Tel Aviv University (TAU) ( he, אוּנִיבֶרְסִיטַת תֵּל אָבִיב, ''Universitat Tel Aviv'') is a public

research university A research university or a research-intensive university is a university that is committed to research as a central part of its mission. They are the most important sites at which knowledge production occurs, along with "intergenerational kno ...

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

Israel Israel (; he, יִשְׂרָאֵל, ; ar, إِسْرَائِيل, ), officially the State of Israel ( he, מְדִינַת יִשְׂרָאֵל, label=none, translit=Medīnat Yīsrāʾēl; ), is a country in Western Asia. It is situated ...

. With over 30,000 students, it is the largest university in the country. Located in northwest Tel Aviv, the university is the center of teaching and research of the city, comprising 9 faculties, 17 teaching hospitals, 18 performing arts centers, 27 schools, 106 departments, 340 research centers, and 400 laboratories. Tel Aviv University originated in 1956 when three education units merged to form the university. The original 170-acre campus was expanded and now makes up 220 acres (89 hectares) in Tel Aviv's

Ramat Aviv Ramat Aviv Alef or Ramat Aviv HaYeruka, and originally plainly Ramat Aviv ( he, רָמַת אָבִיב, ''lit.'' Spring Heights), is a neighborhood in northwest Tel Aviv, Israel. History Ramat Aviv was founded in 1950s following the great inf ...

neighborhood.

History

TAU's origins date back to 1956, when three research institutes: the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics (established in 1935), the Institute of Natural Sciences (established in 1931), and the Academic Institute of Jewish Studies (established in 1954) – joined to form Tel Aviv University. Initially operated by the Tel Aviv municipality, the university was granted autonomy in 1963, and

George S. Wise George Schneiweis Wise (ג'ורג' וייז; April 6, 1906 – July 2, 1987) was an American sociologist who served as the first president of Tel Aviv University in Ramat Aviv, Israel from 1963 to 1971. Early life George Schneiweis (later Wis ...

was its first president, from that year until 1971. The

campus, covering an area of , on top of the depopulated and razed Palestinian village of

Sheikh Munis Al-Shaykh Muwannis ( ar, الشيخ مونّس), also Sheikh Munis, was a small Palestinian Arab village in the Jaffa Subdistrict of Mandatory Palestine, located approximately 8.5 kilometers from the center of Jaffa city in territory earmarked f ...

, was established that same year. Its succeeding Presidents have been

Yuval Ne'eman Yuval Ne'eman ( he, יובל נאמן, 14 May 1925 – 26 April 2006) was an Israeli theoretical physicist, military scientist, and politician. He was Minister of Science and Development in the 1980s and early 1990s. He was the President o ...

from 1971 to 1977,

Haim Ben-Shahar Haim Ben-Shahar (חיים בן שחר) (born c.1935) is an Israeli economist, and former President of Tel Aviv University. Biography Ben-Shahar was born in Israel. He earned a Ph.D. in Banking and Finance from New York University. He is an econo ...

from 1977 to 1983,

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from 1983 to 1991,

Yoram Dinstein Yoram Dinstein (יורם דינשטיין; born January 2, 1936) is an Israeli scholar and Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. He is a specialist on international law, and a prominent authority on the laws of war. He served as President of ...

from 1991 to 1999,

Itamar Rabinovich Itamar Rabinovich ( he, איתמר רבינוביץ; born 1942) is the president of the Israel Institute (Washington and Jerusalem). He was Israel's Ambassador to the United States in the 1990s and former chief negotiator with Syria between 1993 ...

from 1999 to 2006,

Zvi Galil Zvi Galil ( he, צבי גליל; born June 26, 1947) is an Israeli-American computer scientist and mathematician. Galil served as the President of Tel Aviv University from 2007 through 2009. From 2010 to 2019, he was the dean of the Georgia Instit ...

from 2006 to 2009,

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from 2009 to 2019, and Ariel Porat since 2019. The university also maintains academic supervision over the Center for Technological Design in

Holon Holon ( he, חוֹלוֹן ) is a city on the central coastal strip of Israel, south of Tel Aviv. Holon is part of the metropolitan Gush Dan area. In it had a population of . Holon has the second-largest industrial zone in Israel, after Haifa. ...

, the New Academic College of

Tel Aviv-Yafo Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the G ...

, and the

Afeka College of Engineering The Afeka College of Engineering (''Afeka Tel Aviv Academic College of Engineering''; he, אפקה - המכללה האקדמית להנדסה בתל אביב) is a public college in Tel Aviv, Israel. Afeka was established in 1996 and grants Bache ...

in Tel Aviv. The

Wise Observatory The Florence and George Wise Observatory (IAU code 097) is an astronomical observatory owned and operated by Tel Aviv University. It is located west of the town of Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev desert near the edge of the Ramon Crater, and it is t ...

is located in

Mitzpe Ramon Mitzpe Ramon ( he, מִצְפֵּה רָמוֹן, Ramon Lookout; ar, متسبي رمون) is a local council in the Negev desert of southern Israel. It is situated on the northern ridge at an elevation of 860 meters (2,800 feet) overl ...

in the

Negev The Negev or Negeb (; he, הַנֶּגֶב, hanNegév; ar, ٱلنَّقَب, an-Naqab) is a desert and semidesert region of southern Israel. The region's largest city and administrative capital is Beersheba (pop. ), in the north. At its southe ...

desert.

Academic units

Life Sciences Building in Tel Aviv University

The Porter School of Environmental Studies Building

Faculties *Katz Faculty of the Arts *Fleischman Faculty of Engineering *Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences *Entin Faculty of Humanities *Buchmann Faculty of Law *Wise Faculty of Life Sciences *

Sackler Faculty of Medicine Sackler Faculty of Medicine is a medical school affiliated with Tel Aviv University, located in Tel Aviv, Israel. History The Sackler School of Medicine was named for Arthur, Mortimer and Raymond Sackler, and was founded and named prior to the ...

*Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences *

Boris Mints Institute The Boris Mints Institute at Tel Aviv University is an entity promoting research and planning, founded by Boris Mints, Dr Boris Mints. The Boris Mints Institute was established in 2016 at the Gershon H. Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences, and has ...

*Coller School of Management Independent schools *Porter School of Environmental Studies *

Buchmann-Mehta School of Music The Buchmann-Mehta School of Music (BMSM) is an institute of higher education in Tel Aviv, Israel. The school is a part of the Faculty of the Arts of Tel Aviv University and is operated in collaboration with the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (IPO). ...

David Azrieli David Joshua Azrieli, ( he, דוד יהושע עזריאלי; 10 May 1922 – 9 July 2014) was an Israeli-Canadian real estate tycoon, developer, designer, architect, and philanthropist. With an estimated net worth of US$3.1 billion as of M ...

School of

Architecture Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing building ...

*Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine *Miller School of

Education Education is a purposeful activity directed at achieving certain aims, such as transmitting knowledge or fostering skills and character traits. These aims may include the development of understanding, rationality, kindness, and honesty. Va ...

*Shapell School of Social Work *TAU International (formerly the School for Overseas Students) *Sagol School of Neuroscience

Institutes and centers

Tel Aviv University has over 130 research institutes and centers.

The Lowy International School– English-taught programs

The Lowy International School (formerly known as TAU International) affords thousands of students from across the globe the opportunity to study at Tel Aviv University. All Lowy International School programs are conducted in English. Programs include Semester or Year Abroad, Degree Programs, and Specialized Programs, such as the International LL.M at the Faculty of Law. Students in the Undergraduate or Semester Abroad Programs are given the option of housing at the Einstein Dorms, just outside the university. Undergraduate programs: *B.S. in Electrical and Electronics Engineering via

the International Engineering School The International Engineering School is an undergraduate school within the Engineering faculty at Tel Aviv University (TAU). The TAU International Engineering School, or the International School of Engineering, currently offers a Bachelor of Scie ...

International B.A. degree in Liberal Arts and Humanities
Graduate programs:
M.A. in Political Science (Leadership, Communications and Elections)M.A. in Security and Diplomacy

M.A in Middle Eastern StudiesArchaeology and History of the Land of the BibleTESOL – Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages
*

International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation The International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation is an interdisciplinary English-language master's degree program offered at Tel Aviv University in Israel. History The International Program in Conflict Resolution and Mediation, fo ...

M.A. in Social Work with specialization in Crisis and Trauma StudiesM.P.H. in Emergency and Disaster ManagementM.A. in Environmental StudiesSofaer International MBAKellogg Recanati MBAM.A. in Migration StudiesInternational LL.M.
Medical school: Within th
Sackler Faculty of Medicine, there is a four year, English speaking Doctor of Medicine program
which prepares students from North America for residencies in the United States and Canada. The program has a track record of excellent residency matches which far exceeds most international medical school. In May 2007,

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private research university in New York City. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded by a group of New Yorkers led by then-Secretary of the Treasury Albert Gallatin. In 1832, the ...

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

Rankings

The

Center for World University Rankings College and university rankings order the best institutions in higher education based on factors that vary depending on the ranking. Some rankings evaluate institutions within a single country, while others assess institutions worldwide. Rankings ...

ranked Tel Aviv University 81st in the world and third in Israel in its 2016 CWUR World University Rankings. They have also ranked it as 56 in 2012. The

Times Higher Education World University Rankings The ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' (often referred to as the THE Rankings) is an annual publication of university rankings by the ''Times Higher Education'' (THE) magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli ...

for 2019 placed Tel Aviv University at 189th in the world. The ratings reflect an overall measure of esteem that combines data on the institutions' reputation for research and teaching. In 2013

QS World University Rankings ''QS World University Rankings'' is an annual publication of university rankings by Quacquarelli Symonds (QS). The QS system comprises three parts: the global overall ranking, the subject rankings (which name the world's top universities for the ...

ranked Tel Aviv University 196th in the world, making it the second-highest ranked university in Israel. Its subject rankings were: 202nd in Arts and Humanities, 295th in Engineering and Technology, 193rd in Life Sciences and Medicine, 208th in Natural Science, and 240th in Social Sciences and Management. In 2016

ranked Tel Aviv University 22nd in the world for citations per faculty, which is the indicator that measures a university's research impact. This makes Tel Aviv University the leading university in Israel in terms of research. In 2015 the

Academic Ranking of World Universities The ''Academic Ranking of World Universities'' (''ARWU''), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, is one of the annual publications of world university rankings. The league table was originally compiled and issued by Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...

gave Tel Aviv University the following subject rankings: 20th in Computer Science, 51–75 in Mathematics, 76–100 in Physics and 76-100 Economics/Business. In 2016 it was ranked as 51–75 in Engineering. From the year 2007 until 2018, Tel Aviv university ranks as 35th in the world in Computer Science according to CSRankings, the same rank as Harvard and the second-highest ranked in Israel. As of 2021, it is ranked as the 191th best university in the world by ''

THE World University Rankings The ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'' (often referred to as the THE Rankings) is an annual publication of university rankings by the ''Times Higher Education'' (THE) magazine. The publisher had collaborated with Quacquarelli ...

'', 230th by the ''

'' and in the 151-200th bracket by the

Shanghai Rankings The ''Academic Ranking of World Universities'' (''ARWU''), also known as the Shanghai Ranking, is one of the annual publications of world university rankings. The league table was originally compiled and issued by Shanghai Jiao Tong University ...

In 2022,

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ranked Tel Aviv University 7th in the world in terms of number of alumni who have founded

venture capital Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which ha ...

backed companies, the highest out of any University outside the United States.

Relations with other universities

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

Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...

and Mexico. The programs are in English. The Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law has exchange agreements with 36 overseas universities, including: University of Virginia, Cornell University, Boston University, UCLA, Bucerius (Germany), EBS (Germany), McGill (Canada), Osgoode Hall (Canada), Ottawa (Canada), Queens University (Queens), Toronto (Canada), Bergen (Norway), STL (China), KoGuan (China), Tsinghua (China), Jindal Global (India), University of Hong Kong, Singapore Management University, Stockholm University (Sweden), Monash (Australia), Sydney (Australia), Sciences Po (France), Seoul (South Korea), Lucern (Switzerland), Buenos Aires (Argentina), Bocconi (Italy) and Madrid (Spain). The Coller School of Management has exchange agreements with over 100 overseas universities
The Coller Exchange Program
is open to MBA/MSc/MA students and qualified professionals. The school offers a wide variety of courses for its visiting students in strategy, entrepreneurship, finance-accounting, marketing, organizational behavior, decisions and operations research, technology and information systems. The program also offers courses from other TAU schools on Israeli Culture, History, Economics and more. In 2013, Tel Aviv University and

Ruppin Academic Center Ruppin Academic Center (), also known as Ruppin College, is a college in Israel, which has the status of an institutional settlement. It was established in 1949, is named after Arthur Ruppin, and is located near the moshav Kfar Monash, and withi ...

jointly created a study center at the

Mediterranean Sea The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded by the Mediterranean Basin and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Western and Southern Europe and Anatolia, on the south by North Africa, and on the ea ...

, where students will undertake advanced studies of issues impacting the coastal environment and its resources.

International cooperation

In Germany, Tel Aviv University cooperates with the

Goethe-University Goethe University (german: link=no, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main) is a university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealt ...

in Frankfurt/Main. Both cities are linked by a long-lasting partnership agreement.

Publications

* Tel Aviv (journal), peer-reviewed international journal of archaeology in the

Levant The Levant () is an approximate historical geographical term referring to a large area in the Eastern Mediterranean region of Western Asia. In its narrowest sense, which is in use today in archaeology and other cultural contexts, it is eq ...

and the history and culture of Near Eastern civilizations, with a focus on biblical and protohistoric periods and also dealing with the classical and prehistoric periods

Notable people

Faculty

Notable faculty members (past and present) include: *

Yakir Aharonov Yakir Aharonov ( he, יקיר אהרונוב; born August 28, 1932) is an Israeli physicist specializing in quantum physics. He has been a Professor of Theoretical Physics and the James J. Farley Professor of Natural Philosophy at Chapman Univer ...

, physicist *

Noga Alon Noga Alon ( he, נוגה אלון; born 17 February 1956) is an Israeli mathematician and a professor of mathematics at Princeton University noted for his contributions to combinatorics and theoretical computer science, having authored hundreds of ...

, mathematician *

Yitzhak Arad Yitzhak Arad ( he, יצחק ארד; né Icchak Rudnicki; November 11, 1926 – May 6, 2021) was an Israeli historian, author, IDF brigadier general and Soviet partisan. He also served as Yad Vashem's director from 1972 to 1993, and specialised ...

, historian *

Karen Avraham Karen B. Avraham is an Israeli-American human geneticist and the first female Dean of the Tel Aviv University's Faculty of Medicine. Born in Canada in 1962, Avraham moved to the US at a young age. Her research focuses on the discovery and chara ...

, geneticist *

Shlomo Ben-Ami Shlomo Ben-Ami ( he, שלמה בן עמי; born 17 July 1943) is a former Israeli diplomat, politician, and historian. Biography Shlomo Benabou (later Ben-Ami) was born in Tangiers, Morocco. He immigrated to Israel in 1955. He was educated at T ...

, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs * Yoav Benjamini, statistician *

Ziva Ben-Porat Ziva Ben-Porat is a literary theorist, writer, and editor who lives in Israel and is a professor at Tel Aviv University. Personal life Ben-Porat graduated with a bachelor's degree in English and Hebrew literature and a master's degree in English ...

, literary theorist, writer, and editor *

Joseph Bernstein Joseph Bernstein (sometimes spelled I. N. Bernshtein; he, יוס(י)ף נאומוביץ ברנשטיין; russian: Иосиф Наумович Бернштейн; born 18 April 1945) is a Soviet-born Israeli mathematician working at Tel Aviv Univ ...

, mathematician *

Silvia Blumenfeld Silvia N. Blumenfeld is an expert on mycology. From 1986 to 2004, she was a Professor of Mycology and Biotechnology of Filamentous Fungi at the National University of Comahue, in Río Negro Province, Río Negro, Argentina. She Aliyah, emigrated to ...

, curator of the fungi collection *

Athalya Brenner Athalya Brenner-Idan (born 17 July 1943 in Haifa, Israel) is a Dutch-Israeli biblical scholar known for her contribution to feminist biblical studies. Academic career Brenner studied at Haifa University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem befo ...

, feminist Biblical scholar *

Daniel Chamovitz Daniel Chamovitz (דניאל חיימוביץ; born April 18, 1963 ) is an American-born plant geneticist and the 7th President of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Previously he was Dean of the George S. Wise Faculty of ...

, biologist * Guy Deutscher, physicist *

, international law professor emeritus and former president of Tel Aviv University *

Uzi Even Uzi Even ( he, עוזי אבן, born 18 October 1940) is an Israeli professor emeritus of physical chemistry at Tel Aviv University and a former politician well known for being the first openly gay member of the Knesset (the Israeli Parliament). ...

, chemist and political activist for

LGBT ' is an initialism that stands for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender. In use since the 1990s, the initialism, as well as some of its common variants, functions as an umbrella term for sexuality and gender identity. The LGBT term is a ...

rights *

Margalit Finkelberg Margalit Finkelberg (née Karpyuk; born 1947) () is an Israeli historian and linguist. She is the professor emerita of Classics at Tel Aviv University. She became a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 2005 and served as pr ...

, historian and linguist *

Israel Finkelstein Israel Finkelstein ( he, ישראל פינקלשטיין, born March 29, 1949) is an Israeli archaeologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the head of the School of Archaeology and Maritime Cultures at the University of Haifa. Fin ...

, archaeologist *

Yisrael Friedman Israel Friedman of Ruzhyn ( he, ישראל פרידמן מרוז'ין) (5 October 1796 – 9 October 1850Assaf, ''The Regal Way'', p. 170.), also called Israel Ruzhin, was a Hasidic ''rebbe'' in 19th-century Ukraine and Austria. Known as ''Der He ...

, historian * Raphael E. Freundlich, Biblical studies and Latin *

Ehud Gazit Ehud Gazit ( he, אהוד גזית; russian: Эхуд Газит; zh, 以笏) is an Israeli biochemist, biophysicist and nanotechnologist. He is Professor and Endowed Chair at Tel Aviv University and a Member of the Executive Board of the Univers ...

, nanotechnologist, chief scientist - ministry of Science * David Ginzburg, mathematician * Bob Griffin (born 1980), basketball player and English Literature professor *

Daphna Hacker Daphna Hacker (; born 16 April 1969) is a full professor at the Tel Aviv University Law Faculty and Women and Gender Studies Program. After publishing ''Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization,'' Hacker was awarded the 2018 LSA Jac ...

, lawyer *

Sylvie Honigman Sylvie Honigman (born 1965) is an academic and author. Her research interests include the Hellenistic period, Hellenic historiography, Greek historiography in the Hellenistic period, History of the Jews in Egypt#Ptolemaic and Roman, Jews in Ptolema ...

, senior lecturer in ancient history *

Benjamin Isaac Benjamin Henri Isaac (Ben Isaac; he, בנימין איזק; born May 10, 1945) is the Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History Emeritus at Tel Aviv University. He is a member of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities and of the A ...

, historian *

Joshua Jortner Joshua Jortner (Hebrew: יהושע יורטנר) (March 14, 1933) is an Israeli physical chemist. He is a professor emeritus at the School of Chemistry, The Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, Tel Aviv University in Tel Aviv, Israel. Birth and e ...

, physical chemist *

Shoshana Kamin Shoshana Kamin (russian: Шошана Камин, he, שושנה קמין) (born December 24, 1930),See reference . born Susanna L'vovna Kamenomostskaya (russian: Сусанна Львовна Каменомостская), is a Soviet-born Israe ...

, mathematician *

Aryeh Kasher Aryeh Kasher ( he, אריה כשר; 1935 – October 26, 2011) was an Israeli academic and writer. He was a professor at Tel Aviv University and winner of the 1990 Bialik Prize for Hebrew literature. His life and his research activity Kasher grew u ...

, historian *

Asa Kasher Asa Kasher ( he, אסא כשר, born June 6, 1940) is an Israeli philosopher and linguist working as a Professor at Tel Aviv University. Biography Asa Kasher is the grandson of talmudist Menachem Mendel Kasher. He is noted for authorship of Isr ...

, philosopher and authority on Ethics, author of IDF's Code of Conduct *

David S. Katz David S. Katz FRHistS (born 1953) is Director of the History of Ideas Program and a member of the Department of History at Brandeis University and Professor Emeritus of early modern European history at Tel Aviv University in Israel, where he taugh ...

, historian *

chemical physics Chemical physics is a subdiscipline of chemistry and physics that investigates physicochemical phenomena using techniques from atomic and molecular physics and condensed matter physics; it is the branch of physics that studies chemical process ...

, the eighth president of Tel Aviv University *

Shaul Ladany Shaul Paul Ladany ( he, שאול לדני; born April 2, 1936) is an Israeli Holocaust survivor, racewalker and two-time Olympian. He holds the world record in the 50-mile walk (7:23:50), and the Israeli national record in the 50-kilometer walk ...

, industrial engineering *

Fred Landman Fred (Alfred) Landman ( he, פרד לנדמן; born October 28, 1956) is a Dutch-born Israeli professor of semantics. He teaches at Tel Aviv University has written a number of books about linguistics. Biography Fred Landman was born in Holland. H ...

, semanticist *

Zvi Laron Zvi Laron ( he, צבי לרון, born February 6, 1927) is an Israeli paediatric endocrinologist. Born in Cernăuţi, Romania, Laron is a professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University. In 1966, he described the type of dwarfism later called Laron synd ...

, pediatric endocrinologist *

Orna Lin Orna Lin ( he, ארנה לין) 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 ch ...

, lawyer *

Raphael Mahler Raphael Mahler (August 15, 1899 – October 4, 1977) was a Galician-born Jewish historian who worked in Poland, America, and Israel. Life Mahler was born on August 15, 1899 in Nowy Sącz, Galicia, Austria-Hungary, the son of a scholarly and busin ...

, historian *

Yossi Matias Yossi is a Hebrew given name, usually a short and nickname for Yosef (equivalent to English Joseph). It may refer to: People * Abba Yossi – mythology figure * Country Yossi – American singer and radio personality *Yossi Abu – Israeli execu ...

, Computer Scientist *

Vitali Milman Vitali Davidovich Milman ( he, ויטלי מילמן; russian: Виталий Давидович Мильман) (born 23 August 1939) is a mathematician specializing in analysis. He is a professor at the Tel Aviv University. In the past he was a ...

, mathematician *

Moshé Mizrahi Moshé Mizrahi ( he, משה מזרחי; 5 September 1931 – 3 August 2018) was an Israeli film director. Biography He was born in Egypt, migrated to Mandatory Palestine in 1946, and studied filmmaking in France in 1950. He directed the Oscar-wi ...

, Oscar-winning film director *

Baruch Modan Prof. Baruch Modan (1932–2001)
University of Tel Aviv was an

(1925–2006), physicist, former minister of Science and Technology * Abraham Nitzan, chemical physicist. *

Kennedy Otieno Kennedy Otieno Obuya (born 11 March 1972), also known as Kennedy Otieno, is a former Kenyan international cricketer. A right-handed batsman and wicketkeeper, Otieno is the brother of fellow internationals Collins Obuya, Collins and David Obuya. ...

, criminologist * Ariel Porat, legal scholar and president of Tel Aviv University *

, former Israeli ambassador to the United States and former president of Tel Aviv University * Aviad Raz, sociologist *

Tanya Reinhart Tanya Reinhart ( he, טניה ריינהרט; July 1943 – March 17, 2007) was an Israeli linguist who wrote frequently on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She contributed columns to the Israeli newspaper ''Yediot Aharonot'' and longer articles ...

(1943–2007), linguist *

Amnon Rubinstein Amnon Rubinstein ( he, אמנון רובינשטיין, born 5 September 1931) is an Israeli legal scholar, politician, and columnist. A member of the Knesset between 1977 and 2002, he served in several ministerial positions. He is currently dean ...

, former Dean of Law, also former Education minister *

Ariel Rubinstein Ariel Rubinstein (Hebrew: אריאל רובינשטיין; born April 13, 1951) is an Israeli economist who works in economic theory, game theory and bounded rationality. Biography Ariel Rubinstein is a professor of economics at the School of ...

, economist * Joseph Sadan, emeritus professor, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies *

Pnina Salzman Pnina Salzman (Hebrew: פנינה זלצמן) (February 24, 1922, Tel Aviv, Mandate Palestine – December 16, 2006, Tel Aviv, Israel) was an Israeli classical pianist and piano pedagogue. Salzman showed an early aptitude for the piano, and gave he ...

, pianist and piano pedagogue *

Shlomo Sand Shlomo Sand (pronounced ''Zand''; he, שלמה זנד; born 10 September 1946) is an Israeli Emeritus Professor of History at Tel Aviv University.Leon Schidlowsky Jorge León Schidlowsky Gaete (; 21 July 1931 – 10 October 2022) was a Chilean-Israeli composer and painter. He wrote music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, choir, and instruments including the piano, violin, cello, flute, mandolin, guitar, ha ...

, composer *

Anita Shapira Anita Shapira ( he, אניטה שפירא, born 1940) is an Israeli historian. She is the founder of the Yitzhak Rabin Center, professor emerita of Jewish history at Tel Aviv University, and former head of the Weizmann Institute for the Study of ...

, historian *

Micha Sharir Micha Sharir ( he, מיכה שריר; born 8 June 1950 in Tel Aviv, Israel) is an Israeli mathematician and computer scientist. He is a professor at Tel Aviv University, notable for his contributions to computational geometry and combinatorial geo ...

, mathematician *

Edna Shavit Edna Shavit ( he, עדנה שביט; April 25, 1935 – 14 June 2015) was an Israeli professor affiliated with the theater department of Tel Aviv University. She was married to Yoram Gal between 1994 and 2003. In the 1960s, Shavit played Lucky ...

, drama *

Margot Shiner Margot Shiner (nee Last; 4 June 1923 – 31 July 1998) was a German-British gastroenterologist and medical researcher who worked in London and Israel. As a result of her development of a new technique to biopsy the small intestine in children, she ...

, gastroenterologist *

Joshua Sobol Joshua Sobol ( he, יהושע סובול; born 24 August 1939), is an Israeli playwright, writer, and theatre director. Biography Joshua Sobol was born in Tel Mond. His mother's family fled the pogroms in Europe in 1922 and his father's family imm ...

, playwright, writer, and director * David Soudry, mathematician *

Carlo Strenger Carlo Strenger ( he, קרלו שטרנגר; July 16, 1958 – October 25, 2019) was a Swiss and Israeli psychologist, philosopher, existential psychoanalyst and public intellectual who served as professor of psychology and philosophy at Tel Aviv U ...

psychologist, philosopher *

Leonard Susskind Leonard Susskind (; born June 16, 1940)his 60th birthday was celebrated with a special symposium at Stanford University.in Geoffrey West's introduction, he gives Suskind's current age as 74 and says his birthday was recent. is an American physicis ...

, physicist *

Boris Tsirelson Boris Semyonovich Tsirelson (May 4, 1950 – January 21, 2020) ( he, בוריס סמיונוביץ' צירלסון, russian: Борис Семёнович Цирельсон) was a Russian–Israeli mathematician and Professor of Mathematics ...

, mathematician *

Jacob Turkel Jacob "Yaakov" Turkel (Hebrew: יעקב טירקל; born in 1935 in Tel Aviv) is an Israeli judge, and former Supreme Court of Israel Justice. Turkel served as a judge for 38 years, a decade of that time on the Israeli Supreme Court. In June 2010, ...

, Israeli Supreme Court Justice *

Lev Vaidman Lev Vaidman (born 4 September 1955) is a Russian-Israeli physicist and Professor at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is noted for his theoretical work in the area of fundamentals of quantum mechanics, which includes quantum teleportation, the Elit ...

, physicist * Avi Weinroth, lawyer * Paul Wexler, linguist *

, first president of the university (1963–1971) *

Moshe Wolman Moshe Wolman (November 10, 1914 – September 5, 2009) was an Israeli neuropathologist. He is considered one of the fathers of histochemistry. In 1954, he described Wolman's disease. Biography Moshe Wolman was born in 1914 in Warsaw, Polan ...

, neuropathologist *

Amotz Zahavi Amotz Zahavi ( he, אמוץ זהבי) (August 14, 1928 – May 12, 2017) was an Israeli evolutionary biologist, a Professor in the Department of Zoology at Tel Aviv University, and one of the founders of the Society for the Protection of Nature in ...

, biologist *

Moshe Zviran Moshe Zviran (Hebrew: משה צבירן ; born: 1955) is professor at the Coller School of Management at Tel Aviv University. He currently serves as Chief Entrepreneurship and Innovation Officer of Tel Aviv university as well as the Head and A ...

, Dean of the Coller School of Management

Alumni

Ilan Ramon, NASA photo portrait in orange suit

* Carmela Abraham, neuroscientist and Alzheimer's disease researcher *

Zvi Arad Zvi Arad ( he, צבי ארד,16 April 1942, in Petah Tikva, Mandatory Palestine – 4 February 2018, in Petah Tikva, Israel) was an Israeli mathematician, acting president of Bar-Ilan University, and president of Netanya Academic College. Biograp ...

(1942–2018), mathematician, acting president of

Bar-Ilan University Bar-Ilan University (BIU, he, אוניברסיטת בר-אילן, ''Universitat Bar-Ilan'') is a public research university in the Tel Aviv District city of Ramat Gan, Israel. Established in 1955, Bar Ilan is Israel's second-largest academic i ...

, president of

Netanya Academic College Netanya Academic College ( he, האקדמית נתניה, ''HaAkademit Netanya'') is a private college based in Netanya, Israel. Established in 1994 by a team from Bar-Ilan University, it has an enrolment of around 4,000 undergraduate students. It ...

Dan Ariely Dan Ariely ( he, דן אריאלי; born April 29, 1967) is an Israeli-American professor and author. He serves as a James B. Duke Professor of psychology and behavioral economics at Duke University. Ariely is the founder of the research inst ...

, author and academic * Fouad Awad, theatre director *

Lucy Ayoub Lucy Ayoub ( ar, لوسي ايوب; he, לוסי איוב; born 21 June 1992) is an Israeli television presenter, poet and radio host, formerly of the Israeli Public Broadcasting Corporation (IPBC) and currently working for Keshet Media Group. ...

, television host *Alon Bar, award-winning filmmaker *Daphne Barak Erez, current Supreme Court of Israel justice *Mohammad Barakeh, Knesset member and leader of Hadash *Rebecka Belldegrun (born 1950), ophthalmologist and businesswoman *

, historian, former Minister of Foreign Affairs (Labor) *Yochai Benkler, co-director of the Berkman Center, Harvard Law School *Aluf Benn, editor-in-chief of ''Haaretz'' *Avishay Braverman (born 1948), Knesset member and president of the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev *Shimshon Brokman (born 1957), Olympic sailor *Moran Cerf (born 1977), neuroscientist, professor at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University *Nili Cohen (born 1947), professor and legal expert *Ran Cohen, former Minister of Housing (Meretz) *Orna Donath (born 1976), academic and activist *Arie Eldad, former Knesset member (National Union (Israel)) *Israel Eliashiv, former Israeli Ambassador to Singapore *Nancy Ezer, author and professor of Hebrew at UCLA *Yael S. Feldman, Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education and professor of Hebrew and Judaic studies at

*Ari Folman, filmmaker (Director of ''Waltz with Bashir'') *Tal Friedman, comedian, actor, and musician *Amir Gal-Or, founder of the Infinity Group *

(born 1947), computer scientist, mathematician, and president of Tel Aviv University *Benny Gantz, Chief of General Staff (Israel), Chief of General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces. *Lior Geller, Academy Awards, Academy Award and Emmy Award nominated filmmaker and Guinness World Records, Guinness World Record holder *Dan Gillerman, former Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Israeli Ambassador to the UN, and vice-president of the 60th UN General Assembly * Bob Griffin (born 1950), basketball player and English Literature professor *Tamar Halperin, harpsichordist, pianist and musicologist *Tzachi Hanegbi, member of Knesset, former minister of Internal Security (Likud and Kadima) *Rafael Harpaz, Israeli Ambassador to the Philippines *Michael Harris (public policy scholar), Michael Harris, academic *Avi Hasson, current Chief Scientist of the Ministry of Economy *Zvi Heifetz, former Israeli Ambassador to the United Kingdom *Ron Huldai, current mayor of

, historian *Moshe Kam, 49th President of IEEE and Dean of the Newark College of Engineering *Moshe Kaplinsky, Deputy Chief of the IDF General Staff *Efraim Karsh, historian *Rita Katz, terrorism analyst *Etgar Keret, writer *Dov Khenin, political scientist and Knesset member Hadash *

professor, the eighth president of Tel Aviv University *Yosef Lapid, former Israeli vice premier, Minister of Justice and founder of the Shinui party *Amos Lapidot (1934–2019), fighter pilot, 10th commander of the Israeli Air Force, and president of Technion – Israel Institute of Technology *Peretz Lavie (born 1949), expert in the psychophysiology of sleep disorders, sleep and sleep disorders, 16th president of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Dean of the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine *Keren Leibovitch, champion Paralympic swimmer *Hanoch Levin (1943–99), dramatist, theater director, author and poet *Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, former Israeli Chief of Staff and Minister of Tourism and Transportation *

, computer scientist and Google executive *Moni Moshonov, actor and comedian *Yitzhak Mordechai, former Israeli Minister of Defense and Transportation *Natasha Mozgovaya, journalist * Abraham Nitzan, chemical physicist *Sassona Norton, sculptor *Daniella Ohad Smith, design historian *Yitzhak Orpaz-Auerbach, author *Ophir Pines-Paz, former Interior Minister (Labor) * Ariel Porat (born 1956), president of Tel Aviv University *Gideon Raff, director and screenwriter, creator of the award-winning Israeli TV series Prisoners of War (TV series), ''Prisoners of War'', adapted into Homeland (TV series), ''Homeland'' *Haim Ramon, former Minister of Health and Justice (Labor and Kadima) *Ilan Ramon (1954–2003), first Israeli astronaut *Yoram Raved, attorney *Daniel Reisner, former Head of the International Law Branch of the IDF Legal Division *Elie Rekhess, historian of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict and faculty of Northwestern University *Gideon Sa'ar, Knesset member and Minister of Interior Affairs (Likud) *Hanoch Senderowitz (born 1963), Israeli chemist *Hamutal Shabtai, novelist *Ron Shachar, professor and researcher *Simon Shaheen, musician *Silvan Shalom, former minister of Finance and Foreign Affairs (Likud) *Ayelet Shaked, Israel's former Minister of Justice and current Minister of Interior (Yamina) *Adi Shamir, cryptographer, co-inventor of the RSA (algorithm), RSA cryptosystem *Ariel Sharon (1928–2014), Prime Minister of Israel (Likud and Kadima) *Lou Silver, basketball player *Daniel Sivan, professor *Uri Sivan, physicist, professor, and president of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology *Nahum Sonenberg, biochemist at McGill University *Michael Wolffsohn, author and former professor for contemporary history at the Bundeswehr University Munich *Yuval Tal, founder of Payoneer *Gadi Taub, historian, author, screenwriter, and political commentator *Hagit Messer Yaron (born 1953), electrical engineer, businesswoman, and president of Open University of Israel *Natan Yonatan (1923–2004), poet *Poju Zabludowicz, billionaire, philanthropist, and owner of Tamares Group *Bat-Sheva Zeisler, singer and actress *Abdel Rahman Zuabi, former Supreme Court of Israel justice *Ghil'ad Zuckermann, linguist Sackler Family Tel Aviv University has long held significant ties to the Sackler family as evidenced by several schools and many endowed chairs being in their honor. As more has become known of the role of members of the Sackler family in the global opioid crisis, many including the Israeli Medical Association have called for the removal of the Sackler name from the Faculty of Medicine. As of November 2021, no members of the Sackler family served on the university's board of governors.

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