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Partnership with the Jewish Community in Florida After the horrific events of October 7th, we learned that the Sapir community is not just limited to Otef Yisrael (Gaza Envelope)/Western Negev or Israel. We now have a growing global Sapir community, people who care deeply about our students and our region. Trudy and Seth Fine, a wonderful couple based in Florida (cousins of a faculty member), joined together with their community at Temple Kol Ami Emanu-El and Rabbi Uriel Romano to raise funds for Sapir College.

Dear Friends, Thank You We extend our heartfelt gratitude for your unwavering support and generosity, which have been vital in helping Sapir College overcome challenges and pursue its mission of empowering education, especially during these difficult times. Your philanthropic contributions have facilitated various essential initiatives, including material and mental health support, campus security enhancements, equipment upgrades, refurbishments, and the provision of laptops for students.   Despite facing adversity, Sapir College commenced its academic year, online, on December 24, 2023.

This past Monday, April 1, 2024, Sapir College hosted the Chair of the Joint Distribution Committee (JDC), Amy Bressman, together with the JDC-Tevet team, including: Rani Dudai, CEO JDC—Tevet; Adi Blunter, Director Life Long Learning; Ilan Levene Director of Strategic Partnerships. Sapir’s President, Professor Nir Kedar briefed the team on the impact of October 7th on students and staff, and how the College with philanthropic partnership responded.

Her partner, Omri Miran, was kidnapped on October 7th, and is being held in Gaza Lishay Lavi, Director of the Mechina Pre-Academic Programs at Sapir briefed the College’s faculty on her ongoing journey to free her partner and all the other abductees. Lishay’s beloved partner and father of her two daughters, Omri Miran, was kidnapped and has been held in in Gaza for over 5 months. Courageously and openly, Lishay shared with the College’s faculty, her family’s moments of horror on the morning of October 7th, at her home in Kibbutz Nahal Oz.

No, it’s not a comic book superpower. It’s about strategic thinking and how businesses can keep one step ahead by looking beyond the horizon to prepare for what comes next. Jay Abraham, founder of the Abraham Group consultancy and one of America’s leading business innovators, has helped thousands of business ventures see around corners (the name of one of his books), navigate uncertain times and come out on top.

Congratulations to the Law School’s 2021-2022 Graduates to the graduates of the Law School! Sapir Law School Alumni Continue to Lead Israel’s Bar Association’s Exams. We are proud of our Law School's graduates, each and every year. This year, more than ever, we are very proud, due to the many challenges our alumni faced when taking their Bar Exams during the Iron Swords War. Dr. Ido Eshet, Dean of the School of Law: "Today, almost everyone knows that Sapir has a unique approach in developing the next generation of jurists.

There’s no turning back. Artificial intelligence has spread from cyberspace to the public space and now affects our court system. Can tomorrow’s legal minds make order out of this tempest of change? That’s what eight students from Sapir Academic College Law School tried to discover last week at the University of Padova in Italy. The group was selected to take part in a special winter school program on the interface between law and artificial intelligence.