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ogy-based economy. In order to do so,
our universities must again become a
government and national priority.
We must make all efforts to attract
and retain the very best faculty. Israel's
one-size-fits-all university faculty
pay scale — based primarily on rank
and seniority rather than merit and
performance — makes it difficult to
attract top-notch science faculty when
competing against extravagant com-
pensation packages being offered by
foreign universities and the high-tech
industry.
In Israel, all faculty members are
paid the same amount. How can we
compete with U.S. universities, which
recognize the amount of education,
specialized equipment and facilities
involved in a science-specific educa-
tion, and as a result pay science faculty
members high salaries?
It comes as no surprise that Israel's
brain drain problem is especially pro-
nounced in high-tech disciplines such
as computer science and engineering.
Indeed, one recent study found that
a third of all Israeli computer science
faculty are now found in the top 40
U.S. computer science departments.
Even if we can't compete with for-
eign institutions with salaries, we
can and must offer our young faculty
generous research fellowships, cutting-
edge facilities, the very best equipment
and a stake in shaping 21st century
Israel. This approach has been mod-
erately successful, as demonstrated
by the young Technion researchers
who have completed successful post-
doctoral studies at places like the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Stanford, Cal Tech and Harvard, "got-
ten a taste of" their open market value
and received tempting job offers in
the United States, yet we've lured back
to teach and do their research at the
Technion.
We could attract and keep even
more of these talented young research-
ers, who have done undergraduate and
much of their graduate work at our
very own universities, if we had the
funding to create additional faculty
positions. As things stand, we lose
many such researchers who decide to
stay overseas. It is indeed a waste of
our most precious national resource.
Yes, there are serious threats to our
educational system — and by exten-
sion to the well-being of Israel — but
it's possible to rise to the challenge of
our government's misplaced priorities
that put our universities at the back of
the line. The infrastructure, the will, the
talent, the value system and the tradi-
tion for excellence in education are all
in place. What we need if we are to keep
our best minds from going elsewhere is
a major shift that again makes educa-
tion a central national policy.
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of millions of dollars each year.
The Christian Zionists I know are
not the demons Yoffie would conjure
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est, loving people who believe in
the Bible. They offer us friendship
and give Israel endless support and
ask nothing in return. They visited
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ing Christian Zionists: Their support
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particularly when the Palestinians
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among Orthodox Jews, and it's hardly
outside the mainstream in America or
Israel.
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does the administrative leader of one
stream of American Judaism get the
chutzpah to define the parameters of
the Mideast debate for all of us? How
long until he rejects Orthodox Zionists
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