“We educate students in the spirit of our motto, ‘Liberty and Responsibility.’ This means to endow the alumnus with the tools to do all that he desires without surrendering to limitations or waiting for the authorities to do it for him – but to do so in a way that clearly demonstrates responsibility for his surroundings and the willingness to act within them.”

Reichman University

Professor Uriel Reichman about the RRIS school

October 6, 2013

Read More

Graduation Ceremony class of 2010

May 20, 2011

The vision of the future- Prof. Uriel Reichman

December 6, 2009

Read More

The Herzliya Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Closing Remarks by Prof. Uriel Reichman, February 5th, 2009

February 5, 2009

Read More
The Jerusalem Post: It's all in the plans

The Jerusalem Post: It’s all in the plans

November 6, 2007

“The vision of the IDC, as it is defined formally, is to develop an interdisciplinary university on a world-class level that will best serve the State of Israel and the Jewish people. This isn’t an accepted formulation, adding national service and the Jewish people into the definition. It sounds small and nationalistic, while academia is supposed to be, so to speak, above the nation. But I don’t think there’s a paradox here. This is our Zionism and pioneering”.Read More

The Herzliya Conference of the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya. Closing Remarks by Prof. Uriel Reichman, 16-18th of December 2003

December 18, 2003

We are celebrating the Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya’s 10th anniversary this year. IDC’s story is that of pioneers in Israeli academia. Ten years ago, we received the keys to a dilapidated army base and made a single request of the government: Do not give us any funding. We did not yet have any donors and, as a non-profit educational institution, we were not looking for investors. We did not have money, but we had faith in the idea that the time had come to forge a new model for academia.

Read More