PRESIDENT'S REPORT 2020 | OUR FIRST 50

will continue to bring the brightest researchers here in the future? Danny  I think that Zionism is part of BGU’s DNA. It is what makes us feel at home, and what attracts scholars to bet their future on this university. But what will keep the best researchers here is the fact that we are a world class university that provides them with the same conditions – labs, libraries, and quality students – that they could have at any other leading university in the US or Europe. We are not here to compromise our standards for Zionism; we are Zionists who aim for the highest standards here in the desert.

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Chaim  David Ben-Gurion wanted to create “an Oxford” in the Negev and he was laughed at, but look around, it really worked. You came here because of Zionism and stayed because of the Zionist spirit. Do you think Zionism

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