Academic Calendar 2017-18

Fall Semester

Mandatory orientation: October 17, 2017       
Beginning of first semester:  October 22, 2017
End of first semester: January 4, 2018
End of first-semester literature classes: January 21, 2018 
 

Spring Semester

Beginning of second semester:  March 4, 2018

Make up classes: March 26-27, 2018
Classes end on May 31, 2018 
End of second-semester literature: June 15, 2018   
 

Israeli holidays (Campus is closed)

• Hannukah:December 17, 2017
• Purim: March 1, 2018
• Passover: March 28- April 7, 2018
• Memorial Day: April 18, 2018
• Independence Day: April 19, 2018
• Student Day: May 31, 2018 – All classes will end by 12:00 
• Shavuot: May 20, 2018

On the following dates there will be a break in studies from 12:00 noon to 1:00 p.m for campus-wide commemorative ceremonies:
 

• Ceremony in memory of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin: November 1, 2017
• Holocaust Memorial Day: April 12, 2018
• Ceremony in memory of fallen IDF soldiers: April 17, 2018