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Source: http://blogs.cfr.org/abrams/2012/12/28/is-education-a-threat-to-peace/
Is Education a Threat to Peace?
(Council on Foreign Relations) Elliott Abrams - Ariel University in the West Bank was founded in 1982 as a branch of Bar-Ilan University, became independent in 2005, and now has 14,000 students, including the largest group of Ethiopian-born immigrant students in Israel, and hundreds of Israeli Arab students. Last summer, Israeli Nobel Laureate Robert Aumann, a member of a committee that evaluated the performance of the Ariel University Center, told the BBC that there was "a really strong need" for an upgraded institution in Ariel. "I was very impressed by the quality of the place as an academic institution and I think Israel needs another university....The last time when an additional university was added to the roster of Israeli universities was in 1972. At the time the population was three and a quarter million. The population of Israel today is almost eight million."