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TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY REVIEW<br />
Initiatives<br />
Summer 2010<br />
BRENDER-MOSS LIBRARY<br />
Students Enjoy Inviting Study Rooms<br />
Two new study rooms were inaugurated at the Brender-<br />
Moss Library for Social Sciences <strong>and</strong> Management, originally<br />
established in 1990 by TAU honorary doctors Joseph<br />
Brender <strong>and</strong> Sam Moss, business partners from Australia’s<br />
clothing <strong>and</strong> textile industry. The library was renovated in<br />
2006. The inauguration was attended by Mr. Brender <strong>and</strong><br />
his wife, Gerda; Ziva Lahat – the library’s first director,<br />
who held the position for 35 years; <strong>and</strong> the late TAU Vice<br />
President Yehiel Ben-Zvi.<br />
The modern study rooms offer students a<br />
comfortable environment with elegant furnishings,<br />
convenient PC stations, direct wireless<br />
internet access <strong>and</strong> an LCD screen that<br />
connects to any laptop or PC.<br />
From left:<br />
Joseph<br />
<strong>and</strong> Gerda<br />
Brender,<br />
Ziva Lahat<br />
<strong>and</strong> the<br />
late Vice<br />
President<br />
Yehiel Ben-<br />
Zvi<br />
ABBA EBAN DOCTORAL SCHOLARSHIP<br />
Azrieli Foundation<br />
Promotes Diplomacy<br />
<strong>and</strong> Law at TAU<br />
The Azrieli Foundation established a new award this<br />
year: the Abba Eban Doctoral Scholarship for Diplomacy<br />
<strong>and</strong> Law. Commemorating the legendary statesman <strong>and</strong><br />
diplomat of the Zionist movement <strong>and</strong> the State of Israel,<br />
the award was presented in the presence of his widow Suzy<br />
Eban to Olga Frishman of the Buchmann Faculty of Law,<br />
for her work on “The Globalization of Legal Thought.”<br />
“I belong to a generation that remembers Abba Eban,<br />
recognizes his importance in the life of the Jewish nation,<br />
<strong>and</strong> regrets his absence,” said TAU benefactor David Azrieli<br />
at the ceremony. Dean of Law Prof. Hanoch Dagan said<br />
he was “proud that Suzy Eban <strong>and</strong> David Azrieli chose the<br />
Buchmann Faculty to commemorate this important man,”<br />
stressing that the new Abba Eban scholarship is a most valuable<br />
addition to the faculty’s PhD programs, “which have<br />
acquired considerable momentum in recent years, particularly<br />
thanks to the establishment of the Zvi Meitar Center<br />
for Advanced Legal Studies – a true competitive alternative<br />
to advanced legal studies at the world’s finest universities.”<br />
Welfare <strong>and</strong> Social Services Minister Isaac Herzog, a nephew<br />
of Abba Eban, spoke of his uncle’s crucial contribution to<br />
the state’s establishment in the historical UN vote in 1947,<br />
<strong>and</strong> discussed the importance of international law in present<br />
day politics.<br />
In other Azrieli news, two fellowships were awarded to<br />
TAU students by the prestigious national Azrieli Fellows<br />
Program. The two are Michal Bleicher-Kugler, an MA student<br />
in the Program for Interdisciplinary Studies in the Arts,<br />
who is working in the field of sustainable conservation, <strong>and</strong><br />
Guy Cohen, a PhD student in chemistry whose research<br />
could play a crucial part in molecular electronics <strong>and</strong> nanotechnology.<br />
There are currently seven students receiving<br />
Azrieli Fellowships at TAU.<br />
From left:<br />
David Azrieli,<br />
Dean of<br />
Law Hanoch<br />
Dagan, Suzy<br />
Eban <strong>and</strong><br />
Minister Isaac<br />
Herzog<br />
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