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Tel Aviv University
	אוניברסיטת תל אביב
Established	1956
Type	Public
President	Joseph Klafter
Rector	Dany Leviatan
Vice-Presidents	Yehiel Ben-Zvi, Ehud Gazit, Gary Sussman
Students	29,000
Location	Tel Aviv, Israel
Campus	Urban
Website	www.tau.ac.il/

"TAU" redirects here. For the Spanish basketball club often referred to as TAU, see Saski Baskonia.

Leigh Engineering Faculty Boulevard

Tel Aviv University (TAU) (Hebrew: אוניברסיטת תל־אביב‎ Universitat Tel Aviv) is a public university located in Ramat Aviv, Israel.^[1] In 2006, it had 29,000 students.

[edit] 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 170-acre (0.69 km²) 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 Afeka College of Engineering in Tel Aviv. The Wise Observatory is located in Mitzpe Ramon.

Part of the Tel Aviv campus was built on lands previously inhabited by the Arab village Al-Shaykh Muwannis, whose residents fled prior to the outbreak of the Israeli-Arab war of 1948.^[2]

[edit] Ramat Aviv campus

TAU received its autonomy from the Tel Aviv municipality in 1963, when its campus, in the northern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Ramat Aviv was established.

Cymbalista Synagogue and Jewish Heritage Center

Buildings on the Ramat Aviv campus include:

Katz Faculty of the Arts, including the Department of Film and Television, the oldest film and television higher learning institute in Israel, established in 1971
David Azrieli School of Architecture
Buchmann-Mehta School of Music
Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
Entin Faculty of Humanities
Buchmann Faculty of Law
Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
Faculty of Management—Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration
Sackler Faculty of Medicine
Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences.

Other university schools and programs include:

Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
Constantiner School of Education
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
Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
Joseph Kelman School of Education

[edit] Relations with other universities

Smolarz Auditorium

Tel Aviv University offers special programs of Jewish studies to teachers and students from the United States, France, Brazil, Argentina and 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 and also offers the opportunity to live and study in a kibbutz.

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 ^[3] 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 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's College of Engineering
High-Tech Management School

In May 2007, New York University and Tel Aviv University approved a plan to establish an NYU Study Abroad Campus in Israel based at Tel Aviv University^[4]

[edit] Faculty

Notable faculty members (past and present) include:

Yakir Aharonov, physicist
Noga Alon, mathematician
Yitzhak Arad, historian
Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Joseph Bernstein, mathematician
Guy Deutscher, physicist
Uzi Even, chemist and political activist for LGBT rights
Israel Finkelstein, archaeologist
Amnon Jackont, author
Joshua Jortner, physical chemist
Shoshana Kamin, mathematician
Asa Kasher, philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct
Etgar Keret, author
Fred Landman, semanticist
Zvi Laron, paediatric endocrinologist
Orna Lin, lawyer
Vitali Milman, mathematician
Moshé Mizrahi, Oscar winning film director
Baruch Modan, oncologist
Yuval Ne'eman (deceased), physicist, former minister of Science and Technology
Aviad Raz, sociologist
Tanya Reinhart, linguist
Amnon Rubinstein, former Dean of Law, also former Education minister
Ariel Rubinstein, economist
Pnina Salzman, pianist and piano pedagogue
Anita Shapira, historian
Micha Sharir, mathematician
Edna Shavit, drama
Boris Tsirelson, mathematician
Lev Vaidman, physicist
Moshe Wolman, neuropathologist
Amotz Zahavi, biologist

[edit] Notable alumni

Dan Ariely^[5]
Benjamin Gantz, Commander of the GOC Army Headquarters
Arie Eldad, member of Knesset
Shlomo Ben-Ami, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
Alon Bar, award winning filmmaker
Yochai Benkler, law professor at Yale
Mohammad Barakeh, member of parliament and party leader
Ran Cohen, former minister of Housing
Ari Folman, Cinematographer (Director of "Waltz with Bashir")
Dan Gillerman, Vice-President of the UN General Assembly
Tzachi Hanegbi, former minister of Internal Security
Zvi Heifetz, Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom
Ron Huldai, current mayor of Tel Aviv
Moshe Kaplinsky, Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff
Efraim Karsh, historian
Dov Khenin, political scientist and member of Knesset
Yosef Lapid, former vice premier and Justice minister
Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former Chief of Staff and minister of Tourism and Transportation
Yitzhak Mordechai, former Minister of Defense and Transportation
Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, author
Ophir Pines-Paz, Interrior Minister
Haim Ramon, former minister of Health and Justice
Ilan Ramon, The first Israeli astronaut
Gideon Sa'ar, member of Knesset
Adi Shamir, inventor of the RSA algorithm
Simon Shaheen, musician
Silvan Shalom, former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs
Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel
Ronnie Weinstein, CEO of Wissotzky Tea Company
Bat-Sheva Zeisler, singer and actress
Abdel Rahman Zuabi, Arab Israeli judge
Amir Gal-Or, founder of the Infinity Group

[edit] See also

[edit] References

[edit] External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Tel-Aviv University

(Hebrew) (English) Tel Aviv University Website - Introduction, and History.
American Friends of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv University donor group

Coordinates: 32°06′50″N 34°48′15″E / 32.11389°N 34.80417°E / 32.11389; 34.80417

[0] "Statistical Data - Data on Students in Institutions of Higher Education". Israeli Council for higher education. 2007. http://www.che.org.il/english/template/default.asp?maincat=3&catID=58. Retrieved 2007-09-18.

[1] "Tel Aviv University is asked to acknowledge its past and to commemorate the Palestinian village on which grounds the university was built". Zochrot. 2003. http://www.zochrot.org/index.php?id=143. Retrieved 2009-10-01.

[2] ttp://www.law.tau.ac.il/Eng/?CategoryID=186&ArticleID=149&Page=1

[3] ttp://tauac.typepad.com/ac/2007/06/tau_to_establis.html

[4] From crisis to couch

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