While most Israeli students are engaged in math or language, the students of the "Alpha" program try to cure bacterial diseases and write fascinating articles. Meet Israel's future scientists.

Mathematics, English, Bible, Language, History. Most students in Israel study mainly the basic subjects, and not beyond that. In contrast, the students of the "Alpha" program - which is a joint venture of the Future Scientists Center of the Maimonides Foundation and the Division of Gifted and Outstanding Students in the Ministry of Education, study, research and experience other fields as well, which are usually dealt with at later ages, rather than high school.

As part of the advanced program, students integrate into laboratories, research the topics they talk about themselves and eventually even write a research paper at an academic level that can convert a matriculation exam in one of the augmented science subjects (5 study units), or stand on its own as an enhanced matriculation subject.

"The Alpha program allows gifted and outstanding students to come to the university's laboratories and conduct research accompanied by the best researchers," said Dr. Yael Avraham, director of alpha and idea programs at the Hebrew University. We allow these students to find themselves and grow and understand what they can contribute. "

Dr. Avraham continued: “After the students go through the screenings they arrive at a two-week summer camp, where they are formed into a group. At the end of the camp the students tell us in which areas they are interested.

We find facilitators for them from the various laboratories and the facilitators lead them and introduce them to their world of research. Eventually students will write a dissertation that will give them five study units. The screenings for the program take place in the ninth grade and the program is during the 10th-11th grades.