Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya


The Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya is a private research college in Herzliya, Israel. It was founded in 1994 by Uriel Reichman, envisioned and inspired by the model of the Ivy League. It is located in the city of Herzliya, in the Tel Aviv District, and is classified as an independent unbudgeted university. It grants undergraduate degrees, post-graduate degrees, and PhD degrees. It is a non-profit and receives no Israeli government funding.
IDC Herzliya has 8,000 students enrolled for undergraduate and graduate degrees, including 2,000 international students from 86 countries.
In 2014, IDC law graduates achieved the highest passing rate at the national bar examination of all Israeli academic institutions. Moreover, IDC Herzliya ranked first of 66 Israeli academic institutions in terms of student satisfaction for four consecutive years. In addition, IDC Herzliya has been the only academic institution in the world that has won the international Jean Pictet International Humanitarian Law competition, organized by the International Committee of the Red Cross, in consecutive years, winning it twice, in 2010 and 2011.
The faculty includes professors who are involved with and hold professorships at various other universities, with a high percentage of Ivy League universities. IDC Herzliya cooperates with universities in the United States such as the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, University of California, Berkeley, Washington University in St. Louis, Syracuse University and Harvard University.
IDC Herzliya was ranked first in a survey that examined the treatment in Israeli academic institutions towards students who serve in the IDF. It was the first academic institution to recognize active reserve service as equivalent to academic credits. In addition, IDC students who serve in the reserve forces enjoy significant assistance during their studies. IDC Herzliya offers a program in political science, with specialization in diplomacy and counter-terrorism, and hosts the Institute for Counter-Terrorism.
IDC Herzliya is ranked 76-100 in political science in the Shanghai Ranking of world universities. In overall world university rankings, Times Higher Education places it in the 601-800 bracket.

History

The campus is located in the city of Herzliya, Israel, six miles north of Tel Aviv, on the grounds of a former Israeli Air Force base that served as the first fighter base during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, and then as the main Anti-aircraft warfare school until 1992.
IDC Herzliya has a highly developed Entrepreneurship Club where you can join a start-up accelerator. Herzliya is a major start-up hub in Israel. Fledgling startups and giant multinationals settle down in Herzliya. To name but a few, Apple, Microsoft and IBM are headquartered in Herzliya. The environment for start-ups in Herzliya and Tel-Aviv is more than sufficient to ensure success.
The first class at IDC Herzliya consisted of 360 students. Over the years, leading professors from Israel and the US have joined the faculty, additional schools have been opened and the student body has grown to 6,500. IDC Herzliya was founded on the belief that an independent nonprofit college unfettered by bureaucracy and an external agenda could make a significant contribution to Israeli society and its future leadership. IDC offers innovative interdisciplinary degree programs that employ advanced information technology while providing a solid understanding of the region and its geopolitical relevance in the world.
The IDC Herzliya motto is “Liberty and Responsibility." The school logo is based on the flag that Theodor Herzl, the father of modern Zionism, proposed for the Jewish state.
In 2012, Israel Chemicals helped to found the School of Sustainability, which will focus on environmentally conscious business development and entrepreneurship. Graduates will be awarded a BA in sustainability studies.

Herzliya Conference

The Herzliya Conference, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Center at Herzliya, is Israel's center stage for the articulation of national policy by its most prominent leaders, including the Israeli President, the Prime Minister, the IDF Chief of General Staff, and the leading contenders for high political office. Among the speakers of Herzliya Conference, Israel's foremost global policy annual gathering were French president Nicolas Sarkozy, NATO- General Secretary Anders Fogh Rasmussen, US-Secretaries of State, Condoleeza Rice and Dr. Henry Kissinger, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and many more notable participants.

Administration

, president and founder of IDC Herzliya, holds a JSD from the University of Chicago and is the former dean of the Law Faculty at Tel Aviv University. Alex Mintz is the provost. Amnon Rubinstein, chairperson of the Appointments Committee, is a former Israeli minister of education. Aharon Barak, president emeritus of the Israeli Supreme Court, is a member of the Higher Academic Committee and a lecturer at the Radzyner School of Law at IDC.
A June 2020 decision of the General Assembly of the IDC Herzliya decided that that the college will get renamed to the Reichman University in the upcoming future. When this transformation is complete, it would make the IDC Herzliya the first private university of Israel. However, the Council for Higher Education in Israel disapproved these IDC's changes for both name and labeling it as a university.

Schools

IDC Herzliya offers degrees in law, business, government, computer science, communications, economics and psychology. It consists of the Radzyner Law School, Arison School of Business, Efi Arazi School of Computer Science, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy, Sammy Ofer School of Communications, Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology, Tiomkin School of Economics, School of Sustainability Founded by Israel Corp., ICL & ORL, and the Raphael Recanati International School.

Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy

The Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy is a school within the Interdisciplinary Center private college located in Herzliya, Israel. The Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy is named after Ronald Lauder.
Undergraduate programs include:
Graduate programs include:
The Raphael Recanati International School offers programs in English for overseas students. International students learn side by side with Israelis and are involved in all aspects of campus life. The Raphael Recanati International School has grown significantly and now makes up one-fourth of the student body at IDC Herzliya.
Programs offered by RRIS:
IDC Herzliya offers a variety of leadership programs:
IDC Herzliya is home to 23 research institutes and centers:
Approximately one quarter of the students on campus hail from outside Israel. IDC Herzliya students come from 83 countries to study at the Raphael Recanati International School. IDC Herzliya students initiate, lead and participate in dozens of activities on behalf of the community, including legal aid clinics to help those of limited financial means; programs to mentor and tutor elementary-school pupils; activities for at-risk youth; the ensemble project in which students teach classical music in an underprivileged neighborhood in the city; and dozens of other volunteer initiatives that students launched on behalf of the weaker sectors of the community. Students are also active in a variety of clubs and performing arts groups.
In 2009, Alpha Epsilon Pi, an international Jewish fraternity, opened a branch at IDC, the first college fraternity in Israel.

Debate club

The Debate Club of the IDC Herzliya is a framework designed to provide the qualifications necessary in the field of speech and rhetoric. In 2012, the debate team of the Raphael Recanati international school won second place in the European championships in Belgrade. It was the only team from Israel to reach the final.

Sports

In 2012, IDC Herzliya won first place for women's basketball, first place for men's beach volleyball, first place men and women's windsurf and second place for debate.

Programs

Notable faculty