A Message from our Chairman

Mr. Bradley Bloom

“I believe that the University of Haifa – together with governmental, industrial, academic and community partners – can play a role in creating the next chapter of prosperity in Haifa, the North and its diverse population”.

Mr. Bradley Bloom is the co-founder and former managing Director of Berkshire Partners LLC, a private equity firm. He is a highly respected leader in the Boston Jewish community, having served as Chairman of Combined Jewish Philanthropies (CJP), and co-founder of the Boston-Haifa Connection. In addition, Mr. Bloom is active in strategic and financial oversight committees at Harvard University, and is the former President of the Board of Trustees of Milton Academy.

Mr. Bloom has spent his entire life in the Boston, MA area. He earned his AB in economics from Harvard College and MBA from Harvard Business School as a Baker Scholar. During his first visit to Israel, he was a volunteer at Kibbutz Beit Oren near Haifa. In 1973, he left Harvard and volunteered for 6 months on Moshav Dikla in Northern Sinai at the outset of Yom Kippur war.

“My connection with Israel began in the summer of 1970, when I came to Israel for the first time as a teenager.”

About the Board of Governors

The Board of Governors is the supreme authority of the University and, within the framework of its authority as circumscribed in this Constitution and in the General Regulations, will tend to its management, affairs and assets according to this Constitution and the General Regulations. The Board of Governors will consider the basic policy for the financial activity of the University, its annual budget, balance sheets and financial reports.

The Board of Governors shall be involved in the financing of the budgets of the University, to which end it will do all in its power to solicit budget funding, contributions, financial support, funds, assets and other financial resources, in Israel and overseas, in order to cover the budget, in whole or in part, to further the aims of the University.

The Board of Governors shall be entitled to delegate from time to time part of its authority to the Executive Committee or any other authority of the University that the Board will determine.

Powers of the Board of Governors

The powers of the Board of Governors shall include:
To appoint members to the Board of Governors.
To ratify the appointment of the President and Vice-Presidents.
To ratify the appointment of the Chairman of the Executive Committee, and to elect the Chairman and members of the Control Committee.
To ratify the multi-year plan.
To ratify annual reports, financial reports, and balance sheets and budgets.
To review the University’s activities, recommend to the University’s institutions, discuss reports submitted to it by them, cultivate the University’s foreign contacts, and raise funds
To appoint an Auditor and set his salary, appoint a Control Committee, ratify amendments to the University’s Academic Regulations and Constitution.