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As part of the Hebrew University's research on conflicts, they held an academic course focusing on the dialogue between Jews and Arabs in Israel. The course was intended for both Israeli and Arab university students. However, not a single Arab student was interested in the course, and none signed up for it. Last year, the course opened with 22 Israeli students and not a single Arab. Dr. Maya Kahanov was forced to personally search out and invite Arab students, finally ending up with a class total of 22 Israeli students and 11 Arab students. "Once there was a will to...

Nurit Peled-Elchanan, a senior professor of language and education at Hebrew University, and a founder of the far-left Bereaved Families for Peace, has in recent weeks caused a stir overseas with a book she has written describing how Israel's education system “educates for apartheid.” Her book Palestine in Israeli School Books: Ideology and Propaganda in Education, is being translated into English, and presents findings from what she says are “years of research” showing Israel has portrayed Arabs as second-class people. Peled-Elchanan says that she researched schoolbooks used in the Israeli school system between 1996 and 2009, and found, she said...

Hebrew U Researcher Finds Hashish Derivatives Effective In Halting Cancer In Lab Tests Derivatives of the cannabis plant (hashish) have been shown by a Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ph.D. student to be effective in arresting cancerous growths in laboratory and animal tests. For her work, Natalya Kogan was one of the winners of a Kaye Innovation Award, presented today during the 68th meeting of the Hebrew University Board of governors. Kogan is supervised by Prof. Raphael Mechoulam at the Hebrew University School of Pharmacy. Mechoulam is best known for his work in the field of the constituents of cannabis and...

The attack on the Frank Sinatra International Student Center of Hebrew University at Jerusalem was an attack on America. The center is named after a quintessential American singer. American students studying abroad were sure to be found there eating lunch in the crowded cafeteria. The first president of Hebrew University itself was, from 1935 to 1948, a leader of the New York Jewish community named Judah Magnes, who was born in San Francisco and who had previously served as a rabbi in Brooklyn and at Temple Emanu-El and Congregation B'nai Jeshurun in Manhattan. Countless American pilgrims and tourists begin their...

August 6, 2002 9:00 a.m. Hebrew U Survivor An interview with Eliad Moreh. The whole world saw the heartbreaking photograph of Eliad Moreh as she staggered out of the cafeteria at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. At that moment she knew she was wounded but kept telling herself she would overcome the injury and survive. She was unaware of the projectiles that had lodged in the back of her neck and other wounds in the rest of her body, as she was unaware that her friend, a young Israeli diplomat who had come to tell her goodbye before leaving on...