Meet Amichai Magen, the scholar shaping Stanford’s approach to Israel studies
Meet Amichai Magen, the scholar shaping Stanford’s approach to Israel studies
The Jan Koum Israel Studies Program is housed at Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, where Magen is also a senior research scholar.
Amichai Magen came to Stanford to run a pilot program on Israel three months before Oct. 7.
Last fall, that pilot became permanent. The Jan Koum Israel Studies Program, named for the WhatsApp co-founder, is backed by endowment gifts of undisclosed amounts from the Koum Family Foundation and from Silicon Valley philanthropists Eli and Jeanette Reinhard.
They stepped up, even as other Jewish donors have pulled back from funding elite universities out of fear their names could end up attached to teaching they oppose.
There are early signs that the investment into Stanford is paying off.
Read the full article in j. The Jewish News of Northern California.