A group of Yale faculty members recently spent five days in Israel on a mission to learn from and make meaningful academic connections with their Israeli counterparts. “Much of what we learned and observed astounded us,” Prof. Edward H. Kaplan and Prof. Evan Morris wrote in an article for Newsweek.
At the Hadassah-Hebrew University Medical Center, Prof. Kaplan and Prof. Morris noted how integrated the medical school and faculty are. “The percentage of doctors, nurses, and pharmacists who are Arabs greatly exceeds their share in the total population,” they wrote.
“We heard Arab university vice presidents, and their Jewish counterparts take full pride in jointly leading Israeli university life,” they continued. “Unlike the scene on American campuses, Muslim and Christian Arabs, Druze and Jewish students understand that their job is to learn, not to fight each other.”
Read the full article in Newsweek.
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