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while frontal studies are suspended and what assistance is available
for distance learning as well as emotional support during the current
Covid-19 crisis.
With the assistance of the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC),
we were able to provide financial aid through the national emergency
scholarships fund, which totals approximately NIS 320,000, to
students who struggled to meet their tuition payments, and we will
continue to assist.
In addition, we have a number of students who are defined as at-
risk or who have struggled to come to campus during this challenging
period for various reasons and in cases that were found justified, we
found each one of them an individual solution.
On a personal level, on behalf of the Dean’s Office staff and myself
personally, Covid-19 has been a period requiring us to summon our
own capabilities, emotions and flexibility, some of us are parents of
young children, some have health issues, feelings and more…. Just
like everyone else.
In order to be available to assist others we looked inward, understood
how this period was making us feel, what it evokes within ourselves
and what we need in order to cope during this period of crisis the
best way we know how. By looking at the situation in this way, we
were able to better understand the challenges our students were
going through and were able to respond to their needs. I invite you
all to try.
I’d like to conclude with a Charles Darwin quote, fitting the essence
of our time “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will
survive but those who can best manage change.”
Covid-19, with all the challenges it brought with it, has forced us to
look reality straight in the eye and to modify our habits and way of
thinking in order to survive better. It will definitely get better. A little
more patience…

Happy New Year
Silvia Kolet
Head of Department
Dean of Students

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