Canadian Friends Of Tel-Aviv University, North York, ON

TAU is Israel’s leading center of higher learning, providing an education for 30, 000 students ranked among the finest in the world. Attracting the brightest minds from across the country and around the globe, the university is distinguished by its emphasis on excellence and its pioneering, multidisciplinary approach to research. TAU is one of Israel’s most important research centers, engaged in more than 5, 000 innovative projects in classic disciplines and in cutting-edge fields from bioinformatics to nanotechnology. That’s why more than 150 of the world’s leading academic and corporate institutions regularly conduct joint programs on campus. TAU helps shape Israel’s social future, too, opening the doors of knowledge and opportunity to all. And university faculty and students are part of the daily fabric of life in Tel Aviv, reaching into the community in innumerable ways — from social welfare programs to legal clinics, from dental care to community theater, and from adult education to urban renewal. In the fields of science, business, medicine, the humanities, government, the arts and the art of scholarship, Tel Aviv University leads the way — expanding and enriching our shared future.