Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI, Hebrew: האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים) is an Israeli public research university based in Jerusalem, co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918 and opened on Mount Scopus in 1925耶路撒冷希伯来大学（希伯来语：האוניברסיטה העברית בירושלים，简称 HUJI）是位于耶路撒冷的以色列公立研究型大学，由阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦与哈伊姆·魏茨曼于 1918 年 7 月共同发起创办，1925 年在斯科普斯山正式开学

It is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in Israel, founded thirty years before the establishment of the State of Israel and six years after the older Technion它是以色列第二古老的高等学府，建校比以色列建国早三十年，比更早的以色列理工学院晚六年

The university has seven faculties, more than 100 research centres and 315 academic departments, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it is placed 218th in the world and ranks 89th in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026该校设有七个学院、100 多个研究中心与 315 个学系，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 218 位，在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中位列第 89 位

History

• The idea of a Jewish university in the Land of Israel was proposed as early as 1884 at the Kattowitz conference of the Hovevei Zion society, and again by Hermann Schapira at the First Zionist Congress of 1897在以色列故土建立犹太大学的构想最早于 1884 年在「锡安热爱者」协会的卡托维兹会议上提出，1897 年赫尔曼·沙皮拉又在第一届锡安主义大会上再次倡议
• The cornerstone was laid on 24 July 1918, and seven years later, on 1 April 1925, the Mount Scopus campus was opened at a ceremony attended by the Earl of Balfour, Viscount Allenby, Winston Churchill and Sir Herbert Samuel奠基石于 1918 年 7 月 24 日安放；七年后，1925 年 4 月 1 日斯科普斯山校区举行开幕典礼，贝尔福伯爵、艾伦比子爵、温斯顿·丘吉尔与赫伯特·塞缪尔爵士出席
• The first chancellor was Judah Magnes, who led the university in that office from 1924 to 1935 and then as president from 1935 to 1948首任校长（Chancellor）为犹大·马格内斯，他于 1924 至 1935 年任该职，其后于 1935 至 1948 年出任校长（President）
• A major controversy at the planning stage concerned the official language, since the so-called Germanists proposed German and Arabic for non-Jewish subjects while others insisted on Hebrew, and the Hebrew side prevailed筹备阶段的一大争议是官方语言，所谓「日耳曼派」主张非犹太学科使用德语与阿拉伯语，另一方则坚持以希伯来语为主，最终希伯来语一方胜出
• In 1919 Shmaryahu Levin sought the views of prominent Jewish European scholars, and proposals by Ignaz Goldziher were at least partly implemented, with oriental languages, Jewish literature and archaeology among the first subjects taught1919 年，什马利亚胡·莱文征询欧洲犹太学者的意见，伊格纳茨·戈德齐赫尔的部分主张得以落实，东方语言、犹太文学与考古学成为最早开设的学科
• By 1947 the university had become a large research and teaching institution, plans for a medical school were approved in May 1949 and a faculty of law was inaugurated in November 1949到 1947 年，该校已发展为大型研究与教学机构；医学院的筹建方案于 1949 年 5 月获批，法学院于 1949 年 11 月成立
• In 1952 it was announced that the agricultural institute founded by the university in 1940 would become a full faculty1952 年，校方宣布由学校于 1940 年创办的农业研究所升格为正式学院
• During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War the Mount Scopus campus was cut off from Jerusalem after the Hadassah medical convoy massacre in April 1948, in which 79 Jews including doctors and nurses were killed1948 年阿以战争期间，1948 年 4 月哈达萨医疗车队遭袭、79 名犹太人（包括医生与护士）遇害后，斯科普斯山校区与耶路撒冷隔绝
• When the Jordanian government denied Israeli access to Mount Scopus, a new campus was built at Givat Ram in western Jerusalem and completed in 1958, and in the meantime classes were held in 40 different buildings around the city约旦政府禁止以色列方面进入斯科普斯山后，学校在耶路撒冷西部的吉瓦特拉姆兴建新校区，并于 1958 年落成；其间课程分散在城里 40 座建筑中授课
• Sir Leon Simon was acting president from 1948 to 1949, Selig Brodetsky served as president from 1949 to 1952, Benjamin Mazar from 1953 to 1961 and Eliahu Eilat from 1962 to 1968莱昂·西蒙爵士于 1948 至 1949 年任代理校长，塞利格·布罗代茨基于 1949 至 1952 年、本雅明·马扎尔于 1953 至 1961 年、埃利亚胡·埃拉特于 1962 至 1968 年先后任校长
• A medical science campus was built in the south-western Jerusalem neighbourhood of Ein Kerem together with the Hadassah Medical Organization学校与哈达萨医疗组织合作，在耶路撒冷西南的恩凯雷姆建起医学科学校区
• By the beginning of 1967 the students numbered 12,500, spread among the two campuses in Jerusalem and the agricultural faculty in Rehovot到 1967 年初，学生人数达 12,500 人，分布在耶路撒冷两个校区以及雷霍沃特的农学院
• After the Six-Day War of June 1967 the university was able to return to Mount Scopus, which was rebuilt, and construction was completed in 1981 when it again became the main campus1967 年六日战争后，学校得以重返并重建斯科普斯山校区，1981 年工程竣工，该校区再度成为主校区
• According to the Applied Research Institute–Jerusalem, Israel confiscated 568 dunams of land from the Palestinian village of Isawiya for the Hebrew University in 1968据耶路撒冷应用研究所统计，1968 年以色列为耶路撒冷希伯来大学从巴勒斯坦村庄伊萨维耶征用了 568 杜纳姆土地
• Avraham Harman was president from 1968 to 1983, Don Patinkin from 1983 to 1986, Amnon Pazy from 1986 to 1990 and Yoram Ben-Porat from 1990 to 1992阿夫拉罕·哈曼于 1968 至 1983 年、唐·帕廷金于 1983 至 1986 年、阿姆农·帕齐于 1986 至 1990 年、约拉姆·本-波拉特于 1990 至 1992 年先后任校长
• Hanoch Gutfreund served as president from 1992 to 1997, Menachem Magidor from 1997 to 2009, Menachem Ben-Sasson from 2009 to 2017 and Asher Cohen from 2017 onwards哈诺赫·古特弗罗因德于 1992 至 1997 年、梅纳赫姆·马吉多尔于 1997 至 2009 年、梅纳赫姆·本-萨松于 2009 至 2017 年任校长，阿舍尔·科恩自 2017 年起任校长
• On 31 July 2002 a bomb was detonated during the lunch hour at the cafeteria of the Frank Sinatra International Student Center, killing nine people and wounding more than seventy2002 年 7 月 31 日，法兰克·辛纳屈国际学生中心的食堂在午餐时段遭炸弹袭击，造成九人死亡、七十余人受伤
• Among the first board of governors were Sigmund Freud and Martin Buber, and the university has since counted four Israeli prime ministers among its alumni首任董事会成员中包括西格蒙德·弗洛伊德与马丁·布伯，此后以色列共有四位总理出自该校校友
• In 2017 the university launched a marijuana research centre intended to conduct and coordinate research on cannabis and its biological effects with an eye toward commercial applications2017 年，学校设立大麻研究中心，旨在开展并统筹关于大麻及其生物效应的研究，并着眼于商业应用
• Until 2023 the world's largest library for Jewish studies, the National Library of Israel, was located on its Edmond J. Safra campus in the Givat Ram neighbourhood of Jerusalem直到 2023 年，全球最大的犹太研究图书馆以色列国家图书馆一直设在该校位于耶路撒冷吉瓦特拉姆的爱德蒙·萨夫拉校区内

Academics

• Its seven faculties cover the humanities, social sciences, law, science, medicine, dental medicine and agriculture, and teaching is organised through 315 academic departments其七个学院涵盖人文、社会科学、法律、理学、医学、口腔医学与农学，教学通过 315 个学系组织
• About one-third of all the doctoral candidates in Israel were studying at the Hebrew University, underlining its weight in national research training以色列约三分之一的博士研究生就读于耶路撒冷希伯来大学，凸显了该校在国家科研人才培养中的分量
• More than 100 research centres operate within the university, among them the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and the Center for the Study of Rationality at Givat Ram学校设有 100 多个研究中心，其中包括位于吉瓦特拉姆的以色列高等研究院与理性研究中心
• The Rothberg International School offers secular studies and Jewish and Israeli studies to international students, alongside a mandatory Hebrew-language ulpan罗斯伯格国际学院面向国际学生开设世俗研究以及犹太与以色列研究，并设有必修的希伯来语乌尔潘课程
• The Paul Baerwald School of Social Work and Social Welfare was founded in 1958 as Israel's first bachelor of social work, and it introduced the master of social work in 1970保罗·贝尔瓦尔德社会工作与社会福利学院创办于 1958 年，开设以色列首个社会工作学士项目，并于 1970 年推出社会工作硕士项目
• The Faculty of Science includes the Einstein Institute of Mathematics, the Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences and the Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Brain Sciences理学院下设爱因斯坦数学研究所、亚历山大·西尔伯曼生命科学研究所与爱德蒙与莉莉·萨夫拉脑科学中心
• The Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment in Rehovot was established in 1942 and its Koret School of Veterinary Medicine opened in 1985, the only institutions in Israel teaching and researching in those fields位于雷霍沃特的罗伯特·H·史密斯农业、食品与环境学院成立于 1942 年，其科雷特兽医学院于 1985 年开办，是以色列唯一在这些领域同时开展教学与研究的机构
• The Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dental Medicine, together with the Institute for Medical Research Israel-Canada, are based at the Ein Kerem campus医学院与口腔医学院，以及以色列-加拿大医学研究所，均设于恩凯雷姆校区
• The university has five affiliated teaching hospitals, including the Hadassah Medical Center学校拥有五所附属教学医院，其中包括哈达萨医疗中心
• Yissum, the university's technology transfer company, was founded in 1964 and has created more than 80 spin-off companies such as Mobileye, BriefCam, ExLibris and OrCam学校的技术转移公司「伊苏姆」成立于 1964 年，已衍生出 80 多家公司，如 Mobileye、BriefCam、ExLibris 与 OrCam
• The Jewish National and University Library was founded in 1892 as a centre for books on Jewish thought, became a general university library in 1920 and holds over five million books and the world's largest Hebraica and Judaica collections犹太国家与大学图书馆于 1892 年创办，旨在收藏犹太思想相关书籍，1920 年起兼具大学总图书馆职能，藏书逾五百万册，拥有全球规模最大的希伯来文献与犹太文献收藏
• The Albert Einstein Archives contain some 55,000 items bequeathed to the university in his will, and the university announced in March 2012 that the entire archive had been digitised阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦档案包含约 55,000 件他遗赠给该校的藏品，校方于 2012 年 3 月宣布档案已全部数字化
• The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies are among the university's research and teaching institutes哈里·S·杜鲁门促进和平研究所与曼德尔犹太研究所是该校的研究与教学机构
• The Institute of Archaeology publishes the monograph series Qedem and the open-access Jerusalem Journal of Archaeology考古研究所出版《Qedem》专著系列以及开放获取的《耶路撒冷考古学刊》
• Yissum handles all the licences and patents of the university's researchers and employees, and it is a member of the Israel Technology Transfer Organization伊苏姆负责管理该校研究人员与员工的所有许可与专利，并是以色列技术转移组织的成员
• The Center for the Study of Rationality and the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies host visiting scholars, while the Faculty of Law and the Jerusalem School of Business Administration are based on Mount Scopus理性研究中心与以色列高等研究院接纳访问学者，法学院与耶路撒冷商学院则设于斯科普斯山

Campus

• The Mount Scopus campus in north-eastern Jerusalem is the main campus and houses the Faculties of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, the Jerusalem School of Business Administration, the Seymour Fox School of Education, the Baerwald School of Social Work, the Harry S. Truman Research Institute, the Rothberg International School and the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies位于耶路撒冷东北部的斯科普斯山校区是主校区，设有人文学院、社会科学学院、法学院、耶路撒冷商学院、西摩·福克斯教育学院、贝尔瓦尔德社会工作学院、哈里·S·杜鲁门研究所、罗斯伯格国际学院与曼德尔犹太研究所
• Student residences on Mount Scopus include the Maiersdorf, Bronfman and Kfar HaStudentim dormitory complexes斯科普斯山校区设有迈尔斯多夫、布隆夫曼与「学生村」（Kfar HaStudentim）等宿舍区
• The campus was laid out under a master plan prepared by Patrick Geddes and Frank Mears in December 1919, and the land had been bought before the First World War from Sir John Gray-Hill together with the Gray-Hill mansion校园按照帕特里克·格迪斯与弗兰克·米尔斯于 1919 年 12 月拟定的总体规划建设，土地于一战前从约翰·格雷-希尔爵士手中连同格雷-希尔宅邸一并购得
• The Givat Ram campus in western Jerusalem, renamed the Edmond J. Safra campus in 2005, houses the Faculty of Science, the National Library of Israel until 2023 and several advanced research centres位于耶路撒冷西部的吉瓦特拉姆校区于 2005 年更名为爱德蒙·萨夫拉校区，设有理学院、2023 年前的以色列国家图书馆以及若干高等研究中心
• The Ein Kerem campus in south-western Jerusalem hosts the Faculty of Medicine and the Faculty of Dental Medicine together with the Hadassah-University Medical Center耶路撒冷西南的恩凯雷姆校区设有医学院、口腔医学院以及哈达萨大学医疗中心
• The Rehovot campus in central Israel houses the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment and the Koret School of Veterinary Medicine以色列中部的雷霍沃特校区设有罗伯特·H·史密斯农业、食品与环境学院以及科雷特兽医学院
• The university operates three campuses in Jerusalem and three elsewhere in Israel, in Rehovot, Rishon LeZion and Eilat学校在耶路撒冷设有三个校区，另在以色列其他地区设有三个校区，分别位于雷霍沃特、里雄莱锡安与埃拉特
• The Nicanor Cave, a Second Temple period tomb, lies on the Mount Scopus campus and is among the archaeological sites associated with the university第二圣殿时期的尼卡诺尔墓穴位于斯科普斯山校区内，是与该校相关的考古遗址之一
• Five affiliated teaching hospitals support clinical teaching, including the Hadassah Medical Center with its two campuses at Ein Kerem and Mount Scopus五所附属教学医院为临床教学提供支持，其中包括在恩凯雷姆与斯科普斯山设有两个院区的哈达萨医疗中心
• Subject-based libraries include the Avraham Harman Science Library, the Berman National Medical Library and the Bloomfield Library for the Humanities and Social Sciences分科图书馆包括阿夫拉罕·哈曼科学图书馆、伯尔曼国家医学图书馆以及布卢姆菲尔德人文与社会科学图书馆
• While Mount Scopus was inaccessible the university rented the Terra Santa building in the Rehavia neighbourhood from the Franciscan Custodians of the Holy Land在无法进入斯科普斯山期间，学校向圣地监护区方济各会租用位于雷哈维亚的「圣地」（Terra Santa）大楼
• The main campus occupies the original site opened in 1925 on Mount Scopus in north-eastern Jerusalem, and the campus commands views over the city主校区位于耶路撒冷东北部斯科普斯山 1925 年启用的原址，校园可俯瞰全城

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 the Hebrew University of Jerusalem is placed 218th in the world在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，耶路撒冷希伯来大学位列世界第 218 位
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 places it in joint 296th position2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将其列为并列第 296 位
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 ranks it 288th in the world, and the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 places it 89th2026 至 2027 年版美国新闻与世界报道最佳全球大学排名将其列为世界第 288 位，2026 年世界大学学术排名则将其列为第 89 位
• The Academic Ranking of World Universities has consistently rated the university the leading institution in Israel世界大学学术排名长期将该校评为以色列排名第一的高校
• In the 2021 Shanghai ranking it was placed 90th in the world, while the Center for World University Rankings put it 64th在 2021 年上海排名中该校位列世界第 90 位，世界大学排名中心则将其列为第 64 位
• In the Shanghai ranking by subject its mathematics programme was placed 11th in the world in 2017, 19th in 2018, 21st in 2019 and 25th in 2020在上海学科排名中，其数学学科于 2017 年位列世界第 11 位，2018 年第 19 位，2019 年第 21 位，2020 年第 25 位
• Some 15 Nobel Prize winners have been affiliated with the university, eight of them as alumni or teachers, along with two Fields Medalists, one of them an alumnus, and three Turing Award winners该校共与 15 位诺贝尔奖得主有渊源，其中 8 位为校友或教师，另有两位菲尔兹奖得主（其中一位为校友）与三位图灵奖得主
• In the Shanghai subject bands physics is placed 301-400, computer science 201-300 and business and economics 51-75在上海学科分档中，其物理学位列 301-400 区间，计算机科学位列 201-300 区间，商学与经济学位列 51-75 区间
• The OpenAlex database attributes 163,719 works to the university with 13,035,433 citationsOpenAlex 数据库为该校收录 163,719 篇成果、被引 13,035,433 次
• The Hebrew University is widely regarded as a leading research university in Israel, and its 89th place in the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 is the highest position held by an Israeli institution in that table耶路撒冷希伯来大学被广泛视为以色列的顶尖研究型大学，其在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中的第 89 位，是该榜单中以色列高校的最高名次

Student life

• Foreign students at the Rothberg International School take a mandatory Hebrew ulpan and a course in Israeli culture and customs, taught in Hebrew and English罗斯伯格国际学院的外国学生须修读希伯来语乌尔潘以及一门以色列文化与习俗课程，授课语言为希伯来语与英语
• Many classes at the Rothberg School are taught by Jewish immigrants to Israel, giving international students direct contact with Israeli society罗斯伯格学院的许多课程由移民以色列的犹太人讲授，使国际学生得以直接接触以色列社会
• Residential life centres on the dormitory complexes on Mount Scopus, including the Maiersdorf, Bronfman and Kfar HaStudentim villages住宿生活以斯科普斯山校区的宿舍区为中心，包括迈尔斯多夫、布隆夫曼与「学生村」
• Four Israeli prime ministers have been alumni, and the university's graduates also include presidents, Supreme Court justices and directors of the Mossad以色列共有四位总理出自该校校友，其毕业生中还包括总统、最高法院法官以及摩萨德局长
• The university is supported by International Societies of Friends in more than 25 countries, and the Canadian Friends of the Hebrew University was founded in 1944 by Allan Bronfman while the American Friends was founded in 1925 by Felix M. Warburg该校在 25 个以上国家设有国际之友协会，希伯来大学加拿大之友会于 1944 年由艾伦·布朗夫曼创办，美国之友会则于 1925 年由费利克斯·M·沃伯格创办
• The university states its mission as developing cutting-edge research, educating future leaders from all walks of life and nurturing outstanding scientists and scholars in all fields of learning该校将其使命表述为发展前沿研究、培养来自各界的未来领袖，并在所有学术领域造就杰出的科学家与学者
• The Rothberg International School admits international students to a range of programmes taught in English and Hebrew, in addition to the mandatory ulpan in the Hebrew language罗斯伯格国际学院以英语与希伯来语接收国际学生修读多种课程，此外还设有必修的希伯来语乌尔潘
• Graduates of the university have taken leading roles in Israeli public life, in academia and in the technology industry, and four Israeli prime ministers have been alumni该校毕业生在以色列公共生活、学术界与技术产业中担任要职，并有四位以色列总理出自校友

Notable people

• Albert Einstein, the physicist, co-founded the university and left his personal papers and copyright in his will to the institution物理学家阿尔伯特·爱因斯坦是该校共同创办人，并在遗嘱中将个人文稿与版权遗赠给学校
• Chaim Weizmann, co-founder of the university, became the first President of Israel该校共同创办人哈伊姆·魏茨曼后来成为以色列首任总统
• Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, was a member of the first board of governors精神分析学派创始人西格蒙德·弗洛伊德是首任董事会成员
• Martin Buber, the philosopher of dialogue, served on the first board of governors对话哲学思想家马丁·布伯曾任职于首任董事会
• Judah Magnes, the university's first chancellor, led the institution from 1924 to 1948犹大·马格内斯是该校首任校长，自 1924 年至 1948 年领导学校
• Daniel Kahneman, a faculty member and alumnus, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002身为教师与校友的丹尼尔·卡尼曼于 2002 年获诺贝尔经济学奖
• Aaron Ciechanover, an alumnus, shared the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2004校友阿龙·切哈诺沃于 2004 年共同获得诺贝尔化学奖
• Robert Aumann, a professor at the university, won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2005该校教授罗伯特·奥曼于 2005 年获诺贝尔经济学奖
• Ehud Barak, an alumnus, was the tenth Prime Minister of Israel校友埃胡德·巴拉克是以色列第十任总理
• Ariel Sharon, an alumnus, was the eleventh Prime Minister of Israel校友阿里埃勒·沙龙是以色列第十一任总理
• Naftali Bennett, an alumnus, was the thirteenth Prime Minister of Israel校友纳夫塔利·贝内特是以色列第十三任总理
• Aharon Barak, an alumnus and former professor, was President of the Supreme Court of Israel校友兼前教授阿哈龙·巴拉克曾任以色列最高法院院长
• Yuval Noah Harari, a historian and author, studied and taught at the university历史学家与作家尤瓦尔·诺亚·赫拉利曾在该校求学并任教
• Ephraim Halevy, a graduate, was a director of the Mossad毕业生埃夫拉伊姆·哈莱维曾任摩萨德局长