Welcome to Amirim, the unique interdisciplinary honors program of the Hebrew University! The program aims to shape Israel’s future leadership in academia, law, industry, business, journalism, education, and communal leadership. Accordingly, we are looking for students who are both outstanding in their academic potential and who are socially committed. We especially hope to see among us students who represent all branches and sectors of Israeli society.
As part of their concluding workshop, third-year Amirim students participate in a study tour abroad: in recent years, students travelled to England (2018) and Berlin (2019). Due to COVID-19, planned trips to China (2020), and India (2021), had to be cancelled. But Trips are planned to Venice (2022), Paris (2023), Beijing (2024) and Istanbul (2025). These trips, which are coordinated and led by senior lecturers in the program, represent an educational - and also social - climax, integrating themes from a wide range of Amirim courses, while marking, for students, the culmination of three years of intense study together.
In addition, the Amirim program fosters cooperation with universities abroad and is happy to expose its students to different academic discourses, in order to enable students from various intellectual backgrounds to meet and exchange views on issues of common interest to both communities. In recent years, third-year Amirim students travelled to Oriel College, Oxford to present papers at workshops on moral authority (2016) and the individual and society (2017). The program also encourages third-years students to spend a semester abroad in student exchange programs.
