BGU Canada raises funds and awareness for Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.
Founded in 1969 to fulfill David Ben-Gurion’s strategic imperative of developing the Negev and Southern Israel, BGU is a remarkably innovative and diverse institution of higher education and research with significant nation building responsibilities, including making the desert bloom.
BGU Canada fulfills its mission by raising funds and awareness across Canada, showcasing BGU’s academic excellence and cutting-edge research and innovations. Activities include educating individuals, foundations and media about the University’s ground-breaking research through a series of exciting galas, movie pre-screenings, informative communications, educational programs and events, featuring BGU’s world-renowned faculty. Through the support of our volunteers, generous donors, and supporters, we help fund scholarships, programs, facilities and research that have a deep impact both locally and globally.
BGU Canada promotes the pioneering spirit of Israel’s founders - a spirit that continues to flourish in the vast desert wilderness of the Negev. A unique oasis of innovation, BGU is making the desert bloom, providing expertise in desert studies, alternative energy, ecological conservation, water purification and management, bio- and nanotechnologies, community medicine and global health, social work, and Jewish literature and culture.
BGU Canada supports these endeavours and the University’s extensive outreach to the Negev’s diverse communities, its Arab neighbours, developing nations and the world.
WE'RE JUST GETTING STARTED
The University of the Negev is founded with the opening of the Department of Behavioural Sciences
1969
Following the death of David Ben-Gurion, The University of the Negev is renamed Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1973
Canadian Friends of the University of the Negev is registered as a Canadian charity
The Sde Boker campus of BGU opens in the kibbutz located outside of Be’er Sheva, where David Ben-Gurion and his wife Paula lived in their later years
1974
1979
On May 27, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar al Sadat sign a formal peace treaty, hosted at BGU’s Be’er Sheva campus
The Eilat Campus opens as an integral part of BGU and regional development. To date, over 120,000 students have graduated from 40 different programs at this campus.
2002
2020
The Azrieli National Autism and Neurodevelopment Centre is established at BGU’s Be’er Sheva campus
Canadian Israeli Philanthropist, Sylvan Adams, makes a transformational gift of USD$100-Million.
