- Part 1: Introduction
- Part 2: Golda Meir
- Part 3: Eligibility for Fellowships
- Part 4: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Faculties and Schools
- Part 5: Application Instructions and Forms
Part 1 - Introduction: The Golda Meir Fellowship Fund of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Established in 1984, the Golda Meir Fellowship Fund is designed to attract students and graduates of outstanding academic achievement from all parts of the world, including Israel, and enable them to pursue their master’s, doctoral, and postdoctoral studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. This will assure a continuous infusion of new young academic talent into Israel and the University – an infusion that is essential in order to maintain the high levels of teaching, scholarship and research so vital to the University and the country.
The standards of tomorrow repose in the prudent cultivation of the human potential of today. If the brightest, most promising young scientists and scholars are today given the opportunity to develop, their successful advancement becomes the guarantee of our future: they are the cadre that will lead the University in scholarship, research and teaching in the years to come. It is our duty to find the very best candidates, give them the very best conditions of research and study, and to do so year after year, unceasingly. They are the resource often referred to as our “human capital.” And they are the highest priority on our agenda. It is clear that in the economic situation of Israel and the University today, it would be impossible for us to carry out this vital trust were it not for the projects of foresight such as the Golda Meir Fellowship Fund.
On the international level, the Golda Meir program is meant to create living, positive links between Israel and the rest of the world in the persons of the Golda Meir Scholars. The presence of top level postgraduate and postdoctoral Fellows from abroad will be a source of stimulation and cross-fertilisation among colleagues. The foundation will have been laid for continuing academic interaction in future years between Israeli scholars and those who have spent a productive period of time in Jerusalem and return to universities abroad, ever to maintain a special contact with Israel and the Hebrew University. Not bricks and mortar, but this program to ensure the future quality of the Hebrew University is our monument to honour the name and illustrious career of Golda Meir.
