Tel Aviv University

Tel Aviv University (TAU) is a public research university in Tel Aviv, Israel, and with over 30,000 students it is the largest frontal-learning university in the country特拉维夫大学（Tel Aviv University，简称 TAU）是以色列特拉维夫的公立研究型大学，在校生超过 30,000 人，是以色列规模最大的面授型大学

Located in the north-west of Tel Aviv, the university is the centre of teaching and research of the city, comprising nine faculties, 17 teaching hospitals, 18 performing arts centres, 27 schools, 106 departments, 340 research centres and 400 laboratories, and in the QS World University Rankings 2027 it is placed 208th in the world该校位于特拉维夫西北部，是该市的教学与研究中心，下设 9 个学院、17 所教学医院、18 个表演艺术中心、27 个学系、106 个系、340 个研究中心与 400 个实验室，在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列世界第 208 位

History

• TAU's origins date back to 1956, when three research institutes joined to form Tel Aviv University特拉维夫大学的历史可追溯至 1956 年，当时三所研究机构合并组建为特拉维夫大学。
• These were the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics, established in 1935, the Institute of Natural Sciences, established in 1931, and the Academic Institute of Jewish Studies, established in 1954这三所机构分别是 1935 年创办的特拉维夫法经学院、1931 年创办的自然科学院，以及 1954 年创办的犹太研究学院。
• After gaining autonomy in 1963, the university built its main campus and steadily expanded its faculties, schools and research institutes1963 年取得自治权后，该校建起主校区，并逐步扩充其学院、学系与研究机构。
• Initially the university was operated by the Tel Aviv municipality, and it was granted autonomy in 1963该校最初由特拉维夫市政府管理，1963 年取得办学自治权。
• George S. Wise was its first president, serving from 1963 until 1971, and the main campus covering its present area was established that same year乔治·S·怀斯是该校首任校长，任期为 1963 年至 1971 年，如今规模的主校区也在同一年建立。
• Its succeeding presidents have been Yuval Ne'eman from 1971 to 1977, Haim Ben-Shahar from 1977 to 1983, Moshe Many from 1983 to 1991, and Yoram Dinstein from 1991 to 1999其后的历任校长为 1971 至 1977 年的尤瓦尔·内埃曼、1977 至 1983 年的哈伊姆·本-沙哈尔、1983 至 1991 年的摩西·马尼，以及 1991 至 1999 年的约拉姆·丁斯坦。
• They were followed by Itamar Rabinovich from 1999 to 2006, Zvi Galil from 2006 to 2009, and Joseph Klafter from 2009 to 2019此后依次是 1999 至 2006 年的伊塔马尔·拉宾诺维奇、2006 至 2009 年的兹维·加利勒，以及 2009 至 2019 年的约瑟夫·克拉夫特。
• Ariel Porat has served as president of the university since 2019阿里尔·波拉特自 2019 年起担任该校校长。
• The university also maintains academic supervision over the Centre for Technological Design in Holon, the New Academic College of Tel Aviv, and the Afeka College of Engineering in Tel Aviv该校还对霍隆的技术设计中心、特拉维夫新学术学院以及特拉维夫阿费卡工程学院行使学术监督。
• The Wise Observatory is located in Mitzpe Ramon in the Negev desert怀斯天文台位于内盖夫沙漠的米茨佩拉蒙。
• In October 2023 the university launched the Erez programme, in which about 200 candidates for Israel Defense Forces combat officer positions complete bachelor's degrees in the humanities and social sciences before beginning officers' training2023 年 10 月，该校推出「埃雷兹」项目，约 200 名以色列国防军作战军官候选人在开始军官训练前先完成人文与社会科学的本科学位。
• The university lies on part of the land of the Palestinian village Al-Shaykh Muwannis, which was abandoned in March 1948 owing to the threats of Jewish militias该校校址部分建于巴勒斯坦村庄谢赫·穆万尼斯的土地上，该村于 1948 年 3 月因犹太民兵的威胁而被废弃。
• In 2013 Tel Aviv University and Ruppin Academic Center jointly created a study centre on the Mediterranean Sea, where students undertake advanced studies of issues affecting the coastal environment and its resources2013 年，特拉维夫大学与鲁平学术中心在地中海之滨联合创建研究中心，供学生就影响海岸环境及其资源的问题开展深入研究。
• Tel Aviv University held significant ties to the Sackler family, and as more became known of the family's role in the global opioid crisis, the Israel Medical Association and others called for the removal of the Sackler name from the Faculty of Medicine特拉维夫大学曾与萨克勒家族关系密切；随着该家族在全球阿片类药物危机中所扮演的角色逐渐为人所知，以色列医学会等纷纷要求从医学院名称中去除「萨克勒」之名。
• As of November 2021 no members of the Sackler family served on the university's board of governors, and in June 2023 the Sackler name was removed from the Faculty of Medicine截至 2021 年 11 月，萨克勒家族已无成员在该校董事会任职；2023 年 6 月，「萨克勒」之名从医学院名称中被去除。
• In November 2024 the university also stripped the Sackler name from its international prize in biophysics2024 年 11 月，该校又将「萨克勒」之名从其国际生物物理学奖中去除。
• The Lowy International School was renamed in 2022 following an eighteen-million-dollar gift from the Australian-Israeli businessperson Sir Frank Lowy, whose wife Lady Shirley Lowy had died in 2020「洛维国际学院」在 2022 年更名，此前澳以裔商人弗兰克·洛维爵士捐资一千八百万美元；其夫人雪莉·洛维女士已于 2020 年去世。
• TAU Ventures, a venture capital firm founded in 2018 by the university and Nimrod Cohen to invest in early-stage Israeli startups, was announced with a fund of twenty million US dollars该校与尼姆罗德·科恩于 2018 年共同创立的风险投资机构 TAU Ventures，用于投资以色列早期初创企业，宣布时基金规模为两千万美元。

Academics

• Tel Aviv University comprises nine faculties, 27 schools and 106 departments, and teaches more than 30,000 students特拉维夫大学设有 9 个学院、27 个学系与 106 个系，在校生逾 30,000 人。
• Its nine faculties are the Katz Faculty of the Arts, the Fleischman Faculty of Engineering, the Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, the Entin Faculty of Humanities and the Buchmann Faculty of Law其九个学院分别是卡茨艺术学院、弗莱施曼工程学院、萨克勒精密科学学院、恩廷人文学院与布赫曼法学院。
• The remaining faculties are the Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, the Gray Faculty of Medical and Health Sciences, the Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences and the Coller School of Management其余学院为怀斯生命科学学院、格雷医学与健康科学学院、戈登社会科学学院以及科勒管理学院。
• Its independent schools include the Berglas School of Economics, the Porter School of Environmental Studies, the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music and the David Azrieli School of Architecture其独立学系包括贝格拉斯经济学系、波特环境研究学系、布赫曼-梅塔音乐学系与大卫·阿兹里埃利建筑学系。
• Other independent schools are the Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine, the Miller School of Education, the Shapell School of Social Work, TAU International and the Sagol School of Neuroscience其他独立学系还有戈尔德施莱格牙医学系、米勒教育学系、沙佩尔社会工作学系、国际学院与萨戈尔神经科学学系。
• The university runs 17 teaching hospitals, 18 performing arts centres and 400 laboratories, and has over 130 research institutes and centres该校拥有 17 所教学医院、18 个表演艺术中心与 400 个实验室，并设有 130 多个研究机构与中心。
• The Lowy International School is the university's home for international researchers, visitors and partnerships and offers thousands of students from across the globe the chance to study there洛维国际学院是该校接待国际研究人员、访问学者与合作项目的所在，每年为世界各地数千名学生提供在此就读的机会。
• School programmes are primarily conducted in English, though the school also offers immersion options for studying in Hebrew, and they include undergraduate, graduate, study-abroad, research, gap-year and short-term programmes该学院的课程主要以英语授课，同时也提供希伯来语沉浸式学习选择，涵盖本科、研究生、海外学习、研究、间隔年与短期项目。
• Its undergraduate offerings include an international B.A. in liberal arts and humanities, an international B.A. in management and liberal arts, and a dual-degree B.A. in liberal arts run with Columbia University其本科项目包括国际人文与自由艺术学士、国际管理与自由艺术学士，以及与哥伦比亚大学合办的自由艺术双学位学士。
• Other partnerships include a collaborative B.A. with Yeshiva University, a B.Mus. at the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, and programmes with Johns Hopkins University SAIS and Sciences Po Lille其他合作还包括与叶史瓦大学合办的学士项目、布赫曼-梅塔音乐学院的音乐学士，以及与约翰斯·霍普金斯大学 SAIS、里尔政治学院合办的项目。
• Graduate offerings run from an M.A. in ancient Israel studies and an M.Sc. in neuroscience to an M.A. in conflict resolution and mediation, an M.Sc. in digital health and a joint integrated degree with Thapar其研究生项目从古代以色列研究硕士、神经科学硕士，到冲突解决与调解硕士、数字健康硕士，以及与塔帕尔合办的联合学位，范围广泛。
• Created in 2023, the Lowy Distinguished Guest Professors programme brings eminent academics to the university, among them Reinhard Genzel, a Nobel laureate in physics2023 年设立的「洛维杰出访问教授」项目为该校延揽杰出学者，其中包括诺贝尔物理学奖得主赖因哈德·根策尔。
• Tel Aviv University partners with more than 280 academic institutions spanning 46 countries, with ties including joint research centres, joint or dual degrees, jointly taught courses and exchange programmes特拉维夫大学与遍及 46 个国家的 280 多所院校建立合作，形式包括共建研究中心、联合或双学位、共同授课与交换项目。
• The Faculty of Law has exchange agreements with 36 overseas universities, among them Virginia, Cornell, Boston University, UCLA, McGill, Toronto, Tsinghua and the University of Hong Kong其法学院与 36 所海外大学签有交换协议，其中包括弗吉尼亚大学、康奈尔大学、波士顿大学、加州大学洛杉矶分校、麦吉尔大学、多伦多大学、清华大学与香港大学。
• The Coller School of Management has exchange agreements with over 100 overseas universities, and its Coller Exchange Program is open to MBA, M.Sc. and M.A. students and qualified professionals科勒管理学院与 100 多所海外大学签有交换协议，其「科勒交换项目」面向工商管理硕士、理学硕士、文学硕士学生与符合条件的在职人士。
• With the Goethe-University in Frankfurt am Main, Tel Aviv University cooperates in Germany, the two cities being linked by a long-standing partnership agreement在德国，特拉维夫大学与法兰克福的歌德大学合作，两座城市之间有着长期的伙伴关系协议。

Campus

• The university is located in the north-west of Tel Aviv and forms the city's centre of teaching and research该校位于特拉维夫西北部，构成该市的教学与研究中心。
• The main campus occupies about 170 acres in the Ramat Aviv area, which was built up when the university gained autonomy in 1963主校区位于拉马特阿维夫地区，占地约 170 英亩，是在该校 1963 年取得自治权时建设起来的。
• The original campus was expanded over time and now makes up part of Tel Aviv's north-west district最初的校园逐步扩建，如今构成特拉维夫西北城区的一部分。
• The campus contains nine faculties, including the Katz Faculty of the Arts, the David Azrieli School of Architecture, the Buchmann-Mehta School of Music and the Fleischman Faculty of Engineering校园内设有九个学院，包括卡茨艺术学院、大卫·阿兹里埃利建筑学院、布赫曼-梅塔音乐学院与弗莱施曼工程学院。
• It also houses the Sackler Faculty of Exact Sciences, the Entin Faculty of Humanities, the Buchmann Faculty of Law, the Wise Faculty of Life Sciences and the Gordon Faculty of Social Sciences校内还有萨克勒精密科学学院、恩廷人文学院、布赫曼法学院、怀斯生命科学学院与戈登社会科学学院。
• Students in the B.A., M.A., exchange and study-abroad programmes may be housed at the Einstein or Broshim dormitories, just outside the university文学士、文学硕士、交换与海外学习项目的学生可入住校外的爱因斯坦宿舍或布罗希姆宿舍。
• The university also maintains academic supervision over affiliated colleges and a research centre on the Mediterranean coast该校还对若干附属学院以及地中海沿岸的一个研究中心行使学术监督。
• The Wise Observatory stands in the Negev desert at Mitzpe Ramon, far to the south of the Tel Aviv campus怀斯天文台位于特拉维夫校区以南很远的内盖夫沙漠米茨佩拉蒙。
• Alongside its main campus the university operates 17 teaching hospitals, 18 performing arts centres and 400 laboratories across the city and the region除主校区外，该校还在全市及周边地区运营 17 所教学医院、18 个表演艺术中心与 400 个实验室。
• The campus forms part of Tel Aviv's North-West District and is served by the city's transport network, standing close to the Mediterranean coast校园是特拉维夫西北城区的一部分，由该市交通网络提供服务，并临近地中海海岸。
• The university's teaching hospitals and research centres are spread beyond the main campus, linking the institution to hospitals and cultural venues across the Tel Aviv region该校的教学医院与研究中心分布在主校区之外，使学校与特拉维夫地区的医院及文化场馆相互联结。
• The Coler campus and other facilities support the institution's nine faculties, 106 departments and 340 research centres校园及其他设施支撑着该校 9 个学院、106 个系与 340 个研究中心。

Reputation

• In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Tel Aviv University is placed 208th in the world在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中，特拉维夫大学位列世界第 208 位。
• In the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 it is placed =209th in the world, the equals sign marking a shared rank在 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名中，该校位列世界第 =209 位，「=」号表示并列名次。
• The U.S. News Best Global Universities edition of 2026-2027 ranks it 193rd in the world2026 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 193 位。
• In the Academic Ranking of World Universities 2026 it stands in the 151 to 200 band在 2026 年世界大学学术排名中，该校位于 151 至 200 区间。
• In the 2024 QS World University Rankings Tel Aviv University was ranked 214th in the world, making it the highest-ranked university in Israel在 2024 年 QS 世界大学排名中，特拉维夫大学位列世界第 214 位，是以色列排名最高的大学。
• In 2016 its QS subject rankings were 202nd in arts and humanities, 295th in engineering and technology, 193rd in life sciences and medicine, 208th in natural science and 240th in social sciences and management2016 年其 QS 学科排名为：艺术与人文学科第 202、工程与技术第 295、生命科学与医学第 193、自然科学第 208、社会科学与管理第 240。
• In 2016 QS ranked it 22nd in the world for citations per faculty, the indicator measuring a university's research impact, making it the leading university in Israel in terms of research2016 年 QS 将其「教师人均被引次数」列为世界第 22，该指标衡量大学的研究影响力，使该校成为以色列研究实力领先的大学。
• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings for 2019 placed Tel Aviv University at 189th in the world2019 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名将特拉维夫大学列为世界第 189 位。
• In 2015 the Academic Ranking of World Universities gave it subject ranks of 20th in computer science, 51 to 75 in mathematics, and 76 to 100 in physics and in economics or business, and in 2016 a rank of 51 to 75 in engineering2015 年世界大学学术排名将其学科列为：计算机科学第 20、数学第 51 至 75、物理与经济或商业第 76 至 100；2016 年工程学位列第 51 至 75。
• From 2007 until 2018 Tel Aviv University ranked 35th in the world in computer science according to CSRankings, the same rank as Harvard and the second highest in Israel2007 至 2018 年，据 CSRankings，特拉维夫大学的计算机科学位列世界第 35，与哈佛大学并列，为以色列第二高。
• The Center for World University Rankings placed Tel Aviv University 81st in the world and third in Israel in its 2016 list, having ranked it 56th in 2012世界大学排名中心在其 2016 年榜单中将特拉维夫大学列为世界第 81、以色列第 3，2012 年则将其列为第 56。
• In 2022 PitchBook Data ranked Tel Aviv University 7th in the world in terms of the number of alumni who have founded venture-capital-backed companies, the highest of any university outside the United States2022 年，PitchBook Data 按「创办获风险投资支持的公司的校友数量」将特拉维夫大学列为世界第 7，是美国以外排名最高的大学。
• Its OpenAlex record shows 209,232 works with 18,816,923 citationsOpenAlex 数据库显示，该校有 209,232 篇成果、被引 18,816,923 次。

Student life

• The Lowy International School provides scholarships and a variety of programmes for students from abroad, with housing at the Einstein or Broshim dormitories outside the main campus洛维国际学院为海外学生提供奖学金与多种项目，住宿安排在主校区外的爱因斯坦宿舍或布罗希姆宿舍。
• Programmes run by the school range from undergraduate and graduate degrees to study-abroad, research, gap-year and short-term options, several of them taught together with partner universities该学院的项目从本硕学位到海外学习、研究、间隔年与短期项目，其中若干与伙伴院校共同开设。
• The Coller Exchange Program of the management school offers visiting students courses in strategy, entrepreneurship, finance and accounting, marketing, organisational behaviour, and technology and information systems管理学院的科勒交换项目为访问学生开设战略、创业、金融与会计、市场营销、组织行为，以及技术与信息系统等课程。
• Visiting students may also take courses from other TAU schools on Israeli culture, history and economics访问学生还可选修该校其他学院开设的以色列文化、历史与经济课程。
• TAU Ventures operates an accelerator programme in partnership with the Israeli Security Agency, providing a technological platform and a grant of fifty thousand US dollars with no equity clause over four monthsTAU Ventures 与以色列安全局合作运营一个加速器项目，为期四个月，提供技术平台与五万美元资助，且不要求股权。
• The accelerator is geared to companies developing civilian and commercial technologies and can draw on technical expertise, unique databases and technology validation该加速器面向开发民用与商用技术的公司，可利用专业技术、独特数据库与技术验证等资源。
• As of May 2021 TAU Ventures had invested in seventeen startups, including Xtend, SWIMM, Gaviti, MyAir, Medorion, Castor and Hoopo, and its accelerator alumni have raised over one hundred million US dollars截至 2021 年 5 月，TAU Ventures 已投资十七家初创企业，包括 Xtend、SWIMM、Gaviti、MyAir、Medorion、Castor 与 Hoopo，其加速器校友企业已融资逾一亿美元。
• In 2018 the IVC Research Center awarded TAU Ventures a citation for being the most active venture capital in Israel, and in 2019 and 2021 Geektime listed it among the top venture capital funds in Israel2018 年，IVC 研究中心授予 TAU Ventures「以色列最活跃风险投资」称号；2019 与 2021 年，Geektime 将其列入以色列领先风险投资基金之列。
• The university publishes Tel Aviv, a peer-reviewed international journal of archaeology in the Levant and the history and culture of Near Eastern civilisations该校出版同行评审的国际期刊《特拉维夫》，内容涉及黎凡特考古以及近东文明的历史与文化。
• Tel Aviv University also hosts the Tel Aviv International Student Film Festival, a long-running showcase for student cinema特拉维夫大学还举办「特拉维夫国际学生电影节」，这是一项历史悠久的学生电影展映活动。

Notable people

• George S. Wise was the first president of the university, serving from 1963 to 1971, and Ariel Porat, a legal scholar, has been president since 2019乔治·S·怀斯是该校首任校长，任期为 1963 至 1971 年；法学家阿里尔·波拉特自 2019 年起任校长。
• Ariel Sharon, who served as prime minister of Israel, and Benny Gantz, a chief of the general staff of the Israel Defense Forces, are alumni of the university曾任以色列总理的阿里埃勒·沙龙，以及曾任以色列国防军总参谋长的本尼·甘茨，都是该校校友。
• Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut, and Yitzhak Mordechai, a former minister of defence, also studied at Tel Aviv University以色列首位航天员伊兰·拉蒙与前国防部长伊扎克·莫尔德凯也曾在特拉维夫大学就读。
• Ron Huldai, the mayor of Tel Aviv, and Dan Ariely, the behavioural economist and author, are among its graduates特拉维夫市长罗恩·胡尔代，以及行为经济学家、作家丹·艾瑞里，都是该校毕业生。
• Adi Shamir, a cryptographer and co-inventor of the RSA cryptosystem, and Yossi Matias, a computer scientist and Google executive, are alumni密码学家、RSA 密码体制共同发明者阿迪·萨莫尔，以及计算机科学家、谷歌高管约西·马蒂亚斯，都是该校校友。
• Etgar Keret, the writer, and Ari Folman, the filmmaker who directed Waltz with Bashir, are graduates of the university作家埃特加·凯雷特与执导《和巴什尔跳华尔兹》的电影人阿里·福尔曼都是该校毕业生。
• Among its alumni are also Ayelet Shaked, a former minister of justice, Silvan Shalom, a former minister of finance and foreign affairs, and Aluf Benn, the editor-in-chief of Haaretz其校友还包括前司法部长阿耶莱特·沙凯德、前财政与外交部长西尔万·沙洛姆，以及《国土报》总编辑阿卢夫·本。
• Ofra Strauss, the business magnate and industrialist, and Gilad Zuckermann, a linguist, are counted among the university's graduates商业巨擘、实业家奥夫拉·施特劳斯以及语言学家吉拉德·祖克曼也被列为该校毕业生。
• Leonard Susskind, a theoretical physicist, Yuval Ne'eman, a physicist and former minister of science, and Yakir Aharonov, a physicist, have been members of its faculty理论物理学家伦纳德·萨斯坎德、物理学家与前科技部长尤瓦尔·内埃曼，以及物理学家亚基尔·阿哈罗诺夫都曾在该校任教。
• Its faculty has also included Ariel Rubinstein, an economist, Vitali Milman, a mathematician, and Israel Finkelstein, an archaeologist其教师队伍还包括经济学家阿里埃勒·鲁宾斯坦、数学家维塔利·米尔曼与考古学家伊斯雷尔·芬克尔斯坦。
• Asa Kasher, a philosopher and authority on ethics who wrote the Israel Defense Forces code of conduct, and Anita Shapira, a historian, have taught at the university撰写以色列国防军行为准则的哲学家、伦理学权威阿萨·卡舍尔，以及历史学家安妮塔·沙皮拉，都曾在该校任教。
• Joshua Jortner, a physical chemist, and Moshé Mizrahi, an Oscar-winning film director, were also members of the faculty物理化学家约书亚·约特纳与奥斯卡获奖电影导演摩西·米兹拉希也曾是该校教师。
• Joseph Klafter, a chemical physicist, was the eighth president of the university, serving from 2009 to 2019, and Itamar Rabinovich, a former ambassador to the United States, was its president from 1999 to 2006化学物理学家约瑟夫·克拉夫特是该校第八任校长，任期为 2009 至 2019 年；曾任驻美国大使的伊塔马尔·拉宾诺维奇则于 1999 至 2006 年任校长。
• Joel Mokyr, a visiting professor at the university's Eitan Berglas School of Economics, was awarded the 2025 Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences该校埃坦·贝格拉斯经济学院的访问教授乔尔·莫基尔荣获 2025 年诺贝尔经济学奖。