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Winning the planning
                     competition for the Ruppin
                     College of Agriculture (today
                     Ruppin Academic Center) in
                     1946 marked Shulamit and
                     Michael Nadler’s entry into
                     a field that was to become
                     central to their practice –
                     planning educational
                     institutes. This practice was
                     backed by the government’s
                     policy during Israel's early
                     decades, which placed
                     education at the top of its
                     national priorities. Since
                     then, Nadler-Nadler-Bixon-
                     Gil has established itself as
                     one of Israel’s most
                     innovative architecture firms
                     in designing elementary
                     and high schools, colleges,
                     education centers and
                     central buildings in academic
                     institutions. The firm’s

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