{"id":2826,"date":"2016-06-20T12:09:13","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:09:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2016-06-20T12:09:13","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T16:09:13","slug":"liberty-university-makes-5-million-investment-in-israel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=2826","title":{"rendered":"Liberty University makes $5 million investment in Israel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University plans to invest $5 million of its endowment in Israel \u2014 an action president Jerry Falwell Jr. said shows its support for the country in the face of a campaign asking schools to divest.<\/p>\n<p>Liberty has over $1.4 billion in total cash and investments, with about $1 billion of that listed as endowment in its financial statements, Falwell said.<\/p>\n<p>The Israel investment is going to a healthcare fund focused on venture capital that is run by a U.S. manager with an Israeli office. The fund includes fields such as \u201concology, biopharmaceuticals, and digital health, with a strong focus on cancer immunotherapy,\u201d according to a news release from the university announcing the investment committee\u2019s late-May decision.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/article_85761270-d45b-55d3-af72-cb1e401b71eb.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.richmond.com\/news\/virginia\/article_85761270-d45b-55d3-af72-cb1e401b71eb.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty University plans to invest $5 million of its endowment in Israel \u2014 an action president Jerry Falwell Jr. said shows its support for the&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=2826\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty University makes $5 million investment in Israel<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2827,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/572bc66140654.image_.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-JA","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}