The university strives to recycle as much recyclable waste as possible.
Collection points are spread around the campus and dormitories.
The following items may be recycled: batteries, cartridges, paper, cardboard, plastic bottles, electronic items and more.
Organic waste may also be taken to composter bins.
Used furniture and office supplies are offered for internal sale or donation by the Procurement and Logistics Unit in the Finance Department.

Millions of Shekels in Energy Efficiency Measures

The university is investing millions of shekels in energy efficiency measures. Energy efficiency reduces the institution’s environmental impact while simultaneously resulting in substantial financial savings. 
The average time it takes to return the cost of the investment is 3.1 years. 

The priority areas for energy efficiency measures are the following:

Command and control systems: energy center supervision, motion detectors, CO2 detectors, lighting controls.
Introducing new technologies: VRF system, fume hoods, VAV systems, HR, T5 LED lighting, heat pumps
Energy conversion: conversion from diesel to LPG

 

CO2-based climate control

The rate of fresh air in indoor spaces is measured by the number of people inside and not number of changes. 
This is determined by a CO2 level equivalent to 400 PPM outdoors and 800 PPM in the air indoors. 
At the same time, if the levels of CO2 are assessed according to 800 PPM, the quantity of fresh air can be reduced, increasing the amount of returning air. 
This enables increased economies in cooling and heating energy that is invested in fresh air.
The quantity of fresh air is determined in accordance with the Israeli 6210 Standard.

Renewable Energy

The university is investing 5.5 million NIS in installing solar panels (PV) in the Mount Scopus Campus. These will be able to generate 1.2 megawatts of electricity from the sun.

At its peak, this will provide 12% of the energy needs of the campus. 

 

Click here to see the power generation data for this system

 

Water Efficiency

The university has installed 400 water-efficient showerheads in the student dorms. 
The flow rate of the new showerheads is 8.8 liters of water per minute, compared to the far less efficient showerheads previously installed, which had a flow rate of 23 liters per minute. 
At the same time, we installed showerheads based on the venturi effect to ensure there is no drop in water pressure. 
In addition to the water savings, replacing the showerheads also reduces the electricity consumption required to heat the water.

 

Green Building and a Healthy Environment

Two new buildings in the university were built to LEED Silver standard (the American classification for green building) – the Brain Sciences Building at the Safra Campus and the Institute for Advanced Studies at Mount Scopus. 
The project was a Hebrew University initiative in collaboration with Kallmann Mckinnell & Wood Architects, A. Lerman Architects and architect Tammy Yaniv. 
The Mandel Center offers a pleasant and healthier working environment, receiving the LEED Silver certification for its structural design and its choice of furnishings. The spaces are flooded with natural light, unique shading elements, furnishings that meet standards on safe and healthy levels of VOC, an economizer-integrated air conditioning system, dedicated nursing rooms and more. All of these contribute to creating a healthier environment and substantial savings on resources.

• The university operates complimentary shuttle services. These run only on class days during the academic year. Taking a shuttle is contingent upon displaying a student, alumnus or employee card.

Routes

• Mount Scopus – Edmond J. Safra Campus and back
• Kiryat HaYovel dorms – Ein Kerem
• Aroma cafe – Student Village – Ein Kerem
• Rehovot – Beit Dagan
• New route! Sunday-Thursday at 07:40 and 09:40:

Tchernichovsky/Herzog junction – Aza/Radak junction – King George/Ben-Yehuda junction – Ammunition Hill (the station opposite the parking lot for the Israel Police National Headquarters) – Mount Scopus (bus tunnel).

 

The Moovit app provides information regarding bus timetables and allows users to track the bus on its journey between the campuses. 
Real-time information regarding bus arrival times can also be obtained through the transportation company’s hotline: 
Telephone: 02-6769111 

 

For further enquiries, contact Itzik Cohen
Telephone: 02-6758784
Fax: 02-6429019
Email: yizikc@savion.huji.ac.il

 

Timetable – The route runs according to a regular timetable with no stops on the way.

Mount Scopus – Edmond J. Safra Campus
From Mount Scopus to the Edmond J. Safra Campus

 
 

Direct service from the Edmond J. Safra Campus to the Mount Scopus Tunnel

During the summer vacation and throughout the academic year on the following days without classes:

•  25 December (Christmas)
• 29 December (Hannukah)
• 28 January to 15 March (break between semesters)

 

Shuttles will run along the following routes from Sunday-Thursday at the following times:

 7:30am Departing from Aroma cafe through the Students Village
8am Departing from the Edmond J. Safra Campus dorms in Givat Ram and continuing to Ein Kerem
 5:30pm Ein Kerem (Student Center) – Edmond J. Safra Campus dorms in Givat Ram – Student Village – Aroma cafe

 

Kiryat HaYovel dorms – Ein Kerem

A free shuttle service operates with two buses.
Route: from the bus station at the Stern dorms – Uruguay St, via the bus station at the Kiryat HaYovel commercial center, to the Ein Kerem Campus.
Line 72 (travel is free with a student card).

Timetable

Sun – 9:40am
Monday-Thursday – 7:35am

Return from Ein Kerem (station opposite the student center) to the Student Village via the Kiryat HaYovel commercial center to the Safra Campus.
Sunday-Wednesday 3:15pm, 5:15pm, 6:15pm
Thursday – 5:15pm

 

Aroma cafe – Student Village – Ein Kerem

A free shuttle service operates with two buses.
Route: from the Aroma cafe by the Mount Scopus campus via the Student Village dorms to the Ein Kerem Campus.
Line 71 (travel is free with a student card).

Timetable

Aroma cafe Student Village
Sunday – 9:10am 9:15am
Monday-Thursday – 7:05am, 7:10am, 9:00am, 9:05am

Return from Ein Kerem (station opposite the student center) to the Student Village via the Kiryat HaYovel commercial center to the Safra Campus.
Sunday-Wednesday 3:15pm, 5:15pm, 6:15pm 
Thurs – 17:15 

 

Rehovot – Beit Dagan

This route operates on class days only

 

Light rail

Light rail construction work is underway on all three Hebrew University campuses in Jerusalem: Mount Scopus, Givat Ram and Ein Kerem.
The work is part of a wider municipal public transport infrastructure that includes funding from the Ministry of Transport and is being implemented by the Moriah Jerusalem Development Corporation.
Once active, the line will provide a direct connection between all three campuses.

The following stations are planned for the convenience of students, employees and guests of the university:
Mount Scopus: One station in the tunnel, another by the Reznick dorms and a third in the Student Village.
Safra Campus: Two stations within the campus.
Ein Kerem Campus: One station at the entrance to the campus.

 

Click here to download a map of the planned light rail lines
No changes are currently expected to the bus routes on the Safra and Ein Kerem campuses while work is ongoing.
There are changes planned to routes and locations of the buses on the Mount Scopus Campus as part of the plan to close the bus tunnel.

 

Bike Racks

The Hebrew University encourages cycling. Bike racks can be found all over the campuses for your convenience
Click here for locations of bike racks on the different campuses

Students at the university are active in a range of ways regarding the environment:

Green Course is the largest environment-focused volunteer organization in Israel. The organization works to promote environmental change via activism and supporting leadership on environmental affairs. 
The Givat Ram chapter of Green Course supports reducing the prevailing consumer culture and minimizing food waste.
The Mount Scopus chapter of Green Course encourages the Hebrew University to invest in projects that make the world a better place.

The committee of the Advanced School for Environmental Studies organizes social gatherings of students in the school, informs students about different environmental projects that are taking place in the city and generates debate on environmental topics. 
The committee also has a formal role, and you are invited to contact members of the committee with questions and problems that arise with the university.

 

The Hebrew University offers a wide range of green academic programs:

The environmental studies program at the Faculty of Mathematics & Sciences offers an interdisciplinary perspective of the processes that shape our environment and the reciprocal relationship between man and the natural world. The program offers a unique range of undergraduate academic tracks that combine environmental sciences with studies in another program, as well as research tracks for master’s and doctoral degrees. 

The Advanced School for Environmental Studies was created to train the best researchers and people of action in environmental matters, and to provide them with the tools to tackle interdisciplinary and international affairs. The school offers three master’s programs – Environmental Sciences at the Faculty of Science; Environmental Quality and Natural Resources at the Faculty of Agriculture; Environmental Management, Planning and Policy at the Faculty of Social Sciences – and an academic program for doctoral students.

International Development Studies (Glocal): an innovative new study program designed to develop expertise in local community development in the Global South. The program is designed for graduate students with both a global outlook and local perspective. It integrates theoretical knowledge with practical experience and offers unique opportunities to gain hands-on experience in global development efforts. The program is taught in English in the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Nutritional Sciences: The School of Nutritional Sciences (since 1969) in the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment offers bachelor’s and master’s degrees. The school seeks to further new and existing research and to train nutritional scientists.

Urban Studies: The Institute of Urban and Regional Studies offers a master’s program that has been created to equip its graduates with tools, research methods and knowledge and to train them in urban and regional planning. 

Atmospheric Sciences: This program, part of the Institute of Earth Sciences, is designed to equip its graduates with tools to understand processes that determine our environmental systems and the changes that take place within them. Among the topics covered: remote sensing, cloud and rainfall physics, climate change and the science of air flow.

Soil and Water Sciences: This department within the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food and Environment teaches and examines the environmental system of the soil, water and atmosphere, with an emphasis on the plants’ habitats. There are two research institutes within the department: the Seagram Center for Soil and Water Sciences and the Leo Picard Groundwater Research Center.

Hydrology and Water Resources: A joint academic program between the Faculties of Science, Social Science, and Agriculture, Food and Environment that was created to train scientists and professionals who will be able to cope with the increasing national and global challenges in this field. 

Ecology, Evolution and Behavior: Research in this department runs along two central themes:

a. Evolutionary processes across a multitude of biological aspects, starting from genetic code, genes and molecules, through the body’s structure and tissue and up to the behavioral and social interactions between individuals. 

b. A range of reciprocal relationships between different organisms and between the organisms and their environment, to attempt to understand how these interactions shape the evolution, impact, frequency and distribution of different organisms and the structure and dynamics of populations, ecological societies, ecosystems and the biosphere as a whole.

Plant & Environmental Sciences: Our department studies the reciprocal relationships between plants and microbes and their environment. Different areas of research include the positive and negative impacts of factors of biotic stress (disease vectors, symbiosis) and abiotic stress (temperature, salinity, oxygen levels) on plants and microbes, and their role in adaptation of organisms to contrasting environmental conditions. 

Oceanography: This program offers research opportunities for postgraduate degrees in physical, chemical, biological, and geophysical oceanography for honors students in physics, chemistry, life sciences and engineering, with a strong emphasis on theoretical approaches, experiments and fieldwork. Opportunities include disciplinary and multidisciplinary research. 

The Mount Scopus Botanical Garden

The Mount Scopus Botanical Garden was established in 1931 by Alexander Eig and it is the oldest university botanical garden in Israel. 
The garden is spread over 6 acres and houses more than 1,300 plant species, representing over 40% of the wild plant species of Israel. It is an ecological garden that displays plant groups from a range of habitats in Israel, while preserving their natural appearance throughout every season of the year. This is what makes the garden unique and makes it such an important place.
Website of the botanical garden

 

The Jerusalem Botanical Garden by the Safra Campus

“The Nature Park & Galleries” is the open-air campus museum of the Edmond J. Safra Campus in Givat Ram. The museum was founded in 2003 by Professor Jeff Camhi, and it offers a multitude of experiences to bring people of all ages closer to Israel’s natural heritage, science and research. A visit to the Nature Park & Galleries combines education and enjoyment in the unique environment of the campus, and brings you closer to the natural world and allows you to see it from another angle: a meeting with the Israeli dinosaur and its friends, an introduction to a 2,000-year-old tree trunk, the Plant Evolution Garden, the Ecology Boardwalk, the Bird Migration Trail, the Discovery Tree Walk and more.
Most of the areas, including the boardwalk, are wheelchair accessible. 
Website of the botanical garden