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unusual facts about The Hebrew University



Anna Krylov

(with honors) in Chemistry from Moscow State University and later her Ph.D. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, working under the supervision of Professor Robert Benny Gerber.


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Aner Shalev

He was also a Visiting Scholar at other Institutes, such as the Australian National University, MSRI Berkeley, the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University, and the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton.

Anson Rainey

From 1960-61, he studied at the Hebrew University, first in an intensive Hebrew course and then in Archaeology and in the Egyptian, Coptic and Phoenician languages (all in Hebrew).

Benjamin Mazar

He founded the Hebrew University's new campus at Givat Ram and Hadasah Medical School and Hospital at Ein Karem and led the academic development of the university into one of the leading Universities of the World (see Academic Ranking of World Universities).

Eli Upfal

in computer science from the The Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel in 1980, and completed his PhD in computer science at the Hebrew University in 1983 under Eli Shamir.

Emanuel Tov

His dissertation, written under the guidance of Professors Shemaryahu Talmon of the Hebrew University and Frank Moore Cross of Harvard University, was submitted to the Hebrew University in 1973 as “The Septuagint Translation of Jeremiah and Baruch.”

Galit

Galit Hasan-Rokem, professor in the Hebrew Literature department in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Hagai Shaham

By shear luck the manuscripts have been saved from disposal and arrived in the Hebrew University (see more in the CD's elaborated notes, in English, Hebrew, and Yiddish).

ICNC

Interdisciplinary Center for Neural Computation, an Israeli research centre linked to the Hebrew University

Jerusalem Review of Legal Studies

It was established by David Enoch and Alon Harel (Hebrew University) and is published by the Hebrew University law faculty.

Lee Levine

Lee I. Levine, Talmud scholar, professor of Jewish history and archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Psalm 51

Parallels between the Ancient Egyptian ritual text Opening of the mouth ceremony and Psalm 51 are pointed out in "Psalm 51 and the 'Opening of the Mouth' Ceremony," by Benjamin Urrutia, Scripta Hierosolymitana: Publications of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, volume 28, pages 222-223 (1982).

Sharkansky

Ira Sharkansky, Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yigal Arnon

; Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Hebrew University; and Chairman of Arkia Israel Airlines, the second largest airliner in Israel, of which he was reported to own almost 20%.