A consortium of research institutes addressing array of scientific, technological, economic and security challenges in the Ea ... stern Mediterranean offshore The Mediterranean Sea Research Center of Israel (MERCI) is a consortium of ten research universities, one college, and two government research institutes led by the University of Haifa: University of Haifa Technion – Israel Institute of Technology The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Bar-Ilan University Tel Aviv University Weizmann Institute of Science Ruppin Academic Center Reichman University (IDC Herzliya) Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR) Geological Survey of Israel The Open University of Israel Ariel University read more