Professor Uriel Reichman's journey toward building a global academic home for the Jewish people
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As the founding president of Reichman University and recipient of a special Lifetime Achievement Award, Prof. Uriel Reichman is already looking beyond accolades. True to form, his focus remains firmly on the future - and on the commitment of the university he built to the future of the Jewish people.
"I see this period as an enormous challenge," he says, his voice clear and determined. "And we want to live up to it."
As the founder of Israel's first private university, Prof. Reichman is no stranger to either vision or adversity. From his service in the Six Day and Yom Kippur wars, to his campaign for a written constitution for Israel in the early 80s, to transforming a once-dismissed dream of a bilingual, Zionist institution into one of Israel's premier universities, Reichman has always chosen the harder path, so long as it was the right one.
Through its Raphael Recanati International School - Israel's largest English-language academic hub, with thousands of students from nearly 90 countries - Reichman University is already realizing this goal. Now, says Reichman, the work must accelerate: more students, deeper global partnerships, and a renewed commitment to Israel as a center of intellectual and moral leadership for the Jewish world.
"As the world's only official Zionist university, we believe in turning challenges into opportunities," he concludes. "This is the time to build."
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