Matanel Crossroad Seminar – In preparation for Israel’s centennial

Vision

The state of Israel and global Judaism are once again facing a crossroad: On the one hand, there is regrowth, rehabilitation, and revival, while on the other there is deterioration, embarrassment, and social and spiritual collapse. We therefore must start a thinking process that will attempt to present new and invigorating points of view, an infrastructure for a deep soul-search and inquiry.

Activity

We wish to enroll the younger generation, outstanding students from Reichman University, Israel’s future leaders, in a seminar dealing with the vision of Israel’s state and society in its centennial year – 2048.
The Crossroad seminar will consist of 15 graduate students from every department, or outstanding undergraduates in their last year of studies. They will meet over an academic school year for 10 sessions, dealing with the core issues Israel is concerned with toward its centennial: education, welfare, culture, religion, health, finance, communication & media, law, foreign affairs and government.

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It is not the strongest of the species that survive, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin

Dr. Adi Koll

Dr. Adi Koll holds an LL.B. Law degree, Magna Cum Laude, from the Hebrew University, and LL.M. and JSD Law degrees from Columbia University. She is the founder of the “Universit’a Ba’am” (The “Access for All” Program) in Tel Aviv University, which opens the doors of academia to marginalized groups in Israel by inviting them to participate in special academic courses in Law, Medicine, Business and Psychology taught by TAU students. The program was later extended to Ben-Gurion, Haifa and Hebrew University. Dr. Koll was a 19th Knesset Member on behalf of the “Yesh Atid” party, serving as the chairperson of the Public Petitions Committee. She is currently the Dean of Student and Reichman University.