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Titolo: Israel's academic exodus 'unparalleled'

Israel's academic exodus 'unparalleled'
A report released last week on the flight of Israel's academic
researchers to the United States foretells of catastrophic
consequences for the economic and defense sectors if the hemorrhaging
of leading minds out of the country does not cease.
"The deeper I dug, the clearer it became to me that we have developed
a problem that is at a magnitude beyond anything that exists anywhere
else in the developed world," Prof. Dan Ben-David, of Tel Aviv
University's Center for Economic Policy Research, told The Jerusalem
Post Monday.
"This is a country where we depend on hi-tech which doesn't just come
from private investment, but from basic research at universities," he
said. "We need hi-tech to defend Sderot, to build an air force."
Ben-David said higher education was being "systematically destroyed.
It'll take us a generation or more to repair the damage. In this
neighborhood you only get one chance."
In his report, entitled "Brain Drained," Ben-David found that in
2003-2004, 24.9 percent of all Israeli academics were working in
American universities. That figure put Israel in the unenviable number
one position in the tally of nations with academics abroad. Canada was
a distant second - just 12.2% of Canadian academics were working in
the United States. Holland was in third place, with 4.3% of its
researchers in the US.
"Israeli scholars in America are in a class by themselves," Ben-David
wrote, adding that their presence in the US was "twice the Canadian
ratio and over five times the ratio in the other developed countries."
Computer scientists make up the largest number of Israeli expatriates
in American universities, he said in the survey, adding that they made
up "a full third of the entire contingent remaining in Israel. Some of
the leading American departments have no less than five to six
Israelis each."
Similarly, 29% of top Israeli economists have made their home in the
US, the study found. The statistics for other research fields are no
less grim - a tenth of Israeli physicists work in the top 40 American
departments, "more than double the overall migration rate from the
Netherlands, the European country with the greatest rate of academic
migration to the States," Ben-David noted.
One eighth of Israeli chemists have also made their way over to
America, while 15% of Israeli philosophers have headed oversees.
So why do they leave? One of the main reasons is an insufficient
number of positions within Israel's seven main universities, Ben-David
said. Some departments have shrunk by 30% over the last decade, "while
the number of students had quadrupled," he told the Post.
"We have lost an entire generation who finished their PhDs and
couldn't find a position," he said.
A second reason is the low salaries offered by Israeli universities
compared with their American competitors, Ben-David said.
"Everyone has their reservation price, that point where you leave the
ideals and prices talk," he said.
With US institutions offering hundreds of thousands of dollars, Israel
can't compete with its current salary levels, Ben-David said. Those
who remain in Israel are forced to spend far more time teaching than
their American counterparts, leaving them less time to carry out
research.
"In the first two decades of this country," he said, "Israel's
national security situation was much worse, immigration was much
worse, it was a much poorer country, but it had vision and devoted a
much larger proportion of its GDP to education, which placed us in a
position to take advantage of the hi-tech revolution when it took off.
Since the 1970s, that's all changed."
Other factors behind the poor state of research in Israel today, Ben-
David said, include a rigid state control of university departments,
which have left them unable to compete for researchers, and a cut in
research funds.
"The US and Britain and other countries have doubled research funds
over the past decade and we've reduced them," he said. "We're sticking
our heads in the sand and just ignoring life."
"All we have around us are enemies, basically," Ben-David said. "We
have no natural resources; we can compete with our neighbors and the
world only though the quality of our manpower. And we have a jewel in
our crown."
Four of Israel's universities were in the top 150 universities in the
world, Ben-David said. He called on the state to take urgent steps to
save Israel's centers of higher education.
Manufacturers Association of Israel president Shraga Brosh also cited
cuts in research funds as posing a major problem for Israel's economy.
"Our ability to face the future is based on personnel," he said
Monday. "The government reduced its research budget over the past five
years, knocking NIS 5 billion off research and development at a time
when other countries are increasing their budgets. We feel that our
best are leaving."
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è arrivato Nahum, i cervelli fuggono da Israele rendendosi conto che
il loro paese non ha futuro
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detto dal cittadino di uno stato che spende in ricerca quanto il Burundi e 
che non ha nemmeno piů i cervelli da esportare
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