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Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 ( HaUniversita HaIvrit BeYerushalaim, Al-Jami`ah al-`Ibriyyah fil-Quds, abbreviated HUJI) is Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's oldest university.

The First Board of Governors included Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
, Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
, Martin Buber
Martin Buber

Martin Buber was an Austrian-Israeli-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered on theism ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community....
, and Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionism leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was Israeli presidential election, 1949 on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
. It is home to the world's largest Jewish studies
Jewish studies

Jewish studies is an List of academic disciplines centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is Interdisciplinarity and combines aspects of history , religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages , political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies....
 library. Scholars who have been faculty members include Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem , also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian raised in Germany. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
, Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Yeshayahu Leibowitz was an Israelis philosopher and scientist known for his outspoken, often controversial opinions on Judaism, ethics, religion and politics....
, Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases , and developed Prospect theory ....
 and Robert Aumann
Robert Aumann

Robert John Aumann is an Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel....
. Four of Israel's prime ministers are alumni of the Hebrew University, including the current prime minister
Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of Cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician....
.






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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Jerusalem

Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and its List of Israeli cities in both population and area, with a population of 747,600 residents over an area of if Positions on Jerusalem East Jerusalem is included....
 ( HaUniversita HaIvrit BeYerushalaim, Al-Jami`ah al-`Ibriyyah fil-Quds, abbreviated HUJI) is Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
's oldest university.

The First Board of Governors included Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
, Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud , born Sigismund Schlomo Freud , was an Austrian psychiatrist who founded the psychoanalysis of psychology. Freud is best known for his theories of the unconscious mind and the defense mechanism of Psychological repression and for creating the clinical practice of psychoanalysis for curing psychopathology through dialogue...
, Martin Buber
Martin Buber

Martin Buber was an Austrian-Israeli-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered on theism ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community....
, and Chaim Weizmann
Chaim Weizmann

Chaim Azriel Weizmann, , was a Zionism leader, President of the World Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was Israeli presidential election, 1949 on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in 1952....
. It is home to the world's largest Jewish studies
Jewish studies

Jewish studies is an List of academic disciplines centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is Interdisciplinarity and combines aspects of history , religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages , political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies....
 library. Scholars who have been faculty members include Gershom Scholem
Gershom Scholem

Gershom Scholem , also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian raised in Germany. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
, Yeshayahu Leibowitz
Yeshayahu Leibowitz

Yeshayahu Leibowitz was an Israelis philosopher and scientist known for his outspoken, often controversial opinions on Judaism, ethics, religion and politics....
, Daniel Kahneman
Daniel Kahneman

Daniel Kahneman With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases , and developed Prospect theory ....
 and Robert Aumann
Robert Aumann

Robert John Aumann is an Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel....
. Four of Israel's prime ministers are alumni of the Hebrew University, including the current prime minister
Prime minister

A prime minister is the most senior minister of Cabinet in the Executive branch of government in a parliamentary system. The position is usually held by, but need not always be held by, a politician....
. The Hebrew University consistently ranks amongst the top universities in Israel and in the world.

History

One of the visions of the Zionist
Zionism

Zionism is the international Jewish political movement that originally supported the reestablishment of a homeland for the Jewish People in Palestine....
 movement was the establishment of a Hebrew
Jew

A Jew is a member of the Jewish people, an ethnoreligious group that traces its ancestry to the Israelites or Hebrews of the Ancient Near East....
 university in the Land of Israel
Land of Israel

For other uses, see Israel The Land of Israel is the region which, according to the Hebrew Bible, was promised by God to the descendants of Abraham through his son Isaac and to the Israelites, descendants of Jacob, Abraham's grandson....
. Founding a university was proposed as far back as 1884 in the Kattowitz conference of the Hovevei Zion
Hovevei Zion

Hovevei Zion , also known as Hibbat Zion , refers to organizations that are considered the forerunners and foundations of the modern Zionist movement....
 society. A major supporter of the idea was Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
, who bequeathed his papers and his literary estate to the university.

The cornerstone for the university was laid in 1918, and, seven years later, on April 1, 1925, the Hebrew University campus on Mount Scopus
Mount Scopus

Mount Scopus is a mountain in northeast Jerusalem, Israel. Overlooking Jerusalem, Mount Scopus has been strategically important as a base from which to attack the city since antiquity....
 of Jerusalem was opened at a gala ceremony attended by the leaders of the Jewish world, distinguished scholars and public figures, and British dignitaries, including Lord Arthur James Balfour, Viscount Allenby and Sir Herbert Samuel. The university's first Chancellor was Judah Magnes.

By 1947, the University had become a large research and teaching institution. Plans for a medical school were approved in May 1949, and in November 1949, a faculty of law was inaugurated. In 1952, it was announced that the agricultural institute founded by the university in 1940 would become a full-fledged faculty of agriculture.

During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, known by the Israelis predominantly as War of Independence and War of Liberation , and by Palestinians as the Catastrophe , was the first in a series of wars fought between the Declaration of Independence State of Israel and its Arab neighbours in the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict....
, the Arabs repeatedly attacked the university, located to the northeast of Jerusalem, and convoys moving between the Israeli-controlled section of Jerusalem and the university.

After the attack on the Hadassah medical convoy
Hadassah medical convoy massacre

The Hadassah medical convoy massacre took place on April 13, 1948, when a civilian convoy, escorted by Haganah militia, bringing medical and fortification supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was ambushed by Arab forces....
 in 1948, the Mount Scopus campus was cut off from Jewish Jerusalem. When the Jordan
Jordan

Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, is an Arab country in Southwest Asia spanning the southern part of the Syrian Desert down to the Gulf of Aqaba....
ian government reneged on the 1949 Armistice Agreements
1949 Armistice Agreements

The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and neighboring Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. The agreements ended the official hostilities of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and established armistice lines between Israel and the Jordanian-held West Bank, also known as the Green Line . The United...
 and refused Israeli access to the Mount Scopus campus, the University was forced to build a new campus in Givat Ram in western Jerusalem, which was completed in 1953. In the interim, the university rented part of the Terra Sancta building in Rehavia
Rehavia

Rehavia is an upscale Jerusalem neighborhood located between the city center and Talbiya....
 from the Franciscan Custodians of the Latin Holy Places and held classes there. A few years later, together with the Hadassah
Hadassah

Hadassah, the Women's Zionist Organization of America is an American Jews Zionism volunteer List of women's organizations. Founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold, it is now one of the largest Jewish organizations in the United States by membership....
 Medical Organization, a medical science campus was built in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Kerem
Ein Kerem

Ein Kerem , also commonly known as Ein Karem, is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, Israel. According to Christian tradition, this is the site where John the Baptist was born, hence Ein Kerem's attraction to Christian pilgrims and the proliferation of churches and monasteries....
 in southwest Jerusalem.

By the beginning of 1967, the students numbered 12,500, spread among the two campuses in Jerusalem and the agricultural faculty in Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
.

After the reunification of Jerusalem in the Six-Day War
Six-Day War

In the Six-Day War of June 5-10, 1967, Israel defeated the armies of the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. In Arabic, the war is called ....
 of June 1967, the University was able to return to the Mount Scopus campus, which was rebuilt. In 1981 the construction work was completed, and the Mount Scopus campus again became the main campus of the university. The university was again touched by conflict on July 31, 2002, when a Palestinian construction worker (a resident of East Jerusalem) exploded a bomb in the university's crowded Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
 cafeteria during lunch time. Nine people — five Israeli citizens, three American citizens, and one citizen of both France and the United States — were killed by the explosion and many more injured. Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack. World leaders including Kofi Annan
Kofi Annan

Kofi Atta Annan, Order of St Michael and St George is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh United Nations Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1 January 1997 to 1 January 2007....
, President Bush
George W. Bush

George Walker Bush served as the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States from 2001 to 2009. He was the 46th List of Governors of Texas from 1995 to 2000 before being United States presidential inauguration as President on January 20, 2001....
, and the President of the European Union issued statements of condemnation.

Libraries

The Jewish National and University Library
Jewish National and University Library

The National Library of Israel , is the National library of Israel. The library holds more than 5 million books, and is located in the Givat Ram campus of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
 is the central and largest library of the Hebrew University and one of the most impressive book and manuscript collections in the world. It is also the oldest section of the university. Founded in 1892 as a world center for the preservation of books relating to Jewish thought and culture, it assumed the additional functions of a general university library in 1920. Its collections of Hebraica and Judaica are the largest in the world. It houses all materials published in Israel
Israel

Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
, and attempts to acquire all materials published in the world related to the country. It possesses over 5 million books and thousands of items in special sections, many of which are unique. Among these are the Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein was a Germany-born theoretical physics. He is best known for his theory of relativity and specifically mass?energy equivalence, expressed by the equation E = mc2....
 Archive
Archive

An archive refers to a collection of historical records, and also refers to the location in which these records are kept.'Archives' are made up of records which have been accumulated over the course of an individual or organization's lifetime....
s, Hebrew manuscripts department, Eran Laor map
Map

A map is a visual representation of an area?a symbolic depiction highlighting relationships between elements of that space such as Object , regions, and topic-comment....
 collection, Edelstein science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
 collection, Gershom Scholem collection, and a collection of Maimonides
Maimonides

Moses Maimonides, also known as Rabbi Moses ben Maimon , the Rambam, and Musa ibn Maymun , was born in C?rdoba, Spain, Spain on March 30, 1135, and died in Egypt on December 13, 1204.....
' manuscripts and early writings.

In his will, Albert Einstein left the Hebrew University his personal papers and the intellectual copyright to them, as well as the right to use his image. The Albert Einstein Archives contain some 55,000 items.

In addition to the National Library, the Hebrew University operates subject-based libraries on its campuses, among them the Avraham Harman
Avraham Harman

Avraham Harman was an Israelis diplomat and academic administrator.Born in London, England, he received a law degree from Wadham College, Oxford in 1935....
 Science
Science

In its broadest sense, science refers to any systematic knowledge or practice. In its more usual restricted sense, science refers to a system of acquiring knowledge based on scientific method, as well as to the organized body of knowledge gained through such research....
 Library, Givat Ram; Mathematics
Mathematics

Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space, change, and related topics of pattern and form. Mathematicians seek out patterns whether found in numbers, space, natural science, computers, imaginary abstractions, or elsewhere....
 and Computer Science
Computer science

Computer science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation, and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems....
 Library, Givat Ram; Earth Sciences Library, Givat Ram; Bloomfield Library for the Humanities
Humanities

The humanities are academic disciplines which study the human condition, using methods that are primarily analytic, critical, or speculative, as distinguished from the mainly empirical approaches of the natural science and social sciences....
 and Social Sciences
Social sciences

The social sciences comprise academic disciplines concerned with the study of the social life of human groups and individuals including anthropology, communication studies, economics, human geography, history, political science, psychology and sociology....
, Mt. Scopus; Bernard G. Segal Law Library Center, Mt. Scopus; Library of Archaeology
Archaeology

Archaeology, archeology, or arch?ology is the science that studies Homo cultures through the recovery, documentation, analysis, and interpretation of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, Artifact , features, Biofact s, and cultural landscape....
, Mt. Scopus; Moses Leavitt Library of Social Work
Social work

Social work is a discipline involving the application of social theory and research methods to study and improve the lives of people, groups, and societies....
, Mt. Scopus; Zalman Aranne Central Education Library, Mt. Scopus; Library of the Rothberg International School, Mt. Scopus; Muriel and Philip I. Berman National Medical Library, Ein Kerem; Central Library of Agricultural Science
Agricultural science

Agricultural science is a broad multidisciplinary field that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture....
, Rehovot; and the Roberta and Stanley Bogen Library of The Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . As the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, he succeeded Franklin D....
 Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Mt. Scopus.

The Hebrew University libraries and their web catalogs can be accessed through the .

Campuses

Hebrew University has four campuses, three in Jerusalem and one in Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
. In 2003, it had a student population of 23,000.

Mount Scopus

Mount Scopus
Mount Scopus

Mount Scopus is a mountain in northeast Jerusalem, Israel. Overlooking Jerusalem, Mount Scopus has been strategically important as a base from which to attack the city since antiquity....
 (Hebrew: Har HaTzofim ?? ??????), in the eastern part of Jerusalem, is home to the Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Human Sciences, Faculty of Law
List of law faculties in Israel

Law schools in IsraelThere are four faculties of law at these Israeli universities:#Bar Ilan University , Yaakov Herzog Faculty of Law, Ramat-Gan...
, School of Business Administration, Rothberg International School, Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra

Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an United States singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became a solo artist with great success in the early to mid-1940s, being the idol of the "bobby soxers"....
 International Student Center, Harry S. Truman
Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States . As the List of Vice Presidents of the United States Vice President of the United States, he succeeded Franklin D....
 Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, The Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies
Jewish studies

Jewish studies is an List of academic disciplines centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is Interdisciplinarity and combines aspects of history , religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages , political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies....
 and the newly established School of Public Policy.

Givat Ram (Edmond Safra)

The Givat Ram
Givat Ram

Givat Ram is a neighborhood in central Jerusalem, Israel. The Knesset and Israeli government offices are located in Givat Ram, as are the Israel Museum, one of the four campuses of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Israeli Supreme Court and the Binyanei HaUma convention center....
 campus, named for Edmond Safra
Edmond Safra

Edmond J. Safra was a Jewish Brazilian-naturalized, Lebanese banker who continued the family tradition of banking in Lebanon, Brazil and Switzerland....
, contains the scientific departments, as well as the Jewish National Library.

Ein Kerem

The Ein Kerem
Ein Kerem

Ein Kerem , also commonly known as Ein Karem, is a neighborhood in southwest Jerusalem, Israel. According to Christian tradition, this is the site where John the Baptist was born, hence Ein Kerem's attraction to Christian pilgrims and the proliferation of churches and monasteries....
 campus is located in the same complex as the Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital. Although the primary focus of the campus is the medical and dental departments of the university, the molecular biology
Molecular biology

Molecular biology is the study of biology at a molecule level. The field overlaps with other areas of biology and chemistry, particularly genetics and biochemistry....
 department also finds its home there.

Rehovot

The Faculty of Agriculture
Agriculture

Agriculture refers to the production of food and goods through farming and forestry. Agriculture was the key development that led to the rise of civilization, with the animal husbandry of domestication animals and plants creating food surpluses that enabled the development of more Population density and Social stratification societies....
 and the School of Veterinary Medicine
Veterinary medicine

Veterinary medicine is that branch of medical science,which deals with the study of diagnosis,treatment and prevention of diseases in companion,domestic, exotic, wildlife and production animals....
 are located in the city of Rehovot
Rehovot

Rehovot is a city in the Center District of Israel, about 20 kilometre south of Tel Aviv. According to the Israel Central Bureau of Statistics , at the end of 2007 the city had a total population of 106,200....
 in the coastal plane. The Faculty of Agriculture was established in 1942 and the School of Veterinary Medicine opened in 1985. These are the only institutions of higher learning in Israel that offer both teaching and research programs in their respective fields.

Distinguished faculty

  • Lydia Aran
    Lydia Aran

    Lydia Aran, a professor emerita at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, is a scholar of Buddhism. She taught in the Hebrew University's Department of Indian Studies until her retirement in 1998....
    , scholar of Buddhism
  • Robert Aumann
    Robert Aumann

    Robert John Aumann is an Israeli mathematician and a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. He is a professor at the Center for the Study of Rationality in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel....
    , 2005 Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     laureate for Economics
  • Yehoshua Bar-Hillel
    Yehoshua Bar-Hillel

    Yehoshua Bar-Hillel was a philosopher, mathematician, and linguistics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, best known for his pioneering work in machine translation and formal linguistics....
    , linguistics
  • Aharon Barak
    Aharon Barak

    Aharon Barak is a professor of law at the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya and a lecturer in law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a lecturer in law at the Yale Law School and the University of Toronto Faculty of Law....
    , law, former president of Israeli Supreme Court
  • Yehuda Bauer
    Yehuda Bauer

    Yehuda Bauer is a historian and scholar of the Holocaust. He is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Holocaust history
  • Jacob Bekenstein
    Jacob Bekenstein

    Jacob David Bekenstein is a physicist who has contributed to the foundation of black hole thermodynamics and to other aspects of the connections between physical information and gravitation....
    , physics
  • Yehoshua Ben-Arieh, historical geography
  • Ernst David Bergmann
    Ernst David Bergmann

    Ernst David Bergmann was an Israel chemist and father of the Nuclear weapons and Israel.Bergmann was born in Germany and son of a Jewish rabbi, Judah Bergmann....
    , Chairman Israeli Atomic Energy Commission.
  • Martin Buber
    Martin Buber

    Martin Buber was an Austrian-Israeli-Jewish philosopher, translator, and educator, whose work centered on theism ideals of religious consciousness, interpersonal relations, and community....
    , religion
  • Ilan Chet
    Ilan Chet

    Ilan Chet is an Israelis microbiologists and a professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Faculty of Agriculture in Rehovot....
    , agricultural biotechnology
  • Shmuel Eisenstadt
    Shmuel Eisenstadt

    Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt is an Israeli sociology. In 1959 he was appointed to a teaching post in the sociology department of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem....
    , sociology
  • Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel
    Adolf Abraham Halevi Fraenkel

    Abraham Halevi Fraenkel , known as Abraham Fraenkel, was an Israeli mathematician born in Germany....
    , mathematics
  • Eliezer E. Goldschmidt, horticulture
  • Louis Guttman
    Louis Guttman

    Louis Guttman was founder and Scientific Director of the Israel Institute of Applied Social Research, later renamed the Guttman Institute, and Professor of Social and Psychological Assessment at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , social sciences and statistics
  • Ephraim Halevy
    Ephraim Halevy

    Efraim Halevy is a lawyer and an Israeli Intelligence expert. He was the ninth director of Mossad and the 4th head of the Israeli National Security Council....
    , Mossad
    Mossad

    The Mossad is the national intelligence agency of Israel. "Mossad" is the Hebrew word for institute or institution. Membership in the Mossad is very prestigious in Israeli society, and the organization is considered to rank among the most effective intelligence agencies in the world....
     chief
  • Daniel Kahneman
    Daniel Kahneman

    Daniel Kahneman With Amos Tversky and others, Kahneman established a cognitive basis for common human errors using heuristics and biases , and developed Prospect theory ....
    , 2002 Nobel Prize
    Nobel Prize

    The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
     laureate for Economics
  • Yaacov Katan, plant pathology
  • Aharon Katzir
    Aharon Katzir

    Aharon Katzir was an Israeli pioneer in the study of the electrochemistry of biopolymers.Born 1914 in L?dz, Poland, he moved to British Mandate of Palestine in 1925, where he taught at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem....
    , chemist
  • David Kazhdan
    David Kazhdan

    David Kazhdan or Ka?dan, Kajdan, formerly named Dmitri Aleksandrovich Kazhdan is an Israeli mathematician known for work in representation theory....
    , mathematics
  • Baruch Kimmerling
    Baruch Kimmerling

    Baruch Kimmerling was a professor of sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , sociology
  • Ruth Lawrence
    Ruth Lawrence

    Ruth Elke Lawrence-Naimark is an Associate Professor of mathematics at the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a researcher in knot theory and algebraic topology....
    , mathematics
  • Yeshayahu Leibowitz
    Yeshayahu Leibowitz

    Yeshayahu Leibowitz was an Israelis philosopher and scientist known for his outspoken, often controversial opinions on Judaism, ethics, religion and politics....
    , biochemistry and Jewish philosophy
  • George Mosse
    George Mosse

    File:George L Mosse.jpgGeorge Lachmann Mosse was a German-born Jewish-American social and cultural historian. One of the most respected scholars of his generation, Mosse authored 25 books that encompassed several fields, ranging from English Constitutional Law, Lutheran theology, to the history of fascism, Jewish history, and the history of...
    , history
  • Amnon Netzer
    Amnon Netzer

    Amnon Netzer was an Iranian-Jewish historian, researcher, professor and journalist.He dedicated much of his life to uncovering, analyzing, and recording the literature, culture, and 2,700-year history of Iran's Jewry....
    , Jewish Studies
    Jewish studies

    Jewish studies is an List of academic disciplines centered on the study of Jews and Judaism. Jewish studies is Interdisciplinarity and combines aspects of history , religious studies, archeology, sociology, languages , political science, area studies, women's studies, and ethnic studies....
     and history
    HIStory

    HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I is a double album by Michael Jackson, released on June 20, 1995, and is Jackson's ninth. The first disc, named "HIStory Begins" consists of a selection of Jackson's greatest hits from the singer's past fifteen years, while the second, named "HIStory Continues" features new songs, with the...
  • Ehud Netzer
    Ehud Netzer

    Ehud Netzer is an Israeli archaeology and Professor emeritus at the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The subjects he teaches combine architecture and archaeology....
    , archaeology
  • Mordechai Nisan
    Mordechai Nisan

    Mordechai Nisan is an Israeli professor and scholar of Middle East Studies at the Rothberg International School of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , social science
  • Nurit Peled-Elhanan
    Nurit Peled-Elhanan

    Nurit Peled-Elhanan is an Israeli peace activist, professor at Hebrew University, and is among the founders of the Bereaved Families for Peace....
    , education
  • Joshua Prawer
    Joshua Prawer

    Joshua Prawer was a notable Israelis historian and a scholar of the Crusades and Kingdom of Jerusalem.His work often attempted to portray Crusader society as a forerunner to later European Colonialism expansion....
    , history
  • Michael O. Rabin
    Michael O. Rabin

    Michael Oser Rabin is an Israelis computer scientist and a recipient of the Turing Award....
    , computer science and mathematics
  • Giulio Racah
    Giulio Racah

    Giulio Racah was an italian people-Israeli physicist and mathematician.Born in Florence, Italy, he took his PhD from the University there in 1930, and later studied in Rome with Enrico Fermi....
    , physics
  • Gershom Scholem
    Gershom Scholem

    Gershom Scholem , also known as Gerhard Scholem, was a Jewish philosopher and historian raised in Germany. He is widely regarded as the founder of the modern, academic study of Kabbalah, becoming the first Professor of Jewish Mysticism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Jewish mysticism
  • Eliezer Schweid
    Eliezer Schweid

    File:Professor eliezer Schweid.JPGEliezer Schweid is an Israeli scholar, writer and Professor of Jewish Philosophy at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Jewish philosophy
  • Shaul Shaked, Middle Persian
    Middle Persian

    Middle Persian is the Iranian languages language/ethnolect of Southwestern Iran that during Sassanid times became a prestige dialect and so came to be spoken in other regions as well....
     and Pahlavi language and literature
  • Saharon Shelah
    Saharon Shelah

    Saharon Shelah is an Israeli mathematician. He is a professor of mathematics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and also at Rutgers University in New Jersey, United States....
    , mathematics
  • Zeev Sternhell
    Zeev Sternhell

    Zeev Sternhell is an Israeli historian and one of the world's leading experts on Fascism. Sternhell headed the Department of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and writes for Haaretz newspaper....
    , political science
  • Hayim Tadmor
    Hayim Tadmor

    Hayim Tadmor was a leading Israeli Assyriology, and a profound influence on many students and scholars of the Ancient Near East throughout the world....
    , Assyriology
    Assyriology

    Assyriology is the archaeological, historical, and linguistic study of ancient Mesopotamia and the related cultures that used cuneiform writing....
  • Jacob Talmon
    Jacob Talmon

    Jacob Leib Talmon was an Orthodox Jewish Professor of Modern History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has been categorised as a 'Cold War liberal' because of his devout anti-Marxism which permeates his main works....
    , history
  • Amos Tversky
    Amos Tversky

    Amos Nathan Tversky, was a cognitive psychology and mathematical psychology, and a pioneer of cognitive science, a longtime collaborator of Daniel Kahneman, and a key figure in the discovery of systematic human cognitive bias and handling of risk....
    , psychology
  • Claude Vigée
    Claude Vigée

    Claude Vig?e is a French poet who writes in French language and Alsatian language. He describes himself as a "Jew and an Alsatian, thus doubly Alsatian and doubly Jewish"....
    , French literature
  • Avi Wigderson
    Avi Wigderson

    Avi Wigderson is an Israelis mathematician and computer scientist who received the Nevanlinna Prize in 1994 for his work on computational complexity....
    , computer science and mathematics
  • Hanna Yablonka
    Hanna Yablonka

    Hanna Yablonka is an Israeli historian and scholar of the Holocaust. She is a Professor of Holocaust Studies at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and staff historian for the Ghetto Fighters' House....
    , Holocaust history
  • S. Yizhar
    S. Yizhar

    Yizhar Smilansky , better known by his pen name S. Yizhar , was an Israeli writer and a great innovator in modern Hebrew language literature....
    , an author


Alumni

In 2004, three graduates of the University received the Nobel Prize
Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize , established in the 1895 will of Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel; it was first awarded in Nobel Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize in Literature, and Nobel Peace Prize in 1901....
 (David Gross
David Gross

David Jonathan Gross is an United States particle physics and string theory. Along with Frank Wilczek and David Politzer, he was awarded the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of asymptotic freedom....
 in physics; Aaron Ciechanover
Aaron Ciechanover

Aaron Ciechanover is an Israeli biology, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry for his discovery with Avram Hershko and Irwin Rose, of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation....
 and Avram Hershko
Avram Hershko

Avram Hershko is an Israeli biology and Nobel laureate in Chemistry for his discovery with Aaron Ciechanover and Irwin Rose, of ubiquitin-mediated protein degradation....
 in chemistry).

  • Presidents of Israel: Ephraim Katzir
    Ephraim Katzir

    Ephraim Katzir is an Israeli biophysics and former Israeli Labor Party politics. He served as the President of Israel for a five-year term, from 1973 until 1978....
    , Yitzhak Navon
    Yitzhak Navon

    Yitzhak Navon is an Israeli politician, diplomat and author. He was the fifth President of Israel....
    , Moshe Katsav
    Moshe Katsav

    Moshe Katsav , born 5 December 1945) is a former President of Israel and member of the Knesset. The end of his term of President was marked by controversy, and from 25 January 2007 until his resignation on 1 July 2007, he was on a leave of absence amid impending charges of crimes stemming from his alleged rape of one female subordinate which...
  • Prime Ministers of Israel: Ehud Barak
    Ehud Barak

    Ehud Barak is an Israeli politician, former Prime Minister of Israel, and current Defense Minister of Israel, Deputy leaders of Israel#Deputy Prime Minister and leader of Israel's Labor Party ....
    , Ariel Sharon
    Ariel Sharon

    is a former Israeli Prime Minister of Israel and military leader. Sharon served as Prime Minister from March 2001 until April 2006, though he was unable to carry out his duties after suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006, when he fell into a coma and entered a persistent vegetative state....
    , Ehud Olmert
    Ehud Olmert

    Ehud Olmert is the incumbent Prime Minister of Israel. Olmert was the Mayor of Jerusalem of Jerusalem from 1993 to 2003. In 2003 he was elected to the Knesset and became a minister and Deputy leaders of Israel#Acting Prime Minister in the government of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon....
  • Members of the Knesset: Colette Avital
    Colette Avital

    Colette Avital is an Israeli politician. She served as a member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party and One Israel between 1999 and 2009....
    , Yael Dayan
    Yael Dayan

    Ya?l Dayan is an Israeli writer and political figure....
    , Dalia Itzik
    Dalia Itzik

    Dalia Itzik , born 20 October 1952, is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima. She has previously served in several minsterial positions, and on 4 May 2006 became the first female speaker of the Knesset on 4 May 2006, and has since served as President of Israel in an interim capacity on two occasions....
    , Roman Bronfman
    Roman Bronfman

    Dr. Roman Bronfman is a left wing Israeli politician. He was born in Ukraine, and immigrated to Israel in 1980.He holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Political Science from Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Ahmed Tibi
  • Sports and culture: Yochanan Vollach
    Yochanan Vollach

    Yochanan Vollach is a former Israeli football . He was a member of the Israel national football team that competed at the 1970 FIFA World Cup. Today, Vollach is president of the Maccabi Haifa sport organization as well as being the president and CEO of Newlog, a subsidiary of Israeli shipping company Zim Integrated Shipping Services....
    , Natalie Portman
    Natalie Portman

    Natalie Portman is an Israeli United Statesn actor. Portman began her career in the early 1990s, turning down the opportunity to become a child model in favor of acting....
    , Itzik Kornfein
    Itzik Kornfein

    Yitzhak "Itzik" Kornfein was an Israeli goalkeeper who played mostly for Beitar Jerusalem. He also played for Hapoel Tiberias F.C.. Hapoel Jerusalem F.C., Hapoel Ramat Gan F.C., Hapoel Petah Tikva F.C....
  • Archaeologists: Amihai Mazar
    Amihai Mazar

    Amihai "Ami" Mazar is an Israeli archaeology. Born in Haifa, Israel , he is currently Professor at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, holding the Eleazer Sukenik Chair in the Archaeology of Israel....
    , Eilat Mazar
    Eilat Mazar

    Eilat Mazar is a third-generation Israeli archaeologist, specializing in Jerusalem and Phoenician archeology. A senior fellow at the Shalem Center, she has worked on the Temple Mount excavations, as well as excavations at Achzib....
    , Yigael Yadin
    Yigael Yadin

    Yigael Yadin was an Israeli archeology, politician, and the second Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces....
  • Activists: Elie Yossef
    Elie Yossef

    Elie Yossef is a London-born Israelis educator and political activist.Eli Yossef grew up in London and attended the Hasmonean High School where he established Betar England in 1973....
  • Journalists: Khaled Abu Toameh
    Khaled Abu Toameh

    Khaled Abu Toameh is an Israeli Arab journalist and documentary filmmaker. He is the West Bank and Gaza correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and U.S....
  • Writers: Aharon Appelfeld
    Aharon Appelfeld

    Aharon Appelfeld is an Israeli novelist....
    , Elias Chacour
    Elias Chacour

    Elias Chacour is the Archbishop of Galilee of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church. He is also a noted author and peace activist keen to promote reconciliation between Arabs and Israelis....
    , Yael Dayan
    Yael Dayan

    Ya?l Dayan is an Israeli writer and political figure....
    , David Grossman
    David Grossman

    David Grossman born in Jerusalem on January 25, 1954, is an Israeli author of fiction, nonfiction, and youth and children's literature. His books have been translated into numerous languages....
    , Batya Gur
    Batya Gur

    Batya Gur was an Israeli writer, specializing in detective fiction.She received a master's degree in comparative literature from the Hebrew University....
    , Shifra Horn
    Shifra Horn

    Shifra Horn is an Israeli author....
    , Amos Oz
    Amos Oz

    Amos Oz is an Israeli writer, novelist, and journalist. He is also a professor of literature at Ben-Gurion University in Be'er Sheva. Since 1967, he has been a prominent advocate of a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict....
    , A. B. Yehoshua
    A. B. Yehoshua

    Abraham B. Yehoshua is an Israeli novelist, essayist, and playwright. His pen name is A. B. Yehoshua....
    , Amnon Jackont
    Amnon Jackont

    Amnon Jackont is an Israeli author of thrillers, an historian and a literary editor.Jackont was allowed to postpone his military service for law studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Amalia Kahana-Carmon
    Amalia Kahana-Carmon

    Amalia Kahana-Carmon is an Israeli author, educator, and recipient of the Israel Prize for literature .Amalia was born at Kibbutz Ein Harod. Her father, Haim Kahana, was one of the founders of the kibbutz....
    , Yehoshua Kenaz
    Yehoshua Kenaz

    Yehoshua Kenaz is an Israeli novelist....
    .
  • Academics: Ahron Bregman
    Ahron Bregman

    Ahron Bregman is a British-Israeli political scientist, as well as a writer and journalist, specialising on the Arab-Israeli conflict....
    , Uri Davis
    Uri Davis

    Uriel "Uri" Davis is an Israelis academic and activist focusing on civil rights in Israel and the Middle East. Davis has served as Vice-Chairman of the Israeli League for Human and Civil Rights and as lecturer in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford....
    , Gerson Goldhaber
    Gerson Goldhaber

    Gerson Goldhaber is an American particle physicist and astrophysicist. He is one of the discoverers of the D meson which confirmed the existence of the charm quark....
    , Haim Harari
    Haim Harari

    Haim Harari is an Israeli theoretical physicist who has made contributions in particle physics, science education, and other fields....
    , Joshua Jortner
    Joshua Jortner

    Joshua Jortner is an Israelis physical chemist. He is a Professor Emeritus at School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel....
    , Alexander Levitzki
    Alexander Levitzki

    Alexander Levitzki is an Israelis biochemist who is a Professor of Biochemistry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem....
    , Efraim Karsh
    Efraim Karsh

    Efraim Karsh is Professor and head of Mediterranean Studies at King's College London. An historian of the Middle East, and a best-selling author, he is regarded as the most vocal critic of the New Historians, a group of Israeli scholars who have questioned the conventional history of the Arab-Israeli conflict....
    , Asa Kasher
    Asa Kasher

    Asa Kasher is an Israeli philosopher and linguist working at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is noted for authorship of Israel Defense Forces's Israel_Defense_Forces#Code_of_Conduct....
    , Walter Laqueur
    Walter Laqueur

    Walter Zeev Laqueur is an United States historian and political commentator.He was born in Breslau, Germany , to a Jewish family. In 1938 Laqueur left Germany for the British Mandate of Palestine....
    , Avishai Margalit
    Avishai Margalit

    Avishai Margalit is George F. Kennan Professor to Philosophy at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. He was the winner of the Emet Prize in 2007 and Spinoza Lens Prize in 2001....
    , Dana Olmert
    Dana Olmert

    Dana Olmert is an Israeli left wing activist, literary theory and Editing, and is a daughter of Israel's Prime Minister of Israel Ehud Olmert....
    , Miri Rubin
    Miri Rubin

    Miri Rubin is a medieval historian who is Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. She was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Cambridge, where she took her doctorate....
  • Lawyers: Elias Khoury
    Elias Khoury (lawyer)

    *For the Lebanese writer, see Elias Khoury .Elias Daoud Khoury is a Jerusalem-based Arab-Israeli lawyer. He specializes in real property law....
  • Theologian: Fr Malachi Martin
    Malachi Martin

    Fr. Malachi Brendan Martin Doctor of Philosophy Jesuit was a former Jesuit priest, theologian, writer on the Roman Catholic church and professor at the Vatican Pontifical Biblical Institute....
  • Archaeologist Aren Maeir
    Aren Maeir

    Aren Maeir is a professor at Bar Ilan University and director of the Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project . Born in 1958 in Rochester, New York, USA, he moved to Israel in 1969 and has lived there since....


See also

  • List of universities in Israel
  • Einstein Papers Project
    Einstein Papers Project

    The Einstein Papers Project was established in 1986 to assemble, preserve, translate and publish papers selected from the Literary executor of Albert Einstein and from other collections ....


External links

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