Hebrew
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'': הקריה האקדמית אונו) is a private
college
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located in
Kiryat Ono
Kiryat Ono () is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel. It is located east of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of .
Modern Kiryat Ono is adjacent to the biblical Ono, which was located in what is now the area of Or Yehuda. The city also ...
,
Israel
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with over 18,000 students.What is Ono Academic College's secret to success?
Jerusalem Post
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History
Ono Academic College was founded in 1995 by Ranan Hartman, son of
rabbi
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and philosopher David Hartman, with the goal of opening up the country's higher education system to populations that are perceived as marginalized.
The college was initially affiliated with the
University of Manchester
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before becoming an Israeli school fully accredited by the
Council for Higher Education in Israel
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. Starting out in a single trailer with 100 law and business students, enrollment has risen to 18,000 students at five campuses around the country:
Kiryat Ono
Kiryat Ono () is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel. It is located east of Tel Aviv. In it had a population of .
Modern Kiryat Ono is adjacent to the biblical Ono, which was located in what is now the area of Or Yehuda. The city also ...
,
Jerusalem
Jerusalem is a city in the Southern Levant, on a plateau in the Judaean Mountains between the Mediterranean Sea, Mediterranean and the Dead Sea. It is one of the List of oldest continuously inhabited cities, oldest cities in the world, and ...
,
Haifa
Haifa ( ; , ; ) is the List of cities in Israel, third-largest city in Israel—after Jerusalem and Tel Aviv—with a population of in . The city of Haifa forms part of the Haifa metropolitan area, the third-most populous metropolitan area i ...
,
Netanya
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and
Or Yehuda
Or Yehuda () is a city in the Tel Aviv District of Israel. Located in the Gush Dan, Gush Dan metropolitan area, in it had a population of .
History Prehistory
Human settlement back to the Chalcolithic has been found on the site.
OAC's satellite campuses in Or Yehuda and Jerusalem offer programs geared toward the
Haredi
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Jewish population, allowing men and women to attend classes on different days, while Muslim, Christian and Jewish religious leaders attend classes together in a special joint program in law. The college also has a substantial enrollment of Ethiopian-Israelis. In the early days of the school, after Hartman was asked by the
Jewish Agency
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As an ...
to accept an Ethiopian-Israeli student to the law school, he arranged for scholarships for needy Ethiopian immigrants, and over 1,000 Ethiopian-Israeli students have graduated from the institution, including Pnina Tamano-Shata, the first Ethiopia-born woman to join the
Knesset
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and become a government minister.
In 2012, OAC opened a special track for students with
Asperger syndrome
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that offers a bachelor's degree in business administration. The school also offers a specialized B.A. program for Druze women. The Center for Academic Accessibility provides assistance to special needs students to assure that individuals with disabilities are not barred from obtaining academic degrees. In 2013, the college established Ro'im Rachok, a 4-month training course which prepares young adults with
autism
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for service in the
Israel Defense Forces
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.
In 2016, the college opened the Jonathan Wohl School of Music headed by
Israel Prize
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History
Prior to the Israel Prize, the most significant award in the arts was the Dizengoff Prize and in Israel ...
laureate Noam Sheriff. At the dedication ceremony Sheriff spoke about the universal language of music and how this fit in with the goals of the college.
A new multidisciplinary campus was commissioned at Savyon Junction to incorporate academic buildings, offices in 2020. Construction began in 2021. It was completed and opened in 2023.
Faculties
* Faculty of Law
* Faculty of Business Administration
* Faculty of Health Professions
* Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
* Faculty of Marketing Communications
* Jonathan Wohl School of Music
Degrees awarded
* LL.B. (Bachelor of Laws)
* LL.M. (Master of Laws)
* B.Sc. in
computer science
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business administration
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Overview
The administration of a business includes the performance o ...
business administration
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Overview
The administration of a business includes the performance o ...
* M.A. in medical case management
* M.A. in interdisciplinary medical and rehabilitation science
* B.A. in
advertising
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and
marketing
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Marketing is usually conducted by the seller, typically a retailer or ma ...
communications
* M.A. in digital strategy and marketing communication
* B.A. in communication sciences and disorders
* B.S.N. in
nursing
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* B.O.T. in
occupational therapy
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education
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and
social studies
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education
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Jewish studies
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B.Mus.
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Ono Academic College and the Center for Israeli Legal Studies at
Columbia Law School
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The school was founded in 1858 as the Columbia College Law School. The un ...
hosts visiting faculty from Israel, sponsors lectures and offers fellowships and exchange opportunities.
In June 2017, the Shalom Comparative Legal Research Center at Ono Academic College hosted a week-long legal seminar for undergraduate students focused on labor law, intellectual property, equality, and the challenges that innovative technologies pose to the law at
Yale Law School
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,
New York University School of Law
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Established in 1835, it was the first law school established in New York City and is the oldest survivin ...
, and
Fordham University School of Law
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According to Fordham University School of Law's ABA- ...
. In late 2017, the Shalom Comparative Legal Research Center at Ono Academic College collaborated with the
World Intellectual Property Organization
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(WIPO) in
Geneva
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and the Swiss Center for Comparative Research in
Lausanne
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to organize a three-day seminar on innovations in intellectual property law.
Multicultural projects
In an attempt to integrate students from different population groups, the college offers a creative writing project in Arabic and Hebrew, a weekly phone-in program to establish rapport between secular and Haredi women, and a talk program led by Jewish and Muslim religious leaders to discuss ways of bridging the conflict.
Controversy
Ono College has been criticized for its policy of
gender segregation
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for students from the
Haredi
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community. According to ''
Haaretz
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'', Jews and Arabs attend separate classes, although Arab students who are proficient in Hebrew have a choice of studying with the Jews or joining an Arab class. The college has also been criticized for budgetary irregularities and inflated salaries. In 2019, the college instituted a recovery program that reduced teaching hours, lowered hourly payments and cut administrative personnel.
Notable faculty
* Gabriela Shalev, rector of Ono Academic College, former Israeli ambassador to the United Nations
* Noam Sheriff, dean of Jonathan Wohl School of Music, music director of the Israel Chamber Orchestra
* Shai Piron, dean of social development, former Israeli
minister of education
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Israeli Supreme Court
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The Supreme Court consists of 15 jud ...
judge
*
Gabriel Hallevy
Gabriel Hallevy (Hebrew: גבריאל הלוי; born 1973) is an Israeli professor of criminal law. He teaches at the Faculty of Law of Ono Academic College.
Biography
Gabriel Hallevy earned his LL.B. ''magna cum laude'' from Tel-Aviv Univers ...
Knesset
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The Knesset passes all laws, elects the President of Israel, president and Prime Minister of Israel, prime minister, approves the Cabinet of Israel, cabinet, and supe ...
Gila Gamliel
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Education in Israel
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Ynetnews
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The Jerusalem Post
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