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Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( Universitat Tel Aviv) is a large, public university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
, located in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, 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....
. As of 2006, the Tel Aviv University has a student population of 29,000.

TAU comprises nine faculties
Faculty (university)

A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas . The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had individual faculties for a Madrasah and theological seminary, Sharia and Fiqh, Arabic grammar, Islamic astronom...
, 106 departments, and 90 research institutes.

ted in Israel's cultural, financial and industrial center, Tel Aviv University is Israel's largest university.






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Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( Universitat Tel Aviv) is a large, public university
University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education....
, located in Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
, 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....
. As of 2006, the Tel Aviv University has a student population of 29,000.

TAU comprises nine faculties
Faculty (university)

A faculty is a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas . The concept of a university with different faculties for different subjects dates back to Al-Azhar University, which had individual faculties for a Madrasah and theological seminary, Sharia and Fiqh, Arabic grammar, Islamic astronom...
, 106 departments, and 90 research institutes.

History

Located in Israel's cultural, financial and industrial center, Tel Aviv University is Israel's largest university. It is a major center of teaching and research, comprising nine faculties, 106 departments, and 90 research institutes. Its origins go back to 1956, when three research institutes - the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, the Institute of Natural Sciences, and the Institute of Jewish Studies - joined together to form the University of Tel Aviv. Initially operated by the Tel Aviv municipality, the university was granted autonomy in 1963. The Ramat Aviv campus covering an area of was established that same year.

The university also maintains academic supervision over the Center for Technological Design in Holon, the New Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, and the Tel Aviv Engineering College. The Wise Observatory
Wise Observatory

The Florence and George Wise Observatory is an astronomy observatory owned and operated by Tel-Aviv University. It is located 5 km west of the city of Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev desert near the edge of the Ramon Crater, and it is the only professional astronomical observatory in Israel....
 is located in Mitzpe Ramon
Mitzpe Ramon

Mitzpe Ramon is a List of Israeli cities in the Negev desert of South District Israel. It is situated on the northern ridge at an elevation of 2,400 feet overlooking a sizable erosion cirque known as the Ramon Crater....
.

Ramat Aviv campus

TAU received its autonomy from the Tel Aviv
Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
 municipality
Municipality

A municipality is an administrative entity composed of a clearly defined territory and its population and commonly denotes a city, town, or village, or a small grouping of them....
 in 1963, when its campus
Campus

A campus is traditionally the land on which a college or university and related institutional buildings are situated. Usually a campus includes library, lecture halls, residence halls and park-like settings....
, in the northern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Ramat Aviv
Ramat Aviv

Ramat Aviv is a large residential area of several neighbourhoods in the northern part of Tel Aviv. Unofficially, the name is sometimes used for the entire city District 1, the northwestern district of Tel Aviv....
 was established. Buildings on the Ramat Aviv campus include the Katz Faculty of the Art
Art

Art is the process or product of deliberately arranging elements in a way that appeals to the senses or emotions. It encompasses a diverse range of human activities, creations, and modes of expression, including music and literature....
s, the David Azrieli
David Azrieli

David Joshua Azrieli, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canada builder, designer, architect, developer and philanthropist.Born in Makow, Poland, he fled Europe during World War II for Israel....
 School of Architecture
Architecture

The term architecture can refer to a process, a profession or documentation.As a process, architecture is the activity of designing and construction buildings and other physical structures by a person or a computer, primarily to provide shelter....
, the Buchmann-Mehta
Zubin Mehta

Zubin Mehta is an Indian conducting of Western classical music....
 School of Music, the Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
Engineering

Engineering is the discipline and profession of applying Technology and science knowledge and utilizing natural laws and physical resources in order to design and implement materials, structures, machines, devices, systems, and process that safely realize a desired objective and meet specified criteria....
, the Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, the Entin Faculty of Humanities, the Buchmann Faculty of Law
LAW

LAW may refer to:* Anti-tank warfare, e.g. the US Army M72 LAW or the British Army LAW 80*Palestinian Society for the Protection of Human Rights ...
, the Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, the Faculty of Management
Management

Management in business and human organization activity is simply the act of getting people together to accomplish desired goals. Management comprises planning, organizing, staffing, leadership or directing, and Control an organization or effort for the purpose of accomplishing a goal....
--Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration, the Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Medicine

Medicine is the art and science of healing. It encompasses a range of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
 and the Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences.

Other university schools and programs include:
  • Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
  • Constantiner School of Education
    Education

    File:Inukshuk Monterrey 1.jpgEducation can be seen as a product or a process and considered in a broad sense or a technical sense. According to philosophy of education George F....
  • 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
    Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research

    Tami Steinmetz Center For Peace Research is an academic research institution of Tel Aviv University which surveys public opinion regarding the Peace process in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Arab-Israeli conflict....
  • Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
  • Joseph Kelman School of Education


Relations with other universities

Smolarsh
Tel Aviv University offers special programs of Jewish studies to teachers and students from the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
, France
France

France , officially the French Republic , is a country whose Metropolitan France is located in Western Europe and that also comprises various Overseas departments and territories of France....
, Brazil
Brazil

Brazil , officially the Federative Republic of Brazil , is a country in South America. It is the List of countries and outlying territories by total area country by geographical area, occupying nearly half of South America, the List of countries by population country, and the fourth most populous democracy in the world....
, Argentina
Argentina

Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic , is a country in South America, constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city....
 and Mexico
Mexico

The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federalism constitutionalism republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of 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
English language

English is a West Germanic language that originated in Anglo-Saxon England and has lingua franca status in many parts of the world as a result of the military, economic, scientific, political and cultural influence of the British Empire in the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries and that of the United States from the mid 20th century onwa...
 and also offers the opportunity to live and study in a kibbutz
Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a Intentional community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. The kibbutz is a form of communal living that combines socialism and Zionism....
.

The Tel Aviv University Law Faculty currently has exchange programs from thirteen overseas universities. Namely: Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Virginia, Cornell, Boston University, Temple, Cardozo, Toronto, Bucerius (Hamburg), Monash (Melbourne), Milan, and Seoul National University The university offers about 20 courses a year in English, recruiting many top lecturers from overseas to teach.

Other study opportunities for students from abroad are:
  • Master's Program in Middle Eastern Studies
  • Master's Program in Biblical Archaeology
  • Summer Law Program co-sponsored by Temple University
    Temple University

    Temple University is a Commonwealth System of Higher Education public research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Temple University was founded in 1884 by Dr....
     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
    Boston University

    Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839....
    's College of Engineering
  • High-Tech Management School


In May 2007, New York University
New York University

New York University is a private university, nonsectarian, research university in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan....
 and Tel Aviv University approved a plan to establish an NYU Study Abroad Campus in Israel based at Tel Aviv University

Faculty

Notable faculty members (past and present) include:
  • Yakir Aharonov
    Yakir Aharonov

    Yakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist specialising in Quantum Physics and holds a joint professorship at Tel Aviv University in Israel and the University of South Carolina in the United States since 1973....
    , physicist
  • Noga Alon
    Noga Alon

    Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician noted for his prolific contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers....
    , mathematician
  • Yitzhak Arad
    Yitzhak Arad

    Yitzhak Arad is a Lithuanian-born Israelis historian and retired Israel Defense Forces brigadier general. A veteran of the Nazism-era Jewish resistance movement in ghetto; Soviet partisan and alleged former member of the NKVD, he has researched, lectured, and published extensively on the Holocaust....
    , historian
  • Shlomo Ben-Ami
    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami is an Israeli diplomat, politician and historian....
    , historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Joseph Bernstein
    Joseph Bernstein

    File:Joseph Bernstein.jpgJoseph Bernstein is an Israelis mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory, and he his known for his close relationships with students....
    , mathematician
  • Uzi Even
    Uzi Even

    Professor Uzi Even is an Israeli professor of chemistry in Tel Aviv University and a former politician....
    , chemist and political activist for LGBT
    LGBT

    LGBT is an acronym and initialism referring collectively to Lesbian,Gay, Bisexuality, and Transgender people. In use since the 1990s, the term ?LGBT? is an adaptation of the initialism ?LGBT? which itself started replacing the phrase ?gay community? which many within LGBT communities felt did not represent accurately all those to which it...
     rights
  • Israel Finkelstein
    Israel Finkelstein

    Israel Finkelstein is an Israelis Archaeology and Academics. He is currently the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze Age and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University and is also the co-director of excavations at Tel Megiddo in northern Israel....
    , archaeologist
  • 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....
    , physical chemist
  • 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....
    , philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct
  • Etgar Keret
    Etgar Keret

    Etgar Keret is an Israeli writer known for his short story, Graphic Novel and scriptwriting for film and television....
    , author
  • Zvi Laron
    Zvi Laron

    Zvi Laron is a Romanian-Israeli paediatric endocrinologist, born 1927, Cernauti, Romania.Zvi Laron began his medical education at the medical school in Timisoara....
    , paediatric endocrinologist
  • 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....
    , author
  • Fred Landman
    Fred Landman

    Fred Landman is a professor of semantics at Tel Aviv University and the author of a number of books about linguistics. Prof. Landman is known for his influential work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics....
    , semanticist
  • Orna Lin
    Orna Lin

    Orna Lin is the owner of the private firm Orna Lin & Co. and one of the leading labor lawyers in Israel. She is a graduate of the Hebrew University and has been a member of the Israeli Bar since 1981....
    , lawyer
  • Vitali Milman
    Vitali Milman

    Vitali Davidovich Milman is a mathematician specializing in Mathematical analysis. He is currently a professor at the Tel-Aviv University. In the past he was a President of the Israel Mathematical Union and a member of the ?Aliyah? committee of Tel-Aviv University....
    , mathematician
  • Yuval Ne'eman
    Yuval Ne'eman

    Yuval Ne'eman , was an Israeli soldier, Physics and politician, serving as a Minister during the 1980s and early 1990s. He was a self-declared atheist....
     (deceased), physicist, former minister of Science and Technology
  • Baruch Modan
    Baruch Modan

    Dr. Baruch Modan was a famous Medicine from Israel. Dr. Modan has made significant findings in his specialized field, oncology, and he is also an expert in radiation....
    , oncologist
  • Aviad Raz
    Aviad Raz

    Aviad Raz is an Israelis sociologist and professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev who specialises, inter alia, in the Israel Defense Forces, kibbutz organisations, and Japanese organisations....
    , sociologist
  • Tanya Reinhart
    Tanya Reinhart

    Tanya Reinhart was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She contributed columns to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot and longer articles to the CounterPunch , Znet, and Israeli Indymedia websites....
    , linguist
  • Amnon Rubinstein
    Amnon Rubinstein

    Amnon Rubinstein is an Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions....
    , former Dean of Law, also former Education minister
  • Ariel Rubinstein
    Ariel Rubinstein

    Ariel Rubinstein is an Israeli economist who works in game theory. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972-1979, in both mathematics and economics....
    , economist
  • Anita Shapira
    Anita Shapira

    Anita Shapira is an Israeli historian. She is the founder of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, a Ruben Merenfeld Professor of the Study of Zionism and head of the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University....
    , historian
  • Micha Sharir
    Micha Sharir

    Micha Sharir is a professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University, known for his work in computational geometry.After completing his undergraduate studies at Tel Aviv University in 1970, Sharir received a Ph.D....
    , mathematician
  • Edna Shavit
    Edna Shavit

    Edna Shavit is professor in the Drama department in the University of Tel Aviv, and Ha'Levi theatre prize winner for the year 2006, for her life's work in the theatre and university....
    , drama
  • Boris Tsirelson
    Boris Tsirelson

    Boris Semyonovich Tsirelson is a Soviet-Israeli mathematician and Professor of Mathematics in the Tel Aviv University in Israel....
    , mathematician
  • Lev Vaidman
    Lev Vaidman

    Lev Vaidman is an Israeli physicist working at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is noted for the Elitzur-Vaidman bomb-testing problem in quantum mechanics....
    , physicist
  • Moshe Wolman
    Moshe Wolman

    Moshe Wolman is an Israelis neuropathologist, born 1914, Warsaw, then Russian Empire.Moshe Wolman attended the universities of Florence and Rome, graduating M.D....
    , neuropathologist
  • Amotz Zahavi
    Amotz Zahavi

    Amotz Zahavi is an Israeli Evolutionary biology, a Professor Emeritus at the Zoology Department of Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Israeli Society for the Protection of Nature....
    , biologist


Notable alumni

  • Dan Ariely
    Dan Ariely

    Dan Ariely is the James B. Duke Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University. He also holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group....
  • Benjamin Gantz
    Benjamin Gantz

    Aluf Benjamin "Benny" Gantz is a general in the Israel Defense Forces and currently Israel's military attach? in the United States.Born in Israel, Gantz was drafted into the IDF in 1977....
    , Commander of the GOC Army Headquarters
    GOC Army Headquarters

    The Israeli GOC Army headquarters , is a multi-corps command headquarters created in 1998, which amalgamates the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces....
  • Arie Eldad
    Arie Eldad

    Prof. Aryeh Eldad, M.D. is an Israeli physician and politician, and a member of the Knesset for the National Union , within which he heads the Hatikva faction....
    , member of Knesset
  • Shlomo Ben-Ami
    Shlomo Ben-Ami

    Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami is an Israeli diplomat, politician and historian....
    , historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
  • Alon Bar
    Alon Bar

    Alon Bar is an Israeli/USA filmmaker.He wrote the award winning feature film "Aaron Cohen's Debt."He directed, wrote and produced the award winning documentary film "Exodus - A journey to the mountain of God," which was the first Israeli film ever to participate a film festival in an Arab country....
    , award winning filmmaker
  • Yochai Benkler
    Yochai Benkler

    Yochai Benkler is Jack N. and Lillian R. Berkman Professor for Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School and the author of The Wealth of Networks and the paper Coase's Penguin....
    , law professor at Yale
  • Mohammad Barakeh
    Mohammad Barakeh

    Mohammad Barakeh is an Israeli Arab politician and member of the Knesset for Hadash, of which he is the General Secretary....
    , member of parliament and party leader
  • Ran Cohen
    Ran Cohen

    Ran Cohen is an Israeli politician and former Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion and married with four children....
    , former minister of Housing
  • Dan Gillerman
    Dan Gillerman

    Dan Gillerman is Israel's 13th Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He was appointed in July 2002 and assumed his post on January 1, 2003....
    , Vice-President of the UN General Assembly
  • Tzachi Hanegbi
    Tzachi Hanegbi

    Tzachi Hanegbi is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Kadima. A former Justice Minister, in 2006 he was indicted for making political appointments to civil service posts during his time as Environmental Protection Minister of Israel, despite his claims that it was normal practice....
    , former minister of Internal Security
  • Zvi Heifetz
    Zvi Heifetz

    Zvi Heifetz is currently Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom based in London. Born in Russia, Heifetz moved to Israel at the age of 14. He spent 7 years with Israel Intelligence and completed as a Major in the Israeli Army....
    , Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom
  • Ron Huldai
    Ron Huldai

    Ron Huldai is an Israeli politician and former fighter pilot, and the current mayor of Tel Aviv-Yafo. He was born in 1944 in Hulda, Israel to Poland parents from L?dz....
    , current mayor of Tel Aviv
    Tel Aviv

    Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
  • Moshe Kaplinsky
    Moshe Kaplinsky

    Major General#Israel Moshe Kaplinsky , is the CEO of Better Place Israel. Most recently, he was Deputy Chief of the Israeli General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces....
    , Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff
  • 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....
    , historian
  • Dov Khenin
    Dov Khenin

    Dov Khenin is an Israeli political-scientist, lawyer, and member of the Knesset for the leftist Hadash party. He is a member of the central committee of Maki , an activist for socio-economic equality and an environmentalist....
    , political scientist and member of Knesset
  • Yosef Lapid
    Yosef Lapid

    Yosef "Tommy" Lapid was an Israeli television presenter, journalist, politician and Cabinet of Israel known for his sharp tongue and acerbic wit....
    , former vice premier and Justice minister
  • Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
    Amnon Lipkin-Shahak

    Amnon Lipkin-Shahak is a former Ramatkal of the Israel Defense Forces, Member of the Knesset andTransportation Minister of Israel and Tourism Minister of Israel....
    , former Chief of Staff and minister of Tourism and Transportation
  • Yitzhak Mordechai
    Yitzhak Mordechai

    Yitzhak Mordechai was an Israeli general, and later Defense Minister of Israel and Transportation Minister of Israel. He retired from political life in 2000 after being indicted for sexual misconduct during his military service....
    , former Minister of Defense and Transportation
  • Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach
    Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach

    Yitshak Orpaz is an Israeli writer.Yitshak Orpaz was born in the Soviet Union. He immigrated to Palestine at the age of 17. He served in the British army during the Second World War and in the Israel Defense Forces during the Israeli War of Independence....
    , author
  • Ophir Pines-Paz
    Ophir Pines-Paz

    Ophir Pines-Paz is an Israeli politician and former Interior Minister of Israel. He is currently a member of the Knesset for the Israeli Labor Party, and the Chairman of the Knesset Internal Affairs and Environment Committee....
    , Interrior Minister
  • Haim Ramon
    Haim Ramon

    Haim Ramon is an Israeli politician and who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Kadima and as both Deputy leaders of Israel#Vice Prime Minister and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office with responsibility for state policy....
    , former minister of Health and Justice
  • Ilan Ramon
    Ilan Ramon

    Ilan Ramon was a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut. Ramon was the space shuttle payload specialist of STS-107, the fatal mission of Space Shuttle Columbia, where he and six other crew members were killed in a re-entry accident over Southern Texas....
    , The first Israeli astronaut
  • Gideon Sa'ar
    Gideon Sa'ar

    Gideon Sa'ar is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud....
    , member of Knesset
  • Adi Shamir
    Adi Shamir

    Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptography. He was one of the inventors of the RSA algorithm , one of the inventors of the Feige-Fiat-Shamir Identification Scheme , one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer science....
    , inventor of the RSA
    RSA

    In cryptography, RSA is an algorithm for public-key cryptography. It is the first algorithm known to be suitable for digital signature as well as encryption, and one of the first great advances in public key cryptography....
     algorithm
  • Simon Shaheen
    Simon Shaheen

    Simon Shaheen is a Palestinian oud and violin virtuoso and composer.At the age of 2, Shaheen moved with his family to Haifa, but he spent most of the weekends in Ma'alot-Tarshiha, an Arab citizens of Israel town....
    , musician
  • Silvan Shalom
    Silvan Shalom

    is an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Likud. He previously served as the country's Foreign Affairs Minister of Israel and Finance Minister of Israel....
    , former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs
  • 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....
    , former Prime Minister of Israel
  • Ronnie Weinstein, CEO of Wissotzky Tea
    Wissotzky Tea

    Wissotzky Tea, an Israeli tea company based in Tel Aviv. Main tea distributor in Israel, as well as parts of Europe, North America, and Australia....
     Company
  • Bat-Sheva Zeisler
    Bat-Sheva Zeisler

    Bat-Sheva Zeisler is an Israeli vocalist, actress, and voice teacher. She sings in the soprano range.Zeisler graduated from the Tel Aviv University, where she studied drama and literature....
    , singer and actress
  • Abdel Rahman Zuabi
    Abdel Rahman Zuabi

    Abdel Rahman Zuabi is an Israeli judge. He served on the Israeli Supreme Court for nine months in 1999, making him the first Israeli Arab on the country's highest court....
    , Arab Israeli judge


See also

  • List of universities in Israel
  • Tel Aviv
    Tel Aviv

    Tel Aviv-Yafo , usually Tel Aviv, is the List of largest cities and second largest cities by country List of cities in Israel in Israel, with an estimated population of 390,100....
  • Dame Shirley Porter


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