The IDC

An IDC graduate student allows his daughter to join in the feeling of wearing a cap and gown
Today is June 2nd, and we are gathering to witness the
graduation ceremony for the undergraduate and graduate
classes of 2008. Excitement fills the air as friends are
reunited after a year of experiencing the ‘real world.’ “Where are
you working?” “You look amazing!” “I got married!” “You’ll never
believe what position I just landed!” and on it goes, catching up,
filling in, reconnecting. There is noise and bustle and gowns and
programs, the air fills with music and sound as the crowd swells and
more people arrive.
Finally it is time to begin. Present are the deans of all IDC schools; IDC
Herzliya President, Prof. Uriel Reichman; IDC Provost, Prof. Rafi Melnick;
VP for External Relations and Head of the Raphael Recanati International
School, Jonathan Davis; and Dean of Student Affairs, Dr. Yitzhak Oron.
The crowd grows silent as the Kfar Saba Orchestra begins to play, and then
into this silence Prof. Reichman and Eran Davidi, class valedictorian,
welcome the guests.
In his speech, Mr. Davidi recalls special moments at IDC, including long
hours in study groups preparing for exams; cultural activities and volunteer
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events – how he and his fellow classmates provided everything from
activity days for children from the south and help for Holocaust survivors,
to remedial lessons for children and youth from disadvantaged families
and more. He also speaks of the obligation he and his fellow alumni now
share: “As graduates we bear responsibility: to safeguard, change, impart
and instill. As such we are the ones who walk the road - to the goal. We
must safeguard anything that needs preserving: heritage, values, love of
man and the country. We must change everything that needs changing,
increase our tolerance of those who are different, and try to give to others
that which we have been fortunate to receive.”
After a musical interlude by Opera Singer Sivan Goldman, the evening’s
keynote speaker, Mr. Benny Landa, founder of Indigo, gives a speech
entitled: “My Long Trek in Israeli High-tech - and a Few Things I
Have Learned en Route.”
As the evening draws to a close, the air is filled with warmth, friendship,
and the feeling that everything is possible.
- Joy Pincus
The IDC Deans, from left: Dr. Yitzhak Oron, the dean of student affairs; Prof. Mario Mikulincer from the New School of Psychology; Dr. Noam Lemelshtrich-Latar
from the Sammy Ofer School of Communications; Prof. Gadi Taubenfeld of the Efi Arazi School of Computer Science; Prof. Alex Mintz from the Lauder School of
Government, Diplomacy & Strategy; Prof. Elazar Berkovitch from the Arison School of Business; and Prof. Amir Licht, former Dean of the Radzyner School of Law
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