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14 unusual facts about University of Haifa


Anthony Jacobs, Baron Jacobs

At the time of his peerage he also received also an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Haifa.

Benny Gantz

He holds a Bachelor's Degree in History from Tel Aviv University, a Master's Degree in Political Science from the University of Haifa, and an additional Master's Degree in National Resources Management from the National Defense University in the United States.

Cognifit

In 2009 a study conducted at the Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities at the University of Haifa, determined that the Cognifit could be used to help the memories of adults suffering from dyslexia.

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.

Eyal Ben-Reuven

He has also received a B.A. in political science from the University of Haifa.

Gerd Bucerius

In 2001, the Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa was established by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius and its chairman, Professor Dres. h.c. Manfred Lahnstein.

Hanna Eady

He earned a B.A. in social work from the University of Haifa, and then worked as the artistic director of a theater.

Mr. Lisa Goes to Washington

Günter Beck, a lecturer for the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) at the Haifa Center for German and European Studies at the University of Haifa in Israel, compared Lisa's role in the episode to the nineteenth-century American poet and philosopher Henry David Thoreau.

New Historians

Teddy Katz versus Alexandroni Brigade
In 1998, Teddy Katz interviewed and taped Israeli and Palestinian witnesses to events at Tantura in 1948 and wrote a master's thesis at Haifa University claiming that the Alexandroni Brigade committed a massacre in the Arab village of Tantura during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Sheizaf Rafaeli

As of October 2006, he serves as the chair of the School of Management (Business Administration), at the University of Haifa.

Yitzhak Gershon

Gershon received a B.A. in public relations and international relations from the University of Haifa.

Yosef Amit

Following his release, Amit studied at the University of Haifa from 1982 to 1984, when he dropped out to work as a private investigator.

Yuval Neria

Neria completed his studies in philosophy (BA), political science (BA) and clinical psychology (MA) in the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, received his doctorate (PhD) in psychology from the Haifa University, Israel, in 1994.

Ze'ev Almog

he was elected as a member of the Board of Trustees of the University of Haifa and as a member of the steering committee of the Institutes for Oceanic Studies at Haifa University.


Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society

The Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society at the University of Haifa was established in 2001 by the ZEIT-Stiftung Ebelin und Gerd Bucerius and its chairman, Professor Dres. h.c. Manfred Lahnstein.

Conscription in Israel

The Israeli Naval Academy (קורס חובלים), whose candidates study for a degree from the Haifa University during the course.

National Development Front

University of Haifa political scientist David Bukay lists the NDF as a "fundamentalist and subversive group".

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.

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).