Winter 2007/08

TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY REVIEW
Winter 2007/08
Issued by the Marketing Communications Office
Development and Public Affairs Division
Tel Aviv University
Ramat Aviv 69978
Tel Aviv, Israel
Tel: +972 3 6408249
Fax: + 972 3 6407080
E-mail: publicat@post.tau.ac.il
Website: www.tau.ac.il
Editorial staff for TAU Review and Insider
Editor: Louise Shalev
Contributors: Rava Eleasari, Talma Agron,
Pauline Reich, Ruti Ziv, Karin Kloosterman, Jessica
Steinberg, Ilana Teitelbaum, Gil Zohar
Graphic Design: Dalit Pessach Dio’olamot
Graphics: TAU Graphics Design Studio/
Michal Semo-Kovetz
Photography: Development and Public Affairs Division
Photography Department/Michal Roche Ben Ami,
Michal Kidron
Additional Photography: Yoram Reshef;
Israel Images/Duby Tal, Serge Attal; Itzik Baran
Illustrations/Graphics: Raffael Blumenberg,
Martin Mendelsberg
Administrative Coordinator: Pauline Reich
Administrative Assistant: Roy Polad
Translation Services: Sagir Translations
Printing: Eli Meir Printing
Cover Story:
This Land Is
Your Land 2
From charting the prehistoric
ancestors of the Israelites to
predicting earthquakes along the
Dead Sea Fault, TAU researchers
are providing fresh perspectives
on the history of the land of
Israel.
Using Knowledge to
Change Lives 10
An outreach program wholly taught
by TAU students is the first in Israel
to target society's most distressed
groups.
sections
innovations 15
digest 20
newsmakers 27
books 28
Sleuthing Out the
Genealogy of
Zohar 12
Decades of painstaking study by a
TAU scholar is resulting in the first
authoritative version of the greatest
work of Jewish mysticism.
Architecture and
Technology of the
Future 14
Philosophy and architecture?
This is one of the unusual study
combinations that have gained
recognition for TAU doctoral
students.