Tel Aviv University ( Universitat Tel Aviv) is a public university

University

A university is an institution of higher education and research, which grants academic degrees in a variety of subjects. A university is an organisation that provides both undergraduate education and postgraduate education...

 located in Ramat Aviv

Ramat Aviv

Ramat Aviv is the name of several neighborhoods in the Northwest District of Tel Aviv, Israel:* Ramat Aviv Aleph * Ramat Aviv Bet * Ramat Aviv Gimmel...

, Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv

Tel Aviv , officially Tel Aviv-Yafo , is the second most populous city in Israel, with a population of 404,400 on a land area of . The city is located on the Israeli Mediterranean coastline in west-central Israel. It is the largest and most populous city in the metropolitan area of Gush Dan, with...

, Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

. With nearly 30,000 students, TAU is Israel's largest university.

History

Located in Israel's cultural, financial and industrial core, Tel Aviv University is a major center of teaching and research, comprising 9 faculties, 27 schools, 98 departments and 128 research institutes and centers. Its origins go back to 1956, when three research institutes – the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, the Institute of Natural Sciences, and the Institute of Jewish Studies – joined together to form the University of Tel Aviv. Initially operated by the Tel Aviv municipality, the university was granted autonomy in 1963. The Ramat Aviv campus, covering an area of 170 acre (0.6879662 km²), was established that same year.

The university also maintains academic supervision over the Center for Technological Design in Holon, the New Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo, and the Afeka College of Engineering

Afeka College of Engineering

Afeka College of Engineering is a college in Tel Aviv, Israel, educating approximately 2,000 students. It was opened in 1996 as one of the first non-university engineering colleges in Israel....

 in Tel Aviv. The Wise Observatory

Wise Observatory

The Florence and George Wise Observatory is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Tel-Aviv University. It is located 5 km west of the city of Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev desert near the edge of the Ramon Crater, and it is the only professional astronomical observatory in...

 is located in Mitzpe Ramon

Mitzpe Ramon

Mitzpe Ramon is a town in the Negev desert of southern Israel. It is situated on the northern ridge at an elevation of 860 meters overlooking a sizable erosion cirque known as the Ramon Crater.-History:...

.

Rankings

In 2011 QS World University Rankings

QS World University Rankings

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 ranked Tel Aviv University 173rd in the world, making it the second-highest ranked university in Israel. Its subject rankings were: 211th in Arts & Humanities, 188th in Engineering & IT, 216th in Life Sciences & Biomedicine, 156th in Natural Sciences, and 154st in Social Sciences.

Ramat Aviv campus

TAU received its autonomy from the Tel Aviv municipality

Municipality

A municipality is essentially an urban administrative division having corporate status and usually powers of self-government. It can also be used to mean the governing body of a municipality. A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision, as opposed to a special-purpose district...

 in 1963, when its campus

Campus

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, in the northern Tel Aviv neighborhood of Ramat Aviv

Ramat Aviv

Ramat Aviv is the name of several neighborhoods in the Northwest District of Tel Aviv, Israel:* Ramat Aviv Aleph * Ramat Aviv Bet * Ramat Aviv Gimmel...

 was established. Buildings on the Ramat Aviv campus include:

• Katz Faculty of the Art
  Art
  Art is the product or process of deliberately arranging items in a way that influences and affects one or more of the senses, emotions, and intellect....
  
  s, including the Department of Film and Television, the oldest film and television higher learning institute in Israel, established in 1971
• David Azrieli
  David Azrieli
  David Joshua Azrieli, is a Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of $US 3.1 billion , Azrieli was ranked by Forbes as the 8th wealthiest Canadian and 362nd in the world....
  
   School of Architecture
  Architecture
  Architecture is both the process and product of planning, designing and construction. Architectural works, in the material form of buildings, are often perceived as cultural and political symbols and as works of art...
  
  
• Buchmann-Mehta
  Zubin Mehta
  Zubin Mehta is an Indian conductor of western classical music. He is the Music Director for Life of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra.-Biography:...
  
   School of Music
• Fleischman Faculty of Engineering
  Engineering
  Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes that safely realize improvements to the lives of...
  
  
• Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences
• Entin Faculty of Humanities
• Buchmann Faculty of Law
  Law
  Law is a system of rules and guidelines which are enforced through social institutions to govern behavior, wherever possible. It shapes politics, economics and society in numerous ways and serves as a social mediator of relations between people. Contract law regulates everything from buying a bus...
  
  
• Wise Faculty of Life Sciences
• Sackler Faculty of Medicine
  Medicine
  Medicine is the science and art of healing. It encompasses a variety of health care practices evolved to maintain and restore health by the prevention and treatment of illness....
  
  
• Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences
• Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine
• Constantiner School of Education
  Education
  Education in its broadest, general sense is the means through which the aims and habits of a group of people lives on from one generation to the next. Generally, it occurs through any experience that has a formative effect on the way one thinks, feels, or acts...
  
  
• Porter School of Environmental Studies
• Shapell School of Social Work
• School for Overseas Students
• Unit of Culture Research
• Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
  Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research
  Tami Steinmetz Center For Peace Research is an academic research institution of Tel Aviv University which surveys public opinion regarding the peace process, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the Arab-Israeli conflict....
  
  
• Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas
• Joseph Kelman School of Education
• Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration – Business Administration school granting undergraduate degrees (Management and Accounting) and graduate degrees. The school has numerous programs for graduate degrees integrated with other business schools worldwide, such as the Executive MBA program with the Kellogg School of Management
  Kellogg School of Management
  The Kellogg School of Management is the business school of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, downtown Chicago, Illinois and Miami, Florida. Kellogg offers full-time, part-time, and executive programs, as well as partnering programs with schools in China, India, Hong Kong, Israel,...
  
   of Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
  . Since 2003, Recanati School has been accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
  Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business
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   (AACSB).

Relations with other universities

Tel Aviv University offers special programs of Jewish studies to teachers and students from the United States, France, Brazil

Brazil

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, Argentina

Argentina

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 and Mexico. The programs are in English.

The Tel Aviv University Law Faculty currently has exchange programs from fourteen overseas universities. Namely: Michigan, Northwestern, Penn, Virginia, Cornell, Boston University, Temple, Cardozo, Toronto, Bucerius (Hamburg), Monash (Melbourne), Milan, Seoul National University and the Norwegian School of Economics, NHH (Bergen).

School for Overseas Students

The School for Overseas Students affords thousands of students from across the globe the opportunity to study at Tel Aviv University and live in Israel's most dynamic and internationalist city. The program is in English and also offers the opportunity to live and study in a kibbutz

Kibbutz

A kibbutz is a collective community in Israel that was traditionally based on agriculture. Today, farming has been partly supplanted by other economic branches, including industrial plants and high-tech enterprises. Kibbutzim began as utopian communities, a combination of socialism and Zionism...

.
The university offers about 20 courses a year in English, recruiting many top lecturers from overseas to teach.

Programs include Semester or Year Abroad, Degree Programs, and Specialized Programs.

Undergraduate programs include:

• B.Sc. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering

via The International Engineering School

The International Engineering School

The International Engineering School is an undergraduate school within the Engineering faculty at Tel Aviv University. The TAU International Engineering School, or the International School of Engineering, currently offers a Bachelor of Science in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, an 8-semester...

Graduate programs include:

• Middle Eastern History
• TESOL – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
• Conflict Resolution and Mediation
• M.A. in Social Work with specialization in Crisis and Trauma Studies
• M.A. in Security and Diplomacy
• M.A. in Jewish Studies
• M.P.H. in Emergency and Disaster Management
• M.A. in Environmental Studies
• Sofaer International MBA
• Kellogg Recanati MBA

In May 2007, New York University

New York University

New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...

 and Tel Aviv University approved a plan to establish an NYU Study Abroad Campus in Israel based at Tel Aviv University.

Faculty

Notable faculty members (past and present) include:

• Yakir Aharonov
  Yakir Aharonov
  Yakir Aharonov is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He is a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman University in California. He is also a distinguished professor in Perimeter Institute.He also serves as a professor...
  
  , physicist
• Noga Alon
  Noga Alon
  Noga Alon is an Israeli mathematician noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of papers.- Academic background :...
  
  , mathematician
• Yitzhak Arad
  Yitzhak Arad
  Yitzhak Arad , is an Israeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993...
  
  , historian
• Shlomo Ben-Ami
  Shlomo Ben-Ami
  Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli diplomat, politician and historian.-Biography:Ben-Ami was born in Tangiers, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel in 1955....
  
  , historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs
• Joseph Bernstein
  Joseph Bernstein
  Joseph Bernstein is an Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv University. He works in algebraic geometry, representation theory, and number theory....
  
  , mathematician
• Silvia Blumenfeld
  Silvia Blumenfeld
  Silvia N. Blumenfeld is world leading expert on mycology. From 1986 until 2004, she was Professor ofMycology and Biotechnology of Filamentous Fungi at the National University of Comahue, in Rio Negro, Argentine. She migrated to Israel in 2002, where she became the curator of the Tel Aviv University...
  
  , curator of the fungi collection
• Guy Deutscher
  Guy Deutscher (physicist)
  Guy Deutscher is a professor of physics at Tel-Aviv University, Israel.-Bibliography:*New Superconductors: From Granular to High Tc, World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd , ISBN 9810230893....
  
  , physicist
• Yoram Dinstein
  Yoram Dinstein
  Yoram Dinstein is an international law Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and is a specialist on international law, and an authority on the laws of war.-Career:...
  
  , international law Professor Emeritus and former president of Tel Aviv University
• Uzi Even
  Uzi Even
  Professor Uzi Even is an Israeli professor of chemistry in Tel Aviv University and a former politician.-Biography:Born in Haifa to eastern European Jewish immigrants, Even studied for a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Physics at the Technion, and a Ph.D at Tel Aviv University...
  
  , chemist and political activist for LGBT
  LGBT
  LGBT is an initialism that collectively refers to "lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender" people. In use since the 1990s, the term "LGBT" is an adaptation of the initialism "LGB", which itself started replacing the phrase "gay community" beginning in the mid-to-late 1980s, which many within the...
  
   rights
• Israel Finkelstein
  Israel Finkelstein
  Israel Finkelstein is an Israeli archaeologist and academic. He is currently the Jacob M. Alkow Professor of the Archaeology of Israel in the Bronze Age and Iron Ages at Tel Aviv University and is also the co-director of excavations at Megiddo in northern Israel...
  
  , archaeologist
• Benjamin Isaac
  Benjamin Isaac
  Benjamin Isaac is the Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History in the Tel Aviv University. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, dating to 1743.-Biography:Isaac was born...
  
  , historian
• Joshua Jortner
  Joshua Jortner
  Joshua Jortner is an Israeli physical chemist. He is a Professor Emeritus at School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel.- Birth and education :...
  
  , physical chemist
• Shoshana Kamin
  Shoshana Kamin
  Shoshana Kamin , also referred as S.L. Kamenomostskaya , is a Soviet Union-born Israeli mathematician, working on the theory of parabolic partial differential equations and related mathematical physics problems: she gave, at the same time and independently of Olga Oleinik, the first proof of the...
  
  , mathematician
• Asa Kasher
  Asa Kasher
  Asa Kasher is an Israeli philosopher and linguist working at Tel Aviv University, Israel.-Biography:He is noted for authorship of Israel Defense Forces's Code of Conduct...
  
  , philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct
• David S. Katz
  David S. Katz
  David S. Katz FRHistS is professor of early modern European history at Tel Aviv University in Israel, where he has taught since 1978. He holds the Abraham Horodisch Chair for the History of Books and is director of the Lessing Institute for European History and Civilization. Katz received his...
  
  , historian
• Fred Landman
  Fred Landman
  Fred Landman is a professor of semantics at Tel Aviv University and the author of a number of books about linguistics. Prof. Landman is known for his influential work on progressives, polarity phenomena, groups, and other topics in semantics and pragmatics....
  
  , semanticist
• Zvi Laron
  Zvi Laron
  Zvi Laron is an Israeli paediatric endocrinologist, born in Cernăuţi, Romania, a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University.In 1966, he described the type of dwarfism later called Laron syndrome...
  
  , paediatric endocrinologist
• Orna Lin
  Orna Lin
  Orna Lin is the owner of the private firm Orna Lin & Co. and one of the leading labor lawyers in Israel. She is a graduate of the Hebrew University and has been a member of the Israeli Bar since 1981. She is currently the chairperson of the Israel Bar Association Council, and is the first woman...
  
  , lawyer
• Vitali Milman
  Vitali Milman
  Vitali Davidovich Milman is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is currently a professor at the Tel-Aviv University. In the past he was a President of the Israel Mathematical Union and a member of the “Aliyah” committee of Tel-Aviv University.-Work:Milman received in Ph.D...
  
  , mathematician
• Moshé Mizrahi
  Moshé Mizrahi
  Moshé Mizrahi is an Israeli film director.He has directed 14 films in both Israel and France. Three of his films were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, I Love You Rosa, The House on Chelouche Street and Madame Rosa, with the latter winning the award...
  
  , Oscar winning film director
• Baruch Modan
  Baruch Modan
  Dr. Baruch Modan was an Israeli medical scientist. Dr. Modan made significant findings in the field of oncology and was an expert on the effects of radiation....
  
  , oncologist
• Yuval Ne'eman
  Yuval Ne'eman
  Yuval Ne'eman , was a renowned Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was a minister in the Israeli government in the 1980s and early 1990s.-Biography:...
  
   (1925–2006), physicist, former minister of Science and Technology
• Itamar Rabinovich
  Itamar Rabinovich
  - External links :* - an official page on the Israeli Embassy website.* , from Jewish Library.* at the Kennedy School of Government.* , NYU biography.* , Haaretz , November 2, 2007.* , another mini-bio....
  
  , former Israeli ambassador to the United States and former president of Tel Aviv University
• Aviad Raz
  Aviad Raz
  Aviad E. Raz is an Israeli sociologist and an associate professor at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, specializing in social organization.-Publications:...
  
  , sociologist
• Tanya Reinhart
  Tanya Reinhart
  Tanya Reinhart was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She contributed columns to the Israeli newspaper Yediot Aharonot and longer articles to the CounterPunch, Znet, and Israeli Indymedia websites....
  
   (1943–2007), linguist
• Amnon Rubinstein
  Amnon Rubinstein
  Amnon Rubinstein is an Israeli law scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions. He is currently dean of the Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya and a patron of Liberal International.-Early life:Rubinstein was born...
  
  , former Dean of Law, also former Education minister
• Ariel Rubinstein
  Ariel Rubinstein
  Ariel Rubinstein is an Israeli economist who works in game theory. He was educated at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1972–1979, in both mathematics and economics...
  
  , economist
• Pnina Salzman
  Pnina Salzman
  Pnina Salzman was an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue....
  
  , pianist and piano pedagogue
• Shlomo Sand
  Shlomo Sand
  Shlomo Sand is professor of history at Tel Aviv University and author of the controversial book The Invention of the Jewish People . His main areas of interest are nationalism, film as history, and French intellectual history.- Biography :Sand was born in Linz, Austria, to Polish Jewish survivors...
  
  , historian
• Anita Shapira
  Anita Shapira
  Anita Shapira is an Israeli historian. She is the founder of the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies, a Ruben Merenfeld Professor of the Study of Zionism and head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University...
  
  , historian
• Micha Sharir
  Micha Sharir
  Micha Sharir is a professor of computer science at Tel Aviv University, known for his work in computational geometry.After completing his undergraduate studies at Tel Aviv University in 1970, Sharir received a Ph.D. in mathematics from Tel Aviv in 1976 under the supervision of Aldo Lazar...
  
  , mathematician
• Edna Shavit
  Edna Shavit
  Edna Shavit is professor in the Drama department in the University of Tel Aviv, and Ha'Levi theatre prize winner for the year 2006, for her life's work in the theatre and university....
  
  , drama
• Joshua Sobol, playwright, writer, and director
• Carlo Strenger
  Carlo Strenger
  Carlo Strenger is a Swiss-Israeli psychologist, philosopher, existential psychoanalyst and public intellectual. He is Chair of the Clinical Graduate Program at the Department of Psychology of Tel Aviv University. His research centers on the impact of globalization on meaning, personal and group...
  
   psychologist, philosopher
• Boris Tsirelson
  Boris Tsirelson
  Boris Semyonovich Tsirelson is a Soviet-Israeli mathematician and Professor of Mathematics in the Tel Aviv University in Israel.-Biography:Boris Tsirelson was born in Leningrad to a Russian Jewish family...
  
  , mathematician
• Jacob Turkel
  Jacob Turkel
  Jacob Turkel is an Israeli judge, and former Supreme Court of Israel Justice.His family immigrated to Israel in 1933 from Vienna, Austria. Turkel served as a judge for 38 years, a decade of that time on the Israeli Supreme Court...
  
  , Israeli Supreme Court Justice
• Lev Vaidman
  Lev Vaidman
  Lev Vaidman is an Israeli physicist working at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is noted for the Elitzur–Vaidman bomb-testing problem in quantum mechanics.- External links :* * *...
  
  , physicist
• Moshe Wolman
  Moshe Wolman
  Moshe Wolman was an Israeli neuropathologist, born in Warsaw, then part of the Russian Empire. He is considered one of the fathers of histochemistry. His contributions to histochemistry are extensive and he is a member of the small group of distinguished histochemistry pioneers in the world. In...
  
  , neuropathologist
• Amotz Zahavi
  Amotz Zahavi
  Amotz Zahavi is an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor Emeritus at the Zoology Department of Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel...
  
  , biologist

Notable alumni

• Dan Ariely
  Dan Ariely
  Dan Ariely is an Israeli American professor of psychology and behavioral economics. He teaches at Duke University and is the founder of The Center for Advanced Hindsight.-Biography:...
  
  
• Fouad Awad
  Fouad Awad
  Fouad Awad is an award-winning avant-garde Israeli-Palestinian theatre director, and a prominent figure in the Palestinian theatrical movement. He's considered a leading figure in the Palestinian theatrical movement in Israel....
  
  , theatre director
• Alon Bar
  Alon Bar
  Alon Bar is an Israeli/American filmmaker.He wrote the award winning feature film "Aaron Cohen's Debt,"...
  
  , award-winning filmmaker
• Mohammad Barakeh
  Mohammad Barakeh
  Mohammad Barakeh is an Israeli Arab politician and member of the Knesset for Hadash, of which he is the General Secretary.-Biography:Born in Shefa-'Amr, Barakeh studied mathematics at Tel Aviv University. He first became politically involved whilst at university in the late 1970s and early 1980s...
  
  , member of parliament and party leader
• Shlomo Ben-Ami
  Shlomo Ben-Ami
  Prof. Shlomo Ben-Ami is a former Israeli diplomat, politician and historian.-Biography:Ben-Ami was born in Tangiers, Morocco, and immigrated to Israel in 1955....
  
  , historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Labor)
• Yochai Benkler
  Yochai Benkler
  Yochai Benkler is an Israeli-American professor of Law and author. Since 2007, he has been the Berkman Professor of Entrepreneurial Legal Studies at Harvard Law School. He is also a faculty co-director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.- Biography :In 1984, Benkler...
  
  , law professor at Yale
• Ran Cohen
  Ran Cohen
  Ran Cohen is an Israeli politician and former Knesset member for Meretz-Yachad. He is a resident of Mevaseret Zion and married with four children....
  
  , former minister of Housing
• Arie Eldad
  Arie Eldad
  Prof. Aryeh Eldad, M.D. is an Israeli physician and politician, and a member of the Knesset for the National Union, within which he heads the Hatikva faction.-Biography:...
  
  , far-rightist member of Knesset
• Israel Eliashiv
  Israel Eliashiv
  Dr Israel Eliashiv is an Israeli diplomat who served as the country's ambassador to Singapore between 1987 and 1990.-Biography:Born during the Mandate era, Eliashiv attended the School of Law and Economics at Tel Aviv University before studying law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem...
  
  , former Israeli Ambassador to Singapore
• Yael S. Feldman
  Yael S. Feldman
  Yael S. Feldman is an Israeli-born American scholar and academic particularly known for her work in comparative literature and feminist Hebrew literary criticism. She is the Abraham I...
  
   (B.A. 1967), Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education and Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at New York University
  New York University
  New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
  
  
• Ari Folman
  Ari Folman
  Ari Folman is an Israeli film director, screenwriter and film score composer.-Biography:Ari Folman was born in Haifa to Holocaust survivors. His wife is also a film director...
  
  , Cinematographer (Director of Waltz with Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir
  Waltz with Bashir is a 2008 Israeli animated documentary film written and directed by Ari Folman. It depicts Folman in search of his lost memories from the 1982 Lebanon War....
  
  )
• Tal Friedman
  Tal Friedman
  -Biography:Friedman was born in Kiryat Ata, Israel, in 1963. His father was a holocaust survivor.He served in the Israeli Sea Corps on a missile boat during the 1982 Lebanon War. He studied acting at Tel Aviv University, where he met Moshe Furster, with whom he put on his first act, Alilot Moshe...
  
   (born 1963), comedian, actor and musician
• Amir Gal-Or
  Amir Gal-Or
  Amir Gal-Or is an Israeli businessman. He is head of the Infinity Group and Infinity I-China. Gal-Or served as a pilot in the Israeli Air Force.-Biography:...
  
  , founder of the Infinity Group
• Benjamin Gantz
  Benjamin Gantz
  Rav Aluf Binyamin "Benny" Gantz is the current Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces.-Personal History and Military Service:Born in Kfar Ahim, Israel in 1959, Gantz was drafted into the IDF in 1977. He volunteered as a paratrooper in the Paratroopers Brigade, and in 1979 became an...
  
  , Commander of the GOC Army Headquarters
  GOC Army Headquarters
  The Israeli GOC Army headquarters , known unofficially as Mazi, is a multi-corps command headquarters created in 1998, which amalgamates the ground forces of the Israel Defense Forces...
  
  
• Dan Gillerman
  Dan Gillerman
  Dan Gillerman was Israel's 13th Permanent Representative to the United Nations. He was appointed in July 2002 and assumed his post on January 1, 2003, serving through 2008.- Education :...
  
  , former Israeli Ambassador to the UN, and Vice-President of the 60th UN General Assembly
• Tzachi Hanegbi
  Tzachi Hanegbi
  Tzachi Hanegbi is a prominent Israeli lawmaker and security expert. Hanegbi was the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee at the Knesset. Among the top cabinet positions he previously held are Minister of Justice, Minister of Internal Security and Minister of Intelligence and...
  
  , former minister of Internal Security (Likud and Kadima)
• Zvi Heifetz
  Zvi Heifetz
  Zvi Heifetz is formerly Israel's ambassador to the United Kingdom. He served from 2004-2007.Born in Russia, Heifetz moved to Israel at the age of 14. He spent 7 years with Israel Intelligence and completed as a Major in the Israeli Army...
  
  , former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• Ron Huldai
  Ron Huldai
  Ron Huldai is an Israeli politician, academic administrator, former fighter pilot and current mayor of Tel Aviv. He was born in 1944 in Hulda to Polish parents from Łódź. He is a history graduate of Tel Aviv University, Auburn University Montgomery , the U.S...
  
  , current mayor of Tel Aviv
• Benjamin Isaac
  Benjamin Isaac
  Benjamin Isaac is the Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History in the Tel Aviv University. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States, dating to 1743.-Biography:Isaac was born...
  
  , historian
• Elie Rekhess
  Elie Rekhess
  Elie Rekhess born 1945 in Haifa, Israel is a scholar of political history of the Arabs in Israel; Islamic resurgence in Israel; the West Bank and Gaza and Palestinian affairs...
  
  , historian of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
  Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  The Israeli–Palestinian conflict is the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. The conflict is wide-ranging, and the term is also used in reference to the earlier phases of the same conflict, between Jewish and Zionist yishuv and the Arab population living in Palestine under Ottoman or...
  
   and faculty of Northwestern University
  Northwestern University
  Northwestern University is a private research university in Evanston and Chicago, Illinois, USA. Northwestern has eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools offering 124 undergraduate degrees and 145 graduate and professional degrees....
  
  
• Moshe Kam
  Moshe Kam
  Moshe Kam is an Israeli American engineering educator serving at present as the Robert G. Quinn Professor and Department Head of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Drexel University. In 2011 he serves concurrently as the 49th President and CEO of IEEE...
  
  , 49th President of IEEE
• Moshe Kaplinsky
  Moshe Kaplinsky
  Maj. Gen. Moshe Kaplinsky , is the CEO of Better Place Israel. Most recently, he was Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. He was previously head of the Israel Defense Force's Central Command, whose area of responsibility includes the West Bank...
  
  , Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff
• Efraim Karsh
  Efraim Karsh
  Efraim Karsh is professor and head of Middle East and Mediterranean Studies at King's College London, and director of the Philadelphia-based think tank, the Middle East Forum...
  
  , historian
• Rita Katz
  Rita Katz
  Rita Katz is a terrorism analyst and the co-founder of the Search for International Terrorist Entities Institute , a private intelligence firm based in Washington, DC....
  
  , terrorism analyst
• Dov Khenin
  Dov Khenin
  Dov Khenin is an Israeli political-scientist, lawyer, and member of the Knesset for the leftist Hadash party. He is a member of the central committee of Maki , an activist for socio-economic equality and an environmentalist...
  
  , political scientist and member of Knesset
• Yosef Lapid
  Yosef Lapid
  Yosef "Tommy" Lapid -Biography:Lapid was born in Novi Sad, Yugoslavia to a family of Hungarian Jewish descent. His family was seized by the Nazis and deported to the Budapest ghetto. His father was deported to a concentration camp, where he was murdered. Lapid and his mother survived the war and...
  
  , former vice premier, Justice minister and founder of the secularist Shinui party
• Keren Leibovitch
  Keren Leibovitch
  Keren Or Leibovitch is an Israeli champion Paralympic swimmer.Leibovitch is a three-time world champion, a five-time European champion, a holder of three world records , and an eight-time Paralympic medal winner...
  
  , champion Paralympic swimmer
• Hanoch Levin
  Hanoch Levin
  Hanoch Levin , was a prominent Israeli dramatist. He was also a theater director, an author and a poet, but he is best known for his plays.- Early life :...
  
   (1943–99), dramatist, theater director, author and poet
• Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
  Amnon Lipkin-Shahak
  Amnon Lipkin-Shahak is a former Chief of Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Member of the Knesset andMinister of Transportation and Tourism.-Military service:Lipkin-Shahak started his military service as a teenager in the military boarding-school in Haifa...
  
  , former Chief of Staff and minister of Tourism and Transportation
• Moni Moshonov
  Moni Moshonov
  -Biography:Shlomo Moshonov was born in Sofia, Bulgaria in 1951. He immigrated to Israel with his family at the age of four.His father, Moshe, who studied law in Sofia, sold textiles in the Ramla market. Moshonov grew up in Ramla. He did his military service in an IDF entertainment troupe...
  
  , (born 1951), actor and comedian
• Yitzhak Mordechai
  Yitzhak Mordechai
  Yitzhak Mordechai is an Israeli former general and politician. He served as a member of the Knesset between 1996 and 2001, and as Minister of Defense and Minister of Transport. He retired from political life after being indicted for sexual assaults during his military service and later...
  
  , former Minister of Defense and Transportation
• Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach
  Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach
  -Biography:Yitshak Orpaz was born in the Soviet Union. He immigrated to Mandate Palestine at the age of 17. He served in the British Army during the Second World War and in the Israel Defense Forces during the Israeli War of Independence. After the war he served in the regular army...
  
  , author
• Ophir Pines-Paz
  Ophir Pines-Paz
  Ophir Pines-Paz is an Israeli former politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Science, Culture & Sport and as a member of the Knesset for the Labor Party from 1996 until 2010.-Biography:...
  
  , former Interior Minister (Labor)
• Haim Ramon
  Haim Ramon
  Haim Ramon is an Israeli politician who served as a member of the Knesset between 1983 and 2009, and as both Vice Prime Minister and Minister in the Prime Minister's Office with responsibility for state policy.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister of Health and Justice (Labor and Kadima)
• Ilan Ramon
  Ilan Ramon
  Ilan Ramon was a fighter pilot in the Israeli Air Force, and later the first Israeli astronaut....
  
   (1954–2003), first Israeli astronaut
• Daniel Reisner
  Daniel Reisner
  Colonel Adv. Daniel Reisner is the former Head of the International Law Branch of the Israel Defense Forces Legal Division, and a partner with Herzog, Fox & Neeman.-IDF Military Advocate General's Corps:...
  
  , former Head of the International Law Branch of the IDF Legal Division
• Gideon Sa'ar
  Gideon Sa'ar
  Gideon Sa'ar is an Israeli politician who currently serves as a member of the Knesset for Likud, and as the country's Minister of Education.-Biography:...
  
  , member of Knesset
• Adi Shamir
  Adi Shamir
  Adi Shamir is an Israeli cryptographer. He is a co-inventor of the RSA algorithm , a co-inventor of the Feige–Fiat–Shamir identification scheme , one of the inventors of differential cryptanalysis and has made numerous contributions to the fields of cryptography and computer...
  
  , inventor of the RSA algorithm
• Simon Shaheen
  Simon Shaheen
  Simon Shaheen is a Palestinian-American oud and violin virtuoso and composer....
  
  , musician
• Silvan Shalom
  Silvan Shalom
  ' , born 4 October 1958) is an Israeli politician, member of the Knesset for Likud and the country's Vice Prime Minister and Minister for Regional Development. He previously served as the country's Foreign Minister and Finance Minister.-Biography:...
  
  , former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs (Likud)
• Ariel Sharon
  Ariel Sharon
  Ariel Sharon is an Israeli statesman and retired general, who served as Israel’s 11th Prime Minister. He has been in a permanent vegetative state since suffering a stroke on 4 January 2006....
  
   (born 1928), former Prime Minister of Israel (Likud and Kadima)
• Natan Yonatan
  Natan Yonatan
  Natan Yonatan was an Israeli poet.His poems have been translated from Hebrew and published in more than a dozen languages, among them: Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Vietnamese, and Yiddish....
  
   (1923–2004), poet
• Bat-Sheva Zeisler
  Bat-Sheva Zeisler
  Bat-Sheva Zeisler is an Israeli vocalist, actress, and voice teacher. She sings in the soprano range.Zeisler graduated from the Tel Aviv University, where she studied drama and literature...
  
  , singer and actress
• Abdel Rahman Zuabi
  Abdel Rahman Zuabi
  Abdel Rahman Zuabi also Romanized as Abd-er-Rahman Zoabi) is a retired Israeli judge, who served as a deputy chief of the district court in Nazareth between 1996 and 2002...
  
  , Arab Israeli judge
• Ghil'ad Zuckermann
  Ghil'ad Zuckermann
  Ghil'ad Zuckermann is an Israeli-Italian-British-Australian linguist, expert of language revival, contact linguistics, lexicology and the study of language, culture and identity...
  
  , linguist
• Yuval Tal
  Yuval Tal
  Yuval Tal is the founder and president of Payoneer, the global Internet-based payment solution.-Early life and personal:Tal was born in 1965 in Israel. He served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a special operations commander of an elite combat unit. During his military service, Tal was decorated...
  
  , founder of Payoneer

External links

• Tel Aviv University Website – Introduction, and History.
• American Friends of Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv University donor group
• The Devil Is Not So Black as He Is Painted: BAR Interviews Israel Finkelstein Biblical Archaeology Review
• Leon Recanati Graduate School of Business Administration at the TAU website
• TAU in the News – an unofficial, alternative website for news about Tel Aviv University and Israeli academia in general