Suspension Lifted for Programs in Israel for IU Students in Spring 2007

The Safety & Responsibility Committee* of the Indiana University Overseas Study Advisory Council has lifted the suspension of study for IU students in Israel as of Spring 2007 at the following institutions:  Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, Haifa University, Ben-Gurion University as well as IU’s archaeological dig in Beth Shemesh.   The Committee had suspended study at these places on July 31, 2006 because of the war between Israel and Lebanon.

Student participants of the Hebrew University program, which is co-sponsored through Indiana University, and their parents or guardians when applicable, will be required to sign a special waiver that University Legal Counsel has designed for programs that have been given special permission to operate in countries for which there is a U.S. Department of State Travel Warning in effect.  Student participants of the other programs in Israel mentioned above will be required to sign a special waiver that underlines the fact that they are choosing to participate in a program, not offered through Indiana University, that is in a country under a Travel Warning. 

Indiana University reserves the right to revisit the decision to allow the aforementioned programs to continue should there be a change of conditions in Israel.

*The Committee comprises Larry Stephens, Director of Risk Management at Indiana University; Joseph Hoffmann, Harry Pratter Professor of Law, IUB; Susan Sutton, Associate Dean for International Programs and Director of International Affairs IUPUI and Chancellor's Professor of Anthropology; and Bonnie Brownlee, Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies of the School of Journalism. Kathleen Sideli, Associate Dean for International Programs, chairs the Committee on behalf of IU's system-wide Overseas Study Advisory Council. Susan Carty, Associate Director of Overseas Study, and Patrick O'Meara, Dean for International Programs, participated in the deliberations.