The article profiles the private college Interdisciplinary Center, which is located in Israel and attracts donors and scholars from around the world. The center is the country's first private college, and offers competition to Israel's seven publicly financed major universities. The school has developed a stellar reputation among students and scholars because of its commitment to interdisciplinary work and community involvement.
A group of law professors at Tel Aviv University has caused a controversy by announcing, in a newspaper advertisement, the creation of a privately financed law school.
A controversy has developed here over a legislative proposal to allow the creation of colleges outside the purview of the Council of Higher Education, Israel's national agency...
Guidelines issued by staff at the Center for Academic Studies in Or Yehuda's education school ahead of summer semester deemed problematic as nearly 30 percent of the students in the program are Arabs.