Tel Aviv University
אוניברסיטת תל אביב Tel Aviv University |
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founding | 1956 |
Sponsorship | state |
place | Tel Aviv Israel |
president | Joseph fathoms |
Students | ~ 30,000 |
Website | www.tau.ac.il |
The University of Tel Aviv ( Hebrew אוניברסיטת תל אביב Ūnīversīṭat Tel Avīv ) is one of Israel's largest universities and has around 30,000 students. The language of instruction and administration is mostly New Hebrew .
structure
The university consists of nine faculties , which are divided into 90 institutes .
- Faculties (no particular order):
- Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts
- Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
- Raymond and Beverly Sackler Faculty of Science
- Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities
- Buchmann Faculty of Law
- George S. Wise Faculty of Biology ( Life Sciences )
- Leon Recanati Faculty of Management
- Sackler Faculty of Medicine
- Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences
history
The forerunners were several smaller universities and institutes. Well-known are the University of Law and Economics, which was founded in 1935 and, as a universal teaching institution, already included the faculties of law, economics , administration and politics, business administration and tax law , the biological- pedagogical institute established in 1931 and the institute for Jewish studies .
The first two were the very first higher education institutions in Tel Aviv. In 1955 the Trubowicz building opened (בניין טרובוביץ`, also called "red house"), which was used as a permanent location for the University of Law and Economics and formed the beginning of the university campus in the Tel Aviv district of Ramat Aviv .
The Arab village of al-Sheikh Muannes ( Arabic : الشيخ مؤنس), whose inhabitants fled due to the Arab-Israeli war of 1948 and were then prevented from returning and - if not already deceased - was originally located on the bottom of this district . Today's university campus is largely on the land of the former village. Parts of the university's land were legally bought, but not others. The only surviving house in the village on the university campus now houses the university's clubhouse.
In order to summarize the various universities and institutes, various initiatives were started in the 1950s. One of these was brought into being by the then Tel Aviv Mayor Chaim Levanon and was ultimately able to prevail. The various institutions were merged in 1956 and the founding of the university was announced on June 6 of the same year. Professor Israel Efrat became the university's first director. In 1960 the first parts were recognized by the high education committee in Israel, later more and more faculties gained academic recognition.
In 1978, the Beit Hatefutsot - Nahum Goldmann Diaspora Museum , named after the founder and long-time president of the World Jewish Congress , was opened on the premises of the university . In 1998 the Cymbalista Synagogue designed by Mario Botta was built. In Germany the university cooperates with the Goethe University Frankfurt am Main . Both cities are linked by a longstanding partnership.
In December 2015, university administration banned administrative staff from speaking Arabic to students, even though Arabic is one of the two official languages of Israel and the mother tongue of 10-15 percent of Tel Aviv University students. According to a report in the Haaretz newspaper in February 2016, the ban was lifted again. On October 1, 2016, the university signed a cooperation agreement with the Otto Friedrich University of Bamberg . This primarily includes the exchange of students and teachers as well as joint cultural activities and research collaborations.
On August 4, 2018, two teams of the University of Tel Aviv University Championships have Debating in Serbian Novi Sad won. Amichay Even-Chen and Ido Kotler won the English as a Foreign Language category. Last year's winners Noam Dahan and Tom Manor won this year in the English as mother tongue category.
In March 2019 it became known that since 2014 students from Africa and Asia who were officially supposed to study a fifteen-month master's program at Tel Aviv University had actually only actually studied at the university for one month and illegally on farms for the rest of the time had to do up to sixteen hours a day of physical work unrelated to their training. The students came to Israel on student visas and were therefore not allowed to work. The university received numerous complaints about this program, but they were not initially followed up. The university's deputy rector, Raanan Rein, said: “We had some doubts at the beginning, but the program has proven to be a great success.” Only after the daily Haaretz reported on the students' complaints about “slave labor” and about court hearings for exploitation and reported illegal employment, the university said the program was of "high academic standards" but the university would set up a team to investigate the allegations.
Well-known lecturers
- Yakir Aharonov (* 1932), theoretical physics
- Jossi Beilin (* 1948), political science
- Judah Moshe Eisenberg (1938–1998), theoretical atomic physics
- Israel Finkelstein (* 1949), director of the archaeological institute
- Ehud Gazit , nanotechnology
- Gabriel Gorodetsky (* 1945), Director of the "Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies"
- Walter Grab (1919–2000), historian
- Heda Jason (* 1932), folklorist and narrative researcher
- Yitzhak Laor (* 1948), theater and film
- Nechama Leibowitz (1905–1997), Biblical Studies
- Yuval Ne'eman (1925-2006), Physics
- Susan Neiman (* 1955), moral philosophy , political philosophy and history of philosophy
- Amir Pnueli (1941–2009), computer science
- Yoel Rak (* 1946), paleoanthropology and anatomy
- Ariel Rubinstein (* 1951), economics
- Mordecai Seter (1916–1994), music
- Leonard Susskind (* 1940), theoretical physics
- Gideon Toury (1942–2016), Literary, Linguistic and Translation Studies
- Zvi Yavetz (1925–2013), history
- Amotz Zahavi (1928-2017), Zoology
- Moshe Zuckermann (* 1949), sociology
Well-known graduates
- Tawfik Abu Wael (* 1976), Palestinian filmmaker and director
- Tzvi Avni (* 1927), composer
- Omar Barghouti (* 1964), Palestinian activist ( BDS movement )
- Shlomo Ben Ami (* 1943), historian, diplomat and politician, was Israel's 15th Foreign Minister
- Avishay Braverman (* 1948), economist, politician and former president of Ben Gurion University in the Negev
- Sara Netanyahu (* 1958), the wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu
- Dan Gillerman (* 1944), 13th Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations
- Orly Goldwasser , Egyptologist
- Moshe Kaplinski (* 1957), Deputy Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces
- Josef Lapid (1931–2008), Chairman of the Shinui , former Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister
- Yitzchak Mordechai (* 1944), general and co-founder of the former Mifleget ha-Merkas party (Center Party)
- Yariv Mozer (born 1978), screenwriter, film producer and director
- Chaim Ramon (* 1950), Kadima politician , Minister of Justice.
- Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), Colonel in the Air Force and first Israeli spaceman
- Silwan Schalom (* 1958), former foreign minister and finance minister, member of Likud
- Ariel Sharon (1928–2014), former Prime Minister
- Nathan Seiberg (* 1956), Israeli / American theoretical physicist
- Adi Shamir (* 1952), cryptology expert , co-inventor of the RSA encryption method
- Gadi Taub (* 1965), historian, writer, political columnist
- Jossi Wieler (* 1951), Swiss theater and opera director
- Eliahu Winograd (1926–2018), former judge at the Israeli Supreme Court and chairman of the Winograd Commission
- Michael Wolffsohn (* 1947), historian and former professor of modern history at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich
- David Zilberman (* 1947), economist
- Ghil'ad Zuckermann (* 1971), linguist
Web links
- Tel Aviv University (English, Hebrew)
- Life Sciences ( Memento from December 18, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (English, Hebrew)
- The Buchmann Faculty of Law (English)
- Diaspora Museum (Beth Hatefutsoth) (English, Hebrew)
- http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/institutes-index.html (link not available)
- Tel-Aviv University Botanical Garden
- Cymbalista Synagogue by Mario Botta en.
swell
- ↑ https://english.tau.ac.il/tau_history
- ↑ https://english.tau.ac.il/President-Office
- ↑ https://international.tau.ac.il/Facts_and_Figures
- ↑ Website of the Zochrot Organization , 2006, English, Hebrew, Arabic
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^ Yarden Skop: Tel Aviv University Tells Call Center Workers Not to Speak Arabic. In: Haaretz, February 17, 2016;
Yarden Skop: Tel Aviv University Retracts Ban on Arabic in Call Center Following Haaretz Report. In: Haaretz , February 17, 2016;
Israeli Arabs Should Be Free to Speak Arabic Everywhere. In: Haaretz, February 18, 2016. - ^ Yarden Skop: Tel Aviv University Tells Call Center Workers Not to Speak Arabic. In: Haaretz, February 17, 2016.
- ↑ New partner university in Israel. Retrieved March 22, 2020 .
- ↑ Tel Aviv University wins Debattier-EM In: Israelnetz.de , August 8, 2018, accessed on August 10, 2018.
- ↑ Lee Yaron, Josh Breiner: "I Feel Exploited": African, Asian Students at Tel Aviv University Put to Work on Farms for Degree. In: Haaretz , March 8, 2019; Lee Yaron, Josh Breiner: Tel Aviv University to Examine 'Slave Labor' Claims by Foreign Farming Students. In: Haaretz , March 10, 2019; Lee Yaron, Josh Breiner: Top Tel Aviv University Staff Backs Field Labor for Students From Africa, Asia Haaretz , March 12, 2019.
- ↑ Vita. Retrieved June 5, 2018 .
Coordinates: 32 ° 6 ′ 50 ″ N , 34 ° 48 ′ 15 ″ E