MESSAGE FROM PROVOST PROF. AMNON LEHAVI

I am honored to start my tenure as the Provost of Reichman University. I joined the university as an assistant professor in the fall of 2003 after completing my doctorate in law from Yale University. I feel truly privileged to have been part of this incredible academic institution ever since then, including during my term as Dean of the Harry Radzyner Law School, in which we established the first PhD program.

These are exciting times for Reichman University. The inauguration of the Dina Recanati School of Medicine is a major milestone for the university. It enables us to fulfill the key academic, professional, and societal mission of educating the next generation of doctors in Israel–after years in which too many of our young men and women had to go abroad to pursue their medical education–and to do so with the best possible team of medical researchers, practicing physicians, and the most advanced teaching facilities in the country. Moreover, our interdisciplinary approach to medical research and education already connects the Dina Recanati School of Medicine to the other schools on campus, as well as to many of the dozens of research centers and institutes at the university, such as the Scojen Institute for Synthetic Biology.

New fronts in interdisciplinary research will be further advanced by the establishment of the university-wide Committee for the Enhancement of Research, chaired by Prof. Aharon Barak, former President of the Supreme Court. Our commitment to promoting research will also be exacerbated by the recent appointment of Dr. Orit Rapaport as the new Head of the Research Authority and the inauguration of a new PhD Program in business administration in the fall of 2025, which will join our PhD programs in law, computer science, psychology, and government.