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52 unusual facts about Tel Aviv University


Abraham Katzir

In 1977 he established the Applied Physics Group at Tel Aviv University, which he heads.

His group at Tel Aviv University developed special fibers made of crystalline silver halides, which are among the few that are highly transparent in the middle-infrared (mid-IR).

Abraham Katzir (born 1941 in Jerusalem, Israel) is a Professor of Physics at Tel Aviv University, holding the Carol and Mel Taub Chair in Applied Medical Physics.

Acanthobrama telavivensis

The project was a joint endeavor of the Yarkon River Authority, Tel Aviv University and the Israel Nature and National Parks Authority.

Adam Bakri

After completing a bachelor's degree in English Literature and Theater Arts at Tel Aviv University, Bakri trained at New York's Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Adi Ophir

Professor Ophir teaches philosophy at the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas at Tel Aviv University.

Aharon Ze'evi-Farkash

He received a B.A. and M.A. in Middle East and Islam Studies from Tel Aviv University, as well as an AMP/ISMP from Harvard Business School.

Alon Carmeli

Carmeli holds an Executive MBA from the Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv, Israel where he graduated with honors receiving a BBus the Business College, Tel Aviv.

Anthony Yadgaroff

Other positions Yadgaroff holds in the community include being a Director of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, an international Jewish human rights organisation, and a Governor of Tel Aviv University.

Benjamin Gilad

Benjamin Gilad obtained his undergraduate degrees in Psychology and Philosophy from Tel Aviv University.

Benjamin Shwadran

In 1973, he retired to Jerusalem, and continued to teach as a Professor of Modern Middle East History at Tel Aviv University and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Christopher Rollston

He has lectured and delivered invited papers in a number of venues, including Vanderbilt University, George Washington University, the University of Michigan, Brown University, Duke University, Tel Aviv University, Baylor University and the University of Wisconsin.

Danielle Knafo

She has also taught at a variety of academic institutions including New School for Social Research, Brooklyn College, City University of New York and City College of New York, Adelphi University, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University

Daphne Barak Erez

Barak-Erez was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University in the fall of 2011.

David H. Rosenbloom

From 1971 to 1973, he visited Tel Aviv University, where he guest lectured in the field of Political Science.

Dennis Gaitsgory

Born in what is now Moldova, he grew up in Tajikistan, before studying at Tel Aviv University under Joseph Bernstein.

Dory Lobel

Before achieving success with his musical career in the United States, Lobel had planned to one day return to Israel to study psychology and philosophy at Tel Aviv University.

Ehud Gazit

He is Professor and the incumbent of the Chair for Nano-Biology at Tel Aviv University.

Elchanan Meir

He retired as a full professor from the Department of Psychological at the Tel Aviv University.

Eldad Tarmu

Eldad studied at Tel Aviv University in Israel, holds a masters degree in Afro-Latin music from California State University Los Angeles and a master of arts degree in Classical Composition from Stony Brook University, New York.

Elie Rekhess

Also from 1987 to the present, Rekhess has been on the faculty of the School for Overseas Students at Tel Aviv University.

His Ph.D., obtained in 1986 also at the Aranne School of History at Tel Aviv University, was titled "Between Communism and Arab Nationalism: Rakah and the Arab Minority in Israel (1965- 1973)."

He is also on the faculty of its Department of Middle Eastern History at Tel Aviv University.

From 1990 to 1996, Rekhess taught in the Journalism Studies Program at Tel Aviv University.

Six years later, Dr. Rekhess received his M.A. at The Aranne School of History at Tel Aviv University specializing in "Affinity to Islam within the Samaria (West Bank) Intelligentsia." cum laude.

From 1987 to the present, Rekhess has been a member of the Department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University.

He serves as Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies at Tel Aviv University and as the head of the Konrad Adenauer Program for Jewish-Arab Cooperation at Tel Aviv University.

Emanuel Levy

Emanuel Levy began his studies at Tel Aviv University, where he received B.A. in sociology, anthropology and political science.

Epulopiscium fishelsoni

Epulopiscium was first discovered in 1985 by the Israeli scientist Lev Fishelson from Tel Aviv University, inside the intestines of a brown surgeonfish.

Gadi Eizenkot

During that time he received a B.A. in history from Tel Aviv University and attended the US Army and Security Studies course.

Ilana Berger

Today she is chief Editor of the Internet Site of Tel Aviv University Sports Center.

Jeffrey Bub

Before taking up his position as professor at the University of Maryland in 1986, he worked at the University of Minnesota, Yale University, Tel Aviv University, and the University of Western Ontario.

Joel Mokyr

Mokyr holds a joint appointment in economics as well as a Sackler Professorial Fellow at the Eitan Berglas School of Economics at Tel Aviv University.

Karen Avraham

She is a full professor at Tel Aviv University, and the current Vice Dean of the Sackler Faculty of Medicine.

Leon Litinetski

Between 1995 and 1997 he studied at the ORT College in Kfar Saba, before studying political science at Tel Aviv University.

Mel Rosenberg

He received his Bachelor of Science from Hebrew University (1973) and went on to pursue both his Masters of Science (1975) and Ph.D. (1982) at Tel Aviv University.

Menachem Lorberbaum

Menachem Lorberbaum is an Israeli professor and the chair of the department of Jewish Philosophy, Talmud and Kabbala at Tel Aviv University and is co-director of the Center for Jewish Political Thought.

Miriam Akavia

She qualified as a registered nurse, and studied literature and history at Tel Aviv University.

Mount Sin Bishar

Mount Sin Bishar is a mountain located in west-central Sinai, it was proposed to be the biblical Mount Sinai by Menashe Har-El, a biblical geographer at Tel Aviv University, in his book The Sinai Journeys: The Route of the Exodus.

Nanosubmarine

The first recorded success of a nanosubmarine was performed by a team of students led by Dr. Dan Peer from Tel Aviv University in Israel.

Radwin

After receiving a degree in a degree in mathematics and physics from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a masters degree in electronic engineering from Tel Aviv University, he went to found RADWIN in 1997.

Reviel Netz

From 1983 to 1992, Netz studied at the Tel Aviv University obtaining a B.A. in Ancient History and an M.A. in History and the Philosophy of Science; from 1993 to 1995 studied Classics at Christ's Collge, Cambridge University where he obtained his doctorate in 1995.

Ruth Nussinov

Ruth Nussinov is a Professor in the Department of Human Genetics, School of Medicine at Tel Aviv University and is the Senior Principal Scientist and Principal Investigator at the National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health.

Shmuel Zakai

Zakai is a graduate of the IDF Staff College and has a degree in humanities from Tel Aviv University.

Silvia Blumenfeld

She migrated to Israel in 2002, where she became the curator of the Tel Aviv University fungi collection, specializing in medicinal mushrooms.

Tamar Fish Nachshon

Nachshon started a BA in history and literature at Tel Aviv University at the age of 42.

Yael Neeman

She studied for her masters degree in Hebrew Literature and Philosophy at Tel Aviv University.

Yoav Har-Even

He has a bachelor's degree in Economics and Political Science, and a Masters Degree in Business from the Tel Aviv University.

Yom-Tov Samia

In 1998 he won the Tel Aviv University's Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies's Tshetshik Prize for Israel's Security for his research on "The Organizational Climate of the IDF's Field Units."

Yoni Cohen-Idov

In recent years Cohen-Idov has filled the position of Head Coach for Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University debate teams, as well as for Israel’s the national schools debating team.

Yoram Dori

He earned a Master's degree in the Department of Work Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Yuval Neria

He was the recipient of Alon award, and served on the faculty of Tel Aviv University from 1995 to 2001.


Ágnes Keleti

Following her retirement from competition, Keleti worked as a physical education instructor at Tel Aviv University and the Wingate Institute for Sport in Netanya.

Aharon Shabtai

He studied Greek and philosophy in Jerusalem, at the Sorbonne and at Cambridge, and he teaches literature in Tel Aviv University.

Aladdin Knowledge Systems

Aladdin Knowledge Systems was founded in 1985 by Jacob (Yanki) Margalit, when he was 23 years old; he was soon joined by brother Dany Margalit, who took the responsibility for product development at the age of 18, while at the same time completing a Mathematics and Computer Science degree in Tel Aviv University.

Benny Gantz

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in History from Tel Aviv University, a Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Haifa, and an additional Master's Degree in National Resources Management from the National Defense University in the United States.

Hans-Bernd Schäfer

He has been visiting professor at various universities abroad, including the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University faculty of law, George Mason University School of Law (distinguished visiting professor from 2002-2009), and the Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research.

Institute for Zionist Strategies

The investigation revealed that all Israeli universities except Bar-Ilan University have a clear post-Zionist bias in their sociology departments and this is particularly acute at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and Tel Aviv University.

Itzhak Gilboa

After obtaining his BA in Mathematics and Economics from Tel Aviv University, he earned his Ph.D in 1987 under the supervision of David Schmeidler.

Jacob Ben-Arie

Between 1968 - 1976, Ben-Arie completed a degree in Biology at Tel Aviv University and studied for MA in Psychology and Biomechanics at New York University.

Marcus Goldstein

Following his retirement, Goldstein, and his wife, Lea, immigrated to Israel, where he joined Tel Aviv University and played an important role in developing research in the newly formed Department of Anatomy and Anthropology.

Melvyn Dubofsky

He was a senior lecturer at Tel Aviv University in 1977, a distinguished senior lecturer at the University of Salzburg in 1988, and was a Distinguished Professor holding the John Adams Professorship in U.S. History at the University of Amsterdam in 2000.

Suzanne Scotchmer

Scotchmer has held visiting and teaching positions at Harvard University, University of Auckland, Cergy-Pontoise University, Tel Aviv University, Pantheon-Sorbonne University, the University of Toronto Law School, University of Southern California, New School of Economics, Moscow, and the Stockholm School of Economics.

University of Economics, Prague

In 2010/2011, VŠE cooperated with 159 partner universities (including Sciences Po Paris, Universität zu Köln, Tilburg University, Stockholm School of Economics, University of St. Gallen, London School of Economics and Political Science, Tel Aviv University, University of Queensland, McGill University, Duke University and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).

Uzi Rabi

Uzi Rabi is the Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel Aviv University.

Yakir Aharonov

1973–2006: Joint professorship at the Tel Aviv University, Israel and the University of South Carolina, America

York University Faculty of Health

Internationally, the Faculty is collaborating with major institutions such as the Rajasthan University of Health Sciences in India, the Chongqing Public Health Bureau in China, and in the Middle East (e.g. Tel Aviv University, Al Quds University, Jordan University of Science and Technology).