The Council for Higher Education is due to publish revised conditions for setting up a medical school, behind which is a clash between Reichman University and the existing schools.
Israeli leaders in academia and medical administrators now urge philanthropists to switch their contributions to similar institutions in Israel instead.
The aim is to provide high-level medical care not only to Jerusalem residents, but also to Beit Shemesh, Givat Ze’ev, Betar Illit, Gush Etzion, the Binyamin region, and Modi’in.