Welcome to the first TAU international Volunteers-managed blog! This blog has been created to give complementary information to the graduated students of TAU and to create a community where we can share thoughts and information. This blog is not affiliated to any of the TAU services or bureaucratic apparatus and it is meant to be an informal tool where people can be updated, alongside the Whatsapp group and the informal word-of-mouth. Each student or post-doc is more than welcome to approach and participate in the creation of this blog, acting as a volunteer (with a little basic commitment) but also as an user, where they can collect any sort of information. All of the content posted on this blog is under the responsibility of the person who wrote it and posted it. UPDATE 06.11.23 Guidelines for the WhatsApp group 1.Respect & Kindness: Treat all members with respect and kindness. Be mindful of your tone and language. 2. Stay On Topic: Keep discussions releva...
Maternity is a wonderful experience that starts with a desire and ends, if it ever ends, with a full grown adult, the child of your own. In this amazing, atavistic, colorful experience, one - especially a woman - needs to maintain her own identity, lifestyle and personal necessities. Being a scientist/researcher while planning a pregnancy, being pregnant or being a new mom is exhausting, challenging and scaring. Especially when abroad and without support of your enlarged family. In particular, being a PhD or a Postdoc in TAU and at the same time a mama requires some important information in order to better deal with the challenges that might arise during your pregnancy/post partum. 1) Being fired while expecting, while undergoing IVF or while one is in maternity leave is forbidden by law. The "problem" with us, who are not citizens of Israel and neither employees of the University, is that the rules are slightly different. Unfortunately there were cases where people were dis...