Bar Ilan Faculty of Engineering (Wikipedia)
Bar Ilan University in Israel received a 1 billion Shekel ($260 million) donation earmarked for the sciences, energy, and other technologies from the estate of an anonymous late American. At the same time, the University of Haifa in Israel laid the cornerstone for its new Herta and Paul Amir School of Medicine.
All that is known about the donor to Bar Ilan is that he graduated from Columbia University in New York. This marks the second largest donation received by the school in its history.
“We have a significant undertaking ahead of us. Today, more than ever, Israel needs science-based technological resilience, the essential element of all future innovations. This is key to a thriving society and economy. Bar-Ilan is thrilled that this gift will allow us to make a meaningful investment in strengthening Israel’s technological resilience,” said Bar-Ilan president Profesor Arie Zaban.
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Founded in 1955, Bar-Ilan University is one of Israel’s leading institutions of higher education, uniquely combining cutting-edge scientific research with education steeped in Jewish values and social responsibility. From 70 students to 20,000, its milestone achievements in the sciences and humanities and all fields of human endeavor have made an indelible imprint on the landscape of the State of Israel.
As for the new med school in Haifa, the university said, “The establishment of the school comes against a background of a severe shortage of doctors in Israel, and as compared to the center of the country, the shortage of doctors in the north is much greater… One of the main goals of the University of Haifa School of Medicine is to strengthen medicine in the north, not only through studies and clinical training of students at Carmel Hospital, but also through scholarships and other activities that will keep graduates as doctors, in the north,”
