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In just 60 years, this university has harnessed Tel Aviv’s energy and creative chutzpah to become:
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• Israel’s largest and most comprehensive research
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university, with nine faculties and 125 schools and departments
• A top 100 Global Innovation University • 9th in the world for producing successful
Avraham Dayan has always been a big-ideas kind of guy.
entrepreneurs
A decorated soldier and one of Israel’s best and brightest minds, he’s combined stellar military service with off-the-charts academic achievement.
• 8th in the world for graduates that established
“unicorn” companies worth $1 billion or more — and the only non-U.S. university to make the top 10
• Israel’s academic leader in patents and publications
Now, as a researcher at Tel Aviv University, he’s working on a project that holds real promise for cancer patients — and he couldn’t be doing it without scholarship support for the big ideas that may well change the world.
Thanks to the scholarship, I can afford to be a full-time researcher working on my PhD. Without this support, I would never have become a doctoral student.
This year, as we celebrate Rosh Hashana, I’d like to invite you to be a part of the next big idea. Your generous gift today will help researchers achieve their maximum potential while also strengthening Israel’s global impact and the future of the Jewish people. As you know, Israel has become an oasis of technological discovery, innovation and entrepreneurship. Pioneering work in areas as diverse as medicine, national security, education and film are now a hallmark of Israeli society. At the centre of all this is Tel Aviv University — and extraordinary minds like Avraham Dayan’s.
– Avraham Dayan, molecular microbiology & biotechnology researcher
With support for scholarships from Canadian friends like you, Tel Aviv University can continue to excel in research and community leadership as it finds ways to help solve universal problems.
Dayan, a married father of three, dreamt from a young age of becoming a researcher and inventor. By the time he left high school, he was an award-wining young scientist. Today, his goal is nothing less than to find new and better ways to treat cancer — and his latest project is showing promising anti-malignancy activity in cell cultures. please see over...
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Tel Aviv University vital statistics:
• 170,000 alumni • 1,000 senior faculty • 30,000 students — 40% of them at graduate level • 400+ laboratories • 3,500+ research projects annually • 200-acre campus • 17 affiliated hospitals
“We have developed a multidisciplinary technology for treating cancer based on a combination of chemistry, materials science, molecular biology and oncology,” Dayan says. Dayan hopes that, in the near future and after successful testing, the substance could be applied to external tumors as an ointment or administered as pills. “Thanks to the scholarship, I can afford to be a full-time researcher working on my PhD. Without this support, I would never have become a doctoral student.” Just as Dayan represents the best student minds in Israel, Tel Aviv University represents Israel at its very best: dynamic, innovative and forward-looking.
The next Big Idea starts with you... …and blossoms at Tel Aviv University
Partly because of military conscription, Israeli students’ lives are very different from their peers overseas. By the time they begin their undergraduate studies at the ripe old age of 24, most no longer get financial help from their parents. And for those at the master’s and PhD levels — many of whom are already married with children — the rigorous nature of their studies means that working to support a family just isn’t feasible. Tel Aviv University does its best to provide maximum support to its brilliant students so that they can pour all their energies into their studies and lab discoveries. But we must seek more funding to ensure every dedicated student reaches his or her full potential and every big idea comes to fruition. Tel Aviv University’s students represent the future of Israeli economic prosperity, scientific progress and cultural enrichment. It’s why we need you today. With your generous gift toward our scholarship campaign, you’ll be joining an impressive group of like-minded, philanthropic visionaries who have chosen to do something special for the future of Israel. You’ll be helping students like Avraham Dayan come up with the next big idea. Charity — or tzedaka — is core to our ability to improve the world, and you have the power to ensure no academic potential is squandered. Please give today, as generously as you can. Thank you. Kind regards,
Nathan Disenhouse Chair, Canadian Friends of Tel Aviv University Ontario & Western Canada
P.S. Whatever your connection to Judaism, the Jewish New Year has always been a time to give back. Please support the Next Big Idea by sending in your most generous gift today in the envelope provided. Thank you! 3130 Bathurst Street, Suite 214, Toronto, ON, M6A 2A1
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