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Education
With the long-standing Jewish belief in the primacy
of education, it is not surprising that education
in Israel is a fundamental value recognized as the
key to the future. As in America, Israeli education
is built on strong values: love of the land and the
principles of liberty and tolerance.
Israel's workforce is one of the most highly educated
in the world, with 24% of Israel's workforce holding
university degrees. Israel has eight universities,
over fifty undergraduate and graduate colleges, many
art and design schools and research institutions.
Taking advantage of Israel's excellent research and
study opportunities, an average of 1500 American college
students study in Israel each year. Additionally,
many Israeli students come to America to study at
both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Partnerships
between American and Israeli universities are very
common, enabling the two countries to share their
knowledge, brainpower, and research capabilities.
Many Israeli universities collaborate with American
universities on research. These partnerships have
led to great advances in science and technology, as
well as Nobel Prizes for Israeli and American scholars.
In 2005 Israeli Professor Robert J. Aumann from the
Hebrew University of Jerusalem shared the Nobel Prize
in Economics with American Professor Thomas C. Schelling
for their joint research on game theory analysis.
Since 1956, the United States-Israel Educational
Foundation has awarded over 2500 Fulbright scholarships
to both Americans and Israelis. Fulbright Post-Doctoral
Fellow Israeli ProfessorAaron Ciechanover conducted
groundbreaking research on the protein ubiquitin,
a key to curing many deadly diseases. In 2004, Ciechanover,
fellow Israeli Avram Hershko and American Irwin Rose,
were awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their
mutual collaboration on this research.
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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Mount Scopus.
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