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will open soon. It will serve as both a physical and symbolic gateway to the future we are building together. Rising behind the Scheller Gate are several buildings that will shape the next chapter of the University: the external shells of the Helmsley Computer Science Building and the Drahi Innovation and Entrepreneurship Building are complete, and the Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Future Technologies Building is quickly rising. Additional projects are at various stages of planning, including the Cyndi and Max Mintzberg Cultural and Conference Centre, the Civil and Environmental Engineering Building, and a new medical education building. Each of these buildings represents more than concrete and glass. They represent investments in ideas, discovery, and human potential. The North Campus did not appear overnight. It is the result of years of planning and a shared vision with our global BGU community. It also reflects continuity with earlier leadership, particularly my

predecessors, Prof. Rivka Carmi and Prof. Avishay Braverman, who helped lay the foundations for the growth we see today. Our roots continue to guide our path forward. From David Ben Gurion’s vision of a thriving Negev to today’s innovation district and research breakthroughs, we continue to build with the understanding that our efforts today will impact generations to come in the Negev. With your partnership, we are laying the foundations that will allow future students and researchers to pioneer fields we can scarcely imagine today. We are not simply expanding a campus. We are expanding the possibilities of the Negev, of Israel, and of the world. Thank you for standing with us, in these challenging moments, and as we build the future of this university together.

Dear Friends,

At Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, we live and operate in two timeframes at once: responding to the present while continuing to build for the future. As we navigate Israel’s ongoing security challenges, your immediate messages of concern, and readiness to help remind us that we are not alone. Your emergency support has strengthened our students, faculty, and staff at critical moments. For that, I am deeply grateful. When I began my presidency seven years ago, the North Campus was still open ground. Today it has become a landscape of cranes, concrete, glass, and new possibilities. The Student Village has been operating at full capacity for five years, and the Infrastructure Center has been completed. The Ernest Scheller Jr. Gate of Innovation, the new main entrance to the North Campus,

Prof. Daniel Chamovitz President