(Photo: Bar-Ilan University Spokesman's Office)
By Diana Bletter - May 19, 2022
They fled the war and now, 13 of Ukraine’s top high school math geniuses have landed in Israel for a specially created program at Bar-Ilan University’s International School.
“My mother took me as far as Poland but then I had to say goodbye,” said Leonid Diachenko, 14, from Kyiv, who witnessed the horrors of the war. “It was really hard to say goodbye because I don’t know when I’ll see her again.”
Dan Carmon, an engineer at StarkWare, one of the main donors to the project, is a coach on the Israel Youth Math Team. He said that he knew the Ukrainian coaches from competitions, and he and his colleagues were “crushed by the plight of the Ukrainian team.”
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