Word: wilf
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Drawing on her experience at Harvard, Wilf is interested in reforming the Israeli educational system, which is highly professionalized due to mandatory military service and splintered by numerous groups, such as the ultra-Orthodox, who demand the right to their own educational establishments...
...proponent of the core curriculum,” says Wilf. “I think it’s a great idea, and we should engage in the political battle to define the core curriculum, while preserving the proper margins for subcommunities to define their educational values and for experimentation of new ideas and new subjects...
...Wilf says that there are four key ideas she would draw upon from her time at Harvard to shape Israel’s educational system: the liberal arts curriculum, diverse extra-curricular opportunities—Wilf tried her hand at everything from squash to DJing while in college—the “discipline of learning,” and “a real-life example of how a private institution can actually support important social values...
Despite her passion for affecting change, Wilf did not go directly into politics after college. After earning a bachelor’s degree in Government and Fine Arts, she worked for a few years in consulting at McKinsey & Co. before earning a MBA from INSEAD, an international business school in France, and a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Cambridge...
...Wilf talks about her years working in business as steps off the track of her ultimate path...