Community: Stronger Society

TAU Aim:

To strengthen TAU as Israel’s academic leader in social responsibility.

Benefits:

Simply: Will advance the basic Jewish value of tzedaka (charity).
Will directly benefit specific causes or groups that a donor passionately supports: children, at-risk youth, disabled, elderly, new immigrants, women, minorities, etc.
Will pull underrepresented groups in Israel into the cycle of elite higher education, innovation and economic mobility.
Will instill in TAU students – Israel’s future leaders – active social commitment and a drive for social justice.

Current Statistics

TAU students performed 55,000 community work hours over the past year.
In recent years, TAU boosted the number of Israeli Arab students from 8-9% of the total undergraduate student body to 12.4%.
There are currently 149 Ethiopian Israeli students enrolled at TAU.
Approximately 3,000 students with special needs are enrolled in units across the TAU campus. This number includes students who are physically disabled, live with mental illness or chronic diseases, are on the autism spectrum, or suffer from a a range of learning disabilities.
TAU’s ‘Trailblazers’ program for integrating ultra-Orthodox students into academia has grown from two students in 2016 to 194 currently enrolled.

Latest Developments

TAU held a seminar, “Tech Vs. Hate”, on the state of online antisemitism and how it can be fought with AI and other new technologies. Startup founders and cybersecurity experts shared how they’re exposing hate organizations with new innovations.
TAU inaugurated the Goodman Fellows Program for Israelis of Ethiopian Descent, which aims to significantly increase the number of Ethiopian students on campus through financial aid, mentoring and career counseling.
Hundreds of Israeli social workers are able to better care for those traumatized by the current war and the October 7 attacks thanks to an online training course launched by the Shapell School of Social Work. The course prepares carers to work with acute trauma and to care for themselves while doing so.
TAU launched the Dolansky Suicide Research and Prevention Program, which will bring together expert researchers to innovate new treatments for mental illness and its symptoms—of particular need since October 7.
A recent donation from the Seideman family of Sweden will support the launch of a new tech innovation complex at TAU’s Youth University Wing in the Check Point Building, providing engaging learning experiences through virtual and augmented reality, robotics, scientific escape rooms, interactive and immersive learning rooms and
advanced AI tools.

Donor Opportunities: