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May. 21, 2012
 

The first Rivka Carmi Scholarship at Exeter College, Oxford will be awarded to Liza Futerman. Futerman, currently an MA student in the Conrad and Chinita Abrahams-Curiel Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics, will be studying for a Masters in History of Art and Visual Culture. Futerman is “fascinated by the cultural functions of photography in the Information Age.” At Oxford, she will study the use of photography in literature. Futerman is thankful to have received the scholarship. “I feel very fortunate and very grateful to have been awarded the first Rivka Carmi Scholarship at Oxford University. I believe that this is a unique academic opportunity and I am determined to make the most out of this experience." 

Elad Almog will be the first “Scholarship for Israel” recipient, which will enable him to attend Oxford Brookes’ International Hotel and Tourism Marketing program. A member of the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management, Almog has been working at the Beer-Sheva Municipality’s Tourism Department and recently moved to Neot Hakikar near the Dead Sea. He hopes to introduce sustainable international tourism to the area.

Almog remarked, “First and foremost, I would like to thank the Jewish Chaplaincy board in association with the Oxford Jewish Congregation as a whole and Mrs. Sandra Dwek in particular. My wife and I already feel the community's wholehearted generosity and warm embrace. We are truly looking forward to becoming a part of this community. ”It is a real honor and pleasure to be the first recipient of the Oxford Brookes scholarship. I think an integral part of developing Israel's south is developing a global reach and network, and I believe that my time at Oxford Brookes will be a first and significant step in this direction.” 

The Rivka Carmi Scholarship at Oxford is the first partnership between Oxford and an Israeli university. Prof. Raymond Dwek of the Oxford Glycobiology Institute and Emeritus Fellow of Exeter College has been a close partner in the creation of the Scholarship as well as the creation of the British-Israel Life Sciences Council of which he and Prof. Carmi are co-chairs. It is open to women, minorities and those from disadvantaged backgrounds and is named after Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s President Prof. Rivka Carmi, who was the first female dean of a medical school in Israel and subsequently the first female president of an Israeli university. 

The Oxford Brookes scholarship is the brainchild of the Oxford Jewish Chaplaincy Board, in particular Isaac Garson and Sandra Dwek, who is married to Prof. Raymond Dwek. Garson and Sandra Dwek are both active members of the Oxford Jewish Congregation who are backing this initiative. Isaac is a well-known and experienced international educator and past chair of the Board. Sandra is an alumna of Brookes' law faculty and former member of its Chancellor's Court. 

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Oxford Brookes:
Left to right: Prof. Aviad Israeli, chair of the Department of Hotel and Tourism Management, BGU President Prof. Rivka Carmi, Elad Almog, Sandra Dwek, Prof. Ayala Malach-Pines, Dean of the Guilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management (Dani Machlis/BGU)

 

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Oxford:
Left to right: Harold Paisner, President, Ben-Gurion University Foundation, BGU President Prof. Rivka Carmi, Liza Futerman, Prof. Raymond Dwek, Glycobiology Institute, Exeter College, Oxford.