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We are honored that the British Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, chose Tel-Hai College as the venue for the keynote lecture of his last official trip to Israel before he completes his term in office.

A second course for teenagers who have not found their place in the conventional school system has been opened at Tel-Hai College, aimed at training them to become PC technicians. Participants in the course come from Kiryat Shemona, Rajar, and from rural communities in the nearby regional councils. The course began at the initiative of Tel-Hai's Managing Director Yossi Malka, who joined forces with Glencore Society for Education and Welfare, which is the main funder for the program.

Students in the Department of Nutrition Sciences at Tel-Hai College study the prehistoric human diet. "Understanding the place of nutrition in evolution may lead the way to cures for todays' ailments." Eli Ashkenazi, Haaretz, January 27, 2013

Last December, Yael Meltzer and other staff members from the Support Center for Students with Learning Disabilities headed to Jerusalem to take part in a prestigious ceremony at the Knesset, in which the Leshem Association for the Advancement of Learning Disabled Students in Higher Education in Israel received the Speaker of the Knesset Award for Quality of Life.

Emily Whitehead, an American girl with a rare form of Leukemia, was cured after treatment with an experimental drug containing a genetically engineered AIDS virus. The treatment was developed by Prof. Gidi Gross of Tel-Hai College and Prof. Zelig Eshhar of the Weizmann Institute of Science.

On November 13, 2012, the Council for Higher Education announced that it has approved the request of Tel-Hai College to open a Master's program in nutrition sciences. The program will offer a research-oriented track with a thesis requirement as well as a non-thesis track.

On October 30 a festive ceremony marked the naming of Tel-Hai's East Campus after the late Mr. Gustave Leven, founder of the Rashi Foundation. The October 30 campus-naming event was accompanied by the founding of the Gustave Leven Forum, which will serve as a platform for discussion of core issues that affect the future of Israeli society, inspired by the vision of Gustave Leven.

The upcoming biomedical conference promises to create a significant encounter between researchers and clinicians, while furthering cooperation between leading scientific institutions in northern Israel: Tel-Hai College and its partner MIGAL Galilee Technology Center (who host the conference), the new Bar-Ilan University Faculty of Medicine in Tzfat, and the veteran medical school at Haifa's Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. The conference will provide a springboard for new biotechnological research and development in Israel's northern periphery.

Khaled Ibrahim, one of the wonderful students at our School for Gifted Children, was chosen for the Boeing Leadership Award after attending a science space camp in Turkey with children from seven different countries!

College President Professor Yona Chen and Managing Director Yossi Malka have recently been elected to chair the national Committee of Public College Heads. They will man this important position for the coming two years. The Committee of Public College Heads is the umbrella organization for Israel's 21 public academic colleges, and provides a platform for the development of joint policies on a variety of issues.