Tel Aviv University ( TAU ) is a public research university in Tel Aviv , Israel. 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.
23-416: The Dan David Prize is an international group of awards that recognize and support outstanding contributions to the study of history and other disciplines that shed light on the human past. Nine prizes of $ 300,000 are awarded each year to outstanding early- and mid-career scholars and practitioners in the historical disciplines. The Prize has an annual purse of $ 3 million, making it the largest history award in
46-830: A judge. The family survived the 1929 Hebron massacre when he was a child. Many attended Gymnasia Herzliya school in Tel Aviv , and then a Protestant English school in Jerusalem. He earned an M.D. from Geneva University in Switzerland in 1952, and a Ph.D. in renal physiology from Tufts University in Massachusetts in 1969. In the early 1960s Many was head of the urology department at Sheba Medical Center in Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan , Israel. At
69-878: A plan to establish an NYU Study Abroad Campus in Israel based at Tel Aviv University. In 2024 QS World University Rankings ranked Tel Aviv University 214th in the world, making it the highest ranked university in Israel. In 2016, 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. The Center for World University Rankings ranked Tel Aviv University 81st in
92-638: A study center at the Mediterranean Sea , where students will undertake advanced studies of issues impacting the coastal environment and its resources. In Germany, Tel Aviv University cooperates with the Goethe-University in Frankfurt/Main. Both cities are linked by a long-lasting partnership agreement. Notable faculty members (past and present) include: Sackler Family Tel Aviv University has long held significant ties to
115-532: 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 jointly created
138-716: 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 Israel 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. Moshe Many Moshe Many (1928-2015)
161-1392: The Shanghai Rankings In 2022, PitchBook Data ranked Tel Aviv University 7th in the world in terms of number of alumni who have founded venture capital backed companies, the highest out of any University outside the United States. Tel Aviv University offers special programs of Jewish studies to teachers and students from the United States, France, Brazil, Argentina 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
184-844: The Center for Technological Design in Holon , the New Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yafo , and the Afeka College of Engineering in Tel Aviv. The Wise Observatory is located in Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev desert. Faculties Independent schools Tel Aviv University has over 130 research institutes and centers. The Lowy International School (formerly known as TAU International) affords thousands of students from across
207-527: The Dan David Prize. Her prize money was donated to fund scholarships at Tel Aviv University. From 2022 recipients of the Prize were called winners rather than laureates. The first cohort of Prize winners was announced on March 1, 2022. Tel Aviv University Tel Aviv University originated in 1956 when three education units merged to form the university. The original 69-hectare (170-acre) campus
230-619: The 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, although as of 2022, all Israeli medical schools have been instructed to cease their programs for foreign medical students to provide more places for Israeli medical students. In May 2007, New York University and Tel Aviv University approved
253-695: The Tel Aviv municipality, the university was granted autonomy in 1963, and George S. Wise was its first president, from that year until 1971. The Ramat Aviv campus, covering an area of 170-acre (0.69 km ), on top of the depopulated and razed Palestinian village of Sheikh Munis , was established that same year. Its succeeding presidents have been Yuval Ne'eman from 1971 to 1977, Haim Ben-Shahar from 1977 to 1983, Moshe Many from 1983 to 1991, Yoram Dinstein from 1991 to 1999, Itamar Rabinovich from 1999 to 2006, Zvi Galil from 2006 to 2009, Joseph Klafter from 2009 to 2019, and Ariel Porat since 2019. The university also maintains academic supervision over
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#1732772277145276-516: The decline of global investment in the humanities and the relative scarcity of major prizes in the humanities. The redesigned prize focuses on supporting outstanding research in the historical disciplines and celebrating scholars and practitioners whose work illuminates the human past and enriches public debate with a deeper understanding of history. The Prize announced that starting in 2022 it would award up to nine prizes of $ 300,000 each year to early- and mid-career scholars and practitioners around
299-682: 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: Graduate programs: Medical school: Within
322-651: The request of the Israeli government he flew to various Islamic countries and over the years and secretly treated Muslim dignitaries including shah of Iran. In the 1980s he was asked to contact the Sudanese government in preparation for Operation Moses the 1984 airlift that rescued Jewish-Ethiopians. Many was President of Tel Aviv University , from 1983 to 1991, following Haim Ben-Shahar and succeeded by Yoram Dinstein . He served as President of Ashkelon Academic College , from 2002 to 2012. Starting in 2010 he
345-440: 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 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 2016 QS World University Rankings ranked Tel Aviv University 22nd in
368-662: 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 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
391-506: The world to recognize significant achievements in the study of the past and support the winners’ future endeavours. From 2022, there will no longer be a distinction between three prize categories. Laureates include cellist Yo-Yo Ma (2006), Israeli author Amos Oz (2008), U.S. Vice President Al Gore (2008), Canadian author Margaret Atwood (2010), French economist Esther Duflo , and immunologist Dr. Anthony Fauci (2021). In 2016, Catherine Hall of University College London rejected
414-602: The world, including $ 300,000 funding an international postdoctoral fellowship program at Tel Aviv University , where the Prize is headquartered. The Prize is endowed by the Dan David Foundation. Until 2021 the Prize comprised 3 annual prizes of $ 1 million for innovative and interdisciplinary research in three time dimensions: Past, Present and Future. Prize laureates donated 10 percent of their prize money to doctoral scholarships for outstanding Ph.D. students and postdoctoral scholarships in their own field from around
437-458: The world. In September 2021, the Dan David Prize announced that it would shift its focus to support the work of "historians, art historians, archaeologists , digital humanists , curators , documentary filmmakers and all those who deepen our knowledge and understanding of the past". The Dan David Foundation was founded in 2000 with a $ 100 million endowment by Romanian -born Israeli businessman and philanthropist Dan David . The Dan David Prize
460-515: Was an Israeli urologist who was President of Tel Aviv University from 1983 to 1991, and President of Ashkelon Academic College from 2002 to 2012. Moshe was born in Hebron to Israel and Simcha Mani, of the well-established Mani family. His great-grandfather was Rabbi Eliyahu Mani, the renown scholar who led the Jewish community of Hebron for 40 years. His father was Dr. Israel Mani, who served as
483-602: Was expanded and now makes up 89 hectares (220 acres) in Tel Aviv's Ramat Aviv neighborhood. 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
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#1732772277145506-451: Was founded with the goal of rewarding and encouraging innovative and interdisciplinary research that cuts across traditional boundaries and paradigms. Each year, three prizes of $ 1 million were awarded in rotating fields to those who made outstanding contributions to humanity. In anticipation of the Prize’s 20th anniversary in 2021, the Dan David Prize refocused in a new direction, citing
529-496: 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 191st best university in the world by THE World University Rankings , 230th by the QS World University Rankings and in the 151–200th bracket by
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