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Herzliyan The IDC SPRING 2017 IDC's Dormitories Underway IDC Herzliya Congratulates our 2017 Honorary Fellows: Tzahi Arabov Ziv Aviram Dr. Orna Berry Morris Kahn Dafna Nechmad–Meitar Robert Wiener Naomi Stuchiner - The Wind Annual Social Entrepreneurship Award SAVE THE DATE WORLD SUMMIT ON COUNTER-TERRORISM ICT'S 17TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE SEPTEMBER 11-14/2017 Contact IDC Herzliya: Israel Friends of IDC Tel: +972-9-952-7212 • [email protected] International Friends of IDC Tel: +972-9-952-7321 • [email protected] American Friends of IDC Tel: +1-212-213-5962 • [email protected] IDC Alumni Association Tel: +972-9-960-2756 • [email protected] Raphael Recanati International School Tel: +972-9-960-2806 • [email protected] IDC HERZLIYAN SPRING 2017 Inside Breaking Ground: IDC Herzliya’s Dormitories Are Underway 2 Act.IL: Making the Case for Israel 4 Ten Years of IDC’s Asper Institute 6 Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Liav Orgad 8 2 Executive and Continuing Education’s CEOs Forum 10 Co-Op Start-Up Experience Course 12 Alumni Spotlight: Ariella Rada 13 Freedom and Responsibility: RRIS Volunteers Make a Difference 14 14 Israel Friends: Permanent Revolution of Technology 16 Israel Friends Take Part in Hijack Simulation 18 IDC Alumni Association Works to Strengthen Connections 20 American Friends of IDC Update 22 U.K. Friends of IDC Keep Busy 24 RRIS Global Village: Students from 86 Countries 26 Annual Raphael Recanati International School Pesach Luncheon 28 Student and Alumni Volunteers Host Passover Seder for Holocaust Survivors 30 Short and Sweet: Snippets from IDC Herzliya Happenings 32 Meitar Collection on Display at IDC Herzliya 34 Spotlight on graduate Dalia Grinfeld 37 Academics in Action 38 Israel’s Only Computer Science Degree in English 76 IDC Hackathon: Student Volunteer Initiative 78 Students Vow Never to Forget 79 30 Chinese GMBA Student Benjamin Peng 80 On the cover: IDC Herzliya’s much-awaited dormitories are underway. See Page 2 for the full story. Managing Editor Lara (Greenberg) Doel | [email protected] Copy Editor Miriam Bulwar David-Hay | [email protected] 35 Head Writer Academics Ariel Rodal-Spieler | [email protected] Writer in Yonathan Cohen Action Photographers Adi Cohen Zedek, Kfir Bolotin, Oren Shalev, Kobi Zoltek, Alon Gilboa, Ofer Amram, Yuval Chen, Liyam Flexer, Revital Brandes, Jennifer Kozin, Yehoshua Yosef, Maya Ettinger, Scott Lasky 38 Graphic Design & Print Production Roitman Design | 03-522-2562 | www.zrdesign.co.il 76 Breaking Ground: IDC Herzliya’s Dormitories Are Underway If you will it, it is no dream,” Zionist vision- to house up to 750 students, both international ary Theodor Herzl famously wrote in his “We want this to students and Israeli students who come from dis- “book “Altneuland (“Old New Land”), and be a home for our tant areas. Each dorm room has been designed IDC Herzliya has paid testament to that senti- as a single-occupant studio apartment, with a ment since its inception in 1994. students, a home bed and study area, kitchenette, and bathroom. in which they Now, after years of planning, the dream of pursue academic “Building the dormitories comes after many Prof. Uriel Reichman, president and founder years of thought and planning to ensure that our of IDC Herzliya, to create a 24-hour campus is excellence alongside design meets the standards of ‘green construc- well underway and the ground has been bro- enjoying a very rich tion’ and modern functionality. We want this to ken for the long-awaited dormitories, which are social life.” be a home for our students, a home in which they expected to welcome their first occupants in – Prof. Uriel Reichman, pursue academic excellence alongside enjoying October 2018. a very rich social life,” Reichman says. president and founder, IDC Herzliya With three 13-story towers and a total built area And Jonathan Davis, vice president for External of 29,000 square meters, the dorms will be able Relations and head of the Raphael Recanati 2 IDC HERZLIYAN SPRING 2017 "Building the dormitories comes after many years of thought and planning to ensure that our design meets the standards of ‘green construction’ and modern functionality." – Prof. Uriel Reichman, president and founder, IDC Herzliya an issue that has filled the hearts and minds of IDC Herzliya’s leadership as we have constantly searched for ways to increase the quality of life of our students.” Enabling students to live on campus will not only save them travel time and inconvenience, but may even lead to higher achievements, because the students will be able to receive any assistance they may need on the spot, study in groups, and take advantage of an academic envi- ronment without the distractions they may face at home or living alone. “Our international students already study side by side with their Israeli counterparts and are involved in all aspects of campus life,” Reichman says. “The dorms will serve to further increase and deepen this interaction, as well as give IDC Herzliya the opportunity to increase extracur- ricular social and cultural activities and to pro- vide a fuller university experience overall.” IDC is seeking visionaries to name one of the towers or floors, individual rooms, the student center, the health club, and other areas. IDC’s scholarship students are particularly expected to benefit from the dorms, as many currently live at home to save money and some- International School, says the dorms will elim- except to rent privately in Herzliya or neighbor- times commute very long distances to campus. inate the need to rent apartments privately. ing areas, or to commute long distances. This is Some 20 percent of IDC’s students receive essen- tial financial assistance without which they “We are proud to say that IDC Herzliya has would not be able to afford their studies. grown exponentially and continues to grow, “One element that greatly both in the number of our students and in our impacts campus life is that IDC is seeking visionaries to name one of the schools and buildings on campus. “One element towers or floors, individual rooms, the student that greatly impacts campus life is that one third one third of our student body center, the health club, and other areas. of our student body is comprised of over 2000 is comprised of over 2000 students from 86 countries around the world,” students from 86 countries “I invite those who are able to make their mark Davis says. “Until now, to accommodate our on the future of IDC Herzliya and the future international students, IDC Herzliya has rent- around the world.” leadership of Israel and the world to contribute ed apartments from landlords in the Herzliya – Jonathan Davis, vice president for External to this exciting project and help us to create a area. Of course, we have made this work, but Relations and head of the Raphael Recanati home away from home for our students,” says it has been extremely limiting. In addition, no International School Reichman. options have existed for our Israeli students IDC HERZLIYAN SPRING 2017 3 Israel Advocacy Moves App a Notch hen it comes to Israel’s image, the Act.IL, a joint initiative internet is a challenging arena, with “When it comes Wa plethora of anti-Israel propaganda to making the of IDC Herzliya and online that is difficult to counter in an effective, case for Israel on the Israeli American coordinated manner. Act.IL, a joint initiative by IDC Herzliya and the Israeli American Council, social media, the Council supported by has been working to help Israel advocates around greatest obstacle we the globe unite to fight Israel’s delegitimization, the Maccabee Task and now the Act.IL app aims to make that face is fragmentation.” Force, now has an app advocacy even simpler and more accessible, – David Brog, executive director of the and enable Israel advocates to coordinate their Maccabee Task Force to help counter the activities online. delegitimization of “Our vision is to create an online community anyone who wishes to support Israel but lacks Israel on social media. that will act to promote a positive influence on the tools or the community to do so.” international public opinion towards the State of Israel via social media,” says Yarden Ben Yosef, The idea for Act.IL emerged from the success Act.IL’s director. “In addition to providing a of the IDC Student Union’s situation rooms platform to act in an organized way within and first during Operation Pillar of Defense in among pro-Israel organizations for the benefit 2012 and then in Operation Protective Edge of our shared goal – improving Israel’s image in in 2014. These “public diplomacy centers,” run the world – our goals are to serve as an online voluntarily by IDC students, many of them tool to all the different organizations and com- international, provided factual information munities who are active for Israel and to assist about the situation on the ground, countered 4 IDC HERZLIYAN SPRING 2017 ACT.IL: MAKING THE CASE FOR ISRAEL the misinformation about Israel and the IDF In addition to virtual simulations, the app also on campuses. The aim is to open similar situ- being disseminated on social media sites, and runs local campaigns that can include signing ation rooms in 30 to 50 communities around showed the effects of the conflict on Israeli civil- petitions, commenting on news articles, and the world. ians. During the 2014 conflict, the situation sharing content on social media. During “Israel room was able to reach some 40 million people Apartheid Week” in South Africa, IDC’s delega- Shoham Nicolet, IAC’s CEO, says, “Our unique- in over 100 countries speaking 35 languages.