Israel's universities and colleges lost students, faculties, and staff due to reserve duty for the Israel-Hamas War. This forced academic institutions to adapt on the fly. 

NOA AMOUYAL JULY 21, 2024

Early in his service in the combat engineering force within IDF Unit 77 in Gaza, Guy Chen felt a strong pull to begin what was already a delayed school year at Afeka Academic College of Engineering in Tel Aviv. 

Indeed, Chen’s officers allowed him to depart from Gaza. But that didn’t quite mean a return to normalcy.

“This is not what a regular 25-year-old should have to deal with,” said the second-year student in electrical engineering. “I lived in a tent for almost half a year. When I finished my reserves, I moved from my parents’ to an apartment in Ramat Gan. It was so weird going back to civilization. I felt my world was upside down. I felt like my routine was surreal. All these people who were brothers to me, I don’t see them anymore.”

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