Netanya Academic College

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Netanya Academic College - Wikipedia

Coordinates: 32°18′26.02″N 34°52′47.32″E / 32.3072278°N 34.8798111°E

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Netanya Academic College
האקדמית נתניה

Type	Private college
Established	1994
Students	4,000
Location	Netanya , Israel
Website	www.netanya.ac.il

Netanya Academic College (Hebrew: האקדמית נתניה, HaAkademit Netanya) is a private college based in Netanya, Israel. Established in 1994 by a team from Bar-Ilan University, it has an enrollment of around 4,000 undergraduate students. It was founded by Zvi Arad, who served as its president for 24 years.

History

The college was established in the Mishkenot Zevulun neighborhood in 1994 by Zvi Arad at the request of the mayors of Netanya, Yoel Elroi and Zvi Poleg.^[1] A partner in the initiation and establishment of the college was Miriam Feirberg, who at that time served as head of the Education Department of Netanya. Today the college is an accredited institute of higher education that grant first and second academic degrees in a variety of fields.

The college offers Bachelor's and Master's degrees in several subjects, focusing on law, business administration, finance and computer science.

In 2023, Netanya made international news after a mob of Jewish Israelis chanted "death to Arabs" at Palestinian students living in the campus dorms.^[2]^[3] Roi Amgar, the head of the local Garin Torani, posted on X, "In Netanya we are not going to give up until they kick out the Arabs who are at Netanya College! The police will not stop us, nor the municipality, nor the state!"^[4] Israeli Police dispersed the crowd and took the students out of the dorms.^[4]

Tuition

The Netanya Academic College is a nonprofit college and does not receive funding from the State of Israel.^[5] The college relies primarily on tuition fees paid by students and donations. Tuition amounts to approximately 30,000 NIS per year, with numerous scholarships available for Arab and Druze students.^[6]

Notable alumni

Anat Guetta (born 1967), economist and chair of the Israel Securities Authority (ISA)^[7]
Moshe Kahlon (born 1960), politician
Esther Salmovitz (born 1948), lawyer and member of the Knesset

Notable faculty

Zvi Arad (1942–2018), mathematician, acting president of Bar Ilan University, and president of Netanya Academic College
Yuval Dror (born 1971), specialist in sociology of technology
José Faur (1934–2020), Sephardic Hakham (rabbi), teacher, and scholar
Yehuda Kahane (born 1944), businessman and academic
Ernest Krausz (1931-2018), Israeli professor of sociology and President of Bar Ilan University
Ron Malka, diplomat and economist who served as ambassador of Israel to India
Jacob Turkel (1935–2023), Justice of the Supreme Court of Israel