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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 351

Menachem Ben-Sasson

View of the Hebrew University on Mount Scopus seen from Jerusalem's Old City, on June 10, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
May 18, 2017, 3:09 pm
Netanyahu blasts Hebrew U over report it nixed Hatikvah to avoid offending Arab students
Responding to censure, Jerusalem institution says graduation ceremony has followed same format for years, and that anthem is always aired at the state ceremonies it holds
By Stuart Winer
The logo of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is glued to a door on the Mount Scopus campus. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
June 1, 2015, 9:44 pm
Nonprofit: 11 Hebrew U. lecturers are sex offenders
University denies claim it ignored complaints, says it contacted police immediately on hearing allegations
By ToI Staff
Israeli president Reuven Rivlin (2R) seen with Prof. Menachem Ben Sasson (L), president of Hebrew University, Prof. Peretz Lavie and Prof. Ruth Arnon, president of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, discussing the issue of the academic boycott against Israel, at the president's house in Jerusalem on May 28, 2015. (Miriam Alster/FLASH90)
May 28, 2015, 10:44 pm
Rivlin: Academic boycott a major threat to Israel
Warning it will soon be too late, university heads ask president for diplomatic assistance in combating sanctions
By Daniel Bernstein
The photograph shows the recipients of the 2014 Katz Award and committee who selected them, alongside President Shimon Peres and Marcos and Adina Katz at a reception held Tuesday at the President's Residence in Jerusalem (photo credit: courtesy)
May 28, 2014, 2:15 am
2014 Katz Award recipients named
Four leading Jewish figures recognized for their application of Halacha in modern life
By ToI Staff
President of the Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Professor Rivka Carmi. (screen capture: Youtube/DaromTvNews1)
December 24, 2013, 6:32 pm
Ben-Gurion U. chief warns of apathy toward boycott
University President Rivka Carmi says sanctions against Israeli academia could snowball out of control
By Stuart Winer
Chancellor of the Ariel University Yigal Cohen Orgad (left) and Minister Yuval Steinitz at a cornerstone-laying ceremony for the new Faculty of Science building at the school in January. (photo credit: Gideon Markowicz/Flash90)
November 26, 2013, 8:56 pm
In breakthrough, Israel and EU to sign science cooperation deal
Jerusalem’s participation in lucrative Horizon 2020 project was held up over European guidelines barring settlement funding
By Lazar Berman and Raphael Ahren
EU Ambassador to Israel Lars Faaborg-Andersen (photo credit: Yossi Zwecker)
November 26, 2013, 5:03 pm
EU envoy: Yes to R&D deal, no to canceling settlement ban
Israel could yet salvage role in potential $1.9b research program, new ambassador says, since it ‘recognizes Europe’s decision not to fund Israeli institutions in West Bank’
By Raphael Ahren
Israeli students seen on the first day of the new academic year. October 21, 2012. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 28, 2013, 2:27 am
Israeli groups bring new ideas to ‘brain drain’ battle
Offering professional guidance and range of job opportunities, organizations are working to draw Israeli academics back home
By Ben Sales
Hebrew University President Menachem Ben-Sasson (photo credit: Flash90)
October 10, 2013, 6:15 am
Those Nobels could have been Israel’s, says Hebrew U president
Two of the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize for Chemistry are apparent victims of the country’s ‘brain drain’ to the US
By David Shamah
Aerial view of the Hebrew University Edmond J. Safra Campus in Givat Ram. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 15, 2013, 5:04 pm
Hebrew University ranked 59th in the world
Weizmann Institute and Technion also in the top 100; four other Israeli institutions in the top 500
By Asher Zeiger
Hebrew University student union head Yael Sinai speaking at the protest on Tuesday. (Screenshot via Youtube)
March 12, 2013, 5:43 pm
Universities stage mini-strike against budget cuts
Students and faculty call two-hour school stoppage to protest looming financial crisis in Israel’s higher education
By Aaron Kalman
The logo of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is glued to a door on the Mount Scopus campus. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 3, 2012, 1:21 am
Hebrew U. is 9th-best university to work in the world
Survey of academic institutions puts Jerusalem landmark among the elite
Hebrew University president Menahem Ben Sasson welcomes US Supreme Court Associate Justice Elana Kagan in his office. Kagan is one of two Jewish women on the court. (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
July 8, 2012, 4:44 am
US Supreme Court justice visits Jerusalem
Elana Kagan met with president of Hebrew University on Thursday
By Asher Zeiger
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