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The higher education crisis

Damage to the academy. Credit: The Science website via DALEE

The past and present presidents of the academy appeal to the government to stop harming science in Israel.

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Recently, the National Library, the Council for Higher Education, the Israel Prizes, the Life Institute, and the Volcanic Institute, which is an institution of national importance and important for food security, suffered attempts at government intervention and damage to the budgets, in addition to all this, also contempt on the part of the Minister of Finance
Tomer Savchinsky - photo courtesy of the photographer

Merger between the organization of Israeli medical students abroad and the organization ScienceAbroad, which works to encourage the repatriation of Israeli scientists and researchers

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Chairman of AIMS Overseas, Tomer Savchinsky, for the position of head of the division of Israeli medical students abroad Next week there will be a meeting where the effects of the legislation will be presented
Prof. Elon Vadia at the Israeli chip club meeting, 23/6/14. Photo: Shmuel Oster

All brain researchers at the Hebrew University signed a letter: to excel in science, curiosity and freedom of thought are required and these are in danger from the dictatorship

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Forty male and female researchers, the entire staff of the Multidisciplinary Center for Hebrew Brain Research express fear of limitations that will be imposed on freedom of thought and the politicization of higher education, which will result in limitations on research that may upset the government and deteriorate the quality of research as in Hungary
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68% of the Israeli start-up companies took legal and financial measures to protect against the legal changes

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This is according to a survey published by the Start-up Nation Central association. Avi Hasson, CEO of Start-up Nation Central: "Companies and investors are taking active steps to move operations away from Israel and this behavior has increased significantly in the last three months. Worrying trends such as registering a company abroad or launching new start-ups outside of Israel will be difficult to reverse
Knesset at night. Illustration: depositphotos.com

The committee of heads of universities stopped the shutdown of studies

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In a statement published tonight, the heads of the universities stated that this was done "against the continuation of the legislative process that undermines the foundations of Israeli democracy and endangers its continued existence."
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73% of faculty members fear that they will be forced to leave the country if the coup goes ahead

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This is according to a new survey conducted by the Israeli Young Academy during the month of March. In the segmentation of the results by age, it can be seen that there is an increase in the chances of leaving at all ages, but it is more pronounced for younger faculty members
Professor Menachem Ben Sasson, former president of the Hebrew University. PR photo

About 1,600 researchers, scientists and academics sent a protest petition to the Minister of Education and the Prime Minister to cancel the damage to the National Library

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Among the signatories: Israel Prize laureates, scientists from the fields of exact sciences, medicine, humanities and social sciences and doctoral students * Earlier, members of the management of the National Academy of Sciences published a petition on the subject
Fear of brain drain. Illustration: depositphotos.com

A statement by the RA regarding the legal changes

"As those who are entrusted with the research and education of the future generations of the State of Israel, we warn you that the proposed reform of the legal system could result in fatal damage to the Israeli academy," said a statement issued by the presidents of all universities in Israel
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The number of recipients of a master's degree in a research track has remained relatively stable over the past decade - approximately 3,800 per year

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Scientist in the lab. Illustration: shutterstock

In recent years: more than 33,000 Israeli academics abroad

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Tel Aviv University. Photo: PIXABAY.COM

Iran, Turkey and Saudi Arabia overtake Israel in the number of scientific articles in engineering

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Discussion in the Science Committee of the Knesset on the state of higher education in Israel, 2/12/16. Photo: spokeswoman of the committee

Israel has slipped from first place to 30th place in the ranking of scientific publications * Danger of extinction for the study of nuclear physics

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The Technion's president, Prof. Peretz Lavi, from the Technion's video

The president of the Technion: We fell asleep in the ivory tower and did not perceive the rapid changes of the fourth industrial revolution

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Higher education in Israel. Illustration: shutterstock

Commentary: The cuts in higher education threaten the future of the State of Israel

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CBS: The brain drain continues steadily

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- From right to left: Froma Yamim, Prof. John Feinberg, Haifa Mayor Yona Yahav, Technion President Prof. Peretz Lavi and Prof. Mousa Yamim

"Only in 2020 will the Technion recover from the lost decade of the Israeli academy"

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Ofer Rimon, Head of Science and Technology Administration at the Ministry of Education. Photo: Mor Shikipi

Is the generation of engineers decreasing?

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Prof. Yossi Ra'anan, College of Management. Photo: Kobi Kantor

Is higher education in great danger and is it inevitable?

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Israeli universities fall in the index of the best universities in the world

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The surge in the number of Israeli academics staying abroad for long periods of time has been halted: 21,400 Israeli academics stayed abroad for more than 3 years in 2014

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Prof. Nurit Yermia, the chief scientist at the Ministry of Science. Photography: Yoav Dudkevich

The universities in Israel raised NIS 1.7 billion to finance research from external sources

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Ben Nelson, founder of Minerva, in a lecture at the World Economic Forum in Dubai.

Project Minerva: The future of academia?

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Prof. Dan Shechtman in his laboratory near the electron microscope. Photo: Technion

Prof. Dan Shechtman, Chairman of the Wolf Foundation: No party guarantees the restoration of scientific research in Israel and the prevention of brain drain

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A stamp issued in honor of the 25th anniversary of the Hebrew University from 1950 showing the National Library on Mount Scopus, photo: shutterstock

Israelis are deteriorating in the QS index: Hebrew is first, the Technion is second and among the XNUMX best in engineering; The Weizmann Institute is outside

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A building at Ben Gurion University. Photo: shutterstock

Only 20% of the 71 thousand fresh graduates in universities and colleges studied natural sciences, mathematics and engineering

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