scholarships

All master students and PhD students receive a scholarship, and in addition they can TA courses and teaching laboratories, therefore also receiving teaching salaries.

In the Faculty of Physics, master students receive 5 portions of scholarship and PhD students receive 6 portions of scholarship. The value of each scholarship portion is detailed in the table below. There is no tax on scholarship.

TA salary depends on the number of weekly teaching hours and is given in addition of the scholarship.

Typical examples:

Master student in the second year, which TAs three hours a week in a teaching lab, will receive NIS 4,950 in scholarship and NIS 1,000 in teaching salary. Total of NIS 5,950 per month. The above amounts are in addition to the full coverage of tuition.

PhD students, after the candidacy exam (usually conducted at the end of the first year of doctorate), which teaches in a course 2 frontal teaching hours a week would receive NIS 7,686 in scholarship and another NIS 2,250 NIS in teaching salary. Total of NIS 9,950 per month.

The rate for a monthly scholarship portion as from January 2016

Type of degree and research stage	Scholarship portion in NIS
MSc before research proposal	925
MSc after research proposal	990
PhD before candidacy exam	1180
PhD after candidacy exam	1281

Remarks:

• In addition to the above amounts, the portions include full tuition scholarship (25% tuition scholarship per portion).
• Granting scholarships depends in part on the ability to finance of the investigator supervisor.
• The scholarship amounts are periodically updated