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Fulbright alumni Uri Banin and Michael Karayanni win two of three
2007 Michael Bruno Memorial Awards

July 18, 2007

 

At a ceremony held at the Israel Academy of Sciences and  Humanities, Fulbright alumni Professor Uri Banin and Dr. Michael Karayanni were named the recipients of two of the three 2007 Michael Bruno Memorial Awards. 

 

Uri Banin is a Professor in the Department of Physical Chemistry of the Hebrew University and a founding director of the University’s Krueger Center for Nanoscience and Nanotechnology.  According to one of the Bruno Award evaluators, Professor Banin is “among the best young nano-scientists in the world”.  In 1994 Professor Banin received a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship in support of research carried out at the University of California Berkeley.

 

Michael Karayanni is a Senior Lecturer and Vice Dean in the Faculty of Law of the Hebrew University.  His main research fields are procedural law, comparative law, “conflict of laws”, and constitutional law regarding the status of national and religious minorities within the liberal state.  The Bruno Award evaluators described Dr. Karayanni as an “outstanding scholar with a first-rate analytical mind”.  In 2002, Dr. Karayanni was selected as a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow.  His post-doctoral research was conducted at the University of Pennsylvania.

 

Each Bruno Award laureate receives a grant of $216,000, with no strings or restrictions attached.  The grants are intended to provide the award winners an opportunity to engage in creative and self-fulfilling activities of their choosing over an extended period of time, free from financial limitations and institutional obligations.  The Bruno Awards are a program of Yad Hanadiv, the Rothschild family foundation.

 

Since the Bruno Awards program began in 1999, 7 of the 25 Bruno Award recipients named have been Fulbright program alumni.

 

Fulbright alumna Dr. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari receives
Secretary of State’s Woman of Courage Award

June 17, 2007

 

In a ceremony held at the residence of Mr. Gene Kretz, Deputy Chief of Mission of the Embassy of the United States, Fulbright alumna Dr. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari received the Secretary of State’s Woman of Courage Award.

 

Inaugurated in March, 2007 by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the Award honors the courage of extraordinary women worldwide who have played transformative roles in their societies.  Dr. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, an internationally renowned scholar in family law and a leading expert in the field of women’s rights, was found to embody the virtues of a Woman of Courage.  Her award certificate states:

 

"Dr. Halperin-Kaddari has tirelessly worked to protect women’s rights in Israel.  Through her expertise in feminist jurisprudence, she has changed attitudes, shaped policies, and is enabling women to achieve genuine equality in the workplace.  This award is to honor her courage and leadership in advocating for women’s rights and advancement."

 

Dr. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari heads Bar Ilan University’s Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women.  Last year she was elected to the UN Committee for Elimination of Discrimination Against Woman (CEDAW). In 1989 the United States-Israel Educational Foundation awarded a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship to Dr. Halperin-Kaddari in support of her doctoral studies in law at Yale University. 
  

US National Institute of Mental Health awards 2.24 million dollar research grant to project on "Terrorism and Traumatic Responding", co-headed by Fulbright alumna Dr. Daphna Canetti-Nisim

Summer 2007

 

The United States National Institute of Mental Health will provide a four-year, 2.24 million dollar grant for the implementation of a project on "Terrorism and Traumatic Responding: Exposure and Resiliency Factors", headed by Fulbright alumna Dr. Daphna Canetti-Nisim and two American colleagues.  One of Dr. Canetti-Nisim's co-principal investigor's on this project is American Professor Stevan Hobfoll, who is also a Fulbright Israel Program alumnus.  

 

The aims of the project are to inform US public health policy on issues relating to preparedness for future terrorist events aimed at US targets; to provide a theoretical framework for analysis of risk and resiliency factors; and to increase the knowledge base for clinical intervention aimed at those developing terrorism-related post-traumatic stress disorder, depression, and general psychiatric distress in response to terrorist threats.

 

Dr. Daphna Canetti-Nisim, who received her PhD from the University of Haifa in 2003, is a Lecturer in the University's Department of Political Science and a Research Fellow in its National Security Studies Center.  In 2005 she was awarded a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship in support of research to be carried out at the University of Notre Dame.

 

Stevan Hobfoll is Distinguished Professor and Director of The Applied Psychology Center in the Department of Psychology, Kent State University.  In 2003 he was awarded a Fulbright Senior Specialist Fellowship for a visit to the University of Haifa.

 

Fulbright alumnus Professor Kalman Kaplan wins
John Templeton Foundation award to develop online course on religion/sprituality and mental health

May 2007

 

The John Templeton Foundation announced the award of a $428,000 to Professor Kalman Kaplan and his associate, Professor Luis Vargas, in order to enable them to develop an innovative online curriculum on the topic "Religion/Spirituality and Mental Health".  After development of the study materials, the project is to enroll 80 students, half of them active professional therapists, clergy, or mental health educators, and train them in the application of insights gained from religion to the treatment of mental health problems.

 

Professor Kalman Kaplan is Professor of Psychology at Wayne State University and Clinical Professor of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Illinois-Chicago College of Medicine.  In 2006/2007 he was a visiting Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellow at Tel Aviv University.

 

Fulbright alumni at Tel Aviv University appointed to head schools, hold endowed chairs

Spring 2007

 

The appointment of  Fulbright alumni to a number of important Tel Aviv University positions was announced:
 
Professor Yoram Peri (2000 Rabin Senior Scholar Fellow; American University) was appointed Head of the Caesarea Rothschild School of ommunication.
 
Professor Yoram Weiss (1964 Doctoral Fellow; Stanford University) was appointed Head of the Berglas School of Economics.
 
Professor Eyal Benvenisti (1998 Rabin Senior Scholar Fellow; Harvard University) was named incumbent of the Yanowicz Chair in Human Rights.

 

Professor Menahem Mautner (1979 Doctoral Fellow; Yale University) was named incumbent of the Rubinstein Chair in Comparative Private Law.

 

Professor Ran Tur-Kaspa (1984 Post-Doctoral Fellow; Yeshiva University) was named incumbent of the Cesarman Chair for Research in Liver Diseases.

 

Fulbright alumnus Professor Oren Gross awarded
American Society of International Law Certificate of Merit

March 2007 - Washington, DC

 

The American Society of International Law announced the award of its Certificate of Merit for "Preeminent Contribution To Creative Scholarship" to Fulbright alumnus Professor Oren Gross and co-author Professor Fionnuala Ni Aolain for their book Law in Times of Crisis (Cambridge University Press, 2006).

 

Professor Gross, Director of the Minnesota Center for Legal Studies of the University of Minnesota Law School, received a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship in 1991 for studies at Harvard.

 

Schneider family announces $250,000 fellowship program,
honoring Fulbright alumnus Professor Yehuda Danon

February 19, 2007

 

The Schneider family will provide $250,000 to enable the award of a Fulbright-Schneider Yehuda Danon Post-Doctoral Fellowship to an outstanding young researcher in the life sciences in each of the ten coming years.  This gesture honoring Fulbright alumnus Danon was announced by Ms. Lynn Schneider at an evening convened at the Schneider Children’s Medical Center of Israel to mark Professor Danon’s retirement from his administrative duties in the Clalit Health Services to which the Center is affiliated.

 

Professor Yehuda Danon was the founding director of the Schneider Children's Medical Center of Israel, Israel’s first and only children’s hospital.  The Schneider Children’s Hospital of Long Island Jewish Medical Center served as the inspiration for the childrens’ hospital in Israel; and the generosity of the Schneider family, which made possible the establishment of the model institution in the US, was also the key to establishing its Israeli counterpart.

 

Professor Yehuda Danon is one of Israel's leading physicians, with wide-ranging influence on both medical research and practice.  He serves today as Director of the Schneider Center’s Kipper Immunology and Allergy Institute, as well as head of the Laboratory of Pediatric Immunology at the Felsenstein Medical Research Center of Tel Aviv University.  During Professor Danon's military service, he rose to the position of Surgeon General of the Israel Defense Force.

 

Professor Danon received his M.D. degree from the Hebrew University.  In 1976 he received a Fulbright fellowship to enable to him to carry out research at the University of California, Los Angeles, and in 1983 he was awarded a second fellowship in support of research conducted at Yeshiva University.

 

The Schneider family is headed by Mr. Irving Schneider, a leading business figure and philanthropist.  In his business career, Mr. Schneider is an extremely successful real estate executive, formerly one of the senior partners of the late Harry B. Helmsley and now COO and Chairman of the Board of Helmsley-Spear, Inc. In addition to serving as the main supporter of the Schneider children’s hospitals in New York and Petach Tikva, Mr. Schneider and his family are active philanthropists and benefactors of many cultural, educational, health, Jewish, and civic organizations in New York, in other states, and in Israel. Mr. Schneider is also a major benefactor of Brandeis University, where he served as a trustee from 1970-1994 and was named trustee emeritus in 1995.

 

 

Fulbright alumnus Professor Daniel Friedman appointed
Minister of Justice

February 7, 2007

 

The Knesset approved the appointment of Professor Daniel Friedman to the post of Minister of Justice.

 

Professor Friedman, 1991 Israel Prize laureate in law and former Dean of the Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, received a Fulbright Fellowship in 1965 in support of his doctoral studies at Harvard University.

 

Professor Friedman is the second Fulbright alumnus appointed to the current government.  Professor Yuli Tamir has served as Minister of Education, since the government was established last year.  Another alumnus, Dr. Yoram Turbowicz, serves as the Prime Minister's Chief of Staff. 

 

 

Judge Janice Brown addresses symposium honoring Fulbright alumnus, former Supreme Court President Barak, on his retirement

December 27, 2006 - University of Haifa 

 

Judge Janice Brown of the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals gave a talk on the contrasts between her legal world view and that of Fulbright alumnus, former Supreme Court President Aharon Barak, at a symposium titled Celebrating the Retirement of President Aharon Barak: His Impact on the Law.

 

Judge Brown spoke in the framework of the “Justices’ and Judges’ Discussion on the Role of a Judge in a Democratic Society”, held on December 27, 2006 at the University of Haifa. At the request of the symposium organizers, the United States-Israel Educational Foundation provided the funding required to make possible Judge Brown’s participation in the conference.  Judge Brown’s address is available here.

 

Fulbright program alumni played a significant role in the three-day symposium program:  In addition to former President Barak himself, the roster of conference speakers included: Professor Gavriela Shalev, Hebrew University; Professor Joshua Wiesman, Hebrew University; Dr. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, Bar-Ilan University; Dr. Shahar Lifshitz, Bar-Ilan University; Professor Hanoch Dagan, Dean, Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University; and Professor Gad Barzilai, Tel Aviv University.  Professor Reuven Avi-Yonah, University of Michigan, chaired a session; and Professor Itamar Rabinovic, President, Tel-Aviv University, greeted the participants at the opening of the sessions held at his University.

 

Fulbright alumnus Godfrey Gumbs honored by CUNY,
American Physical Society

December 6, 2006

 

Hunter College President Jennifer Raab announced that Fulbright alumnus Professor Godfrey Gumbs of the Physics Department had been named a City University of New York Distinguished Professor.  The Board of Trustees conferred this honor on Dr. Gumbs in recognition of his lifetime of contributions to theoretical physics.

 

In 2005, Professor Gumbs received the Edward A. Bouchet Award, the American Physical Society's highest prize, "for pioneering contributions to our understanding of low-dimensional heterostructures; and for leadership in recruitment, retention, and mentoring of under-represented minority students."

 

Professor Gumbs was a Fulbright Senior Scholar Fellow at Bar Ilan University during the 2005/2006 academic year.

  

Limor Bursztyn wins new Fulbright Science and Technology Award

November 21, 2006

 

The State Department announced that Ms. Limor Bursztyn, an MSc student at Tel Aviv University’s Department of Biomedical Engineering, was one of the winners in the first worldwide competition for Fulbright Science and Technology Awards.  As a Science and Technology Fellow, Ms. Bursztyn will receive a full scholarship for her first three years of PhD studies at a US university.

 

Fellowship recipients were chosen through a rigorous, multi-tiered, merit-based selection process consisting of in-country competition and review, field and discipline merit review by top-level U.S. academic leaders, and nomination by a blue ribbon Advisory Panel, including a Nobel Laureate and university deans and presidents. 

 

Ms. Bursztyn, aged 25, received a prestigious Wolf Foundation scholarship for her undergraduate studies, and has several times received the Rector’s Prize and Dean’s Award for outstanding students.  Her doctoral studies will focus on biomedical signal processing and methods to improve under- standing of neurons' processing of cognitive and sensory information.  

  

President Bush to nominate Fulbright Senior Scholar R. B. Lott
to the National Council on the Arts

November 2, 2006

The White House announced that President George W. Bush has decided to nominate Robert Bretley Lott to serve as a Member of the National Council on the Arts for a six year term.

Bret Lott, a highly acclaimed author, has published 6 novels, two non-fiction works, and numerous short stories and essays. His most recent novels, both published by Random House, were A Song I Know By Heart and The Hunt Club.

Lott is also Professor of English at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge and Editor and Director of The Southern Review.

Professor Lott is currently working in Israel as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, hosted by Bar Ilan University’s Creative Writing Program. 

 

Fulbright alumnus Hossam Haick receives Euro 1.75 million
European Union grant for cancer research project

October 30, 2006

The Jerusalem Post reported that Fulbright alumnus Dr. Hossam Haiek of the Technion has been awarded a 1.75 million Euro research grant by the European Union's Curie Program for the development of nanometric sensors for the early detection of lung cancer.  The grant, the largest ever awarded by the European Union to an Israeli researcher, will be used to set up a new laboratory and to hire researchers from Israel and abroad.

 

Dr. Haiek, a Senior Lecturer in the Technion's Department of Chemical Engineering and a faculty associate of the Russell Berrie Nanotechnology Institute, received a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the United States-Israel Educational Foundation in 2004 in support of research at the California Institute of Technology.

 

Fulbright alumnus Professor Moshe Sidi appointed
Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the Technion

October 2006

 

Fulbright alumnus Professor Moshe Sidi of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering was named the Technion's Executive Vice-President for Academic Affairs.  In 1983, Sidi was awarded a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellowship in support of research at MIT.

 

Fulbright alumnus Professor Manuel Trajtenberg selected to head the new National Economic Council in the Prime Minister’s Office

September 2006

 

Fulbright alumnus Professor Manuel Trajtenberg was named the first Head of the newly-established National Economic Council in the Prime Minister’s Office.

 

The Council’s duties include proposing policy measures which will encourage growth while narrowing socio-economic gaps; evaluation of the proposed state budget before its submission to the Government; and preparation of position papers on specific budgetary and other economic policy issues for the Government and its committees.
 
Professor Trajtenberg, former Head of Tel Aviv University’s Berglas School of Economics, is a renowned researcher in the field of the economics of R&D and innnovation.  In 1985, he was awarded a Fulbright American Research Fellowship in support of work to be carried out at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

 

Tel Aviv University names Fulbright alumni to head faculties, institutes

Fall 2006

With the opening of the academic year, the appointment of Fulbright alumni to a number of important university positions was announced:

 

Professor Hanoch Dagan (1990 Doctoral Fellow; Yale University) was named Dean of the Buchmann Faculty of Law.

 

Professor Ehud Heyman (1979 Doctoral Fellow; Polytechnic Institute of New York) was appointed Dean of the Iby and Aladar Fleischman Faculty of Engineering.

 

Professor Assaf Likhovski (1994 Doctoral Fellow; Harvard) was appointed Director of the Cegla Super-Center for Interdisciplinary Research of the Law.

 

Dr. Shai Lavi (1995 Doctoral Fellow; University of California, Berkeley) was appointed Head of the Professor Dr. Raphael Taubenschlag Institute of Criminal Law.

 

Professor Hana Wirth-Nesher (1982 US Senior Scholar; Lafayette College/Tel Aviv University) was named incumbent of the Samuel L. and Perry Haber Chair for the Study of the Jewish Experience in the United States.

 

Fulbright alumnus Professor Ken Goldstein appointed
Academic Director of the Asper Institute for Public Advocacy,
Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

Fall 2006

 

Professor Ken Goldstein of the Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, who visited the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in 2003 as a Fulbright Senior Scholar, was appointed Academic Director of the Asper Institute for Public Advocacy of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. 

 

Professor Goldstein is a prominent expert in the field of political communication, who has carried out important studies of news coverage of election campaigns in both the United States and Israel.  The work of the Asper Institute focuses on understanding and improving Israel’s attempts to explain its policies to the world, with emphasis on the use of advanced communications technologies in public advocacy efforts.

 

Fulbright alumna Dr. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari elected to
UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women

June 23, 2006

 

Fulbright alumna Dr. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari of Bar-Ilan University was elected to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women, with the support of 96 of 183 countries taking part in the vote.

 

Dr. Halperin-Kaddari serves as Director of the University's Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women and is Chairpersoon of the Advisory Committee of the National Authority for the Advancement of Women in the Office of the Prime Minister.  Her book Women in Israel: A State of Their Own was published in 2004 by the University of Pennsylvania Press.

 

In 1989 the United States-Israel Educational Foundation awarded a Fulbright Doctoral Fellowship to Halperin-Kaddari in support of her doctoral studies in law at Yale University. 

 

Rice News interviews Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow Oded Hod

February 9, 2006

 

Dr. Oded Hod, a graduate of Tel Aviv University, received a Post-Doctoral Fellowship from the Foundation in 2005 in support of research at Rice University on computational quantum chemistry at Rice University.

 

Interviewed by the University's Rice News, Oded said he is grateful for the opportunity to study at Rice as a Fulbright Scholar, but is also eager to return to Israel to share his knowledge and experience.

 

Law Symposium: International Influences on National Legal Systems

January 29, 2006 - The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

January 30, 2006 - Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya

 

The high point of the anniversary law symposium was the keynote session, attended by 250.  The keynote speakers were Professor Ruth Gavison, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; Justice Antonin Scalia, Supreme Court of the United States; and Fulbright alumnus, President Aharon Barak, Supreme Court of Israel. 

 

Very positive feedback was received from legal experts regarding the law symposium.  According to one of USIEF's Israeli law alumni, the keynote lectures and the Q&A session which followed will become "part of the folklore" of the local legal profession.

 

President Barak prefaced his lecture with the following words of appreciation for the Fulbright program:

 

Greetings to the Fulbright program on its 50th anniversary.  The Fulbright program has spread knowledge throughout the world.  It has brought us closer to a better understanding of American society.  For this we thank Fulbright.  For this I thank Fulbright, having benefited from a Fulbright scholarship in '66-'67, as a young scholar at Harvard Law School.

  

US Gala Evenings

February 14, 2006 - Embassy of Israel, Washington, D.C.

February 16, 2006 - Stanford Faculty Club, under the auspices of the Consulate General of Israel to the Pacific Northwest Region

 

Both of the gala evenings held in the US in cooperation with Israeli diplomatic posts were very well attended, with almost 200 participants in Washington, D.C. and about 170 at Stanford.  The Washington audience was notable for the strong presence of heads of DC area academic institutions -  the Presidents of George Washington University and the University of the District of Columbia, the interim President of American University and the Provost of Howard University.  The Stanford audience was notable for the presence of a number of leading high-tech figures.

 

The program in Washington included remarks by Mr. Jeremy Issacharoff, Deputy Chief of Mission, Embassy of Israel; Assistant Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Farrell; US alumnus E. Ethelbert Miller, poet and Director, African American Resource Center, Howard University; Israeli alumnus Professor Yehuda Danon, Tel Aviv University, founder and former Director of the Schneider Children's Medical Center; and the Chairman and ED of USIEF.  Musical selections were performed by Israeli alumnus, Dr. Ron Regev, and a colleague.

 

The program at Stanford included an address by Dr. Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, Stanford Center for International Security and Cooperation, and comments by Mr. David Akov, Consul General; Israeli alumni Professor Yehuda Danon and Dr. Levy Gerzberg, founder, President and CEO of Zoran Corporation; and the Chairman and ED of USIEF.  Letters of congratulation were read by representatives of Governor Arnold Schwarznegger and Congressman Mike Honda.

 

At both events the USIEF anniversary film, "Time of their Lives - The Fulbright Israel Experience", was screened, and drew very positive response from the audience.

 

Washington, D.C. photogallery

 

Stanford Faculty Club photogallery

 

The State of US-Israel Scientific and Technological Cooperation

April 23-24, 2006 - Ma'ale Hahamisha Kibbutz Hotel

 

The symposium on The State of US-Israel Scientific and Technological Cooperation was devoted to analysis of the current situation and development of practical policy guidelines for strengthening Israel's special relationship with the United States in science and technology.

 

The symposium, which drew an audience of 150 on its opening day, featured addresses by roster of distinguished speakers from industry, academia, and government, among them:

 

• Dr. John Marburger, III, Science Adviser to the President of the United States and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy;
• Professor Aaron Ciechanover, Fulbright alumnus, The Technion, 2004 Nobel Prize Laureate in Chemistry;
• Professor Alan I. Leshner, Fulbright alumnus, Chief Executive Officer of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; 
• Professor Joseph Klafter, Chairman, Israel Science Foundation;
• Mr. Eric Benhamou, Chairman of the Board of Palm, Inc. and 3Com; and
• Mr. David Naveh, Chief Technical Officer, Biological Products Worldwide, Bayer LLC.
• Mr. David Perlmutter, Senior Vice-President, General Manager/Mobility Group, Intel. 

 

USIEF's partners for this event were its sister foundations, established by the governments of Israel and the United States to promote American-Israeli scientific and technological cooperation: the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation (BSF), the United States-Israel Binational Agricultural Research and Development Fund (BARD), the United States-Israel Science and Technology Commission, the United States-Israel Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation (BIRD).

 

Alumni Evening

May 8, 2006 - David Intercontinental Hotel, Tel Aviv

 

On May 8 USIEF held a reception, attended by over 900 persons, to mark the achievements of USIEF's Israeli Fulbright alumni - their contributions to Israel's society, its political system, its economy, its scientific and technological capabilities and their contributions to the strengthening of cooperation and mutual understanding between the US and Israel.  All alumni were invited, as were various dignitaries and friends and partners of the Fulbright Israel program.

 

The evening's formal program included: 

 

• Greetings by HE Richard H. Jones, Ambassador of the United States and Honorary Chairman of the Board of the United States-Israel Educational Foundation (USIEF); Mr. Stephen J. Uhlfelder, Chairman of the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board; and by Fulbright alumna, Member of Knesset Yuli Tamir, the newly installed Minister of Education in the government of Israel;
• Presentation of certificates to this year's newly selected Israeli Fulbright Fellows, among them the first recipient of the new Ilan Ramon Post-Doctoral Fellowship, named in honor of Colonel Ilan Ramon, who perished in the Columbia disaster, after carrying out his role in a joint American-Israeli scientific project;
• The Israeli premier screening of the Fulbright Israel 50th anniversary film, "Time of Their Lives The Fulbright Israel Experience";
• Special anniversary address on "The Role of the Intellectual in Society", delivered by distinguished Fulbright alumnus Professor Aviezer Ravitzky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of Israel's leading public intellectuals.

                                         

Social Sciences and Humanities Symposium: As Other See Us

May 9, 2006 - Tel Aviv University

 

The "As Others See Us" symposium explored the influence of exposure to other societies on the manner in which one understands, researches and teaches about his/her own society.  An audience of 90 filled the lecture hall for the symposium's opening session, featuring the distinguished novelist Ms. Jamaica Kincaid; her Israeli counterpart, Ms. Savyon Liebrecht, a Fulbright alumna of the Iowa International Writing Program; and Dr. Gadi Taub, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, one of Israel's distinguished public intellectuals.

 

The symposium program featured three additional U.S. guests, all of them Fulbright Israel alumni: Professor Geoffrey Hartman of Yale University, a leading literary scholar and founder of the Fortunoff Video Archive for Holocaust Testimonies; Johns Hopkins University Professor Jack Greene, recently elected to the National Academy of the Sciences  and Humanities and a former member of the USIEF Board of Directors; and Bancroft and Beveridge Prize-winner Professor Melvin P. Ely of The College of William & Mary. 

                     

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