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July 2026

An Institute of Advanced Studies? Preliminary Considerations

Contemporary academic institutions are increasingly shaped by pressures that favor speed, specialization, measurable outputs, and short evaluation cycles. These pressures are compounded by broader disruptions, including generative artificial intelligence, the pandemic, and, in the Israeli context, war. Together, they raise fundamental epistemic questions about how knowledge is created, shared, evaluated,…