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Faculty History

1964	The Life Sciences Department is established. All studies are held under the academic auspices of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1970	The Faculty of Natural Sciences is established and includes six departments: Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics, Chemistry, Life Sciences, and Earth & Environmental Sciences. Life Sciences studies are still held under the academic auspices of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1971	Undergraduate studies for B.Sc. degrees in all Faculty departments (except for Life Sciences) begin.
1972	Undergraduate studies for B.Sc in Life Sciences are moved to BGU campus in Beer-Sheba.
1974	All Faculty departments were authorized to grant Masters Degrees. Before that, Masters degree in Life Sciences was given under the academic auspices of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In the other Departments, the studies were under the academic sponsorship of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
1978	All Faculty departments are authorized to grant doctoral degrees.
2000	The Mathematics and Computer Science Department is split into 2 separate departments - Mathematics and Computer Science.
Today	The Faculty employs over 145 academic faculty members, and has approximately 1,900 undergraduate and 500 graduate students. In addition to its core activities, including options for interdepartmental and inter-faculty studies for both Undergraduate and Graduate degrees., the Faculty also provides training in all applied sciences, and offers courses in mathematics and basic sciences for the full-time equivalent of over 2,000 students majoring in engineering, medical and social sciences.

Past Faculty Deans

1970 - 1971	Prof. Zvi Falah
1972 - 1974	Prof. Amos Richmond
1975 - 1976	Prof. Jacob Bar-Tov
1977 - 1980	Prof. Dov Bahat
1981 - 1984	Prof. Joshua Shapira
1985 - 1986	Prof. Paul A. Forman
1987 - 1990	Prof. Gad Gordotzky
1991 - 1994	Prof. Non Shavit
1995 - 1998	Prof. Amos Altshuler
1999 - 2002	Prof. Miriam Cohen
2003 - 2008	Prof. Avraham Parola
2009 - 2011	Prof. Amir Sagi
2012 - 2014	Prof. Shlomi Dolev
2015 - 2017	Prof. Jiwchar Ganor
2018 - 2020	Prof. Michal Shapira