"I have news for the producers of 'NAZA': our students don't believe them"

Prof. Uriel Reichman, president of Reichman University, is interviewed on the 25th anniversary of the Raphael Recanati International School. He describes the institution's Zionist vision, its recruitment of Jewish students from the diaspora, its response to antisemitism, and graduates' role as ambassadors for Israel. The university is also preparing to absorb some 400 IDF wounded.

Prof. Uriel Reichman, founding president and chairman of the board of Reichman University, is interviewed on the 25th anniversary of the Raphael Recanati International School. In the interview he describes the Zionist vision behind Israel's first private university, which was founded without public support. Reichman says 2,200 foreign students from about 90 countries, most of them Jewish, now study at the institution, out of some 9,000 students in total. According to him, more than half of the foreign students stay in Israel, and the rest become ambassadors for the state. He relates to rising antisemitism worldwide as a factor increasing demand for study in Israel, and stresses that the university is "a home where you can be Jewish." At the same time, some 400 IDF wounded are expected to study at the university this year, and Reichman declares that the institution accepts them even without full academic records, in order to give them a chance to reintegrate into life. Yonatan Davis, the vice president who heads the international school, adds that the film "NAZA" actually strengthened students' Jewish identity, and that the main challenge is to provide them with an envelope of "total love" so that they will not want to leave.