Baruch Ivcher

In the 25th year of IDC Herzliya, we sat down with our partners to hear from them how it all began, what challenges IDC ( faces today, and the exciting moments that have brought them special pride. Each week, we will put up one video of the series here.

The first of these interviews was with Baruch Ivcher, a true friend of IDC Herzliya (Reichman University) from the outset, who donated the Ivcher Auditorium and later the Baruch Ivcher School of Psychology. His support was an expression of confidence in the young institution: "I live in Peru. One time when I visited Israel he (Prof. Reichman) took me to some military base. We walked among the weeds. We saw the old barracks. And he explained, ‘I am establishing a university here.’ I said to him, ‘You're crazy, a university here?! How can I help you Uri?’”