Page 35 - PresidentReport2024Portrait

Ezra Feldman Ezra is originally from the community of Hashmonaim, near
Modi'in, and today is married and living in Jerusalem. He was
always interested in product development and 3D printing, so the
field of industrial design was a natural choice for him. Ezra started
his undergraduate studies at HAC in 2018 and finished in 2022.
During his studies, HAC helped Ezra to obtain a job at a studio for
mechanical engineering, where he gained important experience.

Today Ezra works at PublicZone, a leading Israeli company in the
field of transportation design, which was co-founded by Prof.
Kenneth Segal, a Senior Lecturer in the DAN Department of
Creative Human Design, and one of the Department's founders.
As part of the responsibilities in his job, Ezra is working on large
national transportation projects.

“We were especially fortunate to be a relatively small class, with
only 26 students, and therefore we received a lot of personal
attention and support,’’ he says. “Having said that, the faculty
gives you the independence to develop on your own.”

Shada Baghdadi After Shada completed her degree in Optometry in 2020, HAC
helped her to open a few doors, and she immediately landed her
present job at Hadassah Medical Center, where she works as an
optometrist and imaging technician. However, this job appears to
be just a steppingstone on her career path: Shada hopes to pursue
an M.Sc. in Brain Science in the near future, and is interested
in becoming a researcher. Shada, from East Jerusalem, is the
youngest of four siblings, all of whom have university degrees.

“I didn’t know any Hebrew when I finished high school, so I
enrolled in HAC’s pre-academic program, during which I decided
to study Optometry,” Shada recalls. Studying on a mixed campus
was a pleasant experience for her. “We were 10 Arab students in
a class of 40, but I felt no different than anyone else. It wasn’t an
issue at all.”

As an excellent student, Shada was one of three students from
HAC selected in 2019 to participate in a special student exchange
program with Fulda University in Germany. Shada is also fluent in
English, and participated in the Model United Nations program on
campus, and appeared prominently in a fundraising video that the
College produced during 2020.

33