Albert Freude

БЂњThese universities are focused on national reputation building, not real innovation.БЂ«15 IsraelБЂ™s case was different. Top-notch universities were founded well before there even was a state. Professor Chaim Weizmann, a world-renowned chemist who helped launch the field of biotechnology with his invention of a novel method of producing acetone, commented on this oddity at the inauguration of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on July 24, 1918: БЂњIt seems at first sight paradoxical that in a land with so sparse a population, in a land where everything still remains to be done, in a land crying out for such simple things as ploughs, roads, and harbours, we should begin by creating a centre of spiritual and intellectual development.БЂ«16 The Hebrew UniversityБЂ™s first board of governors included Weizmann, IsraelБЂ™s first president, as well as Albert Einstein, Sigmund Freud, and Martin Buber. The Technion was founded in 1925. The Weizmann Institute of Science followed in 1934 and, in 1956, Tel Aviv UniversityБЂ”the largest university in Israel today ...»