The IDC

IDC Alumni
Make History
Campaign reaches million NIS target for scholarships
Gil Goshen, a top IDC graduate and first
chairman of the Student Union
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About 1 in 6 students at IDC receives a scholarship,
more than at any academic institution in Israel.
These students arise from the nation’s weaker socioeconomic
layers, but have high academic potential
and many graduate with distinction.
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And now, through the new campaign, “A Place in the
Heart,” a whole new generation will have a chance to
receive a first rate education and a new start at life.
But what makes these new scholarships so meaningful is
that they are provided by IDC alumni.
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“For the first time,” says Adv. Adi Olmert Peled, director of the IDC
Alumni Association, “a leading Israeli academic institution turned to its
alumni with the request that they take responsibility to help disadvantaged
students, to enable them to realize their dreams of higher education and
embark on a path of success.”
In an overwhelming response, 700 IDC graduates contributed over one
million NIS to enable 34 deserving students to earn their degrees. The
campaign goals were reached in less than eight months, with an additional
half million shekels already flooding in to provide for next year’s scholarship
students.
Gil Goshen, an IDC law and business graduate from the class of 1998 and
chairman of the first Student Union, was eager to contribute: “When I
started thinking about this campaign and why it’s justified and important
and who it contributes to, it was clear from the beginning that you’re giving
From left: Adv. Gilad Tuffias; Gal Ben-Yehud; Adv. Adi Olmert, IDC
graduate and director of the Alumni Association; Ilan Lapidot; and Gili Salis
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people the tools to succeed. You become part of something that gives
people tools for life.”
According to Jonathan Davis, IDC VP of External Relations, “Our
graduates are not only Israel’s future leaders, but also the future generation
of IDC Herzliya, and they will ensure the success of the students that follow
them.”
And for IDC Founder and President, Prof. Uriel Reichman, the success of
this campaign is the realization of one of the basic premises upon which
IDC was built: “IDC Herzliya was established to serve its students, and
the hope has always been that when the Center’s founders are gone, the
graduates will rise up and carry on the message. By supporting talented
young people who don’t have the means yet to help themselves, our
graduates are helping to preserve this unique place and ensure its future.”
Already the next generation is waiting to rise up and put on the mantle of
responsibility: “One of the things I want to do most after I get my degree
and become financially established,” says Shlomi Gvilli, a scholarship
student who is completing two degrees - one in computer science and
another in business administration, “is to come back here and volunteer to
accompany a student throughout the challenges of getting a degree. That
would be the best way to repay the Center, because what they give us here
is an unbelievable opportunity. If one day I’ll be able to come full circle and
help someone else, then I’ve done my part.”
– Joy Pincus