Bar Ilan University
| Bar Ilan University | |
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| motto | Tradition of Excellence |
| founding | August 7, 1955 |
| Sponsorship | state |
| place | Ramat Gan , Israel |
| Rector | Aria Zaban |
| Students | 24,500 |
| Employee | 1350 |
| Website | www.biu.ac.il |
The Bar-Ilan University ( Hebrew אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, Arabic جامعة بار-ايلا; BIU for short ) is a religious-Zionist university in Ramat Gan , Tel Aviv district , Israel . It was opened on August 7, 1955 and is next to the Open University of Israel the second largest university in the country with 36,000 students (with the associated colleges) and 1,700 academic staff.
organization
The BIU has six faculties:
- Exact sciences
- Environmental science
- Social sciences
- Humanities
- Jewish studies
- Law
Study, teaching and research
1,600 lecturers teach more than 30,000 students in the faculties of natural sciences, life sciences, humanities and social sciences, Jewish studies and law, as well as in interdisciplinary postgraduate training centers. The largest Israeli schools for education and social work as well as one of the world's best faculties for Jewish studies are located at the BIU.
The BIU is home to internationally known research institutes for physics, medicinal chemistry, materials and nanosciences, applied and pure mathematics, cancer and brain research, economics, strategic studies, developmental psychology, archeology, Jewish law and philosophy as well as other areas. The libraries hold more than 1,000,000 books, including unique collections of ancient Judaica.
Around 60 universities around the world are linked to the BIU through agreements, including 13 universities from Germany. Like other Israeli research institutions, the BIU received funding from various programs such as Minerva, DIP, GIF, BMBF-MOST and from the DFG. Some of the most successful EU networks began with a collaboration between BIU and German researchers. The university holds around 100 active patents, some of which are used commercially by German industrial companies.
The degrees are recognized in Germany.
history
The university was named after Rabbi Meir Bar-Ilan (originally Meir Berlin ), a leader of religious Zionism , who initiated the establishment of the university in the early 1950s. He studied at German orthodox seminars in Berlin and saw a need for an institution that offered a dual curriculum with secular academic studies as well as religious Torah studies. However, secular lecturers such as the Marxist political scientist Joseph Berger also taught here .
Radical movements on campus were very active in the controversy that accompanied the further development of the Yitzchak Rabin peace process . Rabin's assassin, Jigal Amir , was a law and computer science student at BIU. The November 4, 1995 assassination appalled university authorities, who were accused of extremism by the public and the press. One of the steps that have been taken by the university as a result, was to encourage dialogue between left-wing and right-wing students by even for participation in mutual discussions credits were awarded.
In April 2015, the university concluded a cooperation project with the Free University of Berlin to research the Mesopotamian contribution to medicine . Between the medical cuneiform texts in Akkadian language from the 1st millennium BC Connections can be demonstrated in the medical texts of the Babylonian Talmud , which was also created several centuries later in Mesopotamia .
Experts in Israel trained 15 Iraqi social workers in 2019 to treat traumatized survivors of the Yazidis genocide .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ https://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php?id=988&pt=1&pid=983&level=4&cPath=35,983,988
- ^ Mordecai Naor : Eretz Israel: das 20. Jahrhundert, Könemann, Cologne 1998, ISBN 3-89508-594-4 , p. 322
- ^ Federal Ministry for Education and Research (Ed.): Germany - Israel . Collaboration in science and technology, education and research. Bonn, Berlin 2008 ( Online [PDF; 2.4 MB ; accessed on May 24, 2011]). Online ( Memento of the original from January 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Secretariat of the Standing Conference of the Ministers of Education of the Federal States in the Federal Republic of Germany (ed.): ANABIN . Recognition and evaluation of foreign educational qualifications. ( Online [accessed May 24, 2011]).
- ^ Babylonian Medicine. April 13, 2015, accessed January 4, 2020 .
- ↑ Israelis train Iraqi social workers. In: Israelnetz .de. July 5, 2019, accessed July 22, 2019 .
