Israeli Colleges Cut Funding for Humanities - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Daniel Ben Simon

Daniel Ben Simon

Sep 19, 2013

A student uses his mobile phone during a break as he is silhouetted against the "Ardon Windows? in the library of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem June 3, 2002. The Ardon windows are Isaiah's vision of eternal peace in a triptych by artist Mordecal Ardon. The part of the triptych in the photo focuses on Jerusalem, in the lower section the city wall is represented as the Dead Sea Scroll of the book of Isaiah. Above the wall a piece of parchment carries part of the Prophecy, "and they shall beat their sword — A student uses his mobile phone during a break as he is silhouetted against the "Ardon Windows" in the library of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 3, 2002. — REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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Visitors sit in front of paintings by Israeli artist Joseph Zaritsky in a section of a new wing of the Tel Aviv Museum November 2, 2011, during its official opening. The additional wing named after it's American donors Herta and Paul Amir was designed by Architect Preston Scott Cohen who heads the Harvard University Graduate School of Architecture. REUTERS/ Nir Elias (ISRAEL - Tags: SOCIETY) - RTR2TJ1H

The decline of humanities in Israel

Yuval Avivi

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend an English lesson in Elad, an ultra-Orthodox town near Tel Aviv, October 17, 2013. Adhering to a strict religious lifestyle, Haredim - Hebrew for "those who fear God" - mostly live in their own towns and neighbourhoods, keep to their own schools and shun secular culture. But there are signs of a growing, dispersed movement driving change inside the cloistered, and also poor, community. Picture taken October 17, 2013. REUTERS/Nir Elias (ISRAEL - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION SOCIE

Ultra-Orthodox request gender-segregated university study

Eetta Prince-Gibson

Eetta Prince-Gibson

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men sign documents at the offices of Israel's Administration for National Civil Service in Jerusalem January 6, 2013. For the first time since the August 1 expiration of the so-called Tal Law that exempted ultra-Orthodox seminary students from military conscription, dozens of scholars signed up on Sunday for alternative civilian service which, upon completion, will entitle them to avoid the draft. Some 1,300 seminary students are slated to join the program by August 2013, or until Isra

Academic World of Ultra-Orthodox Students in Israel

Tali Heruti-Sover

Tali Heruti-Sover

Photos of Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel, the three laureates of the 2013 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, is seen on a screen during the announcement of the winners at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences in Stockholm October 9, 2013. Karplus, Levitt and Warshel won the 2013 Nobel Prize for chemistry for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems, the award-giving body said on Wednesday. REUTERS/Claudio Bresciani/TT News Agency (SWEDEN - Tags: MEDIA SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY)

Brain Drain: Existential Threat For Israel

Akiva Eldar