Editing Tel Aviv University (section)

==History==
TAU's origins date back to 1956, when three research institutes: the Tel Aviv School of Law and Economics (established in 1935), the Institute of Natural Sciences (established in 1931), and the Academic Institute of Jewish Studies (established in 1954) – joined to form Tel Aviv University. Initially operated by the Tel Aviv municipality, the university was granted autonomy in 1963, and [[George S. Wise]] was its first president, from that year until 1971.<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QmxAAQAAIAAJ&q=%22tel+aviv+university%22+1963+%22ramat+aviv+campus%22 |title=Who's who in Israel and in the work ... |date=January 21, 2011 |access-date=September 29, 2011 |archive-date=April 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210428015655/https://books.google.com/books?id=QmxAAQAAIAAJ&q=%22tel%20aviv%20university%22%201963%20%22ramat%20aviv%20campus%22 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Basch_Interactive">{{cite web |author=Basch_Interactive |url=https://english.tau.ac.il/list_of_presidents |title=Presidents of Tel Aviv University &#124; Tel Aviv University |publisher=English.tau.ac.il |date=1980-01-01 |access-date=2020-02-18 |archive-date=2020-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200218232028/https://english.tau.ac.il/list_of_presidents |url-status=live }}</ref> The [[Ramat Aviv]] campus, covering an area of {{convert|170|acre|km2|adj=on}}, on top of the depopulated and razed Palestinian village of [[Al-Shaykh Muwannis|Sheikh Munis]], was established that same year. Its succeeding presidents have been [[Yuval Ne'eman]] from 1971 to 1977, [[Haim Ben-Shahar]] from 1977 to 1983, [[Moshe Many]] from 1983 to 1991, [[Yoram Dinstein]] from 1991 to 1999, [[Itamar Rabinovich]] from 1999 to 2006, [[Zvi Galil]] from 2006 to 2009, [[Joseph Klafter]] from 2009 to 2019, and [[Ariel Porat]] since 2019.<ref name="Basch_Interactive"/>

The university also maintains academic supervision over the Center for Technological Design in [[Holon]], the New Academic College of [[Tel Aviv-Yafo]], and the [[Afeka College of Engineering]] in Tel Aviv. The [[Wise Observatory]] is located in [[Mitzpe Ramon]] in the [[Negev]] desert.