American Friends of The Hebrew University (AFHU) was founded in 1925 by the American business and philanthropist, Felix M. Warburg. A national, not-for-profit 501(c) (3) organization headquartered in New York City, AFHU raises awareness of and support for The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel’s research powerhouse and most comprehensive institution of higher learning.
CONTINUE READING →The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was positioned among the leading 100 universities worldwide in the 2013 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU).
CONTINUE READING →Almost 30 years before there was a State of Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem was born. It was a dream of visionaries Albert Einstein, Chaim Weizmann, Sigmund Freud and Martin Buber based on an idea conceived before the start of the twentieth century – to create a center of higher learning in the tradition
CONTINUE READING →February 23, 2015–The Rappaport Prize for Excellence in Medical Research will be awarded in two weeks to Professor Hermona Soreq of the […]
CONTINUE READING →February 25, 2015–Up to one million people–mainly pregnant women and young children–are killed each year by the Plasmodium falciparum parasite, which causes […]
CONTINUE READING →February 17, 2015–Every year, drug-resistant infections kill more than 50,000 people across Europe and the United States, and hundreds of thousands more […]
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