The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) of Jerusalem is a national institution devoted to academic research. Located at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the Edmond J. Safra campus at Givat Ram, the IIAS is a self-governing body, both in its administrative function as well as its academic pursuit.

The primary function of the Institute is to encourage and support collaborative research. Along with collaborative Research Groups, the Institute annually hosts six Advanced Schools as well as many conferences.

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  • Yehoshua Sobol   Artist in Residence Joshua Sobol

      Joshua Sobol was born in Israel in 1939. He graduated in philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. A leading Hebrew   playwright, Sobol has been  artistic director of the Haifa Theater; he has also taught esthetics and directed theater   workshops at Tel Aviv University as well as at various colleges. Sobol has written over 60 plays, many of which have been   performed in Europe and the USA to great critical acclaim. Soul of a Jew was performed at the Edinburgh, Berlin and   Chicago Festivals and has been produced in Germany, Austria, Denmark, France, the USA and Russia. His   play Ghetto won the London Critics' and the Evening Standard awards for Britain's Best Play of the Year in 1989, and has   been staged in leading   theaters worldwide. Witness was performed at the Heidelberg Theater Festival, 2005, and was   produced at the Mark Taper Theater in Los Angeles.His polydrama Alma has been playing for the last 18 years in   Austria, Italy, Portugal, USA, Germany and Israel. Sobol's novel Silence was  nominated for the Sapir Literary award. In 2013 Sobol was awarded the Golden Medal of the City of Vienna in recognition of his long-standing   theatrical innovation on the stages of Austria’s capital, and in 2014 he received the Culture Minister's Zionism Prize for Village.

     

     

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Columbia University

Daphna Shohamy is an associate professor in the Psychology department at Columbia University. Her area of interest is the cognitive neuroscience of learning, memory and decision making. She adopts an integrative approach that draws broadly on neuroscience to make predictions about cognition. Predictions are tested in behavioral and neuroimaging studies in healthy individuals, and in patients with isolated damage to specific brain systems. 

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  • "There was something magical about the Institute, the people and the beautiful and serene campus, which I cannot quite explain, but it provided exactly the right mixture of quiet surrounding for research and opportunities to get together, consult and exchange ideas."

    Eyal Benvenisti

    University of Cambridge

     

  • "IAS was my home away from home for four times in two turbulent decades. It was a haven of tranquility, reflection, camaraderie and sheer beauty. Cooperation within my immediate groups was a source of abundant inspiration, but what made the IAS experience unique was the presence and influence of other groups. In my mind, the IAS comes closest to the ideal community of scholars."

     

    Yoram Shachar

    IDC Herzliya