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| Established | 1956 |
| Type: | Public |
| President: | Zvi Galil |
| Rector: | Dany Leviatan |
| Vice-Presidents: | Yehiel Ben-Zvi, Hagit Messer-Yaron |
| Students: | 29,000 |
| Location |  Tel Aviv, Israel |
| Campus: | Urban |
| Website: | www.tau.ac.il/ |
Tel Aviv University (TAU, אוניברסיטת תל־אביב, את"א) is Israel's largest on-site university.[1] As of 2006, the Tel Aviv University teaches around 29,000 students. TAU was founded in 1956 when the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, the Institute of Natural Sciences, and the Institute of Jewish Studies joined together to form a university. TAU received its autonomy from the Tel Aviv municipality in 1963, when its campus, in the northern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Ramat Aviv was established. TAU comprises nine faculties, 106 departments, and 90 research institutes.
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Early history
The idea of establishing a second university in Palestine, in addition to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, was discussed in the 1930s, but it was only after the establishment of the State of Israel that the plans materialized. On August 16, 1953, Tel Aviv University opened its doors in Abu Kabir with 24 students. [2]
Faculties
The nine faculties of the university are:
- Katz Faculty of the Arts
- The David Azrieli School of Architecture
- The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
- Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
- Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
- The Wise Observatory in Mitzpe Ramon
- Entin Faculty of Humanities
- Buchmann Faculty of Law
- Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
- Faculty of Management--Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences
Other university schools and programs include:
- Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
- Constantiner School of Education
- Porter School of Environmental Studies
- Shapell School of Social Work
- The School for Overseas Students
- The Unit of Culture Research
- Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
- Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
- Joseph Kelman School of Education
Relations with other universities
Tel Aviv University offers special programs of Jewish studies to teachers and students from the United States, France, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. The programs are in English. The School for Overseas Students gives young people from different countries the opportunity to study at Tel Aviv University. The program is in English and also offers the opportunity to live and study in a kibbutz. Other study opportunities for students from abroad are:
- Master's Program in Middle Eastern Studies
- Master's Program in Biblical Archaeology
- Summer Law Program co-sponsored by Temple University Law School
- Sackler School of Medicine New York State/American Program
- Wharton-Recanati-INSEAD-York Project in Management
- International Executive MBA Program with the Kellogg School, Northwestern University
- Spring Engineering Program with Boston University's College of Engineering
- High-Tech Management School
Faculty
Notable faculty members (past and present) include:
- Yakir Aharonov, physicist
- Noga Alon, mathematician
- Yitzhak Arad, historian
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Joseph Bernstein, mathematician
- Uzi Even, chemist and political activist for LGBT rights
- Israel Finkelstein, archaeologist
- Joshua Jortner, physical chemist
- Asa Kasher, philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct
- Etgar Keret, author
- Zvi Laron, paediatric endocrinologist
- Amnon Jackont, author
- Fred Landman, semanticist
- Orna Lin, lawyer
- Vitali Milman, mathematician
- Yuval Ne'eman, physicist, former minister of Science and Technology
- Baruch Modan, oncologist
- Aviad Raz, sociologist
- Tanya Reinhart, linguist
- Amnon Rubinstein, former Dean of Law, also former Education minister
- Ariel Rubinstein, economist
- Anita Shapira, historian
- Edna Shavit, drama
- Boris Tsirelson, mathematician
- Lev Vaidman, physicist
- Moshe Wolman, neuropathologist
- Amotz Zahavi, biologist
Notable alumni
- Benjamin Gantz, Commander of the GOC Army Headquarters
- Arie Eldad, member of Knesset
- Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
- Yochai Benkler, law professor at Yale
- Mohammad Barakeh, member of parliament and party leader
- Ran Cohen, former minister of Housing
- Becky Epstein, Mayor of Belle Harbor, New York
- Dan Gillerman, Vice-President of the UN General Assembly
- Tzachi Hanegbi, former minister of Internal Security
- Zvi Heifetz, Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom
- Ron Huldai, current mayor of Tel Aviv
- Moshe Kaplinsky, Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff
- Efraim Karsh, historian
- Dov Khenin, political scientist and member of Knesset
- Yosef Lapid, former vice premier and Justice minister
- Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former Chief of Staff and minister of Tourism and Transportation
- Yitzhak Mordechai, former Minister of Defense and Transportation
- Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, author
- Ophir Pines-Paz, Interrior Minister
- Haim Ramon, former minister of Health and Justice
- Ilan Ramon, The first Israeli astronaut
- Gideon Sa'ar, member of Knesset
- Adi Shamir, inventor of the RSA algorithm
- Simon Shaheen, musician
- Silvan Shalom, former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs
- Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
- Bat-Sheva Zeisler, singer and actress
- Abdel Rahman Zuabi, Arab Israeli judge
See also
References
- ^ Statistical Data - Data on Students in Institutions of Higher Education. Israeli Council for higher education (2007). Retrieved on 2007-09-18.
- ^ http://www.tau.ac.il/tau-history-eng.html
External links
- (Hebrew) (English) Tel Aviv University Website - Introduction, and History.
