Israel's universities and colleges lost students, faculties, and staff due to reserve duty for the Israel-Hamas War. This forced academic institutions to adapt on the fly.
Jewish students are being encouraged to study in Israel in light of increasingly hostile academic environments in the West.
The bill also gives a Knesset subcommittee the authority to slash funding from institutions who ignore the bill, as well as take "other enforcement measures."
The university will continue its research projects with six non-academic Israeli institutions, saying they could not find any links between them and human rights violations.
Worldwide, small cells of well-organized, well-funded haters crying “Globalize the intifada” demean academia, reducing a complex conflict to hate-filled slogans.
Faculty who attack Israel in the classroom, disrupt Israeli lecturers, and boycott Israeli scholars are the greater danger by far.
Israel's overall university performance decreased by 21% in 2024, per QS World University Rankings. The Hebrew University's theology department dropped, while the Technion's mathematics improved.
“Universities are places of dialogue, discussion, and development of culture and knowledge, based on the reference value of peace and dialogue between peoples to achieve it.”
For more than 50 years, University of Haifa has been weaving a rich tapestry of diverse students who share the common goal of bettering themselves and Israel’s North.
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