The Cherrick Center at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem was founded in 1985 to promote interdisciplinary research on Zionism, the Yishuv, and the State of Israel. Affiliated with the Institute for Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University, the Cherrick Center is committed to advancing knowledge and understanding of the period extending from the emergence of Hibbat Zion to the present, while focusing on Zionist thought, the Zionist movement, aliyah, Jewish settlement, the histories of Arabs and Jews living in Palestine and the State of Israel, the affinity between the State and the Jewish people in their diasporas, minorities in Israeli society, globalization, economics, law, society, and culture(s). Previous directors of the center included: Prof. Yehoshua Ben -Arieh, Prof. Uri Bialer, Prof. Hagit Lavsky, Prof. Uzi Rebhun, Dr. Anat Helman, Prof. Ran Aharonson, Prof. Dmitry Shumsky, and Prof. Hillel Cohen. The current director of the center is Dr. Assaf Shelleg; the center’s administrative assistant is Mrs. Karin Cohen.
At the opening of the Mona Bronfman-Sheckman Amphitheatre on the new campus of Givat Ram. The donors, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Mronfman with Mr. Bernard Cherrick (right)
the unviersity's director of organization and infrastructure (4 July, 1957; photo by Braun Werner)