Chaim Sukenik, at The Blogs

Jan 17, 2024, 10:01 PM

The indispensable value of Israel’s wartime academic year

The prospect of starting the academic year during wartime has been a hotly debated issue not only within Israeli higher education, but across Israeli society. In essence, the nation was stuck between a rock and a hard place —...

May 5, 2020, 8:23 AM

Featured Post

A word of caution about a long-term risk of online higher education

Illustrative. A father trying to pursue higher education from home. (iStock)

Higher education is supposed to be a ticket to success; when we put college online, we make getting an education harder for those who need it most

Jan 15, 2015, 11:49 PM

Sweet Emotion: The key to effective political discourse

As Israel enters its 2-month general election phase, the clash of political ideologies and personalities provides a platform for provocative discourse. Will higher taxes strengthen or weaken the economy? Will expanding our arsenal of weapons make us safer, or will...

Feb 3, 2014, 2:15 PM

The answer to Haredi poverty: It’s academic

One of the major social issues – if not the major issue – facing Israel today is the poverty of the Haredi (Ultra-Orthodox) sector. Rather than advocating the continued use of government subsidies to solve this problem, a national...

About Me

Prof. Chaim Sukenik is the President of the Jerusalem College of Technology, one of Israel’s most unique and prestigious academic institutions of higher learning with a focus on science and technology. He was formerly the founding Director of the Institute for Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials at Bar-Ilan University and the head of the Bar-Ilan Minerva Center for Microscale and Nanoscale Particles and Films as Tailored Biomaterial Interfaces.