Shalem College
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Shalem College is a liberal arts college in Jerusalem, Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

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Shalem College is a new college planned to be Israel’s first liberal arts college. It will feature options for majors in philosophy and Middle East studies. In April 2009, the Shalem Center
Shalem Center
The Shalem Center is a Jerusalem research institute that supports academic work in the fields of philosophy, political theory, Jewish and Zionist history, Bible and Talmud, Middle East Studies, archaeology, economics, and strategic studies...

 filed an application with the Council for Higher Education in Israel
Council for Higher Education in Israel
The Council for Higher Education in Israel is a supervisory body for universities and colleges in Israel. It is the only organization with the authority to give educational accreditation...

 for the opening of an institution of higher learning that would be authorized to grant B.A. degrees in liberal arts
Liberal arts
The term liberal arts refers to those subjects which in classical antiquity were considered essential for a free citizen to study. Grammar, Rhetoric and Logic were the core liberal arts. In medieval times these subjects were extended to include mathematics, geometry, music and astronomy...

. The academic degree would be a multi-disciplinary program in the humanities and economics. The list of intended lecturers include Yoav Gelber
Yoav Gelber
Yoav Gelber is a professor of history at the University of Haifa, and was formerly a visiting professor at The University of Texas at Austin....

, Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer
Martin Seth Kramer is an American scholar of the Middle East at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Shalem Center. His focus is on Islam and Arab politics.-Education:...

 and Yosef Gorny
Yosef Gorny
Yosef Gorny , is Professor of Study of Zionism and head of the Zionist Research Institute at the Tel Aviv University...

. Shalem plans to accept candidates on the basis of exams, intellectual capabilities and motivation to influence. The four-year program would require writing a thesis, and offer majors in Middle East studies, philosophy and political science. The program is to have core requirements in philosophy, history, social studies, economics, religion and Zionist history.

In February 2010 the college announced a founding gift of $5 million form the Chicago-based Conduit Foundation. The college is not government supported, it is funded by private donations from Israel, America and Europe.

Historian Martin Kramer
Martin Kramer
Martin Seth Kramer is an American scholar of the Middle East at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy and the Shalem Center. His focus is on Islam and Arab politics.-Education:...

has been appointed to be the new college's first President.

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