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26 unusual facts about Hebrew University of Jerusalem


Arieh Iserles

He studied at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev and wrote his PhD dissertation on numerical methods for stiff ordinary differential equations.

Avishai Dekel

Avishai Dekel (born 1951) is a professor of physics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel, holding the Andre Aisenstadt Chair of Theoretical Physics.

Bentorite

It was named for Yaakov Ben-Tor (1910–2002), Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of California, San Diego, California, USA, for his contributions to geology and mineralogy in Israel.

CryptGenRandom

A cryptanalysis of CryptGenRandom, published in November 2007 by Leo Dorrendorf and others from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa, found significant weaknesses in the Windows 2000 implementation of the algorithm.

Dan Gottfried

In 1962, he earned an undergraduate degree in economics at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and went on to study law.

Edward Lord

His career immediately after graduation mainly centred around public relations and fundraising, working in various roles for the National Playing Fields Association, Otto Schiff Housing Association and British Friends of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Eytan Fox

His father, Seymour Fox, was a Conservative rabbi and a leading professor of Jewish education at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Frances Egan

Egan has received a number of awards including research fellowships at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research, Bielefeld, Germany.

Girsh Blumberg

Blumberg was a recipient of Golda Meir fellowship at Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1992.

Gustave Kahn

After his death, his manuscripts were placed in the collection of the library of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jacob J. Rabinowitz

Rabinowitz immigrated to Israel, becoming the first member of the law faculty in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem to teach Hebrew law.

Jerry Weintraub

In 1988, the American Friends of the Hebrew University gave Weintraub and his wife, Jane, the Scopus Award in gratitude for their support.

Kelly Candaele

He has lectured at Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Occidental College, and University of California, Irvine.

LA-CO Industries, Inc

In the early 1970s the Lester Aronberg Foundation was established and through a donation to the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1979, the Lester Aronberg Chair in Applied Chemistry was formed.

Lee Abramson

Abramson attended Okemos High School, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and the University of Michigan.

Marcel-Jacques Dubois

He was professor of philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and was on the 1974 Commission of the Holy See for Religious Relations with the Jews. He had significance as an orthodox Dominican who rejected supersessionism.

Matilda Koen-Sarano

Matilda studied in the Jewish Community School of Milan, and also studied Languages at the Bocconi University in Milan and also Italian Literature and Judaeo-Spanish literature and Judaeo-Spanish folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Max Bodenheimer

Simon Fritz, a professor of zoology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Henrietta Hannah, who wrote a biography of her father, and Ruth lawyer.

Nathaniel L. Goldstein

Throughout his public life, he was a leading voice in philanthropic endeavors through his participation in United Jewish Appeal, National Conference of Christians and Jews, Brooklyn Hebrew Orphan Asylum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel bond organization, Willkie Memorial of Freedom House, Pace University and New York Law School.

Pierre Falcone

On June 17 2013, Pierre Falcone was conferred honorary doctor of philosophy degrees at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for being a supporter of brain sciences.

Random number generator attack

In November 2007, Leo Dorrendorf et al. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and University of Haifa published a paper titled Cryptanalysis of the Random Number Generator of the Windows Operating System.

Robert Friend

After moving to Israel, he became a professor of English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Ruth Lawrence

In 1999, she emigrated to Israel and took up the post of Associate Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Shoshana Netanyahu

After her retirement, Netanyahu was an adjunct lecturer at the University of Haifa (1993–1998) and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1993–2002).

Simon Saunders

He has previously held permanent posts at Harvard University (1990-1996), and temporary or visiting positions at Wolfson College, Oxford (1985–89), the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1989-1990), Harvard (2001), École Polytechnique (2004), University of British Columbia (2005), Perimeter Institute (2005), and IMéRA (L’Institut Méditerranéen de

Where Heaven and Earth Meet: Jerusalem's Sacred Esplanade

Where Heaven and Earth Meet is the joint product of professors who teach at Al Quds University, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Dominican Seminary in Jerusalem.


Aaron Antonovsky

For a time he held positions in Jerusalem at the Israeli Institute for Applied Social Research and in the Department of Medical Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Hadassah.

Alan Millard

He was a Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 1984, studying in a team led by Yigael Yadin.

Avishai Margalit

Avishai Margalit (hebr. ‏אבישי מרגלית, b. 1939 in Afula, British Mandate for Palestine, today Israel), is an Israeli George F. Kennan Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Bambi Sheleg

Sheleg earned a BA in Jewish history and English literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and studied Jewish philosophy at the Shalom Hartman Institute.

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.

Bernd Marin

Marin also served as visiting professor at several other universities (Zurich, Warsaw, Florence, University of Innsbruck, Institute of Health Sciences at H. A. Barceló Fundation and Hebrew University of Jerusalem).

Daniel Lidar

in 1993, and obtained his PhD under Robert Benny Gerber and Ofer Biham, 1997, with a thesis entitled Structural Characterization of Disordered Systems also from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible

Advisors included Hans Dieter Betz, André Caquot (1923–2004), Jonas C. Greenfield (1926–1995), Erik Hornung Professor of Egyptology at Basel University, Michael E. Stone of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and Manfred Weipert of the University of Heidelberg.

Frances Olsen

She has taught courses in feminist legal theory at Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Berlin, Frankfurt, the University of Tokyo, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and at other universities in the United States, Chile, France, Italy, Japan, and Israel.

Gerald Ellis Rosen

Most recently, he lectured to high-ranking Chinese Judges at the Supreme People's Court in Beijing, China and Egyptian judges in Cairo, as well as lecturing at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Gerald Schroeder

After emigrating to Israel in 1971, Schroeder was employed as a researcher at the Weizmann Institute of Science, the Volcani Research Institute, and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Israel Aharoni

Many of his collected specimens can still be viewed at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Jodi Magness

She received her B.A. in Archaeology and History from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (1977), and her Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology from the University of Pennsylvania (1989).

Joshua Jortner

In 1988, Jortner was awarded the Wolf Prize in Chemistry along with Raphael David Levine of Hebrew University of Jerusalem for "their incisive theoretical studies elucidating energy acquisition and disposal in molecular systems and mechanisms for dynamical selectivity and specificity".

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.

Michael Maschler

He was a professor in the Einstein Institute of Mathematics and the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel.

Nitzan Chen

After serving in the Artillery Corps of the Israeli Defense Forces, he earned a BA in Political Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Law degree from Ono Academic College.

Otto Toeplitz

In 1939 he emigrated to Palestine, where he was scientific advisor to the rector of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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.

Sarit Kraus

She completed her Ph.D. in Computer Science at Hebrew University in 1989 under the supervision of Prof. Daniel Lehmann.

Steimatzky

He had originally came to the British Mandate of Palestine on a short visit for the opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and decided to stay after he saw the potential in opening a foreign language bookstore that would serve a growing immigrants' market as well as British Army soldiers serving under the British Mandate.

Yaakov Nahmias

Yaakov (Koby) Nahmias is the director of the Center for Bioengineering at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, a junior faculty at Harvard Medical School and an affiliated member of the NIH-funded BioMEMS Resource Center at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Yizhar Harari

He studied political science and journalism at the University of Paris and then law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and economics and political science in London, and was certified as a lawyer.

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.