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Shechtman:Jews 10 timesmore like
Israel
to win
Nobel Prizeoutside
Israel's future
the
panel dealt with the
paradox of Israel being seen
world
as
leader in research
will be
vation
The
HARTMAN
BEN
By
and
bleak
invests
state
Prof. Dan
in
more
research
funding
inno-
unless
centers,
Shechtman,
the
Prize laureate for
of innovation
center
as
academic
the
primary
system. The
the
sion came
at
dealingwith
state
declining
school
while
success,
time
same
and
discus-
week
same
that
To
ilar to the number
outside of
cated
Israel and look at the number
The
of Israelis who
other
Nobel
won
Prizes, you see the chances
about 10 times higherfor
%54
in the
diploma.
Shechtman,
the
of
Technion-Israel
structure
to
researchers,
Yaari of the Cen-
for the
nalityat
prob- versity
shortageof infra-
is
ter
support
adding
that the
described
Study
the
of Ratio-
Hebrew
of
Uni-
Jerusalem
how
the
United
States became
research
and
science
leader in the
majorityof Israeliswho have
post-WWII years due to the
won
Nobel
Prizes partnered massive
investment
of the
with
from
they
their
researchers
scientists
or
foreign countries or
performed
themselves
work
there is
abroad,
much
where
better infra-
of support for
research.
structure
demic
aca-
"It's great to pat ourselves
the shoulder, but we must
on
look
at
Shechtman
the
entire
came
during
how
Israel
08$million
per year
the national science foun-
dation,
federal
he
of
government
spends
on
said
as
opposed to
government,
budgets
the US
which
08$billion
ified that while it is true that
comments
panel
called
Ben-Ze'ev, president
Universityof Haifa,
Aaron
argued that greater cooperauniversities and
tion between
elsewhere.
Israel Prize laureate and for-
education
mer
Amnon
the state to invest in
zliyaConference at
Center
disciplinary
"If you ask leadingIsraeli
researchers where
they did
much
on
system
of
community colleges,
saying that it would help those
who
are
disadvantagedand
don't benefit enough from
strong
support
at
system
He
said
that
he
doesn't
believe that the Council
for
Higher Education
should
be
abolished, but that it must
go
reforms.
throughlarge-scale
The panelalso dealt briefly
with
how
innovations
in
the
technology,particularly
Internet, have changed how
if they
students
learn and
to the universi-
of
the
as
minister
called
Rubinstein
than
threat
larger
pose
model.
population, ty
000,1 Rubinstein
government spends
Israel in terms
times
the
each
Israel invests
year.
the US is 50 times
"The Future of Israel'sHigher
Education"
held at the Herthe Inter-
of
home.
per year to the support of
picture,"research institutions. He clar-
said.
Shechtman's
federal government.
Yaari also described
the
States invests
United
than
individually
more
20
partsin the United States and
Prof.
comments,
Institute
Technology,said the
lem
his
Menachem
professorat
among
fact that
of the
institutions
private and state colleges
of Israel's population would help Israeliresearchers
universityor college keep up with their counter-
Jew outside of Israel to win
Prize than
the Nobel
Jew
lives in Israel."
cited
factors, the
has
In
edu-
country in the world.
ranking
are
who
second-most
each
leadingresearch
of the
Israel the
it
emphasizethis point,he
stated that
of
Jews in Israelas beingsim-
did
say
they
he said.
abroad,"
state
Nobel
the
would
Organization for Ecosaid
on
nomic
Chemistry
Thursday.
Cooperation and
"If we
look at the number
Development (OECD) ranked
2011
of them
their research, most
on
research.
time
said since
highereducation
less
the
of Socrates and Aristotle
followed
has
the
more
same
or
2 ‫עמוד‬
method,
situation
the
same
and
he
expects the
will remain
in
the
future.
Prof. Mordechai
about
coming
Sokolov
from
the Tel Aviv
Academic
Collegeof Engineeringsaid
he
believes
and
online
never
that
computers
technology will
entirelyreplace the
value
of
interinterpersonal
action in education.
He
also
maligned current
deficiencies
dents
of the
in
Israeli stu-
genera
digital
sayingthat "the average
Israelistudent doesn't know
tion,
thingabout Islam even
single
though we are surrounded by
Muslims
on
all sides."