English-taught degree to attract American Jewish students

Early in her senior year in high school in Washington DC, Elie Ravitz-Basser realised that the Israel-Gaza war would upend her college plans, writes Zev Stub for Jewish Telegraphic Agency.

Ravitz-Basser is set to start her bachelor degree this fall in Jerusalem, pursuing a double major in English and liberal arts at Hebrew University’s Rothberg International School. She’ll be part of a brand-new, three-year undergraduate degree programme, offered in English for the first time at Hebrew University.

Ravitz-Basser is among many recent high school graduates who have reconsidered their college plans in light of the anti-Israel protests that swept across US campuses this year. For her, the breaking point came during the violent protests and encampments that spread from coast to coast this spring, many of which were seen as not just anti-Zionist but antisemitic.
Full report on The Jerusalem Post site