New York University currently sponsors 8 sites for study abroad programs during the academic school year, but Israel isn’t one of them.
While some students from NYU are currently studying in Israel, they aren’t doing so through an NYU program. Additional sites are available during the summer sessions, and credit is often given for students studying in other countries on various programs at universities world wide. A guide about the process for studying abroad in Israel and still getting credits at NYU is available at the Bronfman Center for Jewish Student Life at NYU.
But all of that may change soon.
“One of my specific goals was to increase the number of NYU students studying abroad in Israel,” Grinspoon Israel Advocacy Intern Joshua Borenstein told CampusJ. Borenstein, a junior, worked earlier this year with the Bronfman Center to create and distribute a survey to gage interest among students about an NYU study abroad program in Israel, at the request of faculty at the Hebrew & Judaics Department.
Approximately 250 students responded with “overwhelmingly positive results,” Borenstein said.
And now, the Washington Square News is reporting that NYU is renewing consideration and planning for an NYU sponsored site in Israel:

NYU’s rapidly expanding global presence may soon grow even bigger with the addition of two more study abroad sites in Argentina and Israel, university officials said.
The sites would be the university’s first in both South America and the Middle East, respectively.
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Yaw Nyarko, vice provost for globalization and multicultural affairs, said creating each site takes time and effort, but that the university is moving along in discussions for its next two possible campuses.
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Nyarko said he made a follow-up trip to Israel this past January and is planning to make another one to Argentina.
“At this stage we envision the site will be a hybrid mode, where students take classes from an NYU site as well as directly enrolling in local universities,” Nyrarko said.
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“We are hopeful that we will be able to work out those details because of the exceptionally strong interest on both ends,” Nyarko said. “But we are still in the exploratory stage, which is advanced enough to say it is likely we will open a study abroad site in these two countries, although not certain.”

An article from the beginning of Fall semester reported NYU’s plans for an Israel study abroad site began over a decade ago:

Additionally, the university still is considering opening a site in Israel, following a failed attempted about a decade ago, Hughes said. [Scott Hughes is the manager of global administration.]
NYU officials announced plans in 1997 for a new program in Tel Aviv with Tel Aviv University. In 2000, however, NYU put the plans on hold because of the region’s political problems.
“Student and faculty interest remains high and we still have long-standing faculty contacts [in Tel Aviv],” Hughes said. “It is just a matter of long-term political stability and the safety of students before we begin to reconsider study abroad in Israel.”