The announcement was made at a recognition conference for the immigrant scientists held by the Ministry of Immigration at Tel Aviv University. The KMA program - the absorption of up-and-coming scientists, in which the state participated in the salary of up-and-coming scientists who did not have a university standard, was up to now at the mercy of negotiations every year, which left it in a constant fog
The KMA program, the program under which the state participates in the salary of up-and-coming scientists who do not have a standard in their field of specialization in higher education institutions, will be included in the budget base for the first time since it was founded in 1997. Until now, the program has been subject to the whims of the Treasury boys and to constant negotiation about each scientist, and it has often been threatened with closure. This is what Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, Foreign Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Avigdor Lieberman, Minister of Immigrant Absorption Supa Landover and Minister of Science and Technology Prof. Daniel Hershkowitz said yesterday (Tuesday), at a conference honoring the immigrant scientists who came to Israel in the last 20 years and made the greatest contribution to science the Israeli
During the ceremony, ten outstanding up-and-coming scientists received certificates of appreciation and a prize of NIS 15 each, at a conference held at Tel Aviv University.
Also participating in the conference were Prof. Yosef Klefter, president of Tel Aviv University, the president of the Israel National Academy of Sciences, Prof. Ruth Arnon, and the retired president of the Academy of Sciences, Prof. Yehoshua Yurtner.
Prime Minister Netanyahu said that the large immigration from the former Soviet Union saved Israel's economy, when many immigrants were absorbed into the hi-tech industry, medicine and academia. Today we are leading a real revolution in the field of higher education that will result in the research infrastructures improving and the research budgets being increased.
Minister Lieberman said at the conference: There is no one who would dispute the contribution of their sciences from the Commonwealth of Nations and the West and contributed to the prosperity of the State of Israel and placing it in the first places in physics, chemistry, computer science, space and more.
Lieberman claims to be the first to be the first to establish the KMA program after he spoke with protesters who were referred to him in his position as Director General of the Prime Minister's Office after no one else in the office could speak to them in Russian, and from this conversation the idea arose, and a month later the plan was approved by the government. For the first time this year - that a mascot program is at the base of the budget. We will not have to fight again over another million shekels or three more immigrants.
Minister of Absorption Supa Landover said that the Ministry of Absorption now prioritizes everything related to the absorption of scientists, and discovered that in the last twenty years, industry, academia and the public health system have absorbed thousands of up-and-coming scientists, who have raised the level of academia and medicine in Israel.
Minister of Science Hershkowitz said that the Technion and the Hebrew University were also founded by immigrant scientists who wanted to work in their profession, and this has been the case throughout the generations - generation after generation and its immigrant scientists, however, there is no precedent in the scope of the wave of immigration in the early XNUMXs.
The president of Tel Aviv University, Prof. Yosef Klifter, said that the State of Israel owes a huge debt to the immigrant scientists who integrated into the country in an exceptional way, enriched it and changed its face beyond recognition. He said that Tel Aviv University has always taken an active part in absorbing the Aliya. In the last 20 years, 500 scientists have been employed at the university and some of them have been absorbed into it as full-fledged faculty. He congratulated the scientists who won the prizes, of which four scientists from Tel Aviv University.
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Ami,
When there are Israeli doctors and scientists who are unable to find work here, it seriously hurts the universities here in Israel. The number of graduate students is decreasing because they see that the PhDs are unable to find work. And so they don't want to go and invest in an advanced degree and be in a miserable situation.
At the time they wrote me emails and asked me: Is it worth studying this and that field... They wrote to me: I see that there is no work and I don't want to be in a situation where I will be out of work and go around and send resumes. I am thinking whether it is worth doing a doctorate.
And I received quite a lot of such emails from people who had completed a master's or a bachelor's degree and wanted to consult me on what to do. And I realized that the academy in Israel is simply losing the best minds not only through brain drain but because people simply do not want to do advanced degrees here because they understand that there is nothing to do with it.
And the Havrach law will now end even more with education.
And if you ask me, I really say that it is true that there is nothing to do here with a doctorate, because this is my experience. I won't lie. This is what I see right now. Maybe I'll see something else tomorrow.
Well done! Most welcome. This is the most profitable investment for the country - the investment in human capital.
Regardless, Israel has forgotten that it has home-grown scientists who have no jobs.
Just yesterday I met a friend at the train station who also completed a two-year post-doctorate and published articles, etc.
For two years now, he has also been sending a letter to the whole country, and no one is returning to him either. Something fundamentally rotten and stinks about the way things are conducted here. Instead of embracing the tremendous human knowledge we have in Israel, we do everything to push our scientists abroad. When will the government understand the depth of things that we actually have nothing but human capital. Maybe they will find some oil... but oil is just oil and has no added value outside of what was left. The Israeli scientist is an asset that must be nurtured. Even garbage is learned to recycle effectively today. Israel is a leader and first in the world in wastewater recycling. 80% of our wastewater is recycled. Next in line is Spain with a turnover of 14%. If scientists were treated at least like wastewater in Spain, we would look completely different.
Greetings friends,
Ami Bachar