These words of Professor Yehuda Bauer of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, pronounced at UNESCO headquarters in January 2012, help us understand how universal the legacy of the Holocaust is, and how important it has become to ensure that it is taught globally.

UNESCO: Education

He emigrated to Israel at the age of 20 under the Law of Return, where he served in the military and gained a BA in social sciences from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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The AUT, holding its annual council in Eastbourne, is being called upon to boycott of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem unless it "calls for a halt to all attempts to confiscate land from Palestinian families, and reaches an acceptable settlement" with them.

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Cohen, 56, began his career refining the solar thermal process at Jerusalem's Hebrew University in 1977.

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In Jerusalem, at the Hebrew University, Eliezer Shkolnik (Shlomo Bar Aba) and his son, Uriel (Lior Ashkenazi), are both students of the Talmud Eliezer a sombre seeker of scientific certainty, Uriel a mover and an opportunist, a man of the media.

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Nurit Peled of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, who has studied Israeli textbooks covering history, geography and civics, says that in the books she has looked at Palestinians, when they appear at all, are depicted as refugees, farmers or terrorists never as doctors or engineers, or any other sort of professional.

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