicine

1959Prof. Ezra Fleischer, LiteratureProf. Ephraim Katchalski (Katzir), Life Sciences*Prof. Leo Arye Mayer, HumanitiesProf. Heinz (Hillel) Oppenheimer, AgricultureProf. Michael Sela, Life Sciences*Prof. Yizhar Smilansky (S. Yizhar), Literature

1960Prof. Isaac Chesar Michaelson, MedicineProf. Abraham Schalit, Jewish Studies

1961Prof. Aharon Katzir, Life Sciences*Prof. Eduard Yechezkel Kutscher, Humanities

1962Prof. Joseph S. Bentwich, EducationProf. Ze’ev Lev (William Low), Exact SciencesProf. Hanoch Yalon, Jewish Studies

1963Prof. Abraham Fahn, Life SciencesProf. Nathan Rotenstreich, Humanities

1964Prof. Zeev Ben-Hayyim, Jewish StudiesProf. Moshe Rachmilewitz, MedicineProf. Moshe Silberg, Law

1965Prof. Carl Frankenstein, EducationProf. Amos De Shalit, Exact Sciences*Prof. Judith T. Shuval, Social Sciences

1966Prof. Shlomo Morag, Jewish StudiesProf. Hans Jacob Polotsky, Humanities

1967Prof. Benjamin Akzin, LawProf. Aryeh Leo Olitzki, MedicineProf. Ernst Akiva Simon, Education

1968Prof. Simon Agranat, Law Prof. Ernst David Bergmann, Life SciencesProf. Alexander Mordecai Dushkin, EducationProf. Benjamin Mazar, Jewish StudiesProf. Shlomo Pines, HumanitiesProf. Dov Sadan, Jewish StudiesProf. Samuel Sambursky, Jewish Studies

1969Prof. Shneior Lifson, Life Sciences*Prof. Joshua Prawer, Humanities

1970Prof. Andre De Vries, MedicineProf. Lea Goldberg, LiteratureProf. Don Patinkin, Social SciencesProf. Josef Tal, Musicology

1971Prof. Isaac Arnon, AgricultureProf. Shaul Liberman, Jewish Studies*

1972Prof. David Ayalon, Humanities

1973Prof. Benzion Dinur, EducationProf. Aryeh Dvoretzky, Exact Sciences

Prof. Samuel Noah Eisenstadt, Social SciencesProf. Haim Halperin, AgricultureProf. Dorothea Krook, Humanities

1974Prof. Shraga Abramson, Jewish StudiesProf. Hugo Shmuel Bergman, Special Contribution to the StateProf. Raphael D. Levine, Exact Sciences

1975Prof. Aharon Barak, Law Prof. Simon Leo Halkin, LiteratureDr. Helena Kagan, Special Contribution to SocietyProf. Yoel Sussman, Law

1976Prof. Gabriel Baer, Arabic Language

1977Prof. David Amiran, GeographyProf. Zvi Avidov, AgricultureProf. Nahman Avigad, Land of Israel StudiesProf. Menahem Stern, History of the Jewish People

1978Prof. Louis (Eliahu) Guttman, Social SciencesProf. Haiim Baruch Rosen, LinguisticsProf. Nathan Saltz, Medicine

1979Prof. Menachem Elon, Jewish LawProf. Isaiah Tishby, Jewish Studies

1980Prof. Haim Cohn, LawProf. David Flusser, History of the Jewish PeopleProf. Jacob Katz, History of the Jewish People

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Prof. Moshe Idel, Jewish ThoughtProf. Aharon Mirsky, Hebrew LiteratureProf. Shmuel Moreh, Middle Eastern StudiesProf. Bezalel Narkiss, History of ArtProf. Arie S. Shachar, GeographyProf. Avraham Steinberg, Rabbinic Literature

2000Prof. Hillel M. Daleski, General LiteratureProf. Jonah Fraenkel, Talmudic LiteratureProf. Abraham Goldberg, Talmudic LiteratureProf. Menahem Haran, Biblical StudiesProf. Raphael Mechoulam, ChemistryProf. Shaul Shaked, LinguisticsProf. Yirmiyahu Yovel, General Philisophy

2001Prof. Marcel Eliakim, MedicineProf. Avi Ravitzky, Jewish ThoughtProf. Joshua Weisman, Law

2002Prof. Abraham H. Halevy, AgricultureEli Hurvitz, Lifetime Achievement*Prof. Shmuel Safrai, Land of Israel StudiesProf. Itamar Willner, Chemistry

2003Aharon Amir, Hebrew Translation*Prof. Menachem Amir, CriminologyGeula Cohen, Lifetime Achievement*Prof. Avraham Grossman, Jewish HistoryProf. Israel Ta-Shma, Talmud

2004Prof. Menachem Brinker, LiteratureProf. Abraham Doron, Social Work

Prof. Sara Japhet, BibleProf. Ziva Amishai-Maisels, History of ArtProf. Dov Noy, Hebrew & General LiteratureProf. Aharon Razin, BiochemistryProf. Ester Samuel-Cahn, StatisticsLia Van Leer, Lifetime Achievement*

2005Prof. Jacob Bekenstein, PhysicsProf. Yehezkel Dror, Political ScienceProf. Olga Kapeliuk, LinguisticsProf. Jacob Landau, Middle Eastern StudiesShabtai Teveth, Lifetime Achievement*

2006Prof. Chaim Adler, EducationProf. Nachum Kedar, AgricultureProf. Ruth Lapidoth, LawProf. Zvi Rappoport, Chemistry

2007Nahum Barnea, Communications* Prof. Amnon Cohen, Land of Israel StudiesProf. Nissan Levitan, EconomicsProf. Shalom Schwartz, PsychologyProf. Zvi Selinger, Biology Prof. Alice Shalvi, Lifetime Achievement

2008Prof. Noga Alon, Mathematics*Prof. Zeev Sternhell, Political Science

*alumnus only

1981Prof. Meir J. Kister, Arabic Language & Middle Eastern StudiesProf. Joram Lindenstrauss, Mathematics

1982Yehuda Amichai, Hebrew PoetryProf. Ruth Amiran, Land of Israel Studies*Prof. Roberto Bachi, DemographyProf. Joshua Jortner, Chemistry

1983Aharon Appelfeld, Literature*Prof. Saul Friedlander, HistoryDr. Zerach Warhaftig, Special Contribution to Society

1984Prof. Aron (Alfred) Bondi, AgricultureProf. Shlomo Ravikovitch, Agriculture

1985Prof. Joshua Blau, Hebrew Language & LinguisticsProf. Henry N. Neufeld, Medicine

1986Prof. Michael Evenari, Lifetime Achievement in Desert Research

1987Prof. Ezra Zion Melamed, Bible StudiesProf. Menahem Yaari, Economics

1988Prof. Natan Goldblum, Life SciencesProf. Moshe Goshen-Gottstein, Jewish StudiesHaim Gouri, Hebrew Poetry*

1989Prof. Haim Harari, Exact Sciences*Prof. Elihu Katz, Social SciencesProf. Samuel Werses, Hebrew LiteratureProf. Israel Yeivin, Hebrew Language

1990Prof. Shmuel Agmon, Exact SciencesProf. Dov Frohman, Exact SciencesProf. Moshe Altbauer, HumanitiesProf. Haim Beinart, Jewish StudiesProf. Miriam Ben-Porat, Special Contribution to SocietyProf. Naomi Feinbrun-Dothan, Land of Israel StudiesProf. Moshe Landau, LawProf. Alexander Levitzki, Life SciencesProf. Moshe Prywes, Life SciencesProf. Nathan Spiegel, HumanitiesProf. Meir Weiss, Jewish StudiesProf. Zvi Yavetz, Humanities*

1992Prof. Moshe Lissak, Social Sciences

1993Prof. Shlomo Alexander, Exact SciencesProf. Yehoshua Arieli, HistoryProf. Moshe Bar-Asher, Hebrew Language & Jewish LanguagesProf. Hillel Furstenberg, Exact SciencesProf. Gideon Goldenberg, Hebrew Language & General LinguisticsProf. Yehoshafat Harkabi, Political ScienceProf. Hava Lazarus-Yafeh, HistoryProf. Dan Miron, Hebrew LiteratureProf. Gershon Shaked, Hebrew Literature

1994Prof. Robert J. Aumann, EconomicsProf. Michael Bruno, EconomicsProf. Haim Z. Dimitrovsky, TalmudProf. Schneyour-Zalman Feller, LawProf. Moshe Greenberg, BibleProf. Avram Hershko, Biochemistry*Prof. Eliezer Schweid, Jewish ThoughtProf. Nathan Sharon, Biochemistry*Prof. Moshe Weinfeld, Biblical Research

1995Prof. Dov Nir, GeographyProf. Michael Rabin, Computer Science

1996Prof. Shlomo Avineri, Political ScienceProf. Moshe Barasch, History of ArtProf. Ilan Chet, AgricultureProf. Marcel Dubois, Special Contribution to the StateProf. Moshe Piamenta, Middle Eastern StudiesProf. Shimon Sandbank, Literary Translation Prof. Meir Shamgar, Special Contribution to the StateProf. Chone Shmeruk, Jewish LanguagesProf. Yechezkiel Stein, Medicine

1997Prof. Joseph Dan, Jewish ThoughtProf. Izhak Englard, LawProf. Jacob Sussman, TalmudProf. Shemaryahu Talmon, Biblical ResearchHaim Yavin, Communications*Prof. Itzhak Zamir, Law

1998Prof. Yehuda Bauer, History of the Jewish PeopleProf. Yehudith Birk, AgricultureProf. Trude Dothan, ArchaeologyShlomo Hillel, Special Contribution to Society*Ehud Manor, Hebrew Song*Amos Oz, Literature*Prof. Rami Rahamimoff, Medical SciencesProf. Jona M. Rosenfeld, Social WorkProf. Saharon Shelah, Mathematics

1999Prof. Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, GeographyProf. Haim Cedar, Biology

program, in cooperation with the Legacy Heritage Fund, to support the absorption of new faculty members, and two projects in converging technologies. The University’s Yissum technology transfer company provided $9.6 million.

Of the $27 million allocated from internal funds, $1.2 million was for areas earmarked by donors, including the Lejwa Trust for Biochemical Research, the Ring Family Foundation for Atmospheric and Global Change Studies, the Julius Oppenheimer Fund, the David and Betty Feffer Gift for Treatment of Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Alberto Moscona, Landowski and Sidney Edelstein funds. The Wolfson Family Charitable Trust provided $1.1 million for laboratory refurbishment and $1.24 million for laboratories for new faculty members. The Edmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation contributed some $1.1 million for special projects and three new researchers, and continued its support of the Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation. Research in applied science was bolstered by an anonymous donation to the University and Yissum of $3.25 million over three years. Funding from Johnson & Johnson, with matching grants from internal funds, was allocated to innovative and breakthrough scientific research. A total of $859,000 was allocated to applied research at early stages of development. Support of $643,000 was allocated to several interdisciplinary centers, including the Harvey M. Krueger Family Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, the Interdisciplinary Center for Representations of Groups in Mathematics, the Center for the Study of Islam in Memory of Nehemia Levtzion, the new Center for the Study of Philanthropy in Israel and the Gilo Center for Citizenship, Democracy and Civic Education.

During 2006/2007, University researchers were awarded over $17.5 million in grants from US sources, $7.5 million of which was for new projects, including three USAID projects with partners in Jordan, South Africa, Mozambique and Ethiopia. The National Institutes of Health provided nearly $1.7 million via partnerships with US institutions, though one researcher received a direct grant for a study of programmed cell death, a fundamental biological phenomenon of bacterial communication. Grants were also received from the Human Frontiers in Science Program, the Israel Cancer Research Fund and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.

The European Union was the source of $11.5 million for 159 projects during 2006/2007, of which $6 million was designated for final-round projects of the Sixth Framework Research Program (FP6). Among the 165 Hebrew University applications for FP7 funding submitted in spring 2007 were 22 proposals for the European Research Council’s prestigious young investigator program — six young researchers were awarded almost $10 million in five-year individual grants at the end of 2007, representing a significant success rate. Researchers continue to submit proposals to FP7 and, to date, 23 have received $9.2 million in funding.

Grants from German agencies amounted to $7.4 million in 2006/2007 for 32 projects. Main sources of funding are the Minerva Foundation which supports 16 active centers at the Hebrew University, the German-Israeli Project Coordination (DIP), the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) and the German-Israeli Foundation of Research and Development (GIF).

Medicine – 27%

Engineering & Computer Science – 1%

Social Sciences – 6%

Agriculture – 13 %

Business Administration – 1%

Social Work & Social Welfare – 1%

Humanities – 7%

Dental Medicine – 2%

Law – 2%

Education – 4%

Natural Sciences – 36%

Breakdown of Research Proposal Submisions 2006/2007

Research Activities

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Dr. Dan Tchernov, who joined the Hebrew University in 2004, exemplifies recently absorbed young researchers. Based at the Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, he studies the impact of environmental change on coral reefs and their potential use in “early-warning systems”. Tchernov, whose research has been published in the prestigious journal Science, focuses on two apparently contradictory aspects of coral reef biogeography: a reef’s ability to withstand millions of years of climate changes as opposed to the widespread mortality of coral during the past 30 years. In one recent project, he showed that the lipid composition of symbiotic algae within coral tissue plays a key role in determining the extent of the thermal stress that underlies the recent phenomenon of coral bleaching. His findings elucidate coral bleaching and offer a potential means to predict thermal sensitivity.

Hebrew University researchers are currently engaged in 4,428 research projects, of which 1,300 began this year, reports the Authority for Research and Development (ARD). They win one-third of all competitive grants in Israel and conduct one-third of civilian research, including 40 percent in medicine and 70 percent in microbiology. Nearly 30 percent of research conducted at the Hebrew University is eventually commercialized within the high-tech industry.

In the 2006/2007 academic year, $107 million was budgeted for research via the ARD (see Table 4, page 54). Just over 40 percent of funding ($44 million) came from Israeli sources, with the Israel Science Foundation continuing as the main source; $17 million was budgeted for over 450 projects. These included the Morasha

In his studies of coral reef biogeography, Dr. Dan Tchernov, seen here holding a rudist reef-building fossil, studies coral reefs that include organisms such as (from left) a polychaete worm colony, a sea fan (gorgonian coral) and a stony coral with a sea slug on its surface (nudibranch)

and a faculty advisory committee selected 12 projects. Each project is coordinated by a student who receives a scholarship and professional guidance.

This year, the Dean of Students Office introduced a coordinator for Arab students into its services. Many Arab students at the University come from a different educational system and, in the case of those from more conservative backgrounds, may be overwhelmed by the transition to the liberal campus environment. The coordinator, a graduate of the Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare where he was an outstanding student, surveyed the needs of the University’s Arab students and has started meeting regularly with first-year students to help them adapt to their new surroundings by airing their feelings and setting realistic expectations.

Also new this year on three campuses is the Tinnokia, a babysitting service where students can leave their infants aged 2-10 months while they are in class. The service operates daily until 6:30 pm.

In continuation of its efforts to assist those with learning disabilities, the Dean of Students Office established a national center for the diagnosis of learning disabilities which offers computerized testing and a professional assessment; it conducted 300 assessments in its first year. Based on their results, University applicants or psychometric exam candidates receive an official adjustment, ranging from computer use during exams to having questions read to them, to ensure they can pursue their studies. A student with learning disabilities accepted into the University has the option to receive ongoing support during his or her studies

from specialists who can provide strategies for coping with learning disabilities. A similar service for students with ADD/ADHD, which will include a medical professional on staff, is in the planning stage.

The Rothberg International School (RIS) was unaffected by the faculty strike, and 2,547 students from 65 countries enrolled in various programs. The new M.A. program in community leadership and philanthropy studies, held in conjunction with the Baerwald School, has an enrollment of 14 students from countries including Jordan, Russia, Argentina, Norway and the US. Students and teachers report high degrees of satisfaction with the program, which includes participation in a project run by a local non-profit organization.

This summer, RIS is beginning a new course for students and professionals in relevant fields entitled Trauma and Resilience: the Israeli Experience; the course is being held in conjunction with the Israel Center for the Treatment of Psychotrauma. Plans for next year include a revamping of the undergraduate one-year program (OYP) with academic supervision by the heads of the graduate programs; the opening of a joint master’s degree program in Jewish education and teaching Hebrew as a second language; the development of individual tracks for master’s students who wish to write a thesis; and an expanded roster of guest lecturers from around the world.

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Student Enrollment 2005/2006-2007/2008*

Total22,99123,72623,888

14,000

12,000

10.000

8,000

6,000

4,000

2,000

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* Mid-academic year** Includes Rothberg International School, pre-academic and non-degree students

1st degree 2nd degree 3rd degree Postdoctoral Other**

Student Life

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Student enrollment levels this year stood at 11,676 under-graduates, 6,532 master’s students, 2,644 doctoral candidates and 260 postdoctoral students. An additional 1,879 students are enrolled at the Rothberg International School, the Joseph Saltiel Center for Pre-Academic Studies and in non-academic courses, with a University-wide enrollment of almost 23,000.

As soon as the faculty strike ended, the University notified students of the new schedule for the academic year. The first semester officially began on January 20, 2008 and ended on April 4, while the second semester began on May 11 and will end on August 4. The 2008/2009 academic year will commence on November 2, 2008. In addition, courses are being held on Fridays and Sunday mornings; pass grades or exemptions will not be allowed.

In light of the strike’s impact on the students, the University instituted several measures, including financial relief by allowing students to remain in student housing over the summer without payment. Various deadlines were extended significantly, including those for course selection, conditional registration for master’s programs, and submitting scholarship applications and seminar papers. Students were also permitted to defer their studies until the 2008/2009 academic year — in most cases without a financial penalty.

In recognition of its social involvement activities, the Dean of Students Office received additional funding from the Council of Higher Education’s Planning and Budgeting Committee. The Dean’s office issued a call to students for social action initiatives

From left: Coordinator for Arab Students Laieth Gayousi with first-year students Manar Kassom (social work) and Ahmad Dahleh (law and business administration)

will commence in September 2008 with completion scheduled for March 2011. The 16,000 sq.m., three-wing Complex will include computer laboratories and classrooms, offices, seminar rooms, and a 250-seat auditorium. The expansion of the Safra campus sports complex of the Howard and Mary Edith Cosell Association for Physical Education, Leisure and Health Promotion will be completed this summer. The 2,000 sq.m. addition includes state-of-the-art workout rooms, new locker rooms, and a restaurant. Also at the Safra campus, a comprehensive renovation of the main buildings housing the IDF’s Talpiot military/academic program at the Hebrew University is being planned. The project, a gift of Rhonda and Harry Triguboff, includes upgraded laboratories and classrooms and is due to be completed by March 2009.

At the Ein Kerem medical campus, construction of the first stage of the Institute for Medical Research (IMR), which includes construction of the six-story frame and completion of the top two floors of the Octav and Marcela Botnar Building is due to be completed this July. A top priority of the University, further funds are required to complete this essential building, and to renovate and equip the remaining IMR facilities. The completion of two new floors for the Bella and Harry Wexner Building for Dental Medicine was marked in December 2007 during the Alpha Omega Fraternity’s centennial conference. These floors comprise teaching and research laboratories, clinical facilities and a 250-seat auditorium, plus a bridge that links the Faculty of Dental Medicine with the Faculty of Medicine. The Stanley B. Prusiner Medical Information Center at the Faculty of Medicine, now operating for one year, has proven a great success with students and faculty alike.

At Rehovot, a substantive campus-wide building project aims to adapt the Faculty of Agricultural, Food and Environmental Quality Sciences — to be named in honor of Robert H. Smith later this year — to its new, integrative paradigm whose basis is the provision of healthy food in a sustainable way for the world’s growing population. The renovation and expansion by 1,000 sq.m. of the Ariowitsch Building for Animal Sciences is in advanced planning stages, with the two-year project scheduled to begin this July. Plans for two new buildings — for the Institute of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resources in Agriculture and a teaching laboratory center — will be finalized by June 2009. In addition, the Fribourg Building of the Institute of Biochemistry, Food Science and Nutrition will be renovated. A planned expansion of the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine, funded by the Koret Foundation, will include the addition of two floors.

The ongoing maintenance of buildings and campus infrastructure remains a major concern, with the budget cuts of the past five years allowing only essential work. Clearly, a general fund must be established for campus maintenance. This would include installing air-conditioning systems in all classrooms, a goal that can only be partially met at present.

Physical Development

42-43 / Physical Development

The ongoing physical development of the Hebrew University’s campuses is essential to the provision of excellent learning and living environments for students as well as optimal research and teaching environments for faculty members. Though hampered by budget cuts, the Hebrew University actively continues its physical development program.

A new feature on the Jerusalem skyline — and a substantial benefit for students — is the Scopus Student Village on the Mount Scopus campus, which was completed last year. All nine buildings are now fully occupied, with 1,621 students housed in its ultra-modern apartments. Also at Mount Scopus, the entrance floor of the Bernard M. and Louis M. Bloomfield Library Building is undergoing a comprehensive transformation to become the Berel and Agnes Ginges – Australia Library Information Centre. The redesigned 3,000 sq.m. space will comprise a state-of-the-art center, including 100 computer terminals, individual and group learning spaces, plus connections for laptops. Construction began this year of the distinctive new gateway to the Mount Scopus campus, which is a gift of Honorary Chairman of the Board of Governors Alex Grass. The project, to be completed by June 2009, will also alleviate chronic traffic-flow obstructions and security issues. The second stage of the Theodore N. and Annette M. Lerner Family Indoor Sports Complex, due to open in October 2008, will provide additional workout areas and locker rooms.

At the Edmond J. Safra Campus at Givat Ram, construction of the new Rothberg Family Complex, which will house the Selim and Rachel Benin School of Engineering and Computer Science,

The new Scopus Student Village comprises nine buildings of ultra-modern apartments

scientists to facilitate a multidisciplinary approach to biomedical research. This new approach stems from the knowledge that the complex nature of modern disease requires equally complex approaches to developing cures. Not only will this reorganization enable new directions in basic research as the first step towards treatment and prevention, but the influx of young talent and the bolstering of the research infrastructure — equipment and laboratory space — will further assist researchers in their mission to uncover innovative biomedical solutions to today’s most pressing health challenges.

The Hebrew University neuroscience community has a glorious history, and many members of the current faculty are among the best in the world in their areas of interest. According to an international committee of experts, the field of neuroscience at the Hebrew University will be ranked among the top five in the world, given sufficient investment in additional human and physical resources. With this in mind, the University seeks to create a center to focus and spearhead all brain science research across the University. The anticipated outcome of this effort is an outstanding, interdisciplinary institution in Israel which would serve as a leader of the international scientific community in breaking down barriers in understanding the brain, and training the next generation of neuroscientists to seek new research frontiers for the benefit of humanity.

Study of the humanities, much as in the sciences, is undergoing a sea-change as walls between disparate subjects are breached to enable innovative and increasingly comprehensive approaches to teaching and research among humanistic disciplines. In

recognition of this new reality, the Faculty of Humanities at the Hebrew University, which comprises numerous world-renowned experts and is ranked a top faculty in Israel, will establish a new Center of Excellence in the Humanities. This prestigious center will attract brilliant students and leading young scholars from around the world, providing the most outstanding students with sufficient funding to allow them to focus fully on their studies — a situation largely unheard of at the graduate and postdoctoral levels today.

At the core of this University-wide innovation and scholarship is a crucial mission: to attract and support the next generation of brilliant scientists and intellectuals. The Hebrew University faces intense competition from some of the world’s best universities who are vying to absorb outstanding young Israeli scholars; indeed, recent figures show a dangerous brain drain in Israeli academia. There can be no more important mission for the future of education and of the country than that of ensuring that Israel retains its best and brightest young minds,

Strides in all University endeavors have been and continue to be possible thanks to the help of the University’s Friends associations worldwide. The efforts and activities of our Friends assure the University a high profile and mobilize generous support. For this enduring friendship, the Hebrew University community — and the State of Israel — is eternally grateful.

The Campaign

44-45 / The Campaign

In fall 2006, fundraising began for the silent phase of a new Campaign. This new fundraising effort builds on the success of the “Campaign for the Hebrew University” which, from 1997 through 2006, successfully raised over $1 billion for vital projects. The completed campaign — whose success is a tribute to the efforts of the University’s Friends associations led by Campaign Co-chairs Barbara Mandel and Harvey Krueger — enabled the University to prevail through difficult financial times, including government budget cuts and heightened security needs.

At the forefront of the new Campaign, led by Barbara Mandel and Michael Federmann, is support for innovative approaches that are essential for the University’s ongoing pursuit of academic excellence. While the new Campaign encompasses a wide variety of capital and academic projects across the breadth of disciplines at the Hebrew University and seeks to build endowments to guarantee success into the future, the following flagship projects exemplify the future of research and teaching at the University.

Based on the understanding that interdisciplinary research holds the key to future breakthroughs, the Faculty of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Quality Sciences has undergone a reorganization that will enable it to better serve its mission of helping to provide sufficient nourishing food to an increasing world population with minimal harm to the environment. This new vision combines disparate departments and schools into four central units bolstered by four interdisciplinary research centers.

At the Faculty of Medicine, the fledgling Institute for Medical Research harnesses the research power of a community of top

Flagship projects include (from left) the Institute for Medical Research, a Center of Excellence in the Humanities (menorah mosaic from University excavations at Sepphoris), a new vision for the Faculty of Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Quality Sciences, and a world-class interdisciplinary center for neuroscience

Forging Our Future

22 Outstanding New Faculty Members

Financial Report 2006/2007

Despite the ongoing reductions in government funding, the University ended the 2006/2007 fiscal year with a balanced budget for the tenth consecutive year. This is a significant achievement when taking into account that, in the past six years, the direct contribution of the government to the University’s operating budget has been reduced by over 24%. Moreover, the University also has had to shoulder further, and unexpected, financial burdens resulting from changes in government policy. These include a requirement — from which the University was previously exempt — to pay municipal property taxes for all University campuses and buildings, and covering the cost increases of budget items whose prices have risen but are only partly covered by government funding.

In light of the drop in government funding, the University has continued to implement various cost-saving measures, including staff cuts and reductions in expenses. Each year, however, the damage caused by such measures becomes increasingly evident: in the levels of academic and administrative services provided to students and faculty members and in the maintenance of campuses and physical infrastructure. The most significant impact is on the University’s ability to offer student support and provide the basic equipment and infrastructure that are crucial to maintaining high research standards.

A contributing factor in achieving a balanced operational budget in 2006/2007 was the sale of University-owned real estate that

had significantly appreciated in value. However, this is clearly unreliable and undesirable as a long-term strategy. The University can neither make more staff cuts nor reduce maintenance costs. Additional budgetary support from both the government and the Friends associations is essential.

The Shochat Committee’s in-depth examination of Israel’s higher education system was previously regarded as the key to creating a new vision and increasing budgetary allocations to Israel’s universities. However, the report was presented almost one year ago and, for overtly political reasons, has yet to be discussed. Clearly, this stalemate on solving the crisis in higher education can only make the Hebrew University’s role more difficult as it seeks to grapple with the impact of the budget cuts.

In reviewing the University’s financial activity on these pages, we relate to its operating results. The figures presented cover all University operations and budgets. Budgets are divided into two categories: annual budgets comprise the regular budget (see Table 3 for details of regular budget implementation) and the closed budget of several specific operations such as the Rothberg International School and the Saltiel Center for Pre-Academic Studies. Multi-year budgets include the research, development and special budgets.

Financial reports for these multi-year budgets are generally represented on the basis of cash flow.

University Budgets 2005/2006-2006/2007

The tables on these pages (all figures are in US $) cover financial operations in 2006/2007, in comparison to the previous year.

Tables 1 and 2 cover overall operations in expenditure and income for the 2005/2006-2006/2007 period, showing the division of financial operations between various budgets. In 2006/2007, 67% of all financial operations were within the regular budget (Table 2), 13% within closed and special budgets, 16% within the research budget, and 4% within the development budget.

It should be noted that in 2006/2007, 67% of the University’s overall expenditure was on salaries and pensions (Table 1),

8% on scholarships, 6% on acquisitions such as books, basic equipment and computers, and 22% on other expenditures such as maintenance and utilities.

The University’s overall income in 2006/2007 comprised 43% from government funding through the Planning and Budgeting Committee of the Council for Higher Education, 11% from tuition fees; 15% from the Friends organizations; 2% from Endowment Funds; and 29% from other sources (approximately 16% of which came from research-funding agencies).

2006 / 2007

Financial Report

50-51 / Financial Report

TABLE 2 Allocation of Overall Budgetary Expenditure & Income 2005/2006-2006/2007 (in US $ millions)

*This figure for 2006/07 includes $(-)6.9 million of revaluation of balance sheet

items that are not included in the current expenditure of the University whereas

the figure for 2005/06 includes revaluation of $(-)6.1 million. The main cause of

the increment between the years is explained by the 6.72% decrease in the dollar

exchange rate between 30.9.06 (4.302) and 30.9.07 (4.013).

Expenditure

Regular Budget*

Closed & Special Budgets

Research Budget

Development Budget

Total Expenditure

2006/2007

380 (67%)

78 (13%)

91 (16%)

20 (4%)

569 (100%)

2005/2006

346 (67%)

73 (14%)

80 (16%)

15 (3%)

514 (100%)

347 (66%)

74 (14%)

87 (17%)

14 (3%)

522 (100%)

381 (66%)

84 (15%)

95 (16%)

17 (3%)

577 (100%)

Income

Regular Budget*

Closed & Special Budgets

Research Budget

Development Budget

Total Income

Table 3A Overall Expenditure

Expenditure

Salaries

Pensions & Severance Payments

Acquisitions

Scholarships

Other

Total

Percentage of Total Expenditure

Non-Experimental Units

60.0

—

0.4

1.5

2.6

64.5

17.0%

Experimental Units

83.6

—

2.9

3.1

5.0

94.6

25.0%

Academic Support Units

15.5

—

0.1

0.8

22.6

39.0

10.0%

Central Costs & Administrative Units*

26.5

101.1

1.4

1.6

51.3

181.9

48.0%

Total Implementation

185.6

101.1

4.8

7.0

81.5

380.0

100%

*Including central expenses such as pension costs and maintenance

TABLE 3 Implementation of Regular Budget, 2006/2007 (in US $ millions)

These tables show the implementation of the regular budget according to the University’s areas of academic and administrative activities. Within academic activities, only direct expenditures are

included. Central expenditures for these units (mainly pension and severance payments, and physical maintenance costs) are included in the ‘Central Costs & Administrative Units’ column.

Table 3B Experimental Units

Expenditure

Salaries

Acquisitions

Scholarships

Other

Total

Sciences, incl. Eng. & Comp. Science

42.3

1.5

1.0

1.3

46.1

Agriculture

18.2

0.6

0.4

2.5

21.7

Medicine

16.2

0.6

1.2

0.9

18.9

Pharmacy

4.5

0.1

0.3

0.2

5.1

Dental Medicine

2.4

0.1

0.2

0.1

2.8

Total

83.6

2.9

3.1

5.0

94.6

TABLE 1 Expenditure & Income 2005/2006-2006/2007 (in US $ millions)


*This figure for 2006/07 includes $(-)6.9 million of revaluation of balance sheet items

that are not included in the current expenditure of the University whereas the figure

for 2005/06 includes revaluation of $(-)6.1 million. The main cause of the increment

between the years is explained by the 6.72% decrease in the dollar exchange rate

between 30.9.06 (4.302) and 30.9.07 (4.013).

**Does not include gifts to Endowment Funds; for total funds raised by Friends

associations, see Table 6.

Expenditure

Salaries & Pensions

Acquisitions

Scholarships

Other

Total Expenditure*

2006/2007

367 (64%)

32 (6%)

44 (8%)

126 (22%)

569 (100%)

249 (43%)

62 (11%)

88 (15%)

12 (2%)

166 (29%)

577 (100%)

2005/2006

340 (66%)

25 (5%)

40 (8%)

109 (21%)

514 (100%)

236 (43%)

61 (11%)

73 (15%)

10 (2%)

142 (29%)

522 (100%)

Income

Government (PBC)

Tuition Fees

Friends of HU**

Endowment Funds

Other

Total Income

University Expenditure 2005/2006-2006/2007

100%

90%

80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%Salaries & Pensions

Acquisitions Scholarships Other

2005-20062006-2007

University Income2005/2006-2006/2007

100%

90%

80%

70%

60%

50%

40%

30%

20%

10%

0%Government (PBC)

Tuition Fees Friends of HU

Endowment Funds

Other

TABLE 5 University Endowment Funds, Growth and Income (in US $ millions)*

From 1996/1997 until the present, the assets of the University’s Endowment Funds have grown by $126.2 million, from $268.1 million at the end of 1996/1997 to $394.3 million at the end of 2006/2007, with an average growth of $12.6 million per year. During 2006/2007, Endowment Funds assets increased by $46.5 million. Net profit from Endowment Funds during 2006/2007 amounted to $32.9 million, a yield of nearly 8.3%. The substantial income shown in the financial statements for 2006/2007 is due to

gains derived from investments. In accordance with the policy of the Endowment Funds Committee, 25% of the funds’ investments are linked to the US dollar and the remaining 75% are linked to shekel channels. Starting in 2003/2004, Endowment Funds Committee financial statements are prepared and presented in nominal shekels (NIS), instead of in dollars (US $) as in previous years. The figures for 2006/2007 were calculated according to the rate of exchange on 30 September 2007.

Year

1996/1997

1997/1998

1998/1999

1999/2000

2000/2001

2001/2002

2002/2003

2003/2004

2004/2005

2005/2006

2006/2007

Total Assets of Endowment Funds

268.1

272.9

279.0

313.3

282.6

280.7

294.3

308.6

328.0

347.8

394.3

Net Profit

24.0

4.3

13.8

43.1

-18.0

-0.9

30.4

23.6

26.6

22.7

32.9

Net Profit (as %)

9.0

1.6

4.9

13.7

-6.4

-0.3

10.3

7.6

8.1

6.5

8.3

*The dollar values above are translated from the amount shown in the University’s books in New Israeli Shekels at the rate of exchange on the day of transaction.

Special & ResearchBudgets

17,752

7,576

3,414

4,097

6,183

1,217

792

41,031

Development & Other Budgets

3,276

5,003

—

397

44

1,118

18

9,856

EndowmentFunds in Israel

445

1,076

11

4,663

114

3,215

667

10,191

Total Income

38,562

13,889

10,649

9,687

6,735

5,692

2,430

87,644

77,995

85,301

As Percentageof Total

44.0%

15.8%

12.1%

11.1%

7.7%

6.5%

2.8%

100.0%

Regular Budget

17,089

234

7,224

530

394

142

953

26,566

Source of Income

USA

Europe

Canada

Israel

UK

Australia

Other Countries

Total

Total 2005/2006

Total 2004/2005

TABLE 6 Amounts Received from Friends Organizations 2006/2007 (in US $ thousands)*

Table 3C Non-Experimental Units

Expenditure

Salaries

Acquisitions

Scholarships

Other

Total

Humanities

25.7

0.2

0.6

0.6

27.1

Social Sciences

21.1

0.2

0.7

1.2

23.2

Education

5.3

—

0.1

0.5

5.9

Law

4.3

—

0.1

0.2

4.8

Social Work

3.4

—

—

0.1

3.5

Total

60.0

0.4

1.5

2.6

64.5

TABLE 4 Research Budget According to Groups (in US $ thousands)*

*Based on planned budgets; figures calculated at rate of exchange on September 30, 2007

**Faculty of Law only from 2005/6

Group 1: Faculty of Science, School of Engineering & Computer Science

Group 2: Faculty of Medicine, School of Pharmacy, Faculty of Dental Medicine

Group 3: Faculty of Humanities, School of Education, School of Business Administration

Group 4: Faculty of Agricultural, Food & Environmental Quality Sciences

Group 5: Faculty of Social Sciences, School of Social Work & Social Welfare

Group 6: Faculty of Law, Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, others**

Total

2004/2005

32,796

23,470

11,072

11,158

6,900

2,998

88,394

2003/2004

31,022

23,061

11,793

10,549

5,852

5,971

88,248

2002/2003

29,150

20,332

12,205

10,753

5,441

5,975

83,856

2006/2007

39,560

31,665

11,859

14,360

7,600

1,875

106,919

2005/2006

37,781

27,427

13,553

12,731

7,525

809

99,826

40,000

35,000

30,000

25,000

20,000

15,000

10,000

5,000

0Group 1 Group 2 Group 3 Group 4 Group 5 Group 6

2005-2006 2004-2005 2003-2004 2002-20032006-2007


Governors

ArgentinaLeon KovalivkerSamuel LibermanSusana LibermanRoberto NulJames ShashaLilli Sielecky

AustraliaSir Zelman Cowen Michael DunkelStuart SilbertRobert SimonsProf. Louis Waller

AustriaEllen Landesmann

BelgiumProf. Jacques Brotchi

BrazilEdmundo SafdieJack Terpins

CanadaMme. Justice Rosalie AbellaRon ApplebyGail AsperNeri BloomfieldRose Marie GlassmanDr. Gerald HalbertDr. Ralph Halbert J. Stephen LipperBernard ShusterStephen VictorEdward J. Winant

FranceSophie DabiRoland Kluger

GermanyRon Jakubowicz Hong KongJack Ormut

IsraelMarcel AmariglioMoshe AradMyriam Arazi-GuyYigal ArnonAvraham AsheriMirella BambergerZvi BarakNissim BaruchRubi BeharYaacov BeharShlomo BelkindUri Z. Ben-NoonI. Amihud Ben-PorathProf. Yehudith Birk

David BlumbergMorrie BlumenfeldDr. Itamar BorowitzMoshe CaspyAlexander CohenDr. David CohenMeir DayanRonit DolevJustice Dalia DornerShalom P. DoronJacob EderyMenachem EinanMichael FedermannProf. Stanley FischerDaniel FurmanArnon GafnyRon GazitMartin GerstelDan GillermanYair GreenJoseph HackmeyDan HalperinMicha HarishRaphaela HarlapDavid IvryDaniel JacobsonRaya JaglomProf. Joshua JortnerTehia KarczMiri KatzDr. David KimcheDr. David KleinDaniel M. KrauskopfAharon KraussAmos LaveeSol LiebgottMayor Uri LupolianskyYitzhak ManorGalia MaorAmos Mar-ChaimErel MargalitGurion MeltzerReuven MerhavYitzhak MolhoLeonid NevzlinAvi PaznerBen Z. RabinovitchYair RabinowitchEitan RaffDr. Yehudith RichterDanny RothschildHarry SapirYair SeroussiUri ShaniDr. Emanuel SharonZe’ev SherDan SuesskindUzi Vardy-zerMoshe VidmanMoshe VigdorUzi WexlerProf. Menahem YaariYaacov YanivDr. Giora YaronEliezer YonasProf. Yaacov Ziv

Yoram ZivShlomo Levy, Chairman, Students’ Union

Italy Prof. Maria ModenaOreste Bisazza Terracini

LuxembourgEdmond Israel

MexicoIng. Isaac BeckerIng. Julio BottonElias MeklerAlejandro Zichlin

The NetherlandsHarry van den Bergh

RussiaMark Shabad

South AfricaPhilip JacobsonProf. Michael M. KatzGerald Leissner

SwitzerlandNathalie BerrebiDr. Eric HaufCathy Lawi Baron Benjamin de RothschildNilly SikorskyDavid Wollach

United KingdomDr. Kenneth B. AlbermanJudge Clive CallmanProf. Sir Alan Roy Fersht FRSMichael J. GeeMichael B. HackerBrent IsaacsIsaac KayeDr. Leonard PolonskyJohn S. SacherGeoffrey SimmondsAnthony SpitzSir Sigmund SternbergLady Estelle WolfsonLord Wolfson of MaryleboneFred S. Worms

United StatesErnest BogenStanley M. BogenStanley Chais Ariel EliaSusie GelmanDr. Susan GitelsonPatricia GlaserLawrence E. GlickCharles H. GoodmanMark Gordon

Alexander Grass Renae Jacobs-AnsonMichael JesselsonClive KabatznikLouis L. KaitzFrances R. KatzA. Sidney KatzHarvey M. Krueger Michael KurtzFred S. LaferHarriet Lainer Marla Lerner TanenbaumTodd LundyBarbara MandelMorton MandelDr. Gerald NiznickProf. Theodore RabbProf. Mark RatnerHeidi RothbergKeith L. SachsGeorge A. SchierenRobert H. Smith Ira Lee SorkinKenneth L. SteinJune Walker Dan WassongGordon ZacksRichard Ziman

VenezuelaMarcel ApeloigElieser Rotkopf

Associate Governors

AustraliaShirley EhrlichDr. Jack HoffmanSam LipskiJeffrey MahemoffJulie PyntJohn Shalit

Belgium Claude KandiyotiDiane KandiyotiAndree LevyRaphael Lipski

BrazilMorris DayanCelso LaferClaudio Sonder

CanadaLewis DobrinRoz HalbertYude HenteleffJosh KleinmanCarol KofflerHarley MintzHarvey NaglieMurray PalayLillian Shiller

Dr. Phil SwitzerSylvia Vogel

FranceDr. Raoul GhozlanLucien KalfonPhilippe NahmiasJean-Claude PicardJoseph PintoJan RividiDr. Lucien Samak

GermanyIris BerbenYaakov Chai

IrelandDr. David Abrahamson

Israel Ya’acov AllaloufSara BaruchinBernice Beare Rosenberg Rachel Ben-PorathYoram BlizovskyMeir GabbayRonni GivoniYaron LoewensteinYaacov RubinSylvain SternbergMeir TchorshSaul WolfsteinZohar Zissapel

JapanKyoji Tsujita

LuxembourgProf. Alain Meyer

MexicoRuben Kupferman

The NetherlandsMoritz Tof

Panama David Dayan

RussiaGregory Schtulberg

South AfricaPaul BermanEstelle Yach

SpainJose Bensadon

SwitzerlandPhilippe AmonNadia Guth BiasiniGultin EphratiAnnie TobiasElie Zilkha

Officers of the University

President

Prof. Menachem Magidor

Rector

Prof. Haim D. Rabinowitch

Vice-President & Director-General

Elhanan Hacohen

Vice-President for External Relations

Carmi Gillon

Vice-President for Research & Development

Prof. Hillel Bercovier

Vice-Rector

Prof. Miriam Gur-Arye

Comptroller

Yair Hurwitz

Deans & Directors

Prof. Israel Bartal, Humanities

Prof. Boas Shamir, Social Sciences

Prof. Yoav Dotan, Law

Prof. Hermona Soreq, Science

Prof. Eli Feinerman, Agricultural,

Food & Environmental Quality Sciences

Prof. Ehud Razin, Medicine

Prof. Adam Stabholz, Dental Medicine

Prof. Esther Shohami, Dean of Students

Prof. Tsvi Piran, Jerusalem School of

Business Administration

Prof. Gail Auslander, Paul Baerwald

School of Social Work & Social Welfare

Prof. Yonata Levy, Provost, Rothberg International School

Prof. Jacob Metzer, Chairman, Library Authority

Prof. Joseph Orly, Chairman, Authority for Animal Facilities

Prof. Danny Dolev, Chairman, Authority for

Computation, Communication & Information

Prof. Avishai Dekel, Chairman, Authority for

the Community & Youth

Prof. Yoram Bilu, Prof. Batsheva Kerem,

Co-Chairs, Authority for Research Students

Prof. Carl Posy, Academic Director, National Library of Israel

Robert H. Smith Honorary Chairman

Alexander Grass Honorary Chairman

Ralph Halbert Honorary Chairman

Harvey M. Krueger Honorary Chairman

Yigal Arnon Honorary Chairman

Charles H. GoodmanChairman

The Board of Governors of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Board of Governors is the supreme authority that elects the presidents and vice-presidents of the University, determines financial policy, approves the annual budget, and authorizes

the establishment or abolition of faculties and schools on the recommendation of the Senate and the Executive Committee. The Board is composed of representatives from all parts of the world.

56-57 / Officers of the University & Board of Governors

Mr. & Mrs. Francis Hock, z”lDr. Peter & Dr. Ellen Landesmann

BelgiumB. W. FamilyHerbert Cohn, z”l Tamara & Ariel E. Simone & Bernard z”l G. Nadine & Fredy Herrman, z”l Yvonne & Leon Maiersdorf, z”l

CanadaAnonymousDr. André & Nussia AisenstadtVidal Angel, z”lIsrael z”l & Babs AsperIda & Joseph Berman, z”lKaye & Harry Bernstein, z”lAdolph & Klara Brettler, z”lPeter Brojde, z”lLucy & Allan Bronfman, z”lCharles R. BronfmanEdward M. Bronfman, z”l Peter F. Bronfman, z”l A. Ephraim & Shirley DiamondEthel & Simon Flegg, z”l Eldee FoundationLouis FriebergJohanna Friedlaender, z”l Rose Marie & Leon GlassmanAbe Gray, z”l Hanna Grunbaum, z”l Hadassah-WIZO Organization of CanadaRoz & Ralph HalbertIsrael Cancer Research Fund (also US)Faye & Maurice Kaufman, z”lRose A. Lauterman, z”lSophie & Stephan Lewar, z”lThe Reuben Kunin & Samuel Lunenfeld Medical Research FoundationAlice & Jack Ormut (also Hong Kong)Wilfred, Jack z”l & Irving Posluns & FamilyMorris Murray Pulver, z”lI. Meier Segals, z”lBen & Lil Stein, z”l Dr. Max & Iris Stern, z”l Charles TabachnickAlice Kusiel de Vorreuter, z”l Dr. Joel & Margaret z”l WilbushDena & Morris J. Wosk, z”l Sam Zacks z”l & Ayala Zacks-Abramov (also Israel)Ludmila R. & Henry C. Zeldowicz, z”l

FranceAnonymousM. B.Rose & Paul z”l FeherKelman FamilyLeven FamilyAnn L. O. (also US)Stella & Julien z”l Rozan

GermanyLeon Braitman, z”l (also Israel)

I. & K. E. Irene & Carlos Friedmann, z”l Dr. Walter z”l & Hedi HesselbachProf. Werner Marx z”l (also US)Reinhard MohnDr. Max M. z”l & Margit SchlomiukDr. Norbert Ungar & Martha Hoffmann

Hong KongAlice & Jack Ormut (also Canada)

IsraelAnonymousProf. Ruth Amiran & Prof. David Amiran, z”lJulia Auster, z”l Avi Chai FoundationShmuel BadichiDr. Nahum Ben Eli-HonigAlbert Benin, z”l Leon Braitman, z”l (also Germany)Hanna Braun, z”l Gerard & Ruth z”l DanielCaesarea Edmond Benjamin de Rothschild FoundationFlorence & Philip Dworsky, z”l (also US)Michal & Oved Eisenberg, z”l Penina & Mordechai Arieh Epstein, z”l Federmann Family FoundationDr. Israel & Bertha Goldstein, z”l (also US)Rahel Mizrahi, Moshe Ben Yosef & Elsa Eliashar, z”l Helena & Nahum-Natan Harnish, z”l Henrietta & Harry Josselson, z”l Dr. Victoria Kruskal, z”l Bank LeumiMozes FamilyNadav FundIsrael Pollak, z”lShulamit NellSimha & Malka Pratt, z”lSacta-Rashi FoundationRecanati FamilyKarol z”l & Alla ReisfeldAbraham Rosenman, z”l Israel Sarna, z”l Drs. Miriam & Max Schloessinger, z”l (also US)Aryeh & Rivka Shenkar FundMax Wittmann & Dola Ben-Yehuda Wittmann, z”lYad Hanadiv - JerusalemSam Zacks z”l & Ayala Zacks-Abramov (also Canada)

ItalyKathleen & Alberto z”l CasaliVittoria Corinaldi, z”l Iby & Aladar Fleischman FoundationAstrid & Henry Montor, z”l (also US)Dr. Stan & Joan Sosnowsky, z”l Giacomo, Amadea & Marcella Levi de Veali, z”l Amelia Valenti Vigevani, z”l

JapanMizra Association

LuxembourgErna D. & Henry J. Leir z”l (also US)Luxembourg Foundation

The NetherlandsAmely Weinberg-Cohen, z”l

South AfricaAnonymousPhyllis & Samuel Boall Foundation for Cancer ResearchSam Cohen (Windhoek) Scholarship TrustMargot Lachmann, z”lThe Julius Ring Family Foundation for Atmospheric & Global Change StudyDr. Leonard Sachs, z”l Silas Perry, z”l

SwedenEdith & Julius z”l Bamberger

SwitzerlandAnonymousAnonymousAnonymousBasilisk FundRaymond z”l & Janine Bollag-BlumOctav Botnar, z”l Esther S.Otto & Lotte Klemperer, z”lDavid W.

United KingdomAimwell Charitable Trust (Myrna & Isaac Kaye)Millicent & Edward Carew-Shaw, z”lClore Foundation (Dame Vivien Duffield DBE)John S. Cohen FoundationEmily Erskine, z”l Penny & Michael z”l FeiwelDr. Margot GarciaDame Susan Garth, z”l Michael & Morven Heller Charitable FoundationLionel HurstHumanitarian TrustIsrael Colonisation AssociationJacob & Lena Joels Charitable Trust (Prof. Norman Joels & Harold Joels)Kennedy-Leigh Charitable TrustLeo Leffmann, z”l Marks, Sacher & Sieff Family TrustsHannah & Louis Mintz, z”l The Pears FoundationPolonsky Foundation (Dr. Leonard Polonsky, also United States)Felix PosenArchie Sherman Charitable Trust (Michael & Jackie Gee, Allan & Diana Morgenthau, Nicholas & Rosalyn Springer)Harry & Abe Sherman FoundationSobell FoundationCharles Wolfson Charitable TrustWolfson Family Charitable TrustWolfson FoundationYad Hanadiv (Lord Jacob Rothschild OM GBE)

TurkeySelim Amado

United KingdomJudy CallmanNeville EisenbergGordon HausmannMarc IarchyJonathan MarksBernard MyersNorman NaftalinDavid PannickWarren RoiterMargo Schwarz- NoskwithMelvyn Segal

United StatesDiane BelferRobert BelferHarold BerryAlan BlochNancy Berman BlochRita BogenWilliard L. CohodasHelen EisenbergAlan FiskeMichael FreedWilliam H. IsacoffWilliam LintonHarold MagidMartinn MandlesJames E. MatankyDr. Dan MaydanLeona Z. RosenbergDavid RubinDavid SimonDavid SmithMonte ToolePeter WeilJerome A. WeinbergerNeil C. Weinberger

UruguayLeon SchimmelDr. Walter Zeinal

Susana Mitnik de Zolkwer

Honorary Governors

AustraliaAlan K. Milston

AustriaFuerst Karl von Schwarzenberg

Belgium Madeleine RossGabriel TolkowskyThea Zucker

BrazilLeon HerzogBarbara Starr Wolf

CanadaClara BalinskyAbby BekerDavid R. BloomHarold BuchwaldDr. Mina DeutschA. Ephraim DiamondLouis FriebergJack HauerDavid KlineMonte NathansonDr. H. Peter OberlanderMaurice PapernyCecily PetersWilfred PoslunsAlex SoykaMelvyn Wolfond

ChileEmilio Weintraub

FranceMme. Stella RozanProf. Rene Sirat, Rabbi

Prof. Adolphe Steg

GermanyDr. Werner SchulzDr. Hans Jurgen Seeberger

IsraelAyala Zacks AbramovAvraham AvihaiJudge David BartovAsher Ben-NathanRachel Berger-BarchatZadik BinoRabbi Avraham ChamraDr. Zvi DinsteinAaron EisenProf. Shaul FeldmanJustice Shmuel FinkelmanZena HarmanRalph I. GoldmanJoshua JustmanDov LautmanArye LevaviRaphael MolhoJoseph PerlmanRachel PollakEliahu PoratMoshe PorathAsher ReshefDr. Meir RosenneBenjamin SabaghMoshe SanbarVictor ShemtovMeir SilverstoneDov TadmorMichael Zvineri

MexicoSilvio BergerDr. David BrucilovskyDr. Horacio JinichElias Sacal Alejandro Saltiel

MoroccoRobert Assaraf

South Africa Judge Richard J. Goldstone

SwitzerlandSem AlmalehNessim D. GaonProf. Hans Guth Francois LoebDr. Siegbert Weinberg

United KingdomDr. David CohenLord Ralf DahrendorfMyrtle Franklin- EllenbogenProf. Sir Martin GilbertHarold GorvyProf. Sir Aaron KlugProf. Sir Hans KornbergPeter L. LevyRoger K. LewisRolf NoskwithFelix PosenProf. David D. RaphaelDr. M. Leonard SlotoverSir Harry SolomonBarry TownsleyLord Wolfson of Sunningdale

United StatesDr. Seymour AlpertMadlyn BarnettSulana Ross ChaitRabbi Armond CohenDr. D. Walter CohenLonny DarwinHelen DillerMildred EdelsteinEugene Ferkauf Richard L. Freundlich

Morton FungerJay N. GoldbergPerry HaberMartin HechtRosalind HenwoodDavid B. HoltzmanCharlotte JacobsonBurton M. JosephDr. Max M. KampelmanWilliam B. KonarMartin M. LevinNathan LipsonRobert LowBess MyersonLawrence NewmanRuth PopkinBernice Mossafer RindDr. Julia RobinsonProf. Henry RosovskyJack RudinAlice Russell-ShapiroVidal SassoonFloyd A. SegelLeonard I. ShankmanJerome J. ShestackDr. Jerry M. SudarskyThaddeus N. Taube Barnett TobinsJulian B. VenezkyProf. Michael WalzerProf. Julian Wolpert

VenezuelaClara Sznajderman

58-59 / Board of Governors & Benefactors

Benefactors of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Benefactors of the Hebrew University are extraordinary individuals, organizations, or foundations whose donations of one million dollars or more have enabled the University to become one of the world’s leading universities. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem pays tribute to their support and friendship.

Argentina Moises Vesfrid, z”l

AustraliaGerald Ball & Dr. Lore Kuner-Ball, z”lRene & Henry Bester, z”lStanley Burley, z”l

Dora & Ian Cameron, z”lSir Zelman Cowen Trust FundAgnes & Berel GingesFrank & Valtie Hammond, z”lJohn Hammond, z”lDavid, Gita & Michael Hoffman, z”lDinah & Henry z”l KrongoldIra & Isador Magid z”l & Family

Dr. Erich & Foga Neuberger, z”lHella & Arno Seefeldt, z”lAlfred Slucki, z”lRhonda & Harry Triguboff AOClaire & Emery Yass, z”l

AustriaGovernment of Austria

Edna & Joseph M. Root Shapiro z”l, CaliforniaRuth & Alexander z”l Silberman, PennsylvaniaLillian & Harvey L. Silbert z”l Family, CaliforniaIsidore & Edith Silver, z”l, MissouriHerbert Simon and Family David E. Simon & Jacqueline S. Simon and Family Melvin & Bren Simon and Family Harry Simons z”l, CaliforniaSkirball Foundation, New York Flora & Arnold D. Skovron z”l, CaliforniaSmart Family Foundation, ConnecticutCharles E. Smith z”l, Washington, DCMr. & Mrs. Robert H. Smith, Washington, DCInger-Mä & Rudolf Sonneborn z”l, New YorkFrances & Benjamin Sperling z”l, NewYorkSteven Spielberg, CaliforniaRuth Steiner z”l, CaliforniaOtto Stieber & Evelyn Stieber Bernstein z”l, Florida

Walter S. & Greta J. Stiel z”l, New YorkDr. Ellen Stolkind z”l & Dr. Abram Stolkind z”l, New YorkStorch & Gallin Families, ConnecticutJerry & Mildred Sudarsky, CaliforniaSwig Family, CaliforniaCharles R. Taine z”l, FloridaDr. Irving & Edith Taylor, CaliforniaEdythe R. & Barnett C. Tobins, MassachusettsMarion B. Tolnai z”l, CaliforniaThe Toole Family, CaliforniaMaria von Hofmannsthal z”l, in memory of Emilio von Hofmannsthal, New YorkWachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, New YorkMoritz & Charlotte Warburg Memorial Fund, New YorkDan K. Wassong, New YorkHenriette L. Wayne z”l, New YorkPauline & Abraham Wechsler z”l, New York

Campaign Gifts

These designated gifts to the Hebrew University comprise both lifetime contributions and testamentary funding of $100,000 and above for a number of innovative projects. This list includes gifts made October 2006-January 2008.

Physical Development

Mount Scopus CampusBerel & Agnes Ginges - Australia Library Information Centre Moises Vesfrid Gift Joseph & Harvey Meyerhoff Charitable Foundation, Hillel House refurbishmentScopus Student Village• Marjorie Bronfman Apartments• Edelman Family Garden• Frank & Valtie Hammond Dormitory Wing, Lobby & Garden Plaza• Ellen Landesmann Plaza• Mitchell Cooperman & Joseph G. Katz Memorial Garden• Enid McKenna Soifer z”l Garden • Sonia Marschak Garden• Schieren Apartment• Simon Family Building• Isaac Thau Wing, Canada House• Harvey & Roslyn Wolfe Wing, Canada House

Edmond J. Safra Campus, Givat RamCharles Grosberg Foundation Fellows ClubFrits & Rita Markus Science Teaching Laboratory Gilly & Elie Z. and Nilly & Vladimir S. Mirror Laboratory, Silberman Institute of Life Sciences

Rehovot CampusKoret Foundation Grant, Completion of the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine BuildingThe Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food & Environmental Quality SciencesInternational Center for Protected Agriculture in Semi-Arid Areas, made possible by Robert H. Smith

Clara & Maurice Weil z”l, New YorkDr. Hans & Tilly Weil z”l, CaliforniaThe Norman & Rosita Winston Foundation, New YorkDr. Louis E. Wolfson Foundation, FloridaSonnya & Fanya Woll z”l, New YorkWomen’s League for Israel, New YorkBarbara & Stanley Zax, CaliforniaDrs. Margaret R. & Henry M. Zentner z”l Family, New JerseyDaphna & Richard Ziman Family, California

OthersAnonymous, on behalf of the Bahá’í World CenterLily & Edmond J. z”l SafraSanger Chair in Banking & Risk Management

Chairs & Academic DevelopmentDr. Seymour & Cecile Alpert Chair in Pain ResearchDiane Belfer Gift for LibrariesThe Peter Brojde Centre FundD B Doran Fund in Population, Resources & Economic DevelopmentG. & E., Interdisciplinary Center for Neural ComputationFedermann School of Public Policy & GovernmentLouis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies The Doctor Michael Feiwel & Penny Feiwel Professorial Chair for Research in DermatologyGandel Institute for Adult Jewish LearningFrances R. Katz Gift to the Aharon Barak Center for Legal & Multidisciplinary ResearchThe Leir Charitable Foundations, JNUL Computerization ProjectThe Leir Charitable Foundations, Faculty Recruitment in MedicineThe Leir Charitable Foundations, Faculty Recruitment in ScienceMeera & Mark O. Mayer Faculty Recruitment, Institute for Medical ResearchHarvey & Lyn Meyerhoff Endowment, Center for Strategic & Policy Studies Ratner Family Chair in ChemistrySachs Family Chair in Computer Sciences Vidal Sassoon Endowment Fund, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of AntisemitismWilliam N. Skirball Chair in NeurophysicsChair in International Law in Memory of Emilio von Hofmannsthal Fritz Werner Blumenthal & Ursula Johanna Blumenthal of Western Australia Gift, Spielberg Jewish Film Archives

Daphna & Richard Ziman, Equipment for Stem Cell Unit

Research FundsBelgian Friends Gift of Electrodes, Interdisciplinary Center for Neural ComputationBoniovka Gift for Medical Research, in Memory of the Boniovka FamilyFondation de Bruckner-Onn de Research sur la Maladie D’alzheimer Hans & Edith Dreyer z”l Endowment Fund for Research in Neurodegenerative DiseasesY.P. Environmental Research Fund Mimi & Peter Haas Fund, Early Childhood LearningLeo & Boris Ritoff Fund for Higher Studies in Applied MicrobiologyEdmond J. Safra Philanthropic Foundation Higher Education InitiativeLord Wolfson of Marylebone Cellomics Station

Student Aid, Scholarship & Fellowship FundsAbraham Aaroni z”l Gift, Department of Hebrew LiteratureJacob S. & Sophie Allinson & Family Endowed Scholarship FundAnonymous General Scholarships Ichaak & Molly Artman Memorial ScholarshipsRene & Henry Bester of Western Australia Student Aid Endowment Fund in Cancer Research & OceanographyHelen M. Block ScholarshipSamuel H. Cohen/Shalom Hartman Institute Doctoral Scholarships and Lecture Series Bernice R. & Louis Dozoretz Endowed Scholarship FundRena Dweck Scholarship EndowmentEdward Fein Scholarships, Rothberg

United StatesAnonymousAbraham & Celia Aaroni z”l, New YorkAhmanson Foundation, CaliforniaLeona & George Alpert z”l, CaliforniaDr. Seymour & Cecile z”l AlpertAlpha Omega Foundation & The Alpha Omega International Dental FraternityAmerican Jewish Joint Distribution CommitteeAnnenberg Foundation, PennsylvaniaAriowitsch Family FoundationDr. Milton z”l & Leona Aron, New York & IsraelDr. Lester Aronberg Foundation, IllinoisSilvia & Milton z”l BardMaxine & Harry z”l Batalin, FloridaArthur & Rochelle Belfer Foundation, Inc., New YorkDiane & Arthur z”l Belfer, New YorkSol & Miriam Berg, New YorkCharles I. Berger z”l, FloridaMuriel & Philip Berman z”l, PennsylvaniaLawrence D. Biele z”l, PennsylvaniaMartin Billins z”l, CaliforniaEloise & Boris Blinder z”l & Fradia Benam z”l, CaliforniaErnest Bogen Family, FloridaRoberta & Stanley M. Bogen, New YorkBogen Family, New York & FloridaSophie Bookhalter M.D. z”l, New YorkMae & Louis H. Boyar z”l, CaliforniaJudith Brahin, PennsylvaniaBelle R. & Joseph H. Braun z”l, IllinoisAnny Birnbaum Brieger & Clarence E. Brieger z”l and Edith Birnbaum Oblatt & George D. Oblatt z”l, New YorkCharlotte & Irvin M. z”l Brodsky, IllinoisFrances & Herbert Brody z”l, New JerseyAbraham & Adele Browner z”l, New YorkChais Family Foundation, CaliforniaJoseph z”l & Marian Chudnow Family, WisconsinMarilyn & Maurice z”l Cohen, MassachusettsSara Schechter Cohen z”l, PennsylvaniaSamuel M. Cohodas z”l, MichiganWillard & Lois Cohodas, MichiganConcern Foundation, CaliforniaCrown Family, IllinoisLeonie & Jay z”l Darwin, CaliforniaAdele & Alfred A. Davis z”l, California & GeorgiaSophie & Leonard Davis z”l, FloridaHarry Dean, Sandra Ovesen & Samuel Carson, CaliforniaBaron de Hirsch Fund, New YorkHelen & Sanford Diller Family, CaliforniaDorot Foundation, Rhode IslandBernice R. & Louis Dozoretz z”l, New YorkFlorence & Philip Dworsky z”l, California (also Israel)Ann & Joseph Edelman z”l, CaliforniaSonya & Samuel Edelstein z”l, New JerseyMildred & Sidney Edelstein z”l, FloridaHelen & Stanford z”l Eisenberg, FloridaClarence W. Efroymson z”l, IndianaEdward Fein, NevadaRose & Dalck z”l Feith, PennsylvaniaEugene & Estelle Ferkauf Foundation, New YorkJ. Robert Fisher z”l, New YorkLena & Benjamin Fohrman z”l, CaliforniaLeo & Julia Forchheimer Foundation, New York

Fribourg Foundation, New YorkJean & Meyer Gensburg z”l, CaliforniaRosalinde & Arthur Gilbert z”l, CaliforniaGilo Family FoundationFloraine & Jerry L. z”l Gitell, CaliforniaNancy S. & Lawrence E. Glick, IllinoisGoldie Anna Charitable Trust, New YorkMary & Julius z”l Goldman, CaliforniaHorace W. Goldsmith Foundation, New YorkDr. Israel & Bertha Goldstein z”l (also Israel)Melvin S. z”l & Lolita E. Goldstein, New YorkE. Morris Goldstein z”l, FloridaJudith B. & Michael S. Goodman, IllinoisMollie E. & David L. Goodman z”l, California & IllinoisPatricia & Mark Richard Gordon, New YorkLouise z”l & Alex Grass, PennsylvaniaBarbara & Hank z”l Greenspun, NevadaRuth & Richard z”l Browns Gundelfinger, CaliforniaMax z”l & Rita Haber, IllinoisHadassah Women’s Zionist Organization of AmericaIrving Brooks Harris z”l, IllinoisLeon Hecht z”l, CaliforniaRosalind Henwood, FloridaHerbst Private Family Foundation, New YorkMax & Ida Hillson Foundation, New YorkJacob Hirsch z”l, New YorkDavid L. Husman, IllinoisArthur Ikenn, IllinoisISEF International Sephardic Education Foundation, New YorkIsrael Cancer Research Fund (also Canada)Dr. Richard Jacobs, IowaErica & Ludwig z”l Jesselson, New YorkCharlotte & Louis Kaitz & Family, MassachusettsMaurice J. & Fay B. Karpf z”l, CaliforniaGeorge A. & Frances R. Katz Family Foundation, New YorkEdith Schoenburger-Kaufman z”l, CaliforniaHarry Kay Foundation, MinnesotaDr. Rudolf & Mrs. Eva A. Kayser z”l, New YorkRaizel & Max Klein z”l, CaliforniaNathaniel & Paulena S. Kleitman z”l, CaliforniaSelma & Paul z”l Klingenstein, FloridaArlene & Robert P. Kogod, Washington, DCKoret Foundation, CaliforniaCharlotte & Charles Krown z”l, CaliforniaConstance & Harvey M. Krueger, New YorkMorris A. Krupkin z”l, IllinoisRose Landowski z”l, New YorkSenator Frank R. Lautenberg, New JerseyErna D. & Henry J. Leir z”l, New York (also Luxembourg)The Leir Charitable Foundations, New YorkReggie & Aleck Leitman z”l, New YorkMadeleine Lejwa z”l, New YorkCilla & George Lepehne z”l, MassachusettsAnnette M. & Theodore N. Lerner Family Foundation, MarylandVivian & Martin Levin, New JerseyPaul S. & Jeanette z”l Lewis, New YorkDr. Joseph D. & Natalie Lieberman z”l, New YorkLow & Savin Families, New YorkMandel Family, Florida

Abbie L. Manster z”l, CaliforniaWerner Marx z”l (also Germany)Simon S. Matus z”l, North CarolinaDan & Dalia z”l Maydan, CaliforniaCeil & Joseph Mazer z”l, New YorkFlorence Zacks Melton z”l, OhioSamuel Mendel Melton z”l, OhioJoseph & Rebecca Meyerhoff Family Trust, MarylandMeyerhoff & Katz Families, Maryland & FloridaRhona Miller z”l, FloridaGoldie z”l & Isadore Millstone, MissouriMitrani Family Foundation, PennsylvaniaPhillip P. & Estelle G. Mizock z”l, IllinoisAstrid & Henry Montor z”l (also Italy)Moriah Fund, Washington DCDavid N. & Inez Myers Foundation, OhioNational Council of Jewish WomenReesa & Gerald Niznick, CaliforniaRoslyn & Alvin Nosnick, FloridaSusie & Karl z”l Oberwager, New YorkAnn L. O., New York (also France)Helga z”l & Walter Oppenheimer, CaliforniaJulius Oppenheimer z”lBernard Osher Jewish PhilanthropiesShelly & John PearsonP. E. F. Israel Endowment Funds, Inc., New YorkPhi Delta Epsilon Medical FraternityPolonsky Foundation (Dr. Leonard Polonsky, also United Kingdom)Marilyn & Albert z”l Ponn, FloridaDr. Harold & Ilse z”l Posner, FloridaJay Pritzker Foundation S. Milton Rabson z”l, CaliforniaJacques J. & Lilly L. Rappaport z”l, VirginiaRatner Family Foundation, Illinois & OhioRatner, Miller & Shafran Families, OhioRedhill Foundation, IllinoisRudolph Reese z”l, FloridaCharles H. Revson Foundation, New YorkRogoff Foundation, ConnecticutGeorge W. Rose z”l, CaliforniaLeona Z. Rosenberg, IllinoisClaire & Emanuel G. Rosenblatt z”l, FloridaJames & Edith Ross Foundation, OhioJean & Samuel z”l Rothberg Family, IllinoisDr. Harry B. & Mary Rubin z”l, CaliforniaSusan & Jack Rudin, New YorkMay & Samuel Rudin Family Foundation, New YorkKeith & Herbert Sachs & Families, PennsylvaniaDr. Lisbeth Sachs-Stern z”l, New YorkRobert Saligman Foundation, New YorkHans J. Salter z”l, CaliforniaLewis & Ali Sanders, New York Vidal Sassoon Foundation, CaliforniaHenry M. Schaerf z”l, WashingtonLewis & Alice Schimberg z”l, Illinois Drs. Miriam & Max Schloessinger z”l (also Israel)Samuel A. Schonbrunn z”l, New YorkAllyne & Fred Schwartz, New YorkLouis Schweitzer Charitable Trust, New YorkSeagram FoundationLinda Shafarman z”l, New YorkHyman B. Shaine z”l, MichiganDavid & Fela Shapell & Family, California

60-61 / Benefactors & Campaign Gifts

Leonard & Faigel ShapiroRosalie & Isadore SharpLiza Trejbicz Sheinson, z’lDr. John & Etta Sherman, z”lJoseph ShierSam Solomon, z”lMynne & Harold SoupcoffAlex SoykaEstate of Joseph TanenbaumJudy & Isaac ThauToronto Bike MissionsMaurice Trager, z”lHenry & Sylvia Waks

DenmarkAnonymous

FranceAlmosnino FamilyMichelle & Robert AssarafD.B. & N.B. Bismut LegacyDeniker FamilyDr. Eviatar FamilySonia Feigenbaum, z”lKluger FamilyMayer Mani z”lNessis FamilySpitzberg EstateLiliane z”l & Elia Z.

GermanyAnonymousH. & E.S.Land MecklenburgKurt & Hildegard R. FoundationRuf zur VersöhnungGerson-Michaelis Fund

GibraltarHon. Solomon & Frances Seruya

IsraelAdler FamilyAgilent TechnologiesAgricultural Research AuthorityAleh SocietyJacob AllaloufMarcel AmariglioYigal ArnonElla Atlas, z”lBetty Sarah & Sidney Berg, z”l (also South Africa)Pepka Bergman, z”lBracha & Ya’acov Brenner, z”lAriella BrinCellcom Israel LtdCenter for Senior Educational ManpowerMeir ChetElat FamilyOded & Toni EliasharLuba & Abraham Fine

Raya GenslerDevorah GoltzmannAaron Gutwirth FundBank HapoalimMiriam HasidDr. David HazelkornIsrael Discount BankIsrael Stock ExchangeYechiel Hibshoosh & Yehudith HibshooshRuth Histrin, z”lYeshayahu Horn FundYeshayahu Horowitz FundRina Horowitz, z”lMinistry of Industry & TradeIntel CorporationInternational Sephardic Education Foundation (ISEF)Daniel JacobsonRaya & Joseph JaglomJerusalem AssociationJerusalem Development AuthorityEliezer z”l & Hadassa KleinmannKomarof FundMinistry of LaborLanda-Shavit FundYael Levine FundMiriam & Yaacov Leyvand, z”l Hannah MargalitHelen & Shmuel Minskers, z”lHannah Nedivi, z”lMiriam PeltonPaula PetowskiLydia Preil, z”lProgramming Information Systems Ltd.RAD Data CommunicationsRich FoundationJosephina & Ephraim RomMargaret Salis, z”lSam Sebba, z”l (also UK)Fania ShalomNaomi Shechtman, z”lAdir & Chaim ShoshanFrieda Sklan, z”lState Committee for the Allocation of Funds & LegaciesSylvain J. SternbergHaim Stoessel FundDr. Morris Tannenbaum, z”lMarvin Walter Tasem, z”l (also US)Tel Dor Computer SystemsShirley & George z”l Weinstein

ItalyFamily B.Marta G.Leo GuldN. FamilyViton SardonGiancarlo E.V.

JapanYoko Civilization

Research Institute

LiechtensteinLiechtenstein Foundation

Mexico Sara Mekler-Weisz, z”l

MonacoE.R.Monsi Foundation

The NetherlandsS. FamilyS.B. Familie FondsH.-K. FamilyM.V.

PolandThe Republic of Poland

RussiaMark Shabad Gregory Schtulberg

South AfricaAnonymousAaron Beare FoundationJonathan Beare FoundationBetty Sarah & Sidney Berg, z”l (also Israel)Esther & Jack Edelman, z”lSara & Leo Heiman, z”lHennie Kirshon, z”lLouise Kuttner, z”lP.A. Leon, z”lS. Mankowitz, z”lMauerberger FoundationNehemiah & Minnie Philips Scholarship FundBenjamin Reinhold FoundationMax Shapiro Will TrustEric SamsonMiriam Schwesinger, z”lArthur & Betty Skowron, z”l

SwedenIda & Eliezer z”l ArdowAnna & Arnold Broniatowski, z”lMarta, Gunhild & Jeanne Nisell, z”lZwie Hirsch Nissalowitz, z”lSonja Ritoff-Klein, z”l K. & F.W. Foundation

SwitzerlandAnonymousAnonymousAnonymousAnonymousS.A.Barecha FoundationHerbert B.Samuel Beckermus, z”lAndré & Nicole Bollag-Bloch, z”lBacker Chandler

Prof. H.G.D.G. & E. A & V. E.Stephen F.Dr. G. & J. G. FoundationHans HussySuzanne KaplanOtto Karpfen, z”lLore Kuner-BallFoundation M. & J.I.L.Marie France & Francis MinkoffReuben TrustS. Foundation (Ismene Fitch Georgacopulo, z”l)Walter Schindler, z”lEdith Schwarzmann, z”lS. Family

United KingdomAnonymousKenneth & Eva AlbermanManfred Alman, z”lAlpha Omega London Charitable TrustLord Ashdown Charitable Settlement & Clive MarksBalint Charitable TrustAline BerlinEllis Birk, z”lValerie Elisabeth Borger, z”lIrmgaud BoothNeil BradmanArnold Braham (legacy)British Friends Disaster AppealThe A & S Burton Charitable SettlementThe R M Burton Charitable SettlementClive & Judy CallmanHilary CliveJoan Denham Coates, z”lArnold CohenCecilia Cohen, z”lEthel Cohen, z”lB. Conway, z”lCraps Charitable TrustHyman DavidsonJanet & Gilbert de BottonDMF Franklin Trust (Myrtle Franklin-Ellenbogen)Dr. David Boaz & Mrs Maria Ida DoranIlse Erlich, z”lDvorah & Charles FoxFresh Initiative FundErnest Galinsky, z”lGarfield Weston Israel TrustDr. Marian Gilbert, z”lLilian Goodhardt, z”lSalome GreenClifford GundleTheodore Harris, z”lHSBC Bank of LondonMarie Amelia HellerMichael & Morven Heller

62-63 / Campaign Gifts & Major Gifts

Major Gifts

The Hebrew University expresses its deepest appreciation to the following for their major contributions. Through their generous support, the University is able to employ the outstanding faculty, build the teaching and research facilities, and provide the enhanced student learning environments that are vital to its ongoing pursuit of excellence. This list includes gifts of $100,000 and above, October 1995-January 2008.

AustraliaLarry Adler Foundation for Diabetes ResearchLyndi & Rodney AdlerEsme Benjamin, z”lHenry Bialylew, z”lFritz Werner Blumenthal & Ursula Johanna Blumenthal, z”lCastan FamilySydney Dwyer Davis, z”lHans & Edith Dreyer, z”lEsther Elias, z”lDr. Jakub & Mrs. Helena Goldinberg, z”lHonig Family TrustOtto Karpfen, z”lWalter Kohn, z”lChaja Lendower, z”lHelen & Borrie LibermanRachael & Albert LiddellMargo & David LowyShirley & Frank Lowy AO & FamilyPiroska Major, z”lDr. Anna Manheim, z”lDr. Jacob Mantheim, z”lHelen Max, z”lAugusta & Ludvik Menasche, z”lAnna Emma Mondschein z”lKurt & Rose Anna Neubauer, z”lWolfie Pizem Student Aid EndowmentZofia & Emanuel Poratt, z”l

Richard Pratt FoundationJuanita Renensson, z”lCyril Rosenbaum, z”lHenry Roth, z”lHenry Roth Parkinson Research FoundationBella & George z”l ShannonHelen Sherler, z”lRobert Simons & FamilyLottie AO & Victor AO SmorgonLisbeth Stern, z”lPaulina & Bronislaw Stein, z”lJetty Swiadostsch, z”lSini Sophia Vecht, z”lSusanne & Marcel Waller, z”lPaul & Vita WinestockEleanor & Joe Wertheim, z”lMaurice & Toby Zeffert, z”l

AustriaAnonymousSusan F.Robert L.Jolanda N.Rudolfine SteindlingMunicipality of ViennaMarta W.

BelgiumAdut LegacyKandiyoti FamilyLe Cours d’Art de Amis Belges

de l’Université Hébraïque des JérusalemBen Schendar, z”lPinkous Wakz-Haim

CanadaDr. André & Nussia AisenstadtJudith AltAnonymousApotex Inc.Dr. Eva Bene, z”lBen Birstein, z”lBMO Financial Group, Elizabeth & Tony ComperAndrea z”l & Charles Bronfman/CRB FoundationStephen BronfmanDee & Harold z”l BuchwaldCIBC World MarketsSamuel H. CohenAdolph Cosiner, z”lLa Fondation Marcelle et Jean CoutuRobert & Pearl Day, z”lMortimer Deckelbaum, z”lEstate of Rita Dobrofsky, z”lEva Drabinsky, z”lHelen Kitaj Dzialoszynski, z”lGeorge & Mia ErdosBeverley & H. Lawrence FeinMagda & Mendi Freundlich, z”l Gerda Steinitz Frieberg

Jack Gardner, z”lSara Golaszewski, z”lJanet & Mark GottdenkerMichael Gottdenker, z”lDorthea Gould z”lAlfred Groberman, z”lDr. Michael GuggenheimSandor & Susan z”l Guttman Sol Hecht, z”lSella Heller, z”lEdith Holman, z”lKahanoff FoundationLeon Katz, z”lDr. Phyllis LambertBerl Lapidus, z”lLaboratoire Riva GenpharmJoseph LebovicLillian Leranbaum z”lIda & Iser z”l LevDavid J. Lewis, z”lEdith S. Mandell, z”lProf. Oscar Marantz, z”lJean MatlowAlice & George Melcer, z”lBank of Nova ScotiaOnex CorporationSimha & Maurice PeressAnnette & Henry Rieder, z”lClara RobertMenahem Rotman, z”lEstate of Adelle Saper, z”lLorna Greenberg Scherzer

International SchoolBela Fischer, Vilma Fischer & Dr. John Fischer Memorial FellowshipsFreundlich Scholarship FundGisela Stein Gross Endowment Funds in English Literature, Hebrew Literature & Jewish ThoughtGerte (Gita) Hoffman Scholarships in Archaeology Louis Levine Memorial Scholarship Endowment Fund, Rothberg International SchoolH. Irwin Levy Scholarship ProgramJeanette Lewis Endowed Scholarship Fund for Mechina StudentsFrits & Rita Markus Endowed Scholarship Fund in the SciencesSaleh & Violet Masri Scholarship FundDr. Sara Mekler-Weisz z”l Prize Fund, Rothberg International SchoolRobert & Mary Montgomery ScholarshipsOsher Foundation Scholarship Endowment FundPears Family Charitable Foundation Grant for Student Aid, Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agricultural, Food & Environmental Quality SciencesPears Family Charitable Foundation Grant for Student Aid, Braun-Hebrew University-Hadassah School of Public Health & Community Medicine

Posen Foundation Gift, Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of AntisemitismJaime Benjamin & Cecilia Holzer Rozenberg Memorial Scholarship Rudin Fellowship ProgramLouis Sanders Term Endowment for Cancer ResearchDr. Pinchas Schaerf & the Murdered by the Germans Regina Amalia Schaerf Memorial FundLise & Herbert J. Seligmann Scholarship Fund in Government & Public PolicyNilly & Vladimir S. Gift, Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation Samuel & Helene Soref Foundation, Fund for Scholarship StudentsLouis & Edith Freed Spivak Endowed Scholarship FundHarry G. Starr Scholarship Endowment FundDavid Teitelbaum Prize in English LiteratureWaller Family Perpetual Educational Endowment FundAnn & Leonard F. Walts Charitable Remainder Trust, Faculty of Medicine Elozor L. Weiss Endowed Scholarship FundGuenter Weissberg Endowed Doctoral Fellowship

Fund, Faculty of LawGuenter Weissberg Endowed Doctoral Fellowship Fund, Dept. Political ScienceFritz Werner Blumenthal & Ursula Johanna Blumenthal of Western Australia, Student Aid Endowment Fund

Undesignated GiftsDavid & Ruth Amiran gift Anny Birnbaum Brieger & Clarence E. Brieger and Edith Birnbaum Oblatt & George D. Oblatt FundIrmgaud Booth GiftFelicia Dembitzer GiftIlona Gerstel GiftFay Glassman GiftJack Hoffman GiftSophie & Stephan Lewar, z”lCharlotte l. Loeb GiftWilliam M. Mandl GiftDr. Livia Ross GiftEdith & Martin Stein GiftHans Strauss GiftMildred E. Wolkowitz Gift

Mimi & Peter Haas FundZipporah Haber, z”lYvonne HackenbrochHadassah Medical Relief AssociationMilton & Miriam Handler FoundationJ. Ira & Nicki Harris Martin & Laverne HechtMarion Heller, z”lEdith Kavey HershonRoger & Susan HertogAnna M. Hewitt, z”lRose Hoffman, z”lProf. & Mrs. Gerald HoltonShirley & Irwin HoltzmanHorwitz Family FundGerta House, z”lBetty-Jane Isador, z”lIsrael Humanitarian Foundation, Inc. Aaron JacksonLillian Jackson, z”lBenita & Dr. Joseph z”l JacobsFlorence & Seymour JacobyLouis z”l, Annabelle S. & Barry JaffeJewish Community Federation of ClevelandJewish Federation of Greater WashingtonRuth Joffe, z”lBetty R. Kalin, z”lSophie KalinaEdythe Kane, z”lFanny Kaplan, z”lHelen & Isaac KaplanSam Kaplan, z”lSara Hirsch KaplanMona Karff, z”lJane & Richard KarpFelix M. Katar, z”lGeorge A. z”l & Frances R. KatzEllie & Herbert D. z”l KatzSheela & Sid Katz and Family Hilde & Fritz Kaufmann, z”lHerman Kerner, z”l Anna Kirsch, z”lAnna Kiss, z”lFlorence & Louis Kitsis, z”lIrwin & Beatrice I. Klipstein, z”lPhilip Klutznick, z”lEdith Korn, z”lCharles Kornitzer, z”lEdith Kriss, z”lMarlene Kulwin, z”lIda Kurtz, z”lMichael & Carol KurtzCharlie & Seryl KushnerBarbara & Fred S. LaferSara z”l & Simha LainerCarolyn Lane, z”lRenee Lang, z”lStanley Langendorf Jewish FundJack Langsam, z”l

Hyman Lansky, z”lLee & Hans z”l LaskerThe Lasry FamilyFrances & Bernard LatermanLeder Family Philanthropic FundLehman BrothersSilvia & Irwin H. Leiferman, z”lPaula Vial Lempert, z”lPauline Lempert, z”lDr. Esther M. Lentschner, z”lWolf LeslauLouis Levine z”l & Gabrielle de BeerMoe Levin, z”lBarbara Levinson, z”lMorris Levinson TrustRose K. & Charles G. Le VitaAnna Sobol Levy FoundationHenry Levy, z”lH. Irwin LevyDr. Yale S. Lewine & Ella Miller Lewine, z”lBernard Lewis Charitable FoundationRichard E. LewisFrayda & George L. LindemannAnna M. Lipsky, z”lAlsace L. Lirtzman, z”lHarold I. & Faye B. Liss FamilyLucius N. Littauer FoundationRobert & Jean LitvinShirley Litwak, z”lCharlotte I. Loeb, z”lThe Frederick Loewe FoundationMarion LoundyMargit Lowenstein & Martin LowensteinMarianne & Sheldon B. LubarRoman Lubetzky, z”lTodd & Morissa LundyIrene z”l & J. Zel LurieAllison & Howard W. LutnickM/I Homes FoundationHarold & Rhonda MagidHilda Magoulas, z”lFarah & Edward S. Mahlab z”l FamilyDella Maiden, z”lWilliam M. Mandl, z”lConnie & Martinn MandlesJon MannThomas MannBen Marcus z”l & Steve MarcusJoseph Markel, z”lFrits & Rita Markus, z”lGrace & Béla z”l MarquitLouis z”l & Sonia MarschakHon. Abraham Lincoln Marovitz, z”lLena Masor, z”lSaleh R. z”l & Violet MasriSophie Matzkin, z”lThe Mayer FamilyMarc & Meera, Tanya, Nadia and Zev Jamie, Frank, Drew, Travis, Casey & Gavin McCourtJames S. McDonnell Foundation

Enid McKenna Soifer, z”lDrs. Matilda & Joseph z”l MelnickJeanette (Tova) & Paul E. z”l Migdal Susanne & Bertram z”l MockDr. George & Rochelle Mocsari, z”lRene z”l & Matilda MolhoHana Moller, z”lMiriam & David z”l MondryMonroe Milstein FamilyRobert & Mary MontgomeryCharles Muller, z”lIrving Muller, z”lMydans FoundationMarvin H. Myers, z”lGertrude Nathan, z”lNational Association of Chain Drug StoresLenore & Murray NeidorfGertrude Neumann, z”lDr. Eva Neumann, z”lStephanie & Herbert NeumanNewhouse Trust Helaine & Lawrence NewmanSarah Newmark, z”lAliza NivyShoshana Noily, z”lWalter & Vera ObermeyerRose & Joshua Olsha, z”lMary Gerber OppenheimRose Orloff, z”lAbraham & Sonia Osler, z”lPaula & O. J. OwensLeona & David Palmer, z”lCol. Harold L. PalmerProf. Daphne Patai & Dr. Jennifer SchneiderPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Prof. Martin PeretzJane & Harold z”l PerlmanMuriel & Ralph PinkusMortin Plotnik, z”lDora Polevski, z”lEva Pollack, z”lDaniel PritzkerRandes FoundationRashkov Family, z”lHirsch & Braine Raskin FoundationRecanati FoundationMagda Karman Rees, z”lJerome Regunberg, z”lBetty Reimer, z”lDr. Anna J. Reinauer, z”lJosephus Reynolds, z”lSamuel J. & Arlene G. Rhodes, z”lRoger RichmanPeretz Rickles, z”lRidgefield FoundationRighteous Persons FoundationJerome L. & Aida RobinsonMildred Rohrlick, z”lEsther Romm, z”lFanny F. & Abraham J. Rongy, z”l

Isidore Roseman, z”lMartin Rosen, in memory of Simon WiesenthalAngela & Myron Rosenbach The Louis & Emanuel G. Rosenblatt FoundationFrieda T. Rosenblum, z”lAndrew & Pearl Rosenfeld, z”l Livia H. Rosenfeld, z”lDr. Livia Ross, z”lHeidi RothbergSonia Rothberg, z”lDella Rothenberg, z”lRaphael & Shelley RothsteinJane Rottenberg, z”lJack RounickHelen C. RowenAbe Rubin, z”lAllan Rubin, z”lDrs. James & Nina Rudel, z”lJack & Lewis z”l RudinRussek Foundation Inc.Vivian Saret, z”lLori & Harvey SarnerDr. Sondra Nemser Scarf, z”lMilton Schamach Foundation, Inc. Henry Schein, Inc.Augusta & Stefan Schenker, z”lEllen & George A. SchierenBetty & Herbert z”l SchiffHarriet Schiller, z”lDr. Aron Schlachter, z”lSara H. & Walter N. Schlesinger, z”lSally B. Schneck, z”lBetty Schorr, z”lSchottenstein Homes FoundationJames & Debra Barshop SchreierJosephine Schreier, z”lZachary Schreier, z”lDora & Joseph J. Schwartz and son, Nathan Schwartz, z”lSue & Dan z”l SchwartzTina E. Schwarz, z”lScoa FoundationHelene Berman Seidenfeld & Dennis SeidenfeldDr. Lillian Seitsive, z”lAllan H. & Suzanne L. SeligHerbert J. Seligmann & Lise Rueff Seligmann, z”l Roslyn & Ira SelingerHerman Selinsky, z”lSadie Sender, z”lBaruch ShaheryDr. Yehuda ShalonCharles & M. R. Shapiro Foundation Edward ShapiroSabina D. & Benjamin Shapiro, z”lHilda Shaw, z”lRose Sherman, z”lReginald Shinbaum, z”lSadie Shinbaum, z”lDr. Seymour M. Shore, z”l

64-65 / Major Gifts

Irish Friends of the Hebrew UniversityLinda & Michael Jacobs Charitable TrustAnn & Brian KaretAtia Kaufman, z”lAndrew E. Kingsley, z”lHyman Kreitman, z”lEvelyn Kryszek, z”lEsta Lefton GutmanVivien & Roger LewisRachel & Jacob Liss, z”lAdrianne & Clive MarksHumanitarian & Matwei Gunsborg TrustsBernard & Sandra MyersLilian Neuberger, z”lElliot R. PhilippStephanie Pohorille, z”lEdith & Ferdinand Porjes Charitable TrustJ.E. Posnansky Charitable TrustEdward & Anna RocheJeffery RoseRosetrees TrustCharles Rotman, z”lSam Sebba, z”l (also Israel)Sarah Segar, z”lBetty ShaneHarry & Abe Sherman FoundationMiriam Silberberg, z”lGeoffrey SimmondsDr. Froma Sommerville, z”lRusty SotnickCyril & Betty Stein Charitable TrustSir Sigmund & Lady SternbergRita & Charles StevensMay Stone, z”lLily Tapper, z”lMartha Troubman, z”lGerrit Versteeg, z”lWarbeck Fund LtdRachel Western, z”lDella & Fred Worms OBE

United StatesAnonymousCharlotte I. Aarts Loeb, z”l Eva & S. Daniel AbrahamNira & Kenneth AbramowitzDr. Mortimer D. Abrashkin, z”lNancy L. & Andrew S. AdelsonSol Alcalay, z”lLuise Alexander, z”lDr. Carl Allinson, z”lDr. Clement & Sandra AlpertEvelyn L. & Prof. Robert Z. ApteJoseph Arkin, z”lMolly & Ichaak Artman, z”lArvey Foundation Lee Asher, z”lSara Asher, z”l

Automatic Data ProcessingPauline & Arthur Bakalar, z”lTheodore & Mina Bargman Foundation Barry FoundationLarry BaxterRuth Baxter, z”lMargaret Beer, z”lStephen F. & Judith S. BeinerJudith Ben-Or, z”lBender Foundation, Inc.Dr. Esther BenensonJohn BergLillian Berinstein, z”lJack BerlinMandell L. & Madeleine H. Berman FoundationMelvin Berman & FamilyMartha J. Bernheim, z”lDr. Sanford A. Berman, z”lAdele & Jules BernsteinSolomon & Anna Bernstone, z”lEdna Beron, z”lBarbara & Harold Berry Leon Bess, z”lCissie G. BevilacquaSarah M. Bialer, z”lBiblical Archaeology SocietyRosalin Bieber, z”lHarry Biele, z”lLawrence Biele, z”lMorris Blank, z”lMaurice Bletterman, z”lHelen M. Block, z”lLouis C. & Edith Blumberg Foundation Eli Blumenfeld, z”lHarry Blumenthal, z”lRuth BlumenthalHyman Bolotin, z”lSimon Bond, z”lSarah Boniovka, z”lEmil Bonyhady & Gertrude Bonyhady Linderman, z”lRuth & Alan Borenstein, z”lRachel & Abraham Bornstein, z”lWilliam S. BoydMartin z”l & Mary Boyer Harold & Harriet BradyProf. Daniel BrantonMichael Braude, z”lKatherine B. BraunVivian & Ernest Braun, z”lLotte Brueck, z”lLeon Bryk, z”lProf. Monroe BurkBursztyn & Wodonos Memorial FellowshipI. CabakoffHarriet K. & Fred Cahnmann, z”lCAMBR FoundationThalia & Michael z”l CarlosBernice & Lewis z”l CaspeJeff & Naomi Caspe Morton & Malvina CharlesteinChartwell Charitable Foundation

Dr. Melvin & Edith ClaymanRyna & Melvin Cohen Family Foundation, Marcella & Neil CohenDr. D. Walter & Betty z”l CohenEllen E. & Victor J. CohnWendy & Victor ColemanColgate Palmolive CompanyRalph F. Colton, z”lColumbia FoundationThe Jaime z”l Constantiner FamilyMarie Coppens z”l Mary & Leonard CordesDr. Sidney L. & Sylvia G. Crewes, z”lCrown Family FoundationEdward Crown FoundationJanice & Billy CrystalJoanne Cummings, z”lThe Nathan Cummings FoundationFanny Davidson, z”lMadeline Davidson, z”lFelicia Dembitzer, z”lMiki Denhof, z”lDensen Family FoundationBertha Densen, z”lBarbara & Robert A. DensenSarah Jane & Paul z”l DensenReva DessauerPhil Dunn, z”lGeorge Durst, z”lSamuel R. Dweck Foundation, Inc.Dewey Edelman, z”lMarguerite & Maurice EdelsteinEducation & Arts FoundationIra & Barbara EichnerSara Einberg, z”lFannie S. Eisemann, z”lDavid H. & Frances H. EisenbergDavid & Stephanie EisenbergHaim & Joan Eliachar, z”lAlyce K. & Leon J. Ell, z”lLottie & Irving Elman, z”lJeffrey Epstein FoundationCharlotte R. Falstein, z”lArthur P. Farrer, z”lBertha G. Fass, z”lRubin & Luba z”l Feryszka, z”lMrs. Louis P. FiedlerSylvia Rose Fine, z”lDr. & Mrs. John Fischer, z”lProf. Franklin M. Fisher & Ellen Paradise FisherMarjorie & Max Fisher, z”lTheresa & Michael J. FoleyNatalie & Paul S. ForbesJoseph F. & Clara Ford, z”lLynn ForesterProf. Teree Foster, z”lPeter Fox, z”lJeanne Franklin, z”lMichael & Jean Freed

Family FoundationLillian & Harry FreedmanSophie & Hershel Freidkes, z”lAdele Friedland, z”lJack FriedlandProf. & Mrs. Gerald M. FriedmanRuth B. Friedman, z”lEleanor N. Fromer, z”lMorton & Norma Lee FungerAndreas GalCappy & Sam Gallant, z”lSarita & Jack z”l GantzSusie & Michael GelmanIlona Gerstel, z”lSir Arthur z”l & Lady Marjorie GilbertHoward GimbelDr. Eli & Ruth Ginzberg, z”lThomas V. GirardiDr. Susan A. GitelsonPatty Glaser & Sam Mudie Fay Glassman, z”lLillian GleicherRuth & Herman Glickman, z”lGluck Family FundRita R. Gluck, z”lAdolph Goetz, z”lRhoda z”l & Richard GoldmanEtta M. & Nathaniel L. Goldstein, z”lSamuel N. Goldstein, z”lAnn Golenpaul, z”lCharles H. GoodmanDr. Marco GoodmanLisa Goodstein, z”lHymie Gordon, z”lKate Gottlieb, z”lAudrey L. & Kenneth S. GouldTammy GouldCecilia & John Howard Grace, z”lLois & Edward GraysonIrwin & Bethea GreenIke & Peggy Greenberg, z”l Jane GreenbergHilde Greenfield, z”lHenry Greenway, z”lDr. Leslie Grey, z”lCharles Grosberg FoundationDoris z”l & Merwin GrosbergEmil GrossDr. Gisela Stein Gross & Edward Gross, z”lJoel & Terry S. z”l GrossMarcy & Edgar F. GrossNeil, Mindy & Elysabeth GrossmanSamuel Grossman, z”lSylvia Grossman, z”lRobert z”l & Sylvia Grossman Margaret H. Gruenbaum, z”lAudrey & Martin GrussRuth GundelfingerClarisse Gustav, z”lEsther Haas, z”l

66 / Major Gifts

Lynne Goldman SilbertJeanne & Stephen SilbertMargerete Silton, z”lBlanche Silverman, z”lSimon P. Silverman, z”lJack W. Simmons, z”lThe Simms Szymanowicz Family FundMarvin & Tina SimnerProf. Rita SimonMitchell & Beatrice Singer Dr. S. Fred SingerWilliam & Naomi Singer, z”l Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLPCharles E. Smith Family FoundationElizabeth & David Bruce SmithJ. Louis Sokolov, z”lTheresa Sollman, z”lHelen & Bernard Soref, z”lIra Lee & Ellen M. SorkinRosalie & Nathan Sorkin, z”lIrene J. Spanier, z”lHenry Spenadel, z”lBernice SpiegelErnest Spiegel, z”lRichard M. SpivakHarry G. Starr, z”lMr. & Mrs. Martin SteinLouis & Bessie Stein FoundationNancy & Kenneth L. SteinJoseph S. & Diane H. SteinbergGerald & Deana Stempler Family FoundationHarry Stern Family FoundationIrene Stern, z”lRose Stern, z”lPearl & Sylvia Stone, z”lHella Strauss, z”lRobert & Tina StuckelmanFanny Sugar, z”lMose Sumner, z”l Onnie Kaufman SupowitzAlice J. Sussman, z”lMrs. Robert SzoldRochelle & Morton L. TarterMarvin Tasem, z”l (also Israel)Ann & Andrew TischBillie & Laurence A. z”l TischTisch FoundationHilda Tobin, z”lBarbara & Marshall TobinsMary Ann TuftElvira Urbach, z”l

Dena Vertchamp, z”lDavid Vickter, z”lMonroe VincentJoan & Donald VinikDr. Albert & Elaine Viton, z”lDorothy & Walter VogelNorman & Nina WainPaula Wallech, z”lAnn & Leonard WaltsBetty Warren, z”lEvelene WechslerJeanne Wechsler, z”lRobert WechslerRobert Weinbaum, z”lHarold H. Weinberg & Miriam BenjaminJoy & Jerome A. WeinbergerPaul & Eleanor WeinerIsak & Rose Weinman FoundationRaquel Weisberger, z”lSol Weisman, z”lAlice Weiss, z”lCarl Weiss, z”lRabbi Elozor L. Weiss, z”lDr. Guenter Weissberg, z”lGoldie Weisstein, z”lGertrude Wellisch, z”lWilliam Westerman, z”lWexner Foundation Abigail & Leslie WexnerMarvin & Hanna WildenbergEtta & Harold Winokur, z”lRobert I. Wishnick FoundationIris S. & Bert L. z”l WolsteinWunderkinder FoundationNatalie Yakimoff, z”l Gertrude Yarman, z”lCarol & Gordon ZacksAnna Zafran, z”lRuta & Felix ZandmanZantker Charitable FoundationJean & Richard Zarbin, z”lThe Zausmer TrustLois & Martin ZelmanGerta Zelt, z”lDelores & Eugene M. ZemskyZenith InsuranceErwin z”l & Isabelle ZiegelmanRuth Allen Ziegler FoundationZiegler Family TrustHarold & Libby Ziff FoundationJane & Ronald M. ZimmermanEthel & George J. Zuckman, z”lRae Zwicker, z”l

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Editorial TeamCarmi Gillon (Vice-President for External Relations), Lisa Clayton (Editor), Brenda Needle-Shimoni (Director, Donor Services), Danna Philosoph-Hovav (Photo Editor), Daniel Avihai-Kremer (Contributing Editor), Ma’ayan Tzuk (Campaign Coordinator), Mali Janushi, Iren Kripak, Lia van Gelderen, Gail Lichtman

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