Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Hebrew University of Jerusalem is an Israeli public research university based in Jerusalem, co-founded by Albert Einstein and Chaim Weizmann in July 1918, thirty years before the State of Israel, and is the second-oldest institution of higher learning in the country. The idea of a Jewish university in the Land of Israel was raised at the Kattowitz conference of 1884 and by Hermann Schapira at the First Zionist Congress of 1897. Its cornerstone was laid on 24 July 1918, and its Mount Scopus campus opened on 1 April 1925 with Judah Magnes as first chancellor. Its founders settled on Hebrew rather than a German and Arabic arrangement as the language of the university, and its first subjects were oriental languages, Jewish literature and archaeology. It now has seven faculties and more than 100 research centers, with three campuses in Jerusalem and three elsewhere in Israel.