see that Israel is a democracy , a Western world country and the ONLY TRUE friend of the USA in the whole region , the only country the USA can rely on .

between MIT and the Technion, initiated by my son Chaim Kutnicki & fellow 'Techer', Sam Korb (with back up from Hillel) and was up and running fully by 2007 when he graduated. Since it was not conceived by administrators, but was the brainchild of students, it is both unique and awesome. The faculty supports it in many ways. Google, Chaim Kutnicki + Hibur and see for yourselves what innovative students can accomplish! The writer should have know about this too.

I'm sure there are other programs in existence as well, I've not had a reason to research them to see, but this article was about newly founded programs.

is that these are American universities sponsoring study abroad programs in israel, not Israeli universities sponsoring domestic programs meant for foreigners. i went to Maryland and am happy they offer this now but sad they didnt when i was there...